Tokyo Video Game Tycoon

Chapter 375 The Creative Meeting About Handheld Devices
In fact, Zhu Yuxing felt that he did not have many choices, and his greatest wish was to leave no regrets.

Then the best choice may only be to continue to improve the performance of the game machine.

Fortunately, I still have a lot of creative ideas for excellent games.

Just taking it out to the handheld can lead to a sales increase again and again.

If it wasn't for this kind of confidence, Zhu Youxing probably wouldn't take such a risk.

On the same day, Zhu Yuxing first announced his ideas to the company's engineering development department.

At the same time, the news of this new handheld was also made public to the person in charge of the company's core development team.

They were not surprised by the news of this new development plan.

Because according to the time of GBA's release, the development of the next-generation handheld should also begin.

However, they were a little surprised by Zhu Yuxing's idea.

This time Zhu Yuxing wants to make another big leap in game performance.

In order to explain to everyone the new handheld they envisioned, everyone also held an internal discussion meeting.

"My initial idea was to launch a handheld with upper and lower screens, one of which could use the latest touch technology, making our product a fashionable product of electronic technology. As for the performance, I also plan to improve it a little bit. , the standard is to be able to run video games that are comparable to the GS1’s graphics performance.”

After Takeyusei finished speaking, Airi Hayazawa immediately raised her hand.

"Zhuyou...President, isn't this span a little too big? Also, why are there two screens?"

"Dual screen is just an idea of ​​mine, because I have some ideas that fit with this mechanism. As for the span you mentioned, it does seem to be very large, but this is the first time I hope to make one that can satisfy as much as possible. A console for gamers with all appetites."

Airi Hayasawa immediately said: "The cost is probably not cheap, and if we were to sell it at the price of the handheld, it would be a loss-making business."

"Selling the console at a loss and then earning money back from the game is my definition of this handheld. At the same time, I also hope that this handheld can continue to operate for more than five years, so in this way, with Moore's Law If the performance of the processor is gradually doubled many times, then the cost of our game consoles can be reduced all the time. In the early stage, the sales of game consoles may be a loss-making business, but in the later stage, it is not at all."

A console that's ready to sell for more than five years?

Everyone thought seriously.

The lifespan of their two game consoles, SFC and GB, was about four years before.

Now GBA will slowly become obsolete over time, replaced by sooner or later.

So now, making a handheld with a performance comparable to that of a home console in one breath really sounds great, and game developers for handhelds will have more room to play.

Recently, some handheld game developers have gradually begun to complain about the weak performance of the GBA handheld.

The performance of game consoles in this world is developing too fast, and Zhu Yuxing has accelerated the pace of soaring performance of this game console.

And game developers, like players, will gradually no longer be satisfied with the development of the current game machine performance.

They also hope that they can have more development space when developing games.

The current handheld market is more like a platform for orthodox console development teams to practice.

When the experience of game developers matures, they will immediately jump out of the handheld development team and join the console development team to develop console games with stronger game performance.

If a handheld with explosive performance really comes out, then there is actually a whole new choice for game developers.

They will be equally welcome.

"My idea is probably these. Now let's see if you have any other opinions. We will solve it during the internal meeting. First of all, I want to say that my idea is not 100% accurate. If you If you can find some reason enough to convince me, then it is also possible to make some changes to the structure of this handheld, and I welcome all of you to brainstorm."

At this time, a person in charge of the development team raised his hand and said, "President, are we going to announce the news of this handheld development to our employees?"

Zhu Youxing nodded: "It's good to announce it. The confidentiality regulations will keep them tight-lipped. I can trust our employees. If ordinary employees have any good ideas, they are willing to accept them."

Everyone nodded.

In fact, they are a little confused about this so-called dual-screen development.

They haven't yet jumped out of the inherent rules of the console screen.

One screen can't be taken care of, so what kind of performance will the two screens perform?
At the same time, they seem to have regained their senses.

It turned out that the upgraded version of the previous GBSP handheld appearance was prepared for this.

Layout a clamshell handheld in advance, and then launch a dual-screen game console under the clamshell.

However, no one can say whether such a game machine can succeed or not.

In fact, if this idea was proposed by the boss of an ordinary game company, everyone would probably think that it was the whimsical idea of ​​the boss of the company, which is simply nonsense.

This is completely contrary to mainstream thinking.

However, Zhu Yuxing is the god of games. Since it is his idea, it should be quite correct.

Zhu Youxing did not say anything completely, but gave everyone a time to think.

Let them go back and think about the feasibility of such a thing.

It's one thing for Takeyousei to come up with the idea at the beginning, but whether this dual-screen handheld is truly popular is another.

Zhu Youxing even envisioned a plan for market research.

If the handheld is really going to be distributed, it will be facing consumers in the future, and it is also necessary to conduct some market research in advance.

However, the processor of a high-quality handheld computer can be studied in advance.

This can be paralleled with the gameplay and design of the handheld.

After the meeting, the engineering development team sent out tenders for several large processor manufacturers.

This time is different.

The performance of previous game consoles is relatively behind the technological development of this world.

Then find a more versatile and more compatible processor is the best choice.

In this case, it is enough to go directly to the company with the strongest processor production in the world.

The price of the processor itself has also matured. They are also very welcome to purchase such relatively outdated products in large quantities. The unused production lines can be reused, and they can continue to be used to make money, and this kind of old production lines. It is to occupy a production position, and the manpower does not need to consume too much, so why not do it.

(End of this chapter)