Rebirth 1984: Starting from the development of Hanka

Chapter 176 "Tomahawk" Product Launch (4.5k)

No one knows why Wujiang Group exchanged a large amount of US dollars for East German marks.

The East German government was very happy and had an extremely friendly attitude towards Wujiang Group.

This can't help but be more conducive to the Wujiang Group's poaching in East Germany, which can be regarded as a surprise.

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"Wujiang Group wants to enter the East German market, and wants to recruit some talents from East Germany. I hope the East German government can support it!"

Wujiang East Germany branch, conference room.

Wang Lei spoke to the East German officials and bank presidents who came here.

"It's easy to say, no problem at all!!!" Justin Button, the leading East German official, laughed and nodded.

In order to get the U.S. dollars from the Wujiang Group, this request is nothing.

"In addition, we all know that the East German mark has been depreciating, so we need to get a higher exchange rate than the official regulations!" Wang Lei said again.

Justin Button thought for a moment, then nodded again: "Yes, how many dollars can Wujiang Group provide, and how much higher does the exchange rate need to be?"

"$10 BILLION!!!"

"The exchange rate is at least 50 percent higher," Wang Lei said.

Justin Button and others were shocked when they heard this. China in the previous life only had a few billion dollars in foreign exchange at this time, and East Germany was not much stronger.

One billion US dollars is undoubtedly a very large number for East Germany.

Justin Button and the others were pleasantly surprised, with excitement written all over their faces.

Regarding the requirements of the Wujiang Group, the East German side stated that they can meet all of them!

Soon, on the same day, Wujiang Group reached an agreement with the East German government and exchanged East German marks worth 15 billion US dollars (10+5) from the East German Bank!

This news can be said to have caused a great sensation in Europe and sparked intense discussions.

However, Wujiang Group did not provide any explanation for this.

After obtaining the permission of East Germany, Wujiang Group began to recruit engineers and scientists in East Germany.

Although these people were not hungry, their lives were not very good.

After half a month, under the offensive of money, many outstanding talents are willing to join Wujiang Group, and some are even willing to go directly to China to work and live.

Many of them are good at materials research, electronics, precision machining technology...

You must know that although East Germany's economy is far behind West Germany's, East Germany's technology may not be inferior to West Germany's.

After these talents flow into China, they will play an unparalleled role in promoting China's development in the field of industrial technology.

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"The East German market is open to Wujiang Group, so we must take this opportunity to completely open up the East German market and let Chinese products sell well in East Germany."

At the meeting, Zhao Ye stood on the stage and gave instructions.

Wujiang Group can do foreign trade business, sell surplus Chinese goods to East Germany, and earn East German marks.

Others don't know the value of the East German mark, but Zhao Ye knows it.

Opening up the East German market and earning marks openly, even the future German government has nothing to say and cannot blame Wujiang Group.

While Wujiang Group is making money, it can also help domestic companies sell products. Why not do it?

In China at this time, many state-owned enterprises are still on the verge of bankruptcy like in previous lives. If the East German market can be opened up, some state-owned enterprises can of course turn around their profits and losses.

In fact, Wujiang Group's trade in the Soviet Union has greatly benefited many domestic companies.

When everyone heard the words, they nodded.

"The boss is right. East Germany has a population of more than 1600 million, and the market is huge!"

"Boss Yingming, Wujiang Group will soon make a lot of money in East Germany!"

"..."

Zhao Ye smiled faintly, secretly thinking that this wave is really not a loss at all. By taking advantage of the opportunity of currency exchange, the East German market can be completely opened up, and the normal trade alone can make a lot of money.

What's more, with the reunification of Germany and East Germany, the East German mark immediately appreciated several times, and Wujiang Group will definitely make a lot of money, which is enviable.

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However, the negotiation between Shen Zeyu and his team is still not going well. At this time, it is not just a matter of the price of high-end CNC machine tools...

At this time, the United States had received the news that Wujiang Group wanted to purchase high-end CNC machine tools in large quantities, and immediately issued a warning to those machine tool companies in Germany, not allowing large-scale sales of high-end CNC machine tools to Wujiang Group.

Although China and the United States are still in the honeymoon period, the United States does not want China to develop too fast and become too powerful, as long as it can contain the Soviet Union.

Therefore, the United States allows Wujiang Group to purchase four high-end data machine tools at most.

Shen Zeyu and others were very helpless.

"Mr. Shen, there is nothing we can do about the current situation, we should report the situation to the boss first!" A team member said.

Shen Zeyu sighed, nodded and said, "That's the only way!"

Then, he picked up the phone.

Not long after, the call was connected, and Shen Zeyu immediately reported the situation to Zhao Ye.

When Zhao Ye heard this, he was silent for a while, and after a while, he said, "Four sets are four, then just buy four sets of five-axis linkage CNC machining centers!"

