Hong Kong Island's New Rich Era

Chapter 24 Arcade (Part )

3 month 25 day.

In the Orange Technology office, Liu Zhicheng is listening to the work reports of Huo Haiqing and Niu Guangli.

Since his last visit to the Chigo Industrial workshop and giving instructions to Chigo Industrial, Liu Zhicheng arranged for office staff to regularly check the workshop hygiene.

According to reports from the personnel who came back from the inspection, although the workshop is not spotless, it is frighteningly clean. I heard that a special cleaning staff has been arranged to be in charge.

Of course, Liu Zhicheng not only listened, but also went to see it in person. No one deceived him, and he was quite satisfied.

"Mr. Liu, the hygiene of the workshop has improved, but the cost will be higher." Huo Haiqing reported to Liu Zhicheng.

"Don't worry about the cost. If you were a customer and took them to the workshop, what would you think? Would they give you a thumbs-up?"

Liu Zhicheng told them the reason why the factory hygiene was improved, and continued to instruct: "Also, the last time we went to the toilet, the odor was still quite strong. We need to find a way to reduce the concentration of the odor."

"Understood, Mr. Liu." The two expressed their opinions.

Liu Zhicheng thought about the fan orders again and asked, "How is the fan order volume now?"

"Not bad. Customers in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia are quite supportive. They have placed orders for nearly 20 units. Together with the 25 units orders from RB, Europe and the United States, we have nearly units in total."

Due to the weather in Europe, the summer is basically not hot, and the fan market is still in North America, RB, and South Asia.

"Yes, it's good. The weather in the northern hemisphere will soon get hot. We need to step up promotion in the North American and RB markets, mainly in several major supermarkets."

Liu Zhicheng knew that the future North American market would be a gold mine in the fan market and had to attract his attention.

"What is the current price? Can I break even?" Liu Zhicheng asked.

"Due to the impact of the oil crisis, plastic prices are rising. We have maintained last year's prices, and customers from RB and North America are very interested. We can make a profit of about HK$1 per unit."

Liu Zhicheng was also happy after hearing the results, at least there was a profit. Although he had initially planned to use a break-even strategy to open up the market, who wouldn't want to make a little money?

"Well, I don't ask for too much in terms of price. What I need is the market and the channels."

Both of them took orders and headed for the ambitious global market.

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At the end of April, after much anticipation, Orange Arcade finally produced 4 Xiangjiang Cube prototypes. When Liu Zhicheng heard the news, a smile began to appear on his face.

After sponsoring a primary school near the factory, Orange Technology set up a game testing room in the school, allowing students to become players and conduct game playability tests.

For the game industry, whether in the 70s or in the st century, many game companies will invite a group of children to test the playability of a game.

If children all like to play a game, then it is basically impossible for it to fail.

Because of the different time and developers, such a test had to be conducted. Liu Zhicheng was definitely confident in Xiangjiang Cube, but he still had to test the playability of the game.

If the game difficulty is set too easy, people will lose interest and give up the game. If the game difficulty is set too high, players will always fail to pass the level and give up the game.

If the players give up, the merchants will also give up. Therefore, we need to find a balance point so that those who play can have fun and those who make money can have fun.

Therefore, it is necessary to test the game on a small scale. After a week of saturation testing, Xiangjiang Cube finally locked in several difficulty settings. The average number of students who wanted to play the game increased by 80%, meeting the requirements for listing.

He Guoyuan walked into Liu Zhicheng's office and said, "Mr. Liu, Xiangjiang Cube has basically met the listing requirements."

Liu Zhicheng nodded and said, "Well, that's good. We finally have our own product. The next step is to speed up production and put it on the market for sale?"

Liu Zhicheng was not as happy as he had imagined. He knew that this technology was a cheat and there was nothing to be happy about.

"Don't worry, Mr. Liu. We have already started trial production of the host computer and have reached the capacity for full-speed production."

"Well, next, you need to test Snake and prepare to develop new game products."

In fact, developing a new game often requires a creative idea. In order to mobilize the creativity of game developers, Liu Zhicheng decided to implement a reward system.

"We now have about 60 game developers. We divide them into several groups and implement a reward system, taking out 5% of the profit to reward the development group."

When Huo Haiqing heard this plan, he was also stunned, but after thinking about it carefully, he understood the benefits of it.

"I will arrange for He Guoyuan to follow up immediately and report to Mr. Liu when the time comes."

"The console development team is still too weak, and we need to increase recruitment. I have been thinking about how to bring games into thousands of households and expand the console market."

Liu Zhicheng looked at Huo Haiqing and continued, "There are only a few ways: miniaturization and universalization."

Huo Haiqing listened to Liu Zhicheng's wild ideas and asked, "Mr. Liu, how about miniaturization and generalization?"

"Well, this is a good question. Do we need a TV for our game console? Let's remove it. Let's remove the joystick. Wouldn't it be much smaller?" Liu Zhicheng presented his ideas to Huo Haiqing step by step.

"Mr. Liu, is this still a game console?" Huo Haiqing couldn't believe what he heard.

"It's removed, but not really removed. The next thing to mention is universal." Liu Zhicheng said.

"Mr. Liu means to use home TV as our display?" Huo Haiqing also slowly understood Liu Zhicheng's idea.

"Yes, that's right. Can the operating handle also be external?" Liu Zhicheng was very happy. Huo Haiqing's imagination had been opened up.

"Yes, but we still need to find a way to solve the connection method." Huo Haiqing was already deep in thought.

"After you go there, set up a project team to specialize in researching new home game consoles. But your current job is mainly to sell our arcade machines." Liu Zhicheng was afraid that if he led Huo Haiqing astray, it would harm himself.

At this time, the home game console market is in its infancy. Major game console manufacturers around the world may not have invested heavily in research and development yet, but they will soon enter this market.

Whoever develops a game that never gets boring, or invents a convenient and durable home game system, will be able to monopolize the home game console market. This is what is called a technological monopoly.

In Liu Zhicheng's memory, he played a "Family Game Console" and the accompanying game was called "Mario". Nintendo achieved a high degree of monopoly and dominated the market by combining game consoles and games.

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