Tokyo Video Game Tycoon

Chapter 383 I don't think so

The specific content of this tender is to put forward requirements, and then several manufacturers will try to find ways to see if they can meet them.

These requirements were first proposed by Zhu Yuxing, and then the engineering team discussed the feasibility, and then negotiated with these manufacturers.

Zhu Yuxing mainly asked for a few points.

The computing power can reach the game screen of the previous life at least comparable to the PSP era.

At the same time, the processor is also required to have strong compatibility.

This is to allow a series of games such as the previous GBA to enter the new handheld in parallel through the emulator.

Even if you can, you can run SFC and FC era games on the new handheld.

These old games don't have to really make much money for Zhuyouxing, but they can't be without.

There is also easy development, which is a preparation for game developers.

If a game console is very difficult to develop, many game developers will be discouraged from developing games on this console.

And the purpose of the processor is also directly announced at the tender meeting.

It is for the manufacture of handhelds, but this news must be kept strictly confidential by several manufacturers, otherwise they will face high lawsuit compensation.

These were all said before the tender began.

For these world-renowned processor manufacturers, it is not difficult to manufacture.

The weakest one can make this kind of processor.

There are only some differences in price.

After some discussion, the six companies finally marked the function, performance, and price of their processors, and then the bidding meeting was temporarily ended.

The winning bidder will be announced within two weeks.

Liujia patiently waited for the reply from Youxing Electronic Entertainment.

And inside the headquarters of Yuxing Electronic Entertainment Company, Zhu Yuxing and several heads of the engineering development department, including Hayazawa Airi, looked at the quotations of these six companies together.

"The first manufacturer offered a price of US$110 per custom chip, and guaranteed an annual production capacity of 2000 million units to Yuxing Electronic Entertainment, and the price of the chips produced each year can also be reduced by ten US dollars."

“The second manufacturer offered $130 per custom chip, but they said that if they ordered 4000 million units per year, they would drop the price by another thirty dollars, and then reduce the price by ten dollars every year.”

"The third manufacturer priced each chip at $120. They didn't give any additional discounts, but the chips they manufactured have always been stable, and there have been no serious quality problems. The price may be negotiable."

"The fourth manufacturer is priced at $[-] per chip, which is quite cheap. This manufacturer used to specialize in manufacturing industrial chips. I am afraid they intend to expand the market through this transaction, so they are willing to use a lower price to Fighting for this order is also tantamount to paying a tuition fee for them to enter a new market.”

"The sincerity of the fifth manufacturer is not very good. The chip price has reached 170 US dollars. I don't think it is necessary to consider this. Like the fourth manufacturer, they used to manufacture industrial chips. It is obviously not sincere enough to change careers without paying tuition fees."

"The chip price of the sixth manufacturer is 130 US dollars, and the price is willing to reduce by more than [-] US dollars every year, which means that the chip price cost will only be [-] US dollars after five years, which is also quite good."

In the conference room, a person in charge of engineering development explained to the crowd the different offers and commitments of the six manufacturers.

Each of the six manufacturers has their own strengths, and with the exception of the fifth and third, the other four are actually offering decent offers.

This is cheaper than Take Yusei expected at first.

The processor is the heart of a game console.

If all costs are included, the cost of the game console can be controlled to less than two hundred dollars, which is in the range of [-] yen.

In this case, selling a handheld for two hundred dollars is equivalent to no loss or profit.

However, the [-] yen handheld is obviously not easy for current players to accept.

The price of the previous handheld was just over 1 yen, but the price of the new handheld has increased to [-] yen in one go, which puts a lot of pressure on players.

So it is inevitable to lose some selling hosts.

But as long as the game can sell well, you will earn it.

In the end, after everyone's discussion, the manufacturers were locked in two.

The third and sixth.

One of these two is the excellent quality of the product, and the other is the price is very favorable in the future.

If a game machine is produced after the fifth year, the production cost is probably only seventy or eighty dollars.

It's not bad to wait until about the third year or so that the consoles can start making money again.

The quality of the third manufacturer is very good, and it is not completely irrelevant. You can use the annual increase in production capacity to attract the other party to lower the price again.

However, it is completely determined that the manufacturer can wait another half a month. During this time, everyone in the company's engineering development can have a good discussion about the choice of these manufacturers.

As for the meeting, it went to the next link, which was to discuss the functions and appearance of the handheld.

Before, Zhuyouxing had decided to make the appearance of the game console as a clamshell, and it also had the property of dual screens.

At that time, he had already shown the general appearance drawings to everyone.

But that's not a final draft, just an initial idea.

Zhu Yuxing also hopes to listen to other people's opinions before making a decision.

Most of them have no problem with Zhu Yuxing's vision of this game console.

Because they have long been accustomed to the unfavorable development direction.

They don't even need to be involved in the design of the game console too much, they just need to develop the game console according to the functional requirements given by Zhu Yuxing.

Anyway, in the case of the current Xingxing Electronic Entertainment, any game consoles developed are easy to sell.

"Zhuyou, to be honest, I have always felt that this kind of handheld is not particularly good."

Just when the results of the discussions were almost the same, a voice suddenly sounded.

Zhu Yuxing raised his head and looked at the door, where a person was sitting alone.

She has always been used to being alone, but she has also changed a lot.

At least she has no contact phobia now, and she no longer reacts violently to contact with others.

Tsukino Aya's silver double ponytail is still so eye-catching at all times.

"It's not very good, what exactly do you mean?"

"Dual screen, I can't imagine how to make a game using this dual screen property. Of course, you can have a lot of great ideas to create amazing games, but other developers may not be so So many fantastic ideas."

This is quite reasonable.

The NDS in the previous life was stronger in its own game lineup. Except for its own games, third-party games were actually not very powerful, at least not comparable to the third-party games of the PSP handheld console of the same period.

(End of this chapter)