Machining centers are more advanced than ordinary high-end CNC machine tools, and of course, the price will be more expensive.

"Okay, boss!" Shen Zeyu replied in a deep voice.

In the following period, to avoid further setbacks, he ordered the negotiating team to speed up the negotiations with the German machine tool giants.

In less than a month, they successively reached cooperation with four machine tool companies, namely Trumpf, DMG Mori Seiki, MAG, and Haas Automation, and purchased a five-axis linkage CNC machining center from each other.

The main reason why we do not purchase one product, but four products, is that Tiangong Technology still wants to learn something from the products of these four companies, learn from others' strengths, keep innovating, and then become a whole!
Although the purchase of high-end CNC machine tools this time is not perfect, Zhao Ye is satisfied.

In the previous life, China did not have five more five-axis linkage CNC machining centers (the one from Philips), especially the four top-notch machining centers purchased from Germany. The technology is very advanced, and the price of each machine is at least 4000 million. USD or more.

Of course, it is still expensive to buy, but there is no way, it cannot be made in China, and if you want to buy such an advanced machining center, you can only pay a high price.

This is the same as Wujiang Group cutting other people's leeks.

After some time.

"Boss, the four processing centers have already boarded the ship, and the route transportation is expected to arrive in China in about 30 days."

"Thank you for your hard work, everyone, but next, you have to follow on board, and you must ensure the safety of the processing center!"

"clear!!!"

After a while, Zhao Ye put down the phone, walked to the floor-to-ceiling windows, looked down at the boats on the Huangpu River, and fell into deep thought...

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Boom boom boom!
A knock on the door woke Zhao Ye up from his contemplation.

"Come in!" Zhao Ye said.

At this time, Wang Jizhi pushed the door open and entered.

"boss!"

Wang Jizhi said hello.

Zhao Ye nodded slightly, then motioned him to sit on the sofa.

"What's the matter, Mr. Wang?" Zhao Ye poured a cup of tea for the other party and asked casually.

Wang Jizhi said: "Boss, the game development department has completed the development of the game. In addition, we have stockpiled 560 million "Tomahawk" home game consoles, and it's time to go on the market!"At present, Sega has sold 50 MDs in Japan, and it cannot continue to let the other party become bigger and stronger! ! "

Zhao Ye nodded with a smile, and said, "Okay, then you should hurry up and make preparations for Wujiang Game Company to hold a grand product launch event!"

"Okay, boss, so the time is set for March 1989, 3?"

"Row!"

"Boss, what is the price of the 'Tomahawk'? "

"In the Japanese market, the price of "Tomahawk" is 35000 yen; in the US market, the price of "Tomahawk" is 249 US dollars. "Zhao Ye replied after thinking for a while.

The production cost of "Tomahawk" is about 100 US dollars. This is because "Tomahawk" has achieved 100% localization, and the main parts and components are produced by Wujiang Group, so the production cost is so low.

In fact, Zhao Ye's price for "Tomahawk" is relatively expensive.

Generally speaking, game consoles should be sold with small profits and high sales, or even sold at a loss, and then build a game console platform, and finally make money by selling game software.

For example, Sega MD, in the Japanese market, the price of Sega MD is 21 yen, while in the North American market it is 000 US dollars.

Sega is not Wujiang Group, and can produce most of the parts by itself, so the cost of MD must be very high compared with "Tomahawk".If Sega wants to make money from hardware, it is simply a dream, and it may still lose money.

Parts manufacturers, middlemen, electronics stores... which one does not make money?
The reason why Zhao Ye dared to price "Tomahawk" so high is mainly due to three considerations. One is the "Borderless" brand. The name alone is worth paying for by gamers all over the world;
The second is that the "Tomahawk" home game console itself is very powerful. The powerful 16-bit Kirin 2 processor coupled with a special integrated graphics card makes the game screen of "Tomahawk" much better than that of Sega MD;

The third is the game storage, using CD-ROM as the game storage medium, so that the developers of Wujiang can develop games with larger capacity, better and more perfect!

Since Sega MD still uses game cassettes, its storage capacity is only tens of MB, while the storage capacity of CD-ROM discs is about 600MB. The quality of the games that can be developed is not the same!

What's more, Wujiang Game Company has made sufficient preparations for the launch of "Tomahawk" this time, and has developed dozens of games.

The game cartridges that have sold more than 100 million copies have had sequels.

In addition, there are nine new games: "Dinosaur Kombat", "Killer Whirlwind", "Three Kingdoms", "Journey to the West", "Three Kingdoms", "Excalibur", "Metal Slug" , "Sonic", "Crash Bandicoot".

It is worth mentioning that in the field of consoles in the previous life, "Mario" was the image spokesperson of Nintendo, "Sonic the Hedgehog" was the iconic image of Sega, and "Crash Bandicoot" was the mascot of Sony!

In this life, Zhao Ye directly asked the game developers to develop "Sonic the Hedgehog" and "Crash Bandicoot" in advance, becoming the two King Kong of Borderless Games.

The other seven games in the new game are also extremely popular classics in the previous life.

Zhao Ye has turned it on to such an extent that players all over the world are crazy about Borderless Games! ! !
Therefore, even if the "Tomahawk" is expensive, players all over the world will definitely flock to it!
Wang Jizhi was a little surprised when he heard Zhao Ye's words, but he felt relieved when he thought about the background of Borderless Games.

"Boss, what is the retail price of the game CD?"

"Depending on the game, in the Japanese market, the price of game CDs ranges from 2500 yen to 3000 yen; in the US market, it ranges from 15 to 20 dollars!" Zhao Ye replied after hesitating.

The production cost of the first CD-ROM is relatively high, and the cost of a CD-ROM disc is about 3 US dollars.

With the improvement of production scale and production technology in the future, the production cost of CD-ROM will be greatly reduced, and the profit opportunities will become considerable.

"By the way, these new games can be ported to arcade machines, and they will definitely be a hit!" Zhao Ye urged.

"clear."

Wang Jizhi nodded with a smile, he already had this idea.

"Okay, then do it like this, Mr. Wang can go to work."

Upon hearing this, Wang Jizhi nodded and bid farewell to Zhao Ye.

The next day, Wujiang Game Company spread the news that it will hold a product conference and release a 16-bit home game console.

As soon as the news came out, it immediately caused a huge sensation in the industry.

The world's major media seem to have mastered the traffic code, rushing to report, even if they don't know what the game console produced by Wujiang looks like, it doesn't prevent them from compiling.As the saying goes, "One picture at the beginning, the content depends entirely on editing", and the current situation is probably the same.

Countless game fans are ecstatic.

"Great, I've been waiting for a long time and finally today!
As soon as I saw that Sega released the 16-bit home game console MD, I guessed that Wujiang would also release a 16-bit game console. With the technological advantages of Wujiang Group, this 16-bit game console will definitely bring people Great shock! "

"When Wujiang releases a 16-bit game console, there will definitely be new games on the market, look forward to it!"

"From now on, I want to save money, save money, save money again, woo woo woo, in order to buy Borderless games, I will fight..."

"..."

There are so many classic games without borders, which is obvious to all.However, it is obvious to all that Borderless games are expensive.

Therefore, when many gamers learned that Wujiang was going to release a new game console, they knew that they were about to bleed again this time.

There is no way, I really can't bear it.

Even if I live frugally, I still have to save money to buy Borderless game consoles and game cartridges. (At this time, everyone does not know that Wujiang has already used CD-ROM as the game storage medium.)
Soon, the time came to March 1989, 3.

This is a day that everyone looks forward to.

Wang Jizhi had already come to Tokyo, and the product launch event was arranged in a high-end hotel in Akihabara, Tokyo.

Japan is one of the main markets of Wujiang Games. Wujiang Group does not sell games in China, so it did not choose to hold a press conference in China.

On this day, Akihabara was crowded with people, and it was very lively. Countless Japanese game fans came here, wanting to know the details of the Wujiang product launch in the first place.

Of course, there will be a live broadcast on TV Tokyo at this time, and people can watch TV and learn about Wujiang's product launch.

At around 10 o'clock in the morning, Wang Jizhi walked onto the stage in a suit and leather shoes with a smile on his face.

"Hi everyone, welcome to the product launch conference of Wujiang Game Company. I am Wang Jizhi, the general manager of Wujiang Game Company!"

Wang Jizhi bowed and introduced to everyone.

"Today, our Borderless Games Company will launch an epoch-making game product!"

"That is Wujiang's latest masterpiece - "Tomahawk"! ! ! "

As soon as Wang Jizhi's voice fell, a picture of the "Tomahawk" home game console appeared on the big screen behind him!
Seeing this, everyone in the audience gasped in amazement.

It is because this photo is really beautiful, like a work of art.

Judging from the photos, "Tomahawk" is very light and thin, with a pure white body, simple and stylish, and full of sense of technology.But what makes people a little confused is that there is a round cover in the middle, and the two sides are closed, and game cartridges are inserted in every place...

Pointing to the photo of "Tomahawk", Wang Jizhi introduced: "This is the "Tomahawk" developed by our company. The size is 193×38×144 mm, and it weighs about 560 grams. It is extremely light and thin! "

The lighter and thinner the better, the material is saved and the cost is low.

Of course, the technical requirements will be relatively high.

However, fortunately, Wujiang Group finally made it.

People in the industry were shocked when they heard the words. This shows that the integration of "Tomahawk" is very high, so it can be so thin...

"It's incredible!"

"Wujiang Group's technology is getting better and better!"

"Now I am really looking forward to how powerful the hardware configuration of "Tomahawk" is..."

(End of this chapter)