Tokyo Video Game Tycoon

   Chapter 456 Suri Electronics' God-given Opportunity

  The game carrier used by the GSL handheld is still in the form of a cassette.

   And what is used in it is the flash memory chip.

  Suri Electronics insisted on using the CD format because it wanted to implement its own standards.

   Up to now, it is completely impossible to see whose model is more feasible.

  The cost of CDs can be very low, and the form of cassette flash memory can be very portable and convenient, but the cost will be higher than that of CDs.

Zhu Yuxing believes that in the form of a handheld, the cassette is obviously better. Players can carry many cassettes to play different games at the same time, but even a CD-sized disc cannot be carried around too much, which is a bit inconsistent with the palm. The portable style of the machine.

   Moreover, future generations can also prove that cassettes are indeed a more reasonable form for handhelds. In the future, cassettes can also be very cheap and have advantages over CDs in all aspects.

   However, the cassette has a very fatal problem, that is, the material output of the manufacturing is always unstable, and the manufacturers of flash memory are also very fond of doing things.

   The news that the fire is on fire every now and then says that it will reduce production capacity. Later, people will always ridicule that if these manufacturers have no money, they can set fire at home.

   As for whether it was a real fire or a fake one, Zhu Yuxing didn’t know either, so he couldn’t make a rash conclusion.

   But now the production of cassettes will obviously be affected by this.

   "We have contacted other flash memory manufacturers as soon as possible, but this period of time will cause the production speed of cassettes to slow down, and some areas may be out of stock."

   Zhu Yuxing frowned. Fortunately, the memory chip factory built into the game console and the cassette storage factory were separate. If they were produced by the same company, it would be possible to finish the game together.

   Also, I did not make those simple casual games into cassettes, otherwise it would occupy more cassette production lines, and the impact would be even greater.

   "Is there an estimated time? I would like to know how long it will take for the production capacity to resume."

   "It is expected to take at least three months before it is possible to restore the previous capacity."

  It will take three months to restore the current production capacity, so it is even more difficult to expand the production capacity.

   For delayed delivery of products, if the contract period is exceeded, the flash memory factory will definitely lose money.

   However, the previous multiple cassette productions were relatively short-term contract orders. The flash memory factory has always been a thief in this regard. They have never signed long-term contracts, just to be prepared for price increases at any time.

   And the cassette is the lifeblood of the current Yuxing electronic entertainment handheld. If there is a game console, if there is no cassette, the game console is equivalent to a piece of scrap metal.

   It is still too early to implement online digital games, and the soil is not mature enough.

   But there is no better way at the moment.

   "Then contact the second manufacturer immediately and spread the production of the cassette."

   The person in charge of the outsourcing department nodded and said, "Yes, yes, but I'm worried about another thing."

   "What's the matter?" Zhu Yuxing asked.

   "Other manufacturers are also likely to increase the price of cassettes, so that our manufacturing costs will also increase."

   Take Yuxing said: "But this is also what must be done. We must meet the needs of players, not because of cost issues that make players lose the opportunity to play our games."

   The person in charge asked: "Then can we make suggestions to third-party game companies to increase the royalties? Let them also share the manufacturing costs of some cassettes?"

Zhu Youxing shook his head immediately after hearing this: "No, this amount of money is still affordable, our royalties are already not low, and increasing them will increase their burden, this is a matter of word of mouth, for a It's not worth the extra few dollars for the cassette."

   "Okay, I got it, then I'll contact you now to see if there are other flash memory manufacturers who are willing to take over immediately."

   After the person in charge left, Zhu Yuxing fell into deep thought.

   It is inevitable that flash memory manufacturers will engage in such unexpected things in the future, because they have reasons that sound quite legitimate.

   Unless you directly acquire a flash memory manufacturer and only serve your own industry, then you don't have to worry about any unexpected situations.

It is obviously unrealistic to want to develop the entire industry chain, develop chips, and develop various components. No matter how abundant the funds are, Zhuyouxing cannot cover the entire industry chain, and even other superpowers can do it. Not yet.

   However, if you want to choose a physical industry as the core, flash memory chips are obviously the best choice.

  This is one of the fastest-growing real industries in the foreseeable future, and the technology content is relatively low, the labor cost will be relatively low, and you only need to produce cassettes for your own products.

   Well, this seems to be a feasible idea, but I am afraid it will require a lot of money. Is it enough to toss with my current wealth of three or four billion dollars?

   In the memory of Zhuyouxing’s past life, a certain manufacturer’s acquisition of Intel’s flash memory business seems to have cost 7 billion US dollars.

However, that is almost after 2020. At that time, flash memory chips were already one of the hottest physical industries. Now, there may not be such a high price, and I don’t really want to do the flash memory industry. It's just an exclusive cassette factory.

   Then maybe three or four billion dollars is enough, but then the theme park thing that I plan to do will be delayed a bit.

   Unless you make more money yourself.

   The fire in the cassette foundry of Youxing Electronic Entertainment is difficult to set off any waves outside the industry.

   But in the industry, it spread almost immediately.

   Especially YOO's Nagai Yu, he almost jumped up when he heard the news.

   This is a godsend.

   If he follows the normal routine, then there will inevitably be problems with the release speed of Yuxing Electronic Entertainment's video games, and this gives him an opportunity to take advantage.

   So he immediately contacted Hayakawa Ueto.

   "Hayakawa, did you know that there was a problem with the cassette production at Yuxing Electronic Entertainment?"

Hayakawa just finished the meeting, which happened to be the content of his meeting today, after hearing Nagao Yu's call, he nodded and said, "I know, it seems that there will be some problems with the cassette production of Yuxing Electronic Entertainment this time. "

Nagao Yu immediately said excitedly: "This is a good opportunity for us, we can take the opportunity to expand production, if players want to play games of Yuxing Electronic Entertainment but do not have cassettes, but their demand for entertainment will definitely not be less. , so that we can take the opportunity to take away some users?"

   Hayakawa Ukito said: "It makes sense, but I don't think that Zhu Yuxing will sit still easily."

   "Whether he will sit still or not, let's seize the opportunity first!"

   (end of this chapter)