Reborn Tech Maniac

Chapter 235

"However, we have to work harder on the research and development of home video game consoles." Hiroshi Yamauchi frowned, "Is it really not feasible to follow the example of the Little Overlord game console and launch a more optimized version?"

"Indeed." Junpei Yokoi nodded vigorously, "President, as far as the product of the Xiaobawang game console itself is concerned, its current price really does not leave us room for competition, and the circuit design and game The superb level of programming is even more amazing. The 8-bit game console has been achieved by the Xiaobawang game console. We can't compete with it in this circle. We can only find a way in the next generation, which is 16-bit Start with the machine."

"I didn't expect the threshold of the Xiaobawang game machine to be so high, and our Game & Watch has only been on the market for more than five months, and it has been imitated by a lot of hateful guys." Hiroshi Yamauchi, who was in a bad mood, He waved his hand dejectedly, "Go to Mitsubishi Electric to see if we can find a suitable implementation technology. After all, we have cooperated quite well on game consoles before."

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Tang Huan returned to the office sullenly, took a few sips of tea, and then stared at Shigeru Miyamoto.

"Mr. Tang, I will try my best to persuade Mr. Yamauchi and Mr. Yokoi to stop looking for me in vain." Shigeru Miyamoto, who seemed to feel something was wrong, said awkwardly.

"Don't do it." Tang Huan grinned, and then couldn't hold it any longer, and laughed wildly, making Shigeru Miyamoto at a loss.

Tang Huan couldn't see through the machinations in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms that Hiroshi Yamauchi played. The reason why he cooperated was naturally to confuse the other party and counter it.

When Tang Huan took Shigeru Miyamoto away from Nintendo, he was just an ordinary young man. Now he returns to Japan with the titles of "Donkey Kong" and "Mario" game producers. The transformation is natural. It was Tang Huan's teaching that was working.

Tang Huan would not be able to use the "Three Swordsmen" and "Four Great Generals" gimmicks like Huang Yulang, relying on the master-apprentice system to control professionals, but Shigeru Miyamoto felt that he had grown rapidly, and he had already put Tang Huan and him together. The relationship between them is almost regarded as a master-student, which is much more profound than the so-called "Shi Bo" and "Shi Nephew" who are not expensive in Yamauchi.

In addition, how can Nintendo compare with the global company EA? "Tetris" can cross the Cold War camp and be sold to the Soviet Union. Can other game companies do it?This fact is not generally convincing.

You know, in the original time and space, the reason why Apple was able to poach Sculley from Coca-Cola was not only because of Jobs' eloquence, but also because of the high-tech companies with a market value of billions of dollars and Fortune [-]. The potential for personal career advancement is the most important determining factor.

In front of EA, Nintendo is not strong enough and the relationship is not deep enough, so why should it poach Shigeru Miyamoto.

And Tang Huan was just tired of Hiroshi Yamauchi, feeling too disappointed, but he was not too worried about the opponent's tricks.

"You, you are too simple-minded, and you have no vigilance at all about the unpredictable nature of people's hearts and the deceitful business practices." Tang Huan gestured to his head with his finger, "You have never thought that Mr. Yamauchi would come so openly. The visit is to estrange my trust in you, so can he take the opportunity to poach people?"

"No way." Shigeru Miyamoto scratched his head.

"You can taste it yourself if you have time." Tang Huan shook his head.

In the original time and space, in order to prevent being poached by peers, Nintendo only mentioned the pseudonyms of game developers, and the social status of game developers in this period was generally ignored. The engineer's control is in place.

The talented and loyal Shigeru Miyamoto is known to the public only because Nintendo had to launch it in the 1990s and build it into a star out of the need to promote itself.

Looking at Shigeru Miyamoto who was confused, Tang Huan carefully considered Nintendo's employment method, and felt that he should learn from this competitor's strategy and add another insurance to Shigeru Miyamoto.

But before that, let’s take a look at the final results of the handheld game console that imitates GAME & WATCH.

Because there is a ready-made MOS6502 electronic module from the US headquarters that runs Tetris, the project team led by Mito Matsushita has greatly shortened the development cycle, and Tang Huan can now play with the prototype.

This is the tragedy of Nintendo. The product technology threshold is too low, and followers can flock to borrow the idea of ​​the handheld, and it has nothing to say.

"After further optimization and testing, let's put it into mass production, but not later than the end of October, because we have to catch up with COMDEX in November in the United States."

Matsushita Minato and Nakanishi Akio hurriedly nodded in agreement, Tang Huan suddenly smiled, and said in a low voice: "Miyamoto is almost 30 years old, and should be married, is there any suitable girl in the company, introduce him? If not, hire them."

Akio Nakanishi is indeed very good at marketing. Now the scope of business director has expanded from game consoles to Fangyuan Computers. His career has made great strides. Even his old boss Mikhail Kogan is happily running for Tang Huan. After running away, he was naturally more loyal.

Seeing that Tang Huan deliberately mentioned this trivial matter, Nakanishi Akio immediately understood the meaning, patted his chest, and assured him broadly, "Don't worry, I will leave this matter to me."

