Takahashi and the contestants all finished the game, and the audience also left the game in an orderly manner.

In the open space outside the Tokyo National Arena, in front of the shed that ten thousand households temporarily set up, there were several long queues of hundreds or thousands of people.

Every viewer who wants to buy the Tetris handheld console is lined up in the planned channel. Everyone is like a node of a snake-eating, and the snake's body is still growing longer.

Unlike the orderly on-site sales here, the phone ordering there seems to be a mess.

Japanese people who have been queued up by astronomical times and have cultivated (tortured) the habit of queuing, can be orderly without too much organization.

However, phone orders are different. The waiting prompt sound on the phone is far more negative than the long queue and increases the anger value.

"Is your address 1-6-1 Nagata-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo?" The telephone waiter of Manhu clamped the phone to his left, held a pen in his right hand, and repeated the address he had just recorded word by word.

"right!"

"Then please rest assured, we will arrange the delivery as quickly as possible. Cash on delivery, please pay when you sign for it."

Just looking at this person, it seems that he can't see any chaos.

However, if you extend the perspective to the entire office, it will become chaotic.

"Do you want a Tetris machine? Can your parents answer the phone?...No, I'm so sorry, we temporarily refuse to order a child as soon as possible after a twelve-year-old."

Another operator took the phone far away. The other side of the phone sounded like a child who was not over seven or eight years old was still howling at the top of his throat.

The operators are not their parents, so naturally they will not really send the Tetris handheld machine to them just because they act coquettishly.

Although Tetris handheld console is an electronic game console for children, even if it is a toy for children to play with, it doesn’t mean that children will definitely buy it if they order it.

Some time ago, TV Shopping just broke out a lawsuit for a child to order millions of yen randomly. The merchant planned to sue the buyer for round-trip postage and product depreciation fees on the grounds of malicious mail order, while the child's parents planned to fight back with the guidance of the lawyer because their children had no ability to act independently.

Under such a broad context, thousands of households should naturally be very cautious.

The office of full-paper office looks a bit messy, and the places within reach are all folders after folder. The phone rings one after another represent one order after another. Although I made what I thought was sufficiently prepared, it seems that it is not enough now.

The popularity of "Tetris" handheld consoles is far beyond the expectations of tens of thousands of households.

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"Is this the new handheld machine from Wanhu?"

"yes!"

"Let the technical department take apart."

"yes!"

...

"This Tetris handheld machine uses a new type of printed LCD screen technology, which can effectively reduce energy consumption. The processing chip it uses is not a common processing chip, but a chip that has not been seen before. However, judging from the cables of its input and output ports, the processing power is not very strong, but running Tetris does not get stuck, which means that it is not using a general architecture, but a circuit specially made for Tetris.

We are still calculating the cost of the whole machine, but we believe that the profit is very low, at 6,990 yen with tax.

Even if we imitate it immediately, it will be difficult for us to defeat ten thousand households in terms of price..."

A technical department of a friendly company reported after dismantling Wanhu's Tetris handheld machine.

At the same time, all the electronic game and toy-related manufacturers that obtained 10,000 Tetris handheld consoles at the first time were troubled by the profit margins of 10,000 Tetris handheld consoles after dismantling them.

The technical difficulty of the Tetris handheld console is not high, but it is almost impossible to make the price of 6,990 yen.

The cost of the display screen, the cost of the circuit, the cost of the shell, the cost of labor and transportation. With the support of many costs, the single-machine cost is as high as more than 5,000 yen. Coupled with the tax deduction and terminal sales profits, and the surprising 100 yen commercial law, can this machine really make money?

Some manufacturers even think that Wanhu is losing money and making a name for themselves. Although they don’t laugh at Wanhu, they are also wondering where their real profit methods are.

The appearance of special handheld machines will definitely affect the performance of arcades and red and white machines.

Does Wanhu want players to practice crazy on handheld machines and then face off against people on arcades?

It's OK, but the idea of ​​this usage scenario is too naive. No one can guarantee that the user can play according to this idea.

There is no business that can lose money in the world.

Nowadays, red and white machines are so profitable, many second- and third-tier manufacturers have searched their assets to pay Nintendