Chapter 142 "Electronic Pets" and Inspection Work (Large Chapter)

Author: Baisha

Chapter 142 "Electronic Pets" and Inspection Work (Large Chapter)

However, while Hiroshi Yamauchi was still cursing, Zhao Ye was preparing to give Nintendo a heavy blow.

In the conference room, executives from the game development department were present one after another.

Zhao Ye looked around and said: "The great success of Gameboy proves the prospects of portable game consoles. And the popularity of the "Pokemon" game shows that people like development games very much. In reality,

Many people like to raise cats and dogs very much. Therefore, we can draw a conclusion that people like to raise pets!”

"I called everyone here for a meeting today to develop a new product. Since people like to keep pets, why don't we develop an "electronic pet"?"

Many people in the conference room still couldn't understand.

Zhao Ye walked to the blackboard at this time and drew an egg-shaped appearance of an "electronic pet" machine. There was a TN LCD black and white pixel screen in the middle, and three function buttons below.

Zhao Ye pointed to the graphic on the blackboard and introduced: "This is an "electronic pet". It has a very cute, egg-shaped appearance. As for the gameplay, it is very simple. We can introduce a simulated breeding system, and the player activates it for the first time.

"Electronic pet", a small pet will break out of the shell on the screen, and then the player has to feed, clean up, play games and other nurturing interactions with the 'pet' on the screen."

"Of course, since we already have a super IP like "Pokemon", we can replace these pets with popular Pokemon and grow, work, learn, fight, and evolve along the way!"

"Two "electronic pets" can also communicate with each other through infrared rays, make friends with each other, visit each other, send gifts, and play games. If they are one female and one male, they can even further interact, get married, and give birth to babies."

"Who stipulates that Pokemon cannot have females? Pikachu can tell the difference between male and female by the difference in their tails. Ash's Pikachu is male, with normal straight-line lightning, while the female Pikachu has a round notch at the end of its tail, like a little heart.

"

""Pokemon 2: Classic of Mountains and Seas" should design more female elves!"

After a pause, Zhao Ye said, "The development of "electronic pets" is very difficult, mainly because creativity is rare. The game development department must develop "electronic pets" as soon as possible, and then cooperate with Gameboy, "Pokemon" games and cartoons

, fully capture the game market!”

"Yes!" everyone responded in unison.

In a previous life, Tamagotchi "electronic pets" became popular all over the world, and soon all kinds of copycat products sprouted everywhere.

Speaking of which, Tamagotchi's background is still poor. Without the blessing of a super IP like "Pokemon", otherwise, sales will definitely increase a lot.

In addition, the issuance ability is weak, resulting in various copycat products seizing the market.

But these shortcomings do not exist in Wujiang Group.

Wujiang Group is fully capable of selling "electronic pets" to every corner of the world quickly!

And even if you copycat, can you beat the "Pokemon" IP?

The most attractive thing about the “electronic pet” that Wujiang Group is about to develop is its diverse growth system, which is evolution.

Each Pokemon's growth path will change its form every time it reaches a checkpoint. But which form it will evolve into depends on how the operator raised it. This kind of unknowable future will give players

Bring curiosity and anticipation.

It is not difficult to imagine that such a unique growth path will definitely bring more intimate emotions to users than the same fixed feeding growth model. In other words, users have completely different play mentality when facing the above two growth models.

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For the former, because operating habits will have a decisive impact on growth, users will also take care of their "electronic pets" step by step, just like raising children. They will enjoy every stage of growth and provide their pets with the best possible care.

They are extremely excited to grow into different forms; for the latter, because the growth path is fixed, users can only pursue numerical breakthroughs at most, and will only secretly steal because their pets can be higher-level than others.

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The addition of the diverse growth system will make a simple "electronic pet" become more intriguing!

In the previous life, the "Tamagoko" pet egg was a series of electronic pet game consoles launched by Bandai in November 1996. However, with the emergence of more diverse entertainment methods, such as online games, smartphones, etc., this kind of nurturing

The gameplay of electronic pets is no longer attractive.

But in this life, if "electronic pets" were launched in 1987, they would have been popular for at least fifteen years!

It is expected that the sales volume of "Borderless Electronic Pets" will far exceed that of Tamagotchi!

The structure of this "electronic pet" is very simple. The main electronic components are "Kirin 1 chip + circuit board", and it can use bonded packaging, so it does not rely on imported packaging machines and equipment. It is low-cost and eliminates one step in the process.

