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However, while Hiroshi Yamauchi was still cursing, Zhao Ye was preparing to give Nintendo a heavy blow.

In the conference room, executives from the game development department were present one after another.

Zhao Ye looked around and said: "The great success of Gameboy proves the prospects of portable game consoles. And the popularity of the "Pokemon" game shows that people like development games very much. In reality, Many people like to keep kittens and puppies very much. So, we can draw a conclusion that people like to keep pets!”

"I called everyone here for a meeting today to develop a new product. Since people like to keep pets, why don't we develop an "electronic pet"? "

Many people in the conference room still couldn't understand.

Zhao Ye walked to the blackboard at this time and drew an egg-shaped "electronic pet" machine appearance. There was a TN LCD black and white pixel screen in the middle, and three function buttons below.

Zhao Ye pointed to the graphic on the blackboard and introduced: "This is an "electronic pet". It has a very cute, egg-shaped appearance. As for the gameplay, it is very simple. We can introduce a simulated breeding system. The player activates it for the first time. "Electronic pet", a small pet will break out of the shell on the screen, and then the player has to feed, clean, play and other nurturing interactions with the 'pet' on the screen. "

"Of course, since we already have a super IP like "Pokemon", we can replace these pets with popular Pokemon and grow, work, learn, fight, and evolve along the way!"

"Two "electronic pets" can also communicate with each other through infrared rays, make friends, visit each other, send gifts, and play games. If they are one female and one male, they can even further interact, get married, and give birth to a baby. "

"Who stipulates that Pokemon cannot have females? Pikachu can tell the difference between male and female by the difference in their tails. Ash's Pikachu is a male, a normal straight line of lightning, while the female Pikachu has a round notch at the end of its tail, like a little heart. "

""Pokemon 2: Classic of Mountains and Seas" needs to design more female elves!"

After a pause, Zhao Ye said, "The development of electronic pets is very difficult, mainly because creativity is rare. The game development department must develop "electronic pets" as soon as possible, and then cooperate with Gameboy, "Pokemon" games and cartoons to fully capture the game market! "

"Yes!" Everyone responded in unison.

In a previous life, Tamagotchi "electronic pets" became popular all over the world, and soon all kinds of copycat products sprouted everywhere.

Speaking of which, Tamagotchi's background is still poor. Without the blessing of a super IP like "Pokemon", otherwise, sales will definitely increase a lot.

In addition, the issuance ability is weak, resulting in various copycat products seizing the market.

But these shortcomings do not exist in Wujiang Group.

Wujiang Group is fully capable of selling "electronic pets" to every corner of the world quickly!

And even if you copycat, can you beat the "Pokemon" IP?

The most attractive thing about the “electronic pet” that Wujiang Group is about to develop is its diverse growth system, which is evolution.

The growth path of each Pokemon will change every time it reaches a checkpoint. But which form it will evolve into depends on how the operator raised it. This kind of unknowable future will give players Bring curiosity and anticipation.

It is not difficult to imagine that such a unique growth path will definitely bring more intimate emotions to users than the same fixed feeding growth model. In other words, users have completely different play mentality when facing the above two growth models. of.

For the former, because operating habits will have a decisive impact on growth, users will also take care of their "electronic pets" step by step, just like raising children. They will enjoy every stage of growth and provide their pets with the best possible care. They are extremely excited to grow into different forms; for the latter, because the growth path is fixed, users can only pursue numerical breakthroughs at most, and will only secretly steal because their pets can be higher-level than others. happy.

The addition of the diverse growth system will make a simple "electronic pet" become intriguing!

In the previous life, the "Tamagoko" pet egg was a series of electronic pet game consoles launched by Bandai in November 1996. However, with the emergence of more diverse entertainment methods such as online games and smartphones, this kind of nurturing The gameplay of Tamagotchi is no longer attractive.

But in this life, if "electronic pets" were launched in 1987, they would have been popular for at least fifteen years!

It is expected that the sales volume of "Borderless Electronic Pets" will far exceed that of Tamagotchi!

The structure of this "electronic pet" is very simple. The main electronic components are "Kirin 1 chip + circuit board", and it can use bonded packaging, so it does not rely on imported packaging machines and equipment. The cost is low and one less step is eliminated in the process. , the product is more affordable! However, the chip welding technology of bonded packaging is abhorrent to maintenance personnel. The pins and even the entire chip are covered with black glue. It is basically impossible to resolder and repair it. If it breaks, the whole chip can only be thrown away. Because it looks like cow daddy, it is nicknamed "cow poop chip"!

Domestic chip packaging technology is not very advanced.

Wujiang Microelectronics is also currently developing chip packaging technology, but in order to reduce the production cost of "electronic pets", it can use bonding technology to make "cow shit chips"!

Repair "electronic pets"? Sorry, if it breaks, just buy a new one!

Anyway, that’s what the first generation of “electronic pets” looked like. It was a monopoly after all, and users had no other choice but to buy Wujiang Group’s “electronic pets.”

The second generation of "electronic pets" may be improved.

In the afternoon of that day, the "Borderless Electronic Pets" project was officially launched and a development team of 20 people was formed.

The development time is expected to be completed within half a year.

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The arcade development department of Wujiang Group.

"Boss, this is the arcade game motherboard we designed!" Wang Jizhi was introducing it to Zhao Ye at this time. "It uses a 16-bit Kirin 2 chip processor. It has powerful functions, fast processing speed, low power consumption, and is suitable for gaming. The picture colors are bright and clear, and the sound uses stereo surround sound technology to make it more three-dimensional..."

While listening to Wang Jizhi's introduction, Zhao Ye looked at a delicately structured circuit board on the table.

Wujiang Group has the development technology for PC motherboards and home game motherboards, so it is basically not difficult to develop arcade motherboards.

Arcade machines are large and do not limit the size of the motherboard too much, so developers will be more relaxed when developing arcade motherboards.

"Boss, this is a removable game card slot. Just insert the game cartridge and you can run the game!"

Many arcade machines nowadays are almost one game and one motherboard.

If you change the game, you need to change the game motherboard directly.

The purpose of the arcade motherboard developed by Wujiang Group is to create an arcade platform that can allow other games to be ported to the arcade.

Of course, there are also some arcade motherboards with removable game card slots on the market.

However, various arcade brands are highly competitive and incompatible with each other.