Chapter 80 The horn of the counterattack
Takahashi once heard an interesting question, that is, "Why do some people willing to buy arcade machines that cost up to 500,000 yuan, while others think that household machines that cost up to 50,000 yuan are expensive?"
"Because you buy arcade machines and make money, but you can't make money after buying them home machines." This is Takahashi's answer.
People are always unwilling to pay a lot of money for entertainment because there are too many places to use money. Having all the money to play means going hungry.
Therefore, Takahashi never wanted to make any "high-end entertainment". All products of Wanhu, no matter what style the product itself is, must first be down-to-earth in terms of price.
But down-to-earth in price is easy to say, but difficult to do.
The first thing that tens of thousands of households can do is that its games sell a lot. Even if it is a big production, a large cost, and the sales volume increases, the cost is not too much.
Another one is the current goal of Takahashi making games, or establishing ten thousand households. It has changed from making money to making good games and making games that more people can afford.
Although this sounds strange and even a bit incredible, this is what Takahashi is doing.
He just started entering the game industry, but he really wanted to be able to eat and drink enough and get rid of hunger.
However, he had solved the problem of food and clothing and began to think about a question: What is the purpose of playing games? To make money or to make people feel happy.
Perhaps looking at this issue alone is a bit too abstract.
However, if tens of thousands of households are replaced with hospitals, the game is replaced with medical care.
Does that question become: is the purpose of starting a hospital to cure patients or to make money?
If we say that in order to make money, can patients who have no money be ignored?
Is this...a putting the cart before the horse?
Takahashi thought about it for a long time and finally figured out this question.
The highest goal of ten thousand households should not be to make money, but to provide joy to more players while ensuring their own survival.
A summary of the outline.
With this supreme program, we will move towards this supreme program.
The temperament of Wanhu's entire company has become different from other game companies.
Although players can't tell exactly where the difference is, it seems that Wanhu's game is more attractive and easier to make people feel sincere.
Takahashi sets up basic rules, with dedicated data planners, card planners, and card games that players make their own cards to join. There is no official name yet.
However, the way to sell this card has been decided.
Takahashi has explained to people in the sales department what "combination cards" are.
Transferred cards are more of a business model than a gameplay.
In Takahashi's view, this business model is similar to the tiny and continuous payment model adopted by Tencent in another time and space.
Tencent, the company, initially achieved profitability due to its mobile phone QQ cooperation with mobile, and survived.
The foundation for establishing the Tencent Empire was those who were dressed in members and QQ, supported by various diamonds.
A qq makeup and a piece of clothing may only cost one q coin.
The planned price of this card bag of Wanhu is also 100 yen per pack.
What can one hundred yen do in Japan?
You can only buy a few coarse snacks, and only play once is not the top arcade game.
The top arcade games now, such as those racing simulation games, have already risen to 500 yen once.
There will be five cards in a pack of cards.
According to the rules of Takahashi's design, you can start the game by holding at least six different cards. So, basically, as long as you are not particularly dark in your face, you can draw five overlapping cards in two consecutive packs, otherwise you can start the game.
Such a low threshold was designed deliberately by Takahashi.
Although he knew that if Wanhu was the one who played the card game, he would have a lot of attention in the early stage.
However, if the threshold is too high, it will still block the player outside the door.
In addition, there is no way to promote online battles that are not yet perfect and developed. It is impossible to allow players to play games with zero cost.
Therefore, the card rules that can play at low thresholds of 200 yen have become the current design focus of Takahashi.
How to play games with as few cards as possible without affecting the large framework is a pioneering setup.
This convenience for players will also become a problem that followers will encounter.
That's right, Takahashi never expected that no one would follow the trend in card games.
Although he is not sure how many manufacturers plan to make card games before this episode of "Takahashi's Party", he can be sure that after this episode is broadcast, many manufacturers will already make card games.
Although, it is impossible for big manufacturers to give up the tasks at hand now and invest most of their resources in the card market.
However, a strong large factory can sometimes cause miracles even if it only sends some people to test it.
Don’t forget that in today’s Japan, the choice of top industry talents is almost always to work in top companies.
Manufacturers such as Namco, Sega, Nintendo, Konami, Hudson, and Wanhu can be said to be the ones that are now worthy of names in the Japanese gaming field.
Among these manufacturers, Konanmi is on the MX platform that does not pay attention to, and a newcomer who is not valued is produced except for a game called "Metal Equipment".
Make it the number one on the msx platform in one fell swoop.
In addition to the fact that large factories are likely to be upset, those small factories are also very threatening.
The production of cards is not complicated. As long as the rules are designed, the cards are designed, and a printing factory will be used to produce them.
Only by being creative, even without much capital, can you do it slowly.
You should know that the first pot of gold that Takahashi dug after leaving Hudson is also related to the printing industry.
Although Takahashi is intensively arranging design and production plans.
However, a rather funny report appeared on the market, "Revenge on Nintendo? Ten thousand households enter the cards!"
"As we all know, the production and distribution manufacturer of red and white machines is Nintendo.
How long has the electronic game been born? Nintendo, which has been founded for nearly a hundred years. The first pot of gold that was relied on to make a fortune was cards.
Now, if you are interested, you can still see cards with the Nintendo brand name written on it when you go to the grocery store closest to your home.
Now, Wanhu has also announced that it will enter the card industry.
Chapter completed!