, the product is more affordable! No

The chip welding technology of over-bonded packaging is abhorrent to maintenance personnel. The pins and even the entire chip are covered with black glue. It is basically impossible to re-solder and repair it. If it breaks, the whole thing can only be thrown away. Because the appearance looks like cow daddy, so

It’s literally called a “cow shit chip”!

Domestic chip packaging technology is not very advanced.

Wujiang Microelectronics is also currently developing chip packaging technology, but in order to reduce the production cost of "electronic pets", it can use bonding technology to make "cow shit chips"!

Repairing an "electronic pet"? Sorry, if it breaks, just buy a new one!

Anyway, that’s what the first generation of “electronic pets” looked like. After all, it was a monopoly, and users had no other choice but to buy Wujiang Group’s “electronic pets.”

The second generation of "electronic pets" may be improved.

In the afternoon of that day, the "Borderless Electronic Pets" project was officially launched and a development team of 20 people was formed.

The development time is expected to be completed within half a year.

…

Arcade development department of Wujiang Group.

"Boss, this is the arcade game motherboard we designed!" Wang Jizhi was introducing it to Zhao Ye at this time. "It uses a 16-bit Kirin 2 chip processor. It has powerful functions, fast processing speed, and low power consumption. It is suitable for gaming.

The colors of the picture are bright and clear, and the sound adopts three-dimensional surround sound technology to make it more three-dimensional..."

While listening to Wang Jizhi's introduction, Zhao Ye looked at a delicately structured circuit board on the table.

Wujiang Group has the development technology for PC motherboards and home game motherboards, so it is basically not difficult to develop arcade motherboards.

Arcade machines are large and will not limit the size of the motherboard too much, so developers will be more relaxed when developing arcade motherboards.

"Boss, this is a removable game card slot. Just insert the game cartridge and you can run the game!"

Many arcade machines nowadays have almost one game and one motherboard.

If you want to change the game, you need to change the game motherboard directly.

The arcade motherboard developed by Wujiang Group aims to create an arcade platform that can allow other games to be ported to the arcade.

Of course, there are also some arcade motherboards with removable game card slots on the market.

However, various arcade brands are highly competitive and incompatible with each other.

The reason for this is mainly because there is no strong arcade brand that has a dominant position.

Well now, Wujiang Group is here.

The dominance of the arcade market must not be relinquished immediately.

Many games independently developed by Wujiang Group, especially the fighting series, are very suitable for porting to arcade machines. Therefore, Wujiang Group has great advantages in making arcade machines.

What's more, many game developers are begging for money on the "Qiongqi Game Console" platform. Wujiang Group asks to transplant your game to the arcade. How can you refuse?

Besides, there is almost no need to refuse.

Borderless Arcade is very popular. If these games are transplanted to the arcade platform, you can make a lot of money.

Zhao Ye saw that there was only one removable game card slot on the arcade motherboard, and he suddenly had an idea in his mind, whether he could get a few more game card slots, so that one arcade machine could play several games...

Is dual card slots suitable? Or three card slots?

The more game card slots the better, the cost will be very high.

Although the business of the video game room is very good and every arcade machine is making money at the moment, then the single card slot arcade machine is the most cost-effective.

Although the business of the electronic game room is not good, it is more cost-effective to buy an arcade machine with multiple card slots. With just a few arcade machines, you can play the most popular arcade games on the market. Make full use of the use time of each arcade machine and provide a good environment for the game room.

Bosses create value.

So... both single-card slot arcade machines and multi-card slot arcade machines can be developed.

Zhao Ye immediately pointed to the removable game card slots and said to the people around him: "Let's think about it, if we add a few more removable card slots here, will the product line be richer and it can also be used?

Increase the sales of game cartridges? After all, the more card slots we have, the more our game cartridges will be sold!”

Adding a few card slots is not a difficult problem.

It's just that no one thought of it.

People's thinking is often solidified, and it is taken for granted that an arcade machine should have a game card slot.

This layer of window paper was pierced by Zhao Ye, and everyone suddenly realized.

Immediately, he looked at Zhao Ye with admiration.

…

Whether it is "Borderless Electronic Pets" or "Borderless Arcade", the screens will all use STN LCD color screens.

Zhao Ye rushed to Wujiang LCD Factory at this time to inspect the development progress of STN technology.

Ouyang Zhongcan, head of the LCD department, took Zhao Ye to visit the factory production workshop and then went to the laboratory.
To be continued...