game trailblazer

Chapter 53 Patent Barriers
The place Wang Bin took Zhang Lexing to was Fengzeyuan Restaurant located on Zhushikou West Street, which was said to be a time-honored restaurant with a long history.The restaurant is a small three-story building, and the building is full of people who come to eat. Fortunately, Wang Bin has made preparations and booked a private room in advance. Although it is not big, the decoration inside is quite elegant, and the sound insulation effect Not bad, just right for a conversation.After simply ordering a few dishes and boiling a pot of wine, Zhang Lexing and Wang Bin started talking while eating.

Wang Bin first introduced the application status of patents related to FC game consoles: "Song Tian is usually only responsible for the acceptance of patent applications, and has no direct contact with patent review, but he has friends in the patent review team, so he is well-informed. When I heard about your FC The game console-related patents passed the review, and Song Tian told me right away. I know you are more concerned about this matter, so I passed the news to Wan Lin. According to Song Tian's estimation, it will take about a month to get the certificate , I thought you wouldn't come so early."

"Wang Bin, thank you for caring so much about my affairs. Whenever there is a chance, ask Song Tian out and let's get together."

"Okay, but I see that your expression is not excited at all, is there something else?"

"Really, you should read this newspaper first, it's on the first page." Zhang Lexing took out the newspaper he bought at the airport.

Wang Bin took the newspaper and looked at it carefully. After a while, he suddenly realized: "You are in such a hurry to find me because of them."

"Hey, I actually feel sorry for these MBAs who can't show their strengths after returning to China."

"Understand, understand, in fact, you just want to provide them with a chance to show their strengths."

"Didn't I respond to the call of the motherland and support the country's economic construction? But starting a company to support economic construction always requires people to manage it. I am not short of people. Now that there are suitable people in the country, there is no need to hire them all in the future." People outside."

"Oh, I know you have many reasons. Well, I'll go and figure out a way, and we'll talk about it if it works."

"Okay, let's eat the vegetables first..."

Wang Bin's ability is still quite great, and he quickly helped Zhang Lexing get online.Coincidentally, this report has attracted the attention of the state leaders in the past few days, and leaders of several departments have been organized to study how to solve this problem. With the support of the deputy director of the State Economic Commission, this batch of MBAs has received special policies to allow them to move freely.Zhang Lexing happened to catch up with this good opportunity and hooked up with several MBAs.

In order to allow them to join, Zhang Lexing offered a very generous salary in China. Of course, the more important thing was to provide them with a platform to play their strengths. Several MBAs who have been frustrated for a long time and hope to have a place to play tempted.After Zhang Lexing helped them solve their worries, these MBAs readily agreed to join Zhang Lexing's company.After communicating with the heads of several domestic companies, Zhang Lexing made personnel assignments. Wang Chuanshan, Liu Zhongtian, and Zhang Xiaojun were assigned to Rising Sun Software, while Wang Haitao and Li Baochun were sent to the cassette factory in Shenzhen and Tianzhiyuan in Fuzhou respectively.

Next, Zhang Lexing stayed in BJ with peace of mind waiting for the news of the patent approval. When he was free, he discussed the technical details of the operating system development with the team of General Manager Yan of Rising Sun Software, or called Shenzhen and Fuzhou. working condition.When the time came to the end of December, Zhang Lexing finally obtained the patent certificate related to the FC game console, and then it was time for professionals to appear.

A team composed of professional lawyers, market investigators, game console hardware engineers, security guards, etc. was formed, relying on a newly purchased FC counterfeit game console production factory (not far from Zhang Lexing's cassette factory in Shenzhen), and started investigation And deal with the piracy of FC mainframes and cassettes that have begun to emerge in the domestic market.Of course, Zhang Lexing will not naively think that piracy can be solved by relying on such a company. Whether it is now or in the future, piracy is an almost unavoidable thing. Zhang Lexing just hopes that through his actions, he can let everyone know earlier What is genuine and what is pirated, so that the living environment of future game developers will be better.

According to the feedback from the market survey, the imitation technology of FC game consoles in Hong Kong and Taiwan is quite proficient. From simply modifying the output format for FC in the past, it has developed to now directly producing FC compatible machines of its own brand (such as: Little Genius, Sheng Tian, ​​Zhibao, Apollo, etc.).With the gradual saturation of the Hong Kong and Taiwan markets, they began to set their sights on the mainland with huge market potential.This year, only a small number of machines sneaked in in the form of parallel imports. Try the depth of the mainland market. If the market responds well, I believe that there will be a large number of FC compatible machines from Hong Kong and Taiwan in the next year or two.

