Super Tycoon

"Zhitaxing GMINI, what is this? Make the machine a little smaller, so it's a new model?" Yamauchi Fu looked at the report in his hand with disdain.

This new game console from Zhiduoxing Company, as their peers, they naturally bought back a few of them "to support" at the first time, but soon found that the performance of this machine was not significantly improved compared with Zhiduoxing G.

The energy consumption has become lower, which does not have much effect on game consoles. Everyone plugs in the power supply instead of using batteries.

The game storage has changed from VCD to DVD, which is compatible with VCD. This is some progress, but it is also not very useful. For current games, VCD disc storage is enough, where can DVD be used?

This is an increase in cost, asking for trouble.

In other respects, the overall size of the machine has shrunk. It looks like a large CD player, and there are still only two gamepad ports.

The machine becomes smaller, but it saves space. The heat dissipation has also become better. This improvement is not bad, but it is not very useful. Few people play for seven or eight hours in a row.

Ok? There is also a peripheral on it, the dancing mat!

When seeing this peripheral, Yamauchi's heart skipped a beat. He finally knew why Zhi Duoxing wanted to develop the dancing machine, so he was waiting here.

Dance machines are popular in arcade halls and are very popular. Although each arcade doesn't buy many, just two or three, if your arcade doesn't have one, it means you're behind and it will seriously affect the traffic flow.

At this time, there are three types of mainstream game consoles in arcade halls. The first type is traditional arcade games, which are similar to those on TV game consoles. The second type is entertainment equipment such as dance machines, tambourine machines, and basketball shooting machines, among which dance machines have the fastest growth.

The third type is to get sideways. It is said to win game coins, but in many places, this has been turned into a gambling machine~~~ The lottery tickets won can be exchanged for money.

Of course, it is nominally for prizes, such as rice cookers, walkmans, etc., but later, they can be exchanged for money directly.

This is very popular in many regions of the world, and it is precisely because of this that Huaxia's arcade machines were severely cracked down for a while in their previous lives.

Originally home game consoles were mainly for playing some traditional arcade games, of course there are some more fun ones, such as some games that cannot be played in public places.

But now, dancing machines can be played on Zhiduoxing, which will definitely attract a large number of players who like to have a system. It is foreseeable that the sales of Zhiduoxing G will increase rapidly.

Sunny Company, Sega Bandai, etc. are also researching the GMINI, and they all found that this product has no major features, but because of the peripherals of the dancing machine, the sales will inevitably increase significantly.

But they don't understand, obviously the peripherals of the dancing machine can also be played with the old model of Zhiduoxing G, why is there a MINI version? Don't you need money to develop this?

If it is said that Zhiduoxing has changed to four in order to increase the handle interface, they can still understand, but there are still two. If you want to play with four people, you still need a G+3 peripheral.

What makes them even more strange is why the storage method of Zhiduoxing MINI needs to be replaced? VCD technology is very mature, the cost is low, and the cost of piracy is relatively high, which has led to the release of Zhiduoxing's games has always been relatively good.

This time I changed the DVD mode, which increased the cost, but I didn't see any big effect. The new game released has to be produced in two disc formats. What is this picture?

Just to promote the DVD format?

The DVD format is also the format that Sunny Company plans to promote on the next generation of game consoles. It has a larger storage space than CDs, and it represents the future.

The content of the current games will become bigger and bigger, especially for some games, the graphics in them will be clearer and more realistic, so as to give players a better experience and sell them more expensively.

If you add a certain series of game collections, the storage capacity of CD discs and VCD discs is not enough.

Only DVD discs are available.

Suuni finally realized that Zhi Duoxing plans to launch a collection of some series of games!

This idea coincides with Sunny's. It's just limited to technology, we can't do this, it seems that this piece of cake can only be eaten by Zhi Duoxing first.

But so what, the performance of Zhiduoxing's MINI is still not as good as their PS1, relying on peripherals and game collections, maybe they can sell some, but it's useless.

If it were their Suni company, they would definitely be working hard to develop a new generation of game consoles with better performance. On the new game consoles, these new technologies will be used to make money by these methods.

They don't even have the most basic 3D function, so why should Zhiduoxing compete with them?

However, the dance machine peripheral is indeed a trouble. It seems that the sales of Zhiduoxing G will be completely separated from the sales of Sunny's PS1, and it will also be separated from the sales of N64.

Now on 32-bit machines, the only two whose sales are still growing steadily are Zhiduoxing and Sunny. Game consoles such as 3DO and Sega Saturn have long been unable to sell.

Even if they sell at a reduced price, they are just clearing out inventory, but even so, the sale is still not good. This is often the case, the cheaper you are, the less others will buy it.

Sunny originally thought that by increasing the publicity in the Southeast Asian market, he could suppress Zhiduoxing and increase his sales at the same time. Unexpectedly, the sales of Zhiduoxing in Southeast Asia have indeed declined, but their sales have not improved much, wasting a lot of publicity expenses.

Who would have thought that an economic crisis would break out in Southeast Asia? Moreover, this wind has also blown to the island market, which has made their life difficult recently. The company's stock price has dropped a lot, and the exchange rate difference has also caused them a lot of losses.

It's a pity that they don't have good peripherals. If this dance mat belongs to them, then Soni is confident that he can completely suppress Nintendo!

On the day when the GMINI was launched, the sales volume in more than 60 countries and regions around the world was only about 300,000 units, but the sales volume of the GMINI also increased to 300,000 units. Several collections of Zhi Duoxing G games have sold more than 100,000 copies.

This data ushered in explosive growth on the second day. The sales volume of dancing mat peripherals exceeded one million units, and the sales volume of Zhiduoxing GMINI also increased to 500,000 units. The sales volume of Zhiduoxing G began to fall back to 2 One hundred thousand units.

After a week's sales statistics came out, everyone in the industry was stunned.

The peripherals of the dance mat alone sold 5.3 million. The sales volume of Zhiduxing GMINI also exceeded two million, and the sales volume of Zhiduxing G also exceeded one million.

This week, no game console manufacturer can match the limelight of Zhi Duoxing, and even the next month, no one can match.

Many people have labeled the sales of Zhiduoxing GMINI as a guarantee of tens of millions of units, but Zhang Yang wants to tell them that you are too conservative!

It was also at this time that a major event that shocked the entire game industry happened.