Video Game Empire

However, Li Xuan has been very cautious in his steps to invest in the mainland. So far, he has not made any practical moves other than his roommate Lin Yuhao's real estate company.

He had many worries in his heart. On the one hand, the main market of Dongfang Electronics is in the United States. Regardless of the fact that Sino-US relations have begun to melt, the two sides have officially established diplomatic relations, but the gap between them is still very deep. If Dongfang Electronics is too active, it is likely to be labeled as "pro-communist", which will have a fatal impact on the company's development of the US market.

On the other hand, the keynote of reform and opening up in the Mainland is not yet clear. The development of the SAR is very fast, but the controversy it has caused is also very big. Conservatives dismiss the SAR as a "new lease".

When Dongfang Electronics invests at this time, it is easy to fall into the whirlpool of domestic reform and conservatism, and the struggle between the two forces. In his previous life, he was only a technician, but he was not as well-connected as Li Jiacheng, Huo Yingdong, and other old businessmen.

So Li Xuan has been waiting, but this reception allowed Li Xuan to see an opportunity for cooperation. Compared with large-scale industrial investment, academic research cooperation is more significant to Dongfang Electronics. Due to its own limited strength and the attributes of foreign companies, Oriental Electronics Corporation cannot allow it to compete calmly with those local American electronics giants in American universities.

But it's different in the mainland. This is an uncultivated land. The quality of the Chinese is by no means inferior to that of any Westerner. It is only because of special historical reasons that in the past ten years, Chinese universities have been seriously out of touch with the latest scientific research directions that are changing with each passing day in the world.

In addition, the domestic economy is relatively backward, and the government's investment in scientific research is stretched. This makes Chinese universities, even if they want to catch up, suffer from lack of financial and equipment support, and can only hope to sigh.

Li Xuan suddenly had an idea. Through the two semi-academic and semi-commercial platforms, Dongfang Electronics Laboratory and Dongfang Semiconductor Laboratory, Dongfang Electronics can provide financial support, in the name of the University of Hong Kong and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Mainland universities build bridges of cooperation and exchanges.

After putting on a coat of international academic exchanges, when Dongfang Electronics cooperates with domestic universities, it will be less constrained by the system. Otherwise, if every time we cooperate on a project, there will be a debate about the surname of the capital or the surname of the company, and the scientific research work will not be able to start at all.

Wang Jiagang conveyed Li Xuan's invitation at the reception to the leader of the delegation. The leader of the delegation to Hong Kong this time is a deputy minister surnamed Wang of the Ministry of Education. Minister Wang readily agreed, and sent someone to call Dongfang Electronics the next day to discuss matters related to the visit.

"Minister Wang, principals, please look here! Previously, everyone visited the production department of our company, and now we are entering the R&D department of Dongfang Electronics!" Li Xuan said, pointing to an arcade machine that had been placed in the display area for a long time. , "We at Dongfang Electronics started with arcade games, and this arcade is a new game we are developing now!"

As soon as Li Xuan finished speaking, a technician next to him immediately walked to the arcade and began to demonstrate how to operate the game console. This is a semi-finished arcade machine of "Mario Brothers". The background frame of the game has been formed, but when the technician manipulates the protagonist to perform a series of actions such as jumping, forwarding, and retreating, there will be some subtle stutters from time to time.

"The cartoon background picture on the screen is actually the display result obtained by the CPU in the game console after a large amount of data calculation. You have also seen that the picture just now has a freeze from time to time, which affects the smoothness of the game. This We need our technicians to continue to further improve the game's data algorithm!" Li Xuan said with a smile.

This is the first time the game "Mario Brothers" has been shown to people outside the company. Li Xuan believed that these people in the principal's delegation did not know what creative plagiarism was. If colleagues from the game company came to visit, these things would definitely be guarded as company secrets.

"Is this game console really marketable? What price can it be sold for?" one of the visitors asked. Game consoles are still a very new and unfamiliar thing to these principals in the mainland.

Among the mainland delegations, there are very few people like Principal Wang Jiagang who studied in Cantonese in his early years and can speak fluent Cantonese, and most of the others do not understand Cantonese. Among the several executives of Dongfang Electronics, only Li Xuan and He Guoyuan, who is studying in Taiwan, can speak fluent Mandarin, so they are responsible for escorting and explaining the whole reception process.

Li Xuan nodded to He Guoyuan next to him, so He Guoyuan took over the words: "I saw it when you visited our arcade factory before, and all the workers were very busy. Although our factory has exploded its production capacity to the maximum, it is still too late to meet a large number of orders. We even have to outsource some orders to other factories for production! Now our company sells about 20,000 game consoles every month, and the monthly sales revenue is more than 30 million US dollars!”

The data reported by He Guoyuan made everyone gasp for air. The monthly sales revenue is 100 million RMB! The eyes of everyone looking at this arcade machine are suddenly different. It seems that the frame of this game console is not made of plastic sheets, but inlaid with gold.

He Guoyuan took a GameBoy handheld game console handed over by his assistant and began to introduce: "This is another game console developed by our company. It is small and suitable for carrying around. We call it the handheld game console GameBoy!

This game console has been listed in Japan and Hong Kong not long ago. The price in Japan is 5,000 yen, and the price in Hong Kong is 100 Hong Kong dollars. The sales momentum is also very good, and more than 10,000 units can be sold every day in Japan alone. ! "

The small gifts prepared by Dongfang Electronics Company for the principals who came to visit are a beautifully packaged GameBoy game console and a full set of game cards.

After that ~www.readwn.com~ Li Xuan guided everyone to visit other R&D departments.

"The future development of our company cannot be limited to the development of the game industry! Please take a look at this computer. This is a workstation computer that our company has just developed for internal use!"

Li Xuan pointed to a computer in a location in the office and said, "This computer is more powerful than ordinary personal computers. It uses Motorola's latest 6MHz MC68000 processor! It is also equipped with CAD development software designed by the company to assist engineers in circuit design and other work!”

In fact, this workstation computer developed by Dongfang Electronics is still very immature in design, with unsatisfactory computing performance and high cost. As a result, Dongfang Electronics still needs to purchase a large number of VAX series minicomputers from DEC Company for technical development tools.

But Li Xuan is not discouraged. At least Dongfang Electronics has taken the first step of independent research and development. With continuous investment and overcoming difficulties one by one, new products will always have a day when the technology matures.

The whole visiting process went very smoothly. After learning that this is a company with monthly sales exceeding RMB 100 million, the whole delegation's views on Dongfang Electronics changed suddenly. In the past, everyone thought that game consoles were just toys for children, not a big industry, but now no one dares to take it lightly.

How many domestic electronics companies can be compared with Dongfang Electronics in terms of output value? What's more, people earn a lot of real money from Western countries.