"How are the preparations for the dealer meeting?" Tang Huan nodded and turned to business.

In terms of the order of magnitude of area size, Singapore is one hundred, Hong Kong is one thousand, Taiwan and South Korea are ten thousand, and Japan is one hundred thousand.

Therefore, the sales of Fangyuan Computer in Japan cannot be a simple vertical model like Xiangjiang, and it has to go through the dealer network, and the personnel transferred from Baodao will provide technical support in all aspects.

"It's ready." Akio Nakanishi smiled, "They are looking forward to the second-generation Fangyuan computer."

"I hope these people, in addition to expectations, can better understand the relationship between price and performance." Tang Huan smiled.

At this stage, what can really provide room for development of personal computers is commercial demand.

As a mid-to-high-end microcomputer, the second-generation Fangyuan computer naturally pays more attention to this point.That's also reflected in the pricing, which starts at $4000 for the base model, $3500 more than the $500 for Apple's flop Apple III, which Apple released in May.

Each company's products have their own positioning. For example, IBM lacks motivation for computer products under $20000.

In the original time and space, the price of the original IBM-PC ranged from more than 1600 US dollars to more than 6000 US dollars, which was still expensive for the home market, but it was favored unexpectedly among enterprise customers.

Obviously, this is determined by objective reality, but IBM was lucky to hit this wave of market prices.

It can be seen that the price of the second-generation Fangyuan computer is appropriate, not to mention the three major commercial software it can use, and the compatibility with the first-generation Fangyuan computer, which can be said to be full of selling points.

In addition, the sales of electronic products mostly have a characteristic. With the optimization and maturity of the production process, the price will naturally go from high to low. The current pricing of the basic model of the second-generation Fangyuan computer is not static. Tang Huan will not be as rigid as IBM. Both the hardware and the software are our own. It is nothing more than adjusting the method of profit calculation so that the hardware earns less and the software earns more.

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Tang Huan attaches great importance to Japan, currently the largest consumer market in Asia. In order to squeeze the living space of the PC-9800 launched by NEC in the future, he talked a lot about his ideas to the audience at the dealer conference. Point of view, the personal charm halo effect is turned to the strongest.

Because Tang Huan is proficient in Japanese, this made him communicate with the Japanese without any obstacles, and he was encouraged to blush, as if the dealers who had drunk had unlimited confidence in the market prospect of the second-generation Fangyuan computer.

However, there are exceptions to everything, and Tang Huan discovered that at least one person who arrived not long ago was not fooled by him.

Tang Huan paid special attention to this guy. He was in his forties, dressed in formal attire like everyone else beside him, and there was nothing special about him except for his extremely serious expression. Proud and confident and condescending.

Seemingly familiar, Tang Huan stopped thinking about it after flashing this idea in his mind, and pointed to a huge eye-catching chart, introducing the powerful 16-bit performance of the second-generation Fangyuan computer.

After Tang Huan finished his task, he went back to the office to rest, and was going to discuss the difference between the Zheru Chinese character coding scheme and the JIS X 0208 standard with the Japan Industrial Specifications Association.

At this time, the subordinate came in to report that someone was visiting and handed over a business card.

"Vice President of South Korea's Samsung C&T, Li Jianxi." Tang Huan muttered, and at the same time a flash of light flashed in his mind, the person who was not fooled by him in the audience just now was him.

Li Jianxi is the third son of Li Bingzhe, the founder of the Samsung Group. He was sent to Tokyo to receive Japanese education at the age of 13. Now he has grown into a talent for more than ten years. He holds an important position in the family business and can be called a high position. How did he get there? Japan here?

But this accident seems to be traceable. You must know that in the original time and space, in a few years, Samsung Electronics will go all out to enter the semiconductor industry.

As early as 1974, Li Jianxi, who was the director of Dongyang TV, a TV station under Samsung, acquired Korean semiconductor invested by Kamco of the United States and made it the predecessor of Samsung's semiconductor department.

Interesting, is it possible that Li Jianxi is interested in Yuan Computer?While Tang Huan was thinking, he came out to meet the prince of the Samsung Group.

After a few simple greetings, Li Jianxi said bluntly: "Mr. Tang, I have personally used Fangyuan Computer and am very interested in it. I want to introduce this product to Korea. What do you think?"

"Mr. Li is so flattering, so he has already disassembled the Fangyuan computer and studied it." Li Jianxi was always so serious, and Tang Huan was not used to it, so he joked about the other party's hobby of dismantling technology products.

Li Jianxi, who once published the "Genius Theory" in his previous life, is of course of extraordinary aptitude. He also realized that the atmosphere of the meeting seemed a little stiff, so he nodded with a smile, "Mr. Tang guessed right, this is my Fang Yuan computer." The reason for my great interest is that I hope to introduce the authorization of Fangyuan Computer and build a factory in South Korea for production.”

In the original time and space, the reason why Samsung Electronics was able to rise rapidly in the IT industry was closely related to Li Kunxi's business strategy.

