Chapter 1181 It's Just a Warm-Up

The competition in the console game market is becoming more and more fierce. If you don't want to fight personally, transformation is a must.

How much will Sega's mosquito coils sell for? The think tank here has an assessment. When William White learned about it, he basically had no hope.

The price is less than 500 knives, this is the rhythm of paying to grandma's house!

Others don’t need to be counted, CPU plus graphics card plus motherboard, five hundred dollars is almost the same. For this console, Sega also developed CDROMs that required special decoding.

Anything that needs to be customized is basically not cheap. From the looks of it, this guy must have a lot of interesting games in his hands. Otherwise, definitely will not put all your eggs in one bet.

Selling consoles does not make money, so the profits must come from the game cartridges. In fact, the current Legendary World, Suomi, and Little Paradise basically follow this path.

Although the idea is very wonderful, there are many ways to prevent piracy. Just like Sega this time.

A CD decoded in a special format, hey, is there really no way to crack it?

If you think too much, don't have too many people who have the means. There is a kind of people in this world whose job is to crack all kinds of cracks. The more awesome you brag, the happier they will be.

On this point, the legendary world has long since given up. The traditional anti-piracy version is fine, this thing is anti-gentleman but not anti-villain, if you like to play pirated version, that's up to you.

There is a problem here, how much money do you subsidize to the host.

What if the great master suddenly goes crazy and develops a driver that supports win98?

Add a hard disk, and this is a host computer. Did you see that, since it can support Microsoft CE and IE browsers, there is nothing wrong with supporting win98.

As I said before, you can't sell this computing power stuff to Jin Xiaopang even if it's just a game console. Their original second kicker is not good, if they use this game machine to make it happen.

Tsk, otherwise, help the little fat man, not too much, one time is enough, as long as they succeed once, Sega will be fined and bankrupt.

"Happy Farm? Anna, what is this? Now ICQ is getting more and more rubbish, why there are such small pop-up advertisements all the time."

"Ruth, sometimes it's actually pretty good. I heard that the professional version doesn't have these things."

"It's too much trouble, it costs $9.90 a month."

"However, Ruth, the girl in the next bedroom seems to be using it. I heard it's a casual game."

"Hey, then, let's try it too?"

For girls, there is a fee for email, which is really bullshit.

Now the White system says that it is okay not to pay, but you need to watch some advertisements.

How about it? Isn't this a good policy? For those who don't use it often, this is actually very cost-effective.

However, if you do this, those competitors will die.

I can't control this, if you have the ability, you can do it for free.

After several failures that are not afraid of death, in the field of instant messaging plus free email, there is no rival at all in the United States and Europe.

What, what do you think of the Big Rabbit Country?

Well, let's change the subject. There are too few paying users, and there are too many people who register repeatedly. Apart from making the company's data look better, it doesn't actually mean much.

For Internet companies, the number of users is of course an important indicator. However, the most important thing is the number of active users.

Obviously, after ICQ's growth spurt in the early stage, the number of registered users in the recent period has not continued to rise.

The most important point, the number of active users, actually went down.

Then, a game that increases user viscosity is indeed a top priority.

"Boss, the server is congested, should we use a backup plan?"

William White curled his lips. He didn't expect that there would be one million registered users just two hours after the trial version was launched.

"Well, Tom, activate the backup server immediately. In addition, rent two large servers, and hurry up. It seems that our previous estimation is far from keeping up with the actual demand.

It's the damn internet speed, if it could be faster, it wouldn't be like this. "

"Okay, boss, I'll contact you right away."

William White dropped the mouse, feeling a little depressed. It seems that this stuff came out a little earlier.

"Stealing food? It's a small game under ICQ. What's the fuss about?" Jobs was a bit disapproving of Larry Ellison's fuss. This is what Larry Ellison said. If it was another person, he would not bother to ask.

"What's the fuss? One million users in two hours, if it weren't for the server crash, it might be five million by now."

"Damn it, how did he do it? I didn't see any advertisements!

Damn it, ICQ must have been used.

No, I need to talk to him. Tsk, if you can have your own instant messaging platform. "

"Hey, you can't do it old man.

Why do I need to be compatible with IE4.0?

Don't say you don't know this is junkware. "

Jobs sighed, he was away from Apple for a while. The landscape of the IT industry has changed.

Bill Gates and William White are both building their own internal circulation platforms. Microsoft's focus was business, William White's focus was entertainment. In such a situation, it is difficult for new enterprises to develop.

Because in this world, there is another thing called shielding.

"Damn Uto, what's going on, has the server restarted yet?"

"President, they are restoring the data. The number of users is too many to control."

"Asshole, I asked you to make a plan a long time ago, don't talk nonsense now, and solve it for me immediately."

Fujita was very angry, this damn is a task arranged by the big boss, how dare you muddle through. Well, if he knew that the servers in the United States were also down, he wouldn't be worried.

"President, those children are crazy. According to the questionnaire, there will be a considerable increase in the next period of time."

"No, Yuto, why do I feel that there are not so many home PCs in Japan?"

"Ahem, President, in the past few months, the number of buyers has increased significantly.

The current situation is that the growth rate of commercial PCs has slowed down, and the home-friendly ones, such as the Apple G3, have been out of stock. "

Fujita gave up and continued to torture his subordinates, this information is very important now. He is a senior executive of the company, so he naturally knows the company's next plan.

Alas, if it is released later, maybe the computer can also get a free ride. There are too many computer companies now, not only NEC and Fujitsu, but also Panasonic and Somi, who also have plans for personal PCs.

In such a fiercely competitive industry, I don't know where the boss's confidence comes from. Speaking of the legendary computer, Fujita has a little headache. According to the feedback from the following dealers, it seems that they are not very enthusiastic.

Cough cough, you are a game console seller. With such a high-end computer, are you sure you can handle it?

Forget it, if you can quickly produce the next generation of PS, we are still very interested.

Even so, those damn electrical stores didn't say no. However, it is obvious that they are looking at the face of other businesses. If you don't have PS and PSP, hey, it may not really rank you.

Akihabara and Nihonbashi, these are the two most important electrical streets in Tokyo and Osaka. It is definitely not a joke to say that every inch of land is expensive.

Well, if your product is not selling well. Rest assured, they will be thrown into the corner in no time.