Reborn as a tycoon in Hong Kong

It's October.

The novel "Wind and Cloud Dominates the World" that has been serialized for half a year began to be published. Although Lin Baicheng sold the publishing rights at one time, the contract he signed at the time required him to cooperate with the publicity for three days when it was first published, so he enjoyed these three days. The scenery of a popular writer.

However, the price behind the glory was that Lin Baicheng's hand for signing the novel he bought for the readers was almost broken. He was crying because he could not get a penny from the money sold.

But Lin Baicheng is not jealous, because he has made more money through the money sold from the publishing rights of his novels and loans. Speaking of which, he is now a rich man with a net worth of hundreds of millions.

Although Taito Co., Ltd. has not completed all deliveries of the motherboards for the 10,000 arcade machines, in addition to selling all the assembled arcade machines at RB, Taito Co., Ltd. has also received many additional pre-orders. Two The combined total exceeds 10,000 units.

Therefore, Akio Nakanishi immediately placed an order with Galaxy Games and placed another order for 10,000 units.

However, this time, Lin Baicheng told him in advance about Phil Smith's order and that Phil Smith needed to be shipped first, so his order had to be moved later.

After Nakanishi Akio learned that Phil Smith had paid in full and guaranteed priority delivery, he discussed it with the company's boss for a few days, and then paid Lin Baicheng a one-time payment of US$12 million for an order of 10,000 units, allowing Lin Baicheng to maintain his current daily life The delivery volume is about four to five hundred units.

Lin Baicheng did not refuse, he agreed.

The main thing is that it does not affect the delivery time of Phil Smith's order, but this will greatly reduce the number of machines that can be sold to Xiangjiangwan Island and Southeast Asia. Who makes the orders in these places relatively scattered? Without those two There are many big customers.

However, Lin Baicheng did not give up on these places. He delivered the previous orders at the rate of 20 arcade machines per day. After completing the delivery of all orders, he will take orders based on the production capacity of twenty arcade machines per day.

The markets in these places are also markets, and it would be a pity to give them up in vain.

Nowadays, the factory has a monthly production capacity of more than 10,000 machines, which is logically enough. If there are subsequent orders, they will be shipped slowly.

However, Lin Baicheng thought of the European market, the North American market that had not yet made significant progress, and the game "Pac-Man".

If "Pac-Man" is as popular as it was before the rebirth, then orders will definitely come in like snowflakes. The existing production capacity of the factory will definitely not be able to meet the orders for the two games. At that time, there will be a lot of money that cannot be earned immediately. .

Out of this consideration, Lin Baicheng asked Liu Yihui to go to the Hong Kong government to buy land again, buying land near the factory and using it to expand the factory.

I can't guarantee 100% whether the game will be a big hit, but the land can be bought first, and the factory can be built first. Anyway, land is very cheap now, and industrial land is even cheaper, so it can be considered an investment.

There was a lot of wasteland in Kwun Tong, but Lin Baicheng could not buy as much land as he wanted. After seeing the performance of Galaxy Games, the Hong Kong government agreed with the lack of production capacity and approved three acres of land for Galaxy Games.

One acre is equivalent to more than 4,000 square meters, and three acres is more than 12,000 square meters, which is not small.

The original and new factory of Galaxy Games only covers an area of ​​about 6,000 square meters, which is twice the amount at once. If the entire factory is built, the production capacity can be said to be doubled or tripled from the existing basis. I believe No amount of orders is enough to satisfy us.

Although the Hong Kong government did not provide a discount this time, the three acres of land only cost a little over 10 million Hong Kong dollars, so the price was really not high.

Lin Baicheng really wanted to buy more. If he wanted to expand the factory in the future, it would be troublesome to buy land and build a factory. It would be nice to solve it all at once. He just happened to have money now. Unfortunately, the Hong Kong government only approved three acres of land and would not agree to more. There was nothing he could do about it.

More than a week has passed.

With the efforts of Lin Baicheng, Miyamoto Sou and others, the game "Pac-Man" was finally developed and completed post-production.

After making the game on the computer, Lin Baicheng asked people to make three complete machines for everyone to try out and conduct various tests. If there are problems, we need to find them now. If we wait until the Los Angeles trade show to find out there are problems, it will be too late.

In less than two days, the game completed all tests, and after dealing with a few minor issues, the final version was finalized without any problems.

Because there was still time, Lin Baicheng not only let Miyamoto and other game-loving employees within the company try out the game, he also specially recruited more than ten people from the local game hall to test it, and it received unanimous praise. Miyamoto Su and others' confidence increased greatly.

With the memory of rebirth, Lin Baicheng has great confidence in the game itself. He cannot guarantee that the game will be 100% profitable, but with the precedent of the game "Xiangjiang Cube", he is still 90% sure.

Out of confidence, Lin Baicheng asked Liu Yihui to prepare the raw materials for 10,000 "Pac-Man" arcade machines. When the order is received, the arcade machines can be produced as soon as possible. It just so happens that there are still orders from Taitung Co., Ltd. and Phil Smith that need to be delivered, and there is no free production capacity, so there is no rush.

This time, Lin Baicheng chose first-class accessories for the arcade machine of the "Pac-Man" game, because if the accessories were too poor, the game would not be able to operate, and the game also added colors, using display films to give the game a variety of colors. .

Arcade games before this had no color, only black and white. For example, "Hong Kong Cube" only had black and white.

The game "Pac-Man" would lose a lot of color if it lacked color, so Lin Baicheng chose to add color to the game through display film. However, this does not allow the game to have too many colors, so the number of colors is fixed at less than ten, but this is enough for the time being.

Letting games have colors is not something that no one has thought about before, but the technology was not up to standard before, but now the technology can do it, but the price is not small.

Take "Pac-Man" as an example. When ordering a large number of goods, it is also a first-class accessory. The cost of a black and white model is only 3,000 Hong Kong dollars, which is 500 Hong Kong dollars more expensive than the game "Hong Kong Cube".

After adding more colors, the cost became 3,400 Hong Kong dollars per unit, an additional 400 Hong Kong dollars. This is still under the condition of purchasing large quantities, otherwise the cost of each unit will increase by at least 500 Hong Kong dollars.

Calculated, the cost of the game "Pac-Man" is about 900 Hong Kong dollars more than the cost of the game "Hong Kong Cube".

However, wool comes from sheep, and Lin Baicheng will definitely increase the price when it comes to external prices.

As for how much the price will increase, it depends on how popular the "Pac-Man" game was at the Los Angeles trade show.

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