Chapter 243: New product plan

Nintendo will remain the leader of the industry in the next few years. Even if it is defeated in the future on TV game consoles, but in terms of handhelds, no one can challenge it.
A GB, and a smaller version derived from it this year, are selling very well. The sales of other companies' handhelds are only a fraction of Nintendo's, even Zhizhixing Z, which sells millions of units worldwide, but it has not been seen by Nintendo because the profit margin is more than ten times.
Zhiduoxing Z solidifies several games on the hardware, does not support external cassettes, and does not support expansion, so players can only play a few games that come with them. Naturally, it becomes easy to get tired for a long time.
Nintendo is different, they not only sell handhelds, but also sell cassettes, and cassettes are their big profits. The handhelds sold more than 20 million, but cassettes sold 60 to 70 million, because Nintendo still uses the old Strategy, there is only one game on a cassette.
Of course, in the future, they will launch all-in-one cassettes, but this will not be the case.
In more than two years, Nintendo will launch a color version of GBC. This sales is even more powerful. More than 50 million units have been sold worldwide, and the overall sales of the GB series have been increased to 120 million units.
This is only genuine. In many regions of the world, there are still some pirated GB sold, otherwise this data will be even more amazing.
But a game that made GB more popular, Pokemon, has now fallen into Zhang Yang's pocket. Even the original development company has become a subsidiary of Zhiduoxing.
This game has greatly promoted the sales of the GB series, even on the future TV game consoles, it is also very popular.
But now, this game will become Zhiduoxing, and the exclusive distribution platform will also become Zhiduoxing. The exclusive release may make this game not as hot as in the previous life and not reach the point of world records, but it can bring more loyal players and higher sales for Zhiduoxing.
For the overall interests of the company, it is nothing to sacrifice the interests of the Huadao Elf Company.
Zhang Yang originally thought that after two years, after waiting for the technology to mature, he launched a color version of the handheld to fight against GBC, but now, he changed his mind.
He is going to launch a new generation of Zhiduoxing Z2, which is used to fight against Nintendo's GBP. At the same time, he will also adopt new technology, support expansion, and support cassette replacement.
Originally, he was still thinking about how to bypass Nintendo's cassette technology to allow Zhiduoxing's handheld to store more and more fun games. Now there is a company called SanDisk in the United States, which has launched their CF card. Memory cards used in digital cameras and other products.
The size is very small, but the capacity is not small, at this time already has 8M and 16M or even higher 32M storage capacity. An ordinary handheld game requires less than 3M of space.
In other words, the use of 16M CF card can ensure that there are five or six games, or even more. After that, players can purchase new game cards for replacement and play other games.
It can also store a larger and more fun game, such as the Pokemon series.
Zhang Yang has entrusted Sun Yansheng, CEO of Wanyan Company, to contact SanDisk to get some samples. If there is no problem, I will use this later.
Although it will cause the cost to rise, how can it be higher than the price of GB? The price of GB is more than one hundred dollars. If you want to play other games, you have to buy a game cassette separately.
Before, Zhiduoxing Z was competing on a low-price strategy. The retail price was US$59. It was replaced with SanDisk’s CF card and a card slot. The cost must not rise by US$30. Nineteen dollars.
This is still cheaper than GB, and then it will be the same as GB, and make money by selling game cards.
This product is in charge of research and development, not the father, but the chief engineer of another factory. Previously, Zhiduoxing Z also focused on the other party.
It’s just that this one’s speed is a bit slow. Zhang Yangyuan’s plan can be put on the market at the end of this year, but looking at the current progress, it’s not bad to complete the research and development by the end of this year, and then adjust the production line for mass production. Some product reserves need to be produced, only next year.
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At the weekend, Jia Tao and Li Wei came to Jingcheng University and asked Zhang Yang to play with them. They saw Zhang Yang carrying a bag and pulled out several models from the bag.
"What is this, the new handheld game console designed by your company? There are not many games played by the applause game console. In fact, I think this is meaningless. It is not as fun as TV game consoles and arcades, but it can be played in the bed. Play anytime, anywhere."
"Eh, how did you become bigger? If it's too big, I can play. Elementary school students can't do anything. Their palms are not so big."
As soon as Jia Tao saw the model of Zhiduoxing Z2, he made a suggestion.
"We did this because we want to put a few more batteries in it, so that the game console can play longer~EbookFREE.me~ Before, we could play for more than 20 hours continuously, now the goal is to play 30 consecutively. More than hours."
Zhang Yang did not say another word. This is a change made to launch a color screen. The power consumption of the color screen is higher and the battery is more, which can improve the battery life.
"Is there any difference? People are doing it when they are small, why are you still doing it?" Jia Tao looked strange.
Zhang Yang knocked his head, yes, he was confused. There is not much difference between the experience of 20 hours and 30 hours. He is thinking about color screens, but this one is not a color screen, but just adds a backlight to make the screen look brighter, and the power consumption has not increased much.
"This is the handle? The handle of your game console needs to be enlarged? Eh, this feels good, it is very comfortable to hold, but why is it so thick?"
Zhang Yang explained: "There are some electronic components added inside, ready to increase the vibration function, so it needs to be thicker, can't you hold it?"
"Yes. You said that the vibration function is added, what's the use?" Jia Tao didn't understand it at all. What's the use of the handle vibration? But I heard that the BP machine has a vibration function.
"It's just playing a fight game. If you are beaten, you will feel the handle shake. When you play a racing game, if you crash, you will feel the handle shake. So you think it will be more fun?"
Jia Tao's eyes shined: "Your company's technology is so powerful now? When will it be launched? Can the old game console use this function?"
Old game console, Zhiduoxing G? This was developed for the Zhiduoxing G2, which was first created on Nintendo’s N64 in the past, and was later fully adopted.
Yes, why do we have to wait until the next-generation game console is launched, it can be launched on the old model.
Zhang Yang looked at Jia Tao, this kid really was a Fuwa.