Rebirth 86: I use games to kick open the door to the world.

"I'm a little confused, which company do you belong to? Why are you still so obsessed with the price?"

Seeing that Zuo Zhen was very concerned about the ten yuan packaging fee, he felt even more strange.

Normally, prices like this are dead now, and the market is far from as flexible and changeable as it will be in later generations, especially for such a Guomao Building.

However, this packaging fee is really a little selfish of the salesman himself.

"Actually, I didn't buy it for any organization. I bought it for myself. I sent it because I have some data that I need to send."

"Ah? Are you sending it yourself? What kind of data can you send at your age? Are you sure it's not for work or school?"

Zuo Zhen shook his head: "No, have you heard of video games?"

"No." The salesman shook his head.

"I just send video game data, which is more important to me, so I want the quality to be better, but since I can only choose this, forget it."

"You're an interesting young man. You're the first person I've seen buy a floppy disk in your own name. Do you still need to issue an invoice?"

"Open it, needless to say."

"Okay, then tell me what your game is. I'm a little curious as to why you would want to send this thing abroad."

"It's actually a kind of entertainment, similar to movie music, it's just for people to play."

"For fun? I don't believe it." The salesman smiled, "I've never seen anything for fun in a floppy disk."

"That's because you don't understand this industry yet. In fact, video games are slowly becoming a popular form of entertainment overseas, and sooner or later they will become popular in China as well."

"That's it? Can you play with the things in this small square? How do you want to play?"

Zuo Zhen said speechlessly: "It's definitely not possible to rely on floppy disks alone. At least you need to use a computer."

"Then you mean that this thing needs to be used on a computer worth tens of thousands, so who can afford it? It's weird that it's popular."

The more the salesman listened, the more outrageous he felt.

At this time, even the tellers at the nearby counters burst into laughter.

"Little brother, you may not know how much a computer costs now, right? It takes more than ten or twenty years for an average person to afford such an item. Do you think the average family can afford it?"

Zuo Zhen shook his head: "No, I really can't afford it now."

"Then what are you talking about? I don't even dare to play this thing, let alone if it becomes popular. After all, it only costs ten cents for me to watch a movie, and I can barely save enough to buy a TV a few years ago. I can buy it, and I can also watch Journey to the West."

When Zuo Zhen heard this, his heart moved, Journey to the West?

By the way, this time happened to be the time when the TV series Journey to the West was being filmed.

This TV series carries Zuo Zhen's childhood and even adulthood.

Because this TV series is aired every year, as long as you want to watch it, Soosou TV will definitely have at least one TV station broadcasting it.

Speaking of which, if Journey to the West can be made into an FC game, there should be some market for it.

But don’t worry about this for now, let’s make money first.

Zuo Zhen knew that these people did not believe his words at all.

But he still said patiently: "Have you ever heard of Moore's Law?"

"what?"

Everyone's laughter stopped suddenly, and they were all stunned when they suddenly heard Zuo Zhen's question.

"What law?"

"Moore's Law."

"What's this for?"

Zuo Zhen explained: "This is a rule proposed by someone abroad, that is, the performance of things like computers will double every one to two years, but at the same time the price will remain the same. Think about it now. How much will a computer worth about [-] yuan cost in two years? How much will it cost in ten years?"

"This one……"

Several people at the counter fell silent.

They still didn't understand what Zuo Zhen meant.

Zuo Zhen gave the answer directly: "Two years later, the current value of computers will drop to at least half of its original value. Four years later, it will be half of half. Six years later, it will be half of half of half. As for ten years later... …”

"I know, it's half, half, half, half, half..." someone answered.

"Your reaction is very quick."

The man said proudly: "Hey, I graduated from junior high school, and I am best at addition, subtraction, multiplication and division."

Zuo Zhen heard the other party's words but shook his head: "No, ten years later, today's computers will be almost equivalent to scrap metal."

???

These people were collectively confused.

"Things that cost more than [-] yuan now will become scrap metal in ten years? Are you kidding me? Aren't those people who spend more than [-] yuan to buy computers now become the ones who are taken advantage of?"

"No, computers are very different from the commodities we normally understand. Most people who sell computers worth ten thousand yuan now use them to make more money or achieve more benefits, so even if they spend ten thousand Most of you are also willing. If you buy a computer and use it, you can earn [-] yuan in the next one or two years, will you buy it? "

"That's for sure."

"Are you being taken advantage of?"

"Forehead……"

"So we have to look at it from a different perspective. The price difference is not necessarily a big advantage."

"It seems to make sense. You young man knows a lot."

Zuo Zhen smiled: "I just know a little bit about computers and stuff, I don't understand anything else."

The salesman at the counter selling floppy disks then asked, "What do you mean, in two years' time the floppy disks on my counter won't be able to sell for much money?"

"Well, this is not necessarily true. Storage products will have a relatively longer lifespan, but only a little longer. They will definitely be replaced by more advanced technologies sooner or later in the future."

The floppy disk salesman said: "I thought this floppy disk was high-tech enough. They told me that it can store several Cihai books in it."

"Future products can store more, and even palm-sized hard drives can store thousands of books."

The salesman immediately blurted out: "Are you deceiving me? Let me tell you, you can't negotiate the price of this floppy disk. You can buy it for 75. If it weren't for the fact that you seem to be very knowledgeable, I wouldn't want to sell it to you."

Zuo Zhen shrugged. He didn't care about the other party's doubts. It was useless to say more now. When they come to that era in person, they will know that the current storage technology is just a little shrimp.

"Hey, if you tell us about that computer again, today's computers will be scrap metal in ten years. Then can we buy a current computer directly at the price of scrap metal?"

A person at the counter not far away asked with interest.

"Believe me, by then you won't be able to look down on today's computers."

"How do you know so much?"

Zuo Zhen said: "In fact, overseas countries have taken a step ahead of us, and our domestic computer performance level is still half a beat behind. I am actually a college student, and I have had the opportunity to communicate abroad before, so I learned about foreign news. "

"Wow, he turns out to be a top student."

Everyone began to praise him, and the previous contempt disappeared because of Zuo Zhen's previous words and his current identity confession.