According to a document that Zhang Lexing read in his previous life, the market capacity of domestic FC compatible machines exceeds 3000 million units. This is a figure that is enough to drive many manufacturers crazy. Even if we want to take advantage of this advantage, we have to take the lion's share.You must know that the manufacturers who are about to participate in the 3000 million feast can earn at least more than 100 billion huge sums of money from it, and this huge sum of money will hardly be invested in the development of game software after this feast is over. Among them, it directly led to a feast of the mainland game industry, leaving only a blank space for China's game industry.Zhang Lexing hopes to change this process a little bit, and give the game developers some soup and water, so as to leave something worth remembering for everyone.

As for specific actions, Zhang Lexing already had a basic and clear idea.The next few years should be a period when large and small FC compatible machine manufacturers will start production one after another, and will soon usher in a short golden period for FC game consoles.On the one hand, Zhang Lexing intends to arrange people to focus on a few large production factories and use patent lawsuits to restrict their development. At the same time, he will try to attract some manufacturers who are willing to accept patent licensing fees to form a production alliance. The patent licensing fee will not be very high, as long as Acceptable, even if each host only charges 5-10 yuan, the patent licensing fee collected will be used in Zhang Lexing’s plan for the FC Chinese game development fund, for the Sinicization of FC classic games and the original Chinese games. develop.On the other hand, it is necessary to provide manufacturers that join the game machine production alliance to reduce production costs as much as possible, including mainframes and cassettes. The key here is integrated circuit technology and the purchase cost of mainframe accessories.In terms of integrated circuits, Zhang Lexing has arranged for people to try to introduce VISL technology into the production of FC game consoles and FC cassettes, so as to reduce the production costs of game consoles and cassettes as much as possible.The bulk of the purchase cost of host accessories is taken up by the CPU. The best way to reduce the purchase cost of the CPU is to purchase directly in large quantities. As long as the order is large enough, the purchase price can naturally be reduced.Starting from these two aspects, Zhang Lexing hopes that the game machine production alliance can take advantage of the lower production cost to occupy the largest share of the market, and get a sum of money from it to support the development of Chinese original FC games. Of course, Yuan will also be one of the targets of support.

Zhang Lexing was lamenting the game industry in the next few years, and Qiu Bojun finally walked out of the Friendship Hotel where he had stayed for half a year.During this period of time, Qiu Bojun had a very difficult time. He basically spent every day in front of the 386 computer, either writing code or debugging the completed modules. Qiu Bojun wished he could spend all his time on development except eating.

The arduous development made Qiu Bojun's body gradually haggard. If the person who took care of Qiu Bojun was not smart, I don't know how many times he would have fallen ill. He even went to the hospital once or twice like this. Fortunately, it was not too serious. As long as you rest for a few days, you will be discharged from the hospital.Qiu Bojun is such a person. Once he enters the research and development state, he is extremely focused and often forgets about his body.

In fact, for Qiu Bojun, the physical pain is secondary, and what makes him most uncomfortable is the depression of studying alone. Fortunately, he is not alone in the Friendship Hotel, which is not far from Rising Sun Software.Sometimes when Qiu Bojun gets stuck in a development bottleneck, he can hitchhike to Rising Sun Software, where there is the Chinese operating system team of Mr. Yan, who has mastered the best underlying technology of the operating system in China, and technical exchanges with them can often be helpful to Qiu Bojun. Bo Jun is a great inspiration.

In this way, he continued to think and write codes. At the beginning of January 88, Qiu Bojun finally completed the writing of the last line of code. WPS1 was successfully completed. Xishan DOS1.0.Although the name makes Zhang Lexing a little uncomfortable, but this Xishan DOS is essentially a Chinese character processing module based on Kylin, just begging Bojun likes the concise and clear name of DOS (Disk Operating System).

Qiu Bojun took out his work, and it was time for Zhang Lexing to fulfill his promise.At this time, Qiu Bojun was still full of yearning for Shenzhen. In this case, Zhang Lexing also pushed forward with a certain amount of money, and Qiu Bojun invested in products and technologies to jointly establish a company in Shenzhen that develops general software.Zhang Lexing hesitated for the name of the company for a while, and finally asked Bojun to come up with an idea and named the new company Shenzhen Jinshan General Software Development Company, which made Zhang Lexing feel a little turbulent.This company will naturally be in charge of Qiu Bojun in the future. Zhang Lexing believes that he can do a good job in technology. However, in order to reduce his burden, Zhang Lexing transferred a manager and several technicians from Rising Sun Software to support Shenzhen Jinshan. construction.Excited, Qiu Bojun couldn't wait to take his people to Shenzhen. Not long after, Shenzhen Jinshan General Software Development Co., Ltd. was formally established with an investment of 300 million yuan, and Qiu Bojun accounted for 30% of the shares.Half a month after the establishment of the company, WPS1.0 officially began to sell. Due to the performance of PCs at this time, the mainstream of the Chinese character system is Hanka, so WPS1.0 cannot be avoided and integrated with Jinshan Hanka. New Jinshan The era of the era also kicked off.

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