For the new fields it has just entered, Samsung Electronics does not start everything from scratch on its own. Instead, regardless of temporary gains and losses, it purchases patents generously and quickly digests them into its own products. That is, it uses funds to make up for its weak technical foundation and late start. disadvantages.

Moreover, Lee Kun-hee's sense of crisis and change has also greatly benefited the development of Samsung Electronics.

In the original time and space, Li Jianxi once said a very famous saying, "Everything will change except his wife and children." The enterprising spirit he displayed can only be described as sturdy.

Of course, Tang Huan welcomed a powerful person like Li Jianxi who came to seek cooperation with both hands. As for the possible conflict of interest between the two parties, at least it would not happen in the 1980s.

On the contrary, if Fangyuan Computer enters South Korea through Samsung, the result that Tang Huan can think of is that the standards of personal computer hardware and software will be the same in the Asian Confucian cultural circle. Hope to see it.

"Mr. Li, how much do you know about Yuanyuan Computer and the system it relies on?" Tang Huan raised his hand and drew a circle in the air.

From Tang Huan's words, Li Jianxi heard that he was looking for the cornerstone of cooperation between the two parties, so he answered honestly, "Fangyuan Computer was brought to South Korea by businessmen from Japan. I only started to get in touch with it recently. In addition, I have also heard a little about your company's bulk purchase of storage devices not long ago."

Speaking of this, Li Jianxi shook his head regretfully, "Unfortunately, Samsung's semiconductor department is still unable to participate."

"The production technology of the first-generation Fangyuan computer has matured, so only this series is open for authorization, and this product still performs well in word processing." Tang Huan truthfully stated the cooperation content that his side can provide.

"Yes, I originally wanted to start simple." Li Jianxi nodded in agreement.

"Also..." Tang Huan pondered for a while, "If Mr. Li is very interested in the computer industry, I would like to invite you to take time to visit the headquarters in the United States."

"It's a deal." Li Jianxi readily agreed, with a rare natural smile on his face.

With this big framework, the direction of the conversation between the two will be much clearer.

After sending Li Jianxi away, Tang Huan shook his head playfully and smiled. He was really sleepy. Someone brought a pillow. With the special status of Samsung Group in South Korea, the popularity of Fangyuan computers can be imagined. He only needs to rely on the three major commercial software Just make a profit.

As for the KS C 5601 coding standard in South Korea, which is full of errors and omissions, it is estimated that it will be replaced by the solution carried by Fangyuan Computer soon.

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Compared with the standard promotion in other regions, the economically developed Japan has established its own relatively mature character encoding scheme early. In the original time and space, China and South Korea have used it for reference, so Tang Huan dealt with the Japan Industrial Specifications Association Sometimes, it's really troublesome.

On the surface, he made it clear that Fangyuan Computer will follow Japan's JIS

In addition, Tang Huan requested that the JIS X 0208 standard should be revised to a new version as soon as possible. After all, existing errors will cause more trouble the longer they are delayed.

In short, Tang Huan had a very good attitude towards solving problems, but he just tried his best to delay it.

His idea is very simple. After choosing the authorized manufacturer of Fangyuan Computer, its market share will definitely increase further. At that time, it is self-evident whether the industry standard or the official standard is strong or weak.

And the first big unification in the IT field that I created has been fully formed.

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Last night, after a year and seven months of absence, Deng Lijun, who wore light makeup and was full of demeanor, made her debut on stage and presented a wonderful performance to more than 3000 audiences...

The income of more than 100 million yuan from this concert will be donated to _Patriotic Self-improvement Fund.

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This afternoon, Deng Lijun handed over the 150 yuan check from her charity singing to Liu Kanru, general manager of TTV, and asked him to transfer it to the special account of the patriotic self-improvement fund.

Deng Lijun said that she is very grateful to TTV for hosting this charity performance.

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Because Tang Huan is too busy here in Japan, Deng Lijun's concert on October 10th, he can only understand the situation through the newspaper brought by Shi Chongtang, which is almost the same as in the original time and space, but when it comes to big scenes, he must stand with a clear banner The team can be said to have a distinct color of the times.

At this time, Shi Chongtang walked in and said with a wry smile: "These Japanese people think that the three authorization quotas for the first-generation Fangyuan Computer are too few."

"Don't they understand that with so many manufacturers coming in all at once, will everyone be under operating pressure?" Tang Huan put down the newspaper in his hand.

"Seeing that other colleagues had an opportunity to make a fortune, I was naturally too anxious to ignore it." Shi Chongtang shook his head and expressed his helplessness.

Tang Huan pondered for a while, the mentality of these people is easy to understand, just like the people waiting for the bus to go to work during the morning rush hour in a metropolis, before getting on the bus, they desperately squeezed up; Drive quickly, lest others continue to squeeze up.

"Then add one or two more quotas." Tang Huan also had to give in, and continued to expand the vested interest camp, so as not to push Little Japan really into a hurry, and join forces regardless of gains or losses.

That's why Tang Huan called Shi Chongtang here, he didn't want to be delayed by these specific matters.

(End of this chapter)