Reborn in Hong Kong: The Tycoon Grows Up

Peng Yifei left to find a simplified Chinese dictionary, which seemed to be a waste of talent and little use. However, Bao Zixuan also meant to test him. After all, as a driver and bodyguard, if he made any small moves, the boss would be the unlucky one.

Now Bao Zixuan's task is to write the traditional Chinese Wubi software first. These days, he basically stays in the office and sits in front of the computer at night, and once again entered the life of a coder.

When the writing of traditional Chinese characters was about to be completed, Peng Yifei came back and brought back all the dictionaries requested by Bao Zixuan. A total of 32 books were brought back, including two from the first edition of the simplified Chinese dictionary to a total of 1 large and small versions.

Bao Zixuan smiled when he saw these, but he still didn't explain clearly! But this is also good. It is a very rare thing for subordinates to unconditionally perform the tasks assigned by themselves and complete them with high quality and quantity.

It can't be said that it's just a reference, just to avoid making people suspicious. I have to take this secret into the coffin.

This time not only Peng Yifei came back, but Yokoi Junpei also came with him. And he also brought his latest product Gameboy handheld game console.

Junpei Yokoi has been under great pressure this year. Although the game company started by Heiyun Group is still one of the most profitable subsidiaries of the entire group. But none of this has anything to do with him, Yokoi Junpei. He received the highest salary in the entire group within a year of joining the company, but he did not bring any income to the company except spending money. Seeing that his former subordinate Furujo Jiro was already the director of the production center at the same level as himself, he felt very anxious.

When Bao Zixuan invited him to join, he promised that he could go back to Japan twice a month. However, in order to speed up the development of gameboy, he only went back once in this year, and it was to recruit hardware engineers back to Japan. It can be seen that his craziness and serious attitude towards his work, the work attitude of the entire Japanese people before the Plaza Accord is very worthy of recognition.

Yokoi Junpei said to Bao Zixuan: "President, according to your requirements, all technical indicators can meet the listing conditions. We have done a lot of tests, and currently there are no problems running Xiangjiang Cube and Snake on the Gameboy game console. .”

After all, Heiyun Games was established too young and does not have its own game inventory. Moreover, the hardware performance of the first-generation Gameboy game console was not very high, and it could only run some simple games.

Sales of Xiangjiang Cube have basically stagnated after about a year. After all, there are more and more good games, and players will become more and more picky. Bao Zixuan asked Junpei Yokoi to transplant it to the Gameboy handheld game console. Snake was eliminated from the arcade market as 1st.

Yokoi Junpei personally found Xiaogui Game Company and bought the copyright. After the game is sold in the arcade, it is difficult for small game companies to carry out secondary development. They do not have the strength in this area. At this time, Black Cloud Game Company is willing to pay a high price to purchase the game copyright, so why not!

Atari is not as generous as Heiyun Games. In fact, Atari was already negotiating with Heiyun Games before they approached Xiaogui Games.

Atari 2 is the absolute overlord of game consoles and has its own strong side. They believe that as long as you can access games in Atari 2, you are lucky. As a result, they have always been stingy with game developers.

Atari’s one-time buyout price for a classic game like Snake is only $2 million. They believed that if Atari did not buy out Snake, the game would be useless. There is currently no other console platform that can compete with Atari.

At this time, Junpei Yokoi of Black Cloud Games approached them to buy the game rights. Xiaogui Games, who was angry at Atari, agreed without saying anything when they heard the one-time buyout price of US$5 million.

Black Cloud Games is much more sincere than Atari, and they are very happy when paying.

Snake Bao Zixuan was very happy to hear that Yokoi Junpei actually grabbed it from Atari, one of the main competitors of Black Cloud Games. Now being able to grab the copyright of Snake to weaken the opponent is something worth celebrating. In addition, the rise of Atari in the previous life was based on the game Space Invaders. Now part of the game copyright is in the hands of Heiyun and it is impossible to sell it. To Atari, it’s hard to rise.

Bao Zixuan said to Yokoi Junpei: "Yokoi-kun, please introduce the hardware configuration of this game console to everyone."

Yokoi Junpei: "Okay, Mr. President. Gameboy has a four-color black and white screen, a four-bit CPU, and a game cartridge with a capacity of no more than 1. Among them is our patented cross-key technology, which is very capable of adjusting up, down, left, and right. Conveniently, the direction adjustment lever may be more suitable for player experience on arcade machines. But on small game consoles, our cross keys have an overwhelming advantage, and we have done a lot of experiments for this."

Bao Zixuan knew that this game console only had half the performance of the original Gameboy launched by Nintendo, but he was already very satisfied. After all, Gameboy was released about 10 years earlier than in its previous life.

The technology alone has long been able to meet the research and development conditions. The computer technology on Intel 808 was already taking shape. Later technology upgrades and transformations were developed around this basis. The basic framework has been determined and the rest is much simpler.

All that was lacking was creativity. In the era when arcades dominated gaming, who would have thought of making a game console the size of a palm. This is the reason why Nintendo did not successfully develop it until 10 years later.

Bao Zixuan: "How are the CPU and screen performance? How are you and Gucheng-kun discussing it?"

Yokoi Junpei: "CPU is a product 8 years ago, and the production line we purchased from Sony can fully produce it. As for the LCD four-color black and white screen, we have purchased a full set of equipment and technology from RCA. As long as we enter the mass production stage, our own factory can meet the requirements For all parts production, it can be said that we don’t need to buy any parts from outside. We only need to buy raw materials.”

Bao Zixuan was very pleased to hear this, when many people didn't understand why he wanted to buy so much technology. I think that if he randomly enters other fields with a hammer and a stick, he will be finished sooner or later. Many people and companies used to wait to see Heiyun Group’s jokes. Today I can finally feel relieved. His layout is slowly exerting its power.

If there is no ability to produce ordinary chips and LCD screens, what will happen if Japanese parts suppliers collectively raise prices after business is particularly booming. The parts required for the Black Cloud console can only be purchased in the United States. The price has increased by at least 20%. Now that Heiyun can produce and use it by itself, there is no problem of rising component prices.

At this time, except for Panasonic and Sony, which had some conflicts, Japanese companies were unanimous in dealing with the outside world and were very united. Black clouds must be guarded against!

Bao Zixuan said: "What is the production cost now? How many units can be produced every day if the production capacity is fully released."

Ordinary hardware development engineers may not know how much production capacity can be achieved, but as Yokoi Junhei has worked on the production line for more than 10 years. Before coming to the United States, I calculated three times with my old subordinates about the production cost of Gameboy and the maximum production capacity that could be released.

Bao Zixuan asked Yokoi Junpei this question just because he knew his character. If it were another engineer, he would not dare to ask him this question. It would be bad if he couldn't answer and cause psychological pressure.

Yokoi Junpei: "The current bare metal cost of each gameboy is 40 Hong Kong dollars, and the chip and screen for a box of game cartridges are more expensive. If mass production is to be achieved, 30,000 units can be produced per day in the first month, and if the production capacity is fully released, it can reach 5 Ten thousand units, now our Heiyun Group has the largest number of small CNC machine tools in the world."