Chapter 7 Subject to Others
In mid-September 1987, Wanhu's first work on the Hongbai Machine Platform this year was only released.
Ten thousand fans, who were eager to find a long queue in front of the store on the night before the release.
There were even many people who brought sleeping bags and slept in a small tent at night.
The news media that have good things will naturally not miss this opportunity.
The TV media is fine, but the print media encounters embarrassing problems. After taking photos of the queue, they dare not use them.
Why don't you dare to use it? The reason is very simple.
Even if you sleep, the fanatical players who have to queue up in their sleeping bags are crowded in a row. From various aspects, they don’t seem to be waiting for shopping. However, there are large-scale fires in the shopping street, with heavy casualties and serious casualties. Some dead people were put into the body bag.
However, from this aspect, it also shows the status of Wanhu in the minds of players and the fun of Wanhu games.
In fact, the newly released game of Wanhu this time is not a brand new game series. It is the sequel to "Endless Fantasy", "Endless Fantasy 2 Prologue of Dawn".
This time, the new work of "Endless Fantasy" is a comprehensive upgraded version of the previous generation of works, with more shocking music, longer processes, and more characters.
In addition, a new system has been introduced - the planting system. Planting, which sounds quite mysterious, is actually the popular mecha now.
Since the late 1970s, a trend of mechas has been blowing from comics to animations, and has a great influence among teenagers.
"Mobile Suit Gundam" directed by Toshino and Shiki has become a classic in the hearts of countless people. Because Bandai's production of Gundam models has sold well, the Gundam series has become a classic series that can last for several years.
This time, Wanhu's "Endless Fantasy 2 Prelude to Dawn" added a similar installation setting. It can be said that Wanhu follows the trend, but it also shows Wanhu's ambitions.
The toy market and model market are an extremely profitable field.
Wanhu also wanted to enter this field, so he stepped on the "Endless Fantasy 2 Prelude to Dawn" to add planting elements. However, although he was eager for this market.
But Wanhu did not distribute a large amount of goods, but chose the situation of having special gifts and sent the model out.
This is a forced reason.
Nowadays, there is only one company that can make good toy models in Japan, that is, Wandai. Although other game manufacturers also make models, they all look like evil gods.
The image that might have looked very handsome on paper in animation was either not mechanically designed, but became short, thick and fat, or because the mold accuracy was insufficient and the painting was urgent, the model's face seemed to be ruined by the evil god in Cthulhu mythology.
Wanhu is seeking more than Wanhu to cooperate and launch an exclusive toy model of "Endless Fantasy 2 Prologue of Dawn".
With the "Endless Fantasy 2 Prologue of Dawn" with sales of 1.5 million in front, there is almost no need to worry about popularity.
However, because only Bandai can make a good model in Japan, it is a complete seller market. Bandai’s own Gundam is selling well, and Wanjia comes to find cooperation, but they don’t care much.
A lion opened his mouth and bought out all the copyrights of the "Endless Fantasy" series for only 100 million yen.
How could ten thousand households agree to such conditions?
The model plan encountered difficulties here. Fortunately, with Wanhu China as a backing, we found a designer with industrial design capabilities. After several months of hard work, we could only make a relatively complete sample after "The Prologue of Dawn of Endless Fantasy 2" was stuck in the review by Nintendo for several months.
As for the large-scale production model, Wanhu does not have such a production line at all. Although engineers have already designed it, it will take several months to complete the production line.
A very small number of models produced by hand can only be given to players as special prizes. At the same time, we are given a signal to Bandai, and we have the ability to make models above the level.
In this way, even if the model production line of Wanhu fails in the future, and if you go to Wanhu to find cooperation, you can get better conditions. Because you also have similar technology, all you lack is time.
If you fall behind, you will be beaten.
This is true for the country and for enterprises.
If you don’t have the technology that others have, you will be strangled.
In recent years, Samsung Zhu Company, located in South Korea, has introduced a large number of advanced foreign technologies, and has been an enterprise with exclusive technology in the future.
In addition to having unique explosion technology, their oled screens are also unique. They have the advantages of thinner screens, brighter colors, no light leakage, more power saving, etc.
One of the overlords of the smartphone industry at that time, HTC from Taiwan Province, used this screen.
When Samsung's mobile phone department launched its own flagship phone, the OLD screen began to be out of stock. The production capacity of htc flagship phones was severely limited, and there was only a market but no products. Samsung's products took advantage of this opportunity and their market share increased rapidly.
As a result, the ham sausage htc gradually changed from super to first-class, from first-class to second-class, and because the market strategy was too vague, it finally became in the market.
Although Wanhu wants to make money, it will not put its lifeline in the hands of other companies like HTC.
The same components selected by Apple on its mobile phone often use more than two suppliers to supply them accordingly to ensure that it will not be subject to others.
Wanhu, who chooses to produce it themselves and has a whole country's cheap talents as a backing. He has never thought of only building one category and only making it small and beautiful.
However, although there are many professional talents, there are not many talents with superb management skills.
The development of Wanhu is now restricted by management talents.
Although "Endless Fantasy 2 Prologue of Dawn" was suppressed by Nintendo, it dragged off the golden sales period of the summer vacation.
However, the first-day sales of "Endless Fantasy 2 Prologue of Dawn" still exceeded 100,000.
If it weren't for the distribution of goods, some "non-artificial" problems that led to a nationwide shortage of stocks, the sales on the first day would be even higher.
Coincidentally, the game company of Wanhu has recently released, and many games released on the Red and White Machine Platform have similar problems.
Even Hudson, known as "Nine Thousand Years", is the same.
There is no secret in the circle, just like Takahashi and Sega know about it in the industry. Hudson also began to develop his own home game console platform with Japan Electric Company, abbreviated as Nec.
The third parties are increasingly resentful about Nintendo, and it seems that there is only one chance to rise up, and the domineering Nintendo empire will collapse.
Almost all third parties are working hard on this, but can it be successful?
Chapter completed!