Rebirth of Hong Kong 1981

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Chapter 568 Winter Solstice

December 22

In the blink of an eye, it was the winter solstice. It was rare that Xue Yufei and the three daughters did not go to work today. The three daughters got up early in the morning and started working in the kitchen.

In the living room, Yang Chen was holding a newspaper, reading it with great interest.

In the past few days, the major newspapers in Hong Kong have repeatedly published the news of his second album, movie, and game console.

In mid-December, after more than a month of publicity for Yang Chen's albums, movies, and game consoles, those that were released were listed, and those that were released were released.

In the past few days, the major newspapers in Hong Kong have been publishing comments from people from all walks of life, and there are naturally good and bad comments.

The most controversial, without a doubt, are the consoles.

Yang Chen divided his game consoles into three grades, fifty dollars, thirty dollars, and fifteen dollars.

The lowest-end game console, known as the blue body machine, costs fifteen US dollars, including game cards, which is just about one hundred Hong Kong dollars (the depreciation of the Hong Kong dollar).

Now that Xiangjiang's per capita salary fluctuates around [-] Hong Kong dollars, the game console released by Yang Chen is already considered a luxury toy for children.

Although the price is a bit expensive, it is not unacceptable. Xiangjiang people’s ability to accept new things is absolutely throughout the world. Whether it is an adult or a child, everyone dares to try a new thing before it is harmful.

The reason why Xiangjiang became conservative in later generations was mainly due to social pressure. Housing prices soared, and prices soared, making people lose money to try new things.

Surrounded by all kinds of pressure every day, tell me, who has the mind to play these things.

With various advertising promotions, movie promotions, and record promotions, Yang Chen's game consoles are very popular in Hong Kong, and [-] game consoles were sold in just one week.

The first ones to be promoted are mid-to-high-end game machines worth [-] and [-] dollars. As for the low-end game machines worth [-] dollars, it will take half a month to come out.

He, Yang Chen, is not a saint. Although he is not mercenary, maximizing his own interests is the most basic survival rule for a businessman.

He has so many game consoles in stock. If the fifty-dollar and thirty-dollar game consoles are unsalable, he will have to go to his grandma’s house. He has to put the expensive ones on the market first, so that middle and high-income earners can buy everything they should buy. It is in the interest to launch the last game console.

Xiangjiang has a total population of 500 million. This kind of handheld game console is suitable for men, women and children. As long as 50 units can be sold in the end, then he will be satisfied.

Thirty to fifty dollars of game consoles mainly rely on Europe, America and island countries, the only developed countries in Asia.

By the way, there are also local tyrants in the Middle East. With the help of Prince Hassar, Yang Chen's game consoles have also successfully entered the Middle East. In this era, farmers in many oil-producing countries in the Middle East have transformed into gorgeous ones. rich people.

After the oil crisis, the economies of most countries in the world have slowed down, and only the oil-producing countries in the Middle East are very rich.

In addition, there are countries such as Latin America. Although Latin American countries have fallen into a middle-class trap since the 70s, they have not recovered much until the 21st century.

But that needs to wait until the global crisis arrives before the economies of Latin American countries collapse further. It is still early, and some Latin American countries are still quite rich.

In developing countries, the mid-end game consoles prepared by Yang Chen quickly opened up channels through the relationship between HSBC and Standard Chartered Bank. In Western developed countries such as Europe and the United States, Polygram also played an important role. Records and game consoles Packaged and sold together, the popularity of his game consoles abroad has been further expanded.

Although sales are very hot in various places, the reserves of [-] million units cannot be sold out in a few days.

Now Yang Chen's game production company has resumed normal production, working overtime for several months in a row, and some factories even stopped working directly.

Those who give up are mostly equipment that needs to be repaired. They have been running non-stop for several months, and even the machines can't handle it anymore.

In addition, desktop arcade machines and some game production factories have also started mass production. As long as they are stored to a certain extent, they will be released to the market.

There are three levels of low, medium and high grade game consoles, and the quantity reserves are scary, and he is not afraid of the risk of being out of stock. Yang Chen's move made it clear that he wanted to kill counterfeit products from various countries, and did not leave anyone a chance.

Because the storage capacity is large enough, orders from various countries are basically shipped directly when the money arrives.

Moreover, it is still shipped locally, so there is no need to wait for time.

Because as early as a month ago, Yang Chen had already shipped the game consoles to various countries according to a certain percentage, waiting for orders.

When the game console was launched, it was unanimously recognized by the players, and the snowflake-like orders suddenly saved nearly half of the inventory he had prepared earlier.

In a few days, the returned funds have already filled his previous investment, and even if the remaining inventory cannot be sold, he will not be troubled by funds.

Yang Chen was not polite to pirates. Several well-known law firms in Europe and the United States, Yang Chen spent a lot of money to keep them watching all the time. Once someone dared to copy his game, he would send a lawyer's letter to him.

Litigation in European and American countries, he has plenty of money, the least afraid of litigation with others.

Any company that tried to pirate his games would have to pay a terrible price.

Of course, for patents, he can only sue in countries with sound legal systems in the West, not in Asia, Latin America and Africa.

In these places, the only way to compete with pirates is by price.

It is completely impossible to completely eliminate piracy.

However, Yang Chen has already made arrangements, authorized the game console to local game manufacturers, and tried his best to minimize the cost of the game console.

Together with the game cartridges, a protracted price war with pirates will consume them.

If pirates want to compete with the genuine version, the price must be much lower than the genuine version. When the price of the genuine version is so low that the pirates have little profit to make, it will naturally prevent the breeding of piracy.

Nowadays, in many developing countries, the protection of patents is very poor, and they may not win a lawsuit.

A large part of the reason why the inland area is called a copycat country in later generations is because the patent fees charged by foreign companies are too high, and the things they sell are too expensive. Even though the cost is a few dollars, they are sold at a high price of tens or even hundreds.

In other words, everyone is willing to buy products with the same quality and lower prices, copyrights and so on. Only when people have money and the asking price is not too outrageous, will everyone follow the rules.

Otherwise, no matter how strict the law is, someone will take advantage of it.

Chapter 569 Meatballs

"Chen, don't look at it, it's time to eat."

Xue Yufei was carrying the plate, and while walking towards the table, shouted at Yang Chen who was sitting on the sofa in a daze.

Hearing the greeting, Yang Chen casually threw the newspaper on the sofa, and walked towards Xue Yufei, "What delicious food did you cook today?"

"Come and taste the meatballs, I made them myself." Xue Yufei took a chopstick and brought a meatball to Yang Chen's mouth.

Yang Chen opened his mouth and ate the meatballs into his mouth. While chewing, he nodded, gave a thumbs up, and boasted, "It's delicious, Yu Fei, your skills are getting better and better."

After saying that, Yang Chen was about to reach out and hug her.

Seeing this, Xue Yufei quickly took two steps back, reaching out her hand to block Yang Chen's movements, "Don't move, there is oil on my apron."

Yang Chen looked down at the apron on Xue Yufei's body, then at the white clothes on his body, and took his hands back after thinking about it.

If the white clothes were stained with oil, it would be really difficult to wash. Although he is now living like the old landlord Lao Cai in the early days, he does not want to increase the workload of his nanny.

Xue Yufei took off her apron, and said to Yang Chen, "Chen, today is the winter solstice, shall we go out and watch a movie?"

"Watching a movie?" Yang Chen took the chopsticks, put another meatball into his mouth, and looked at Xue Yufei with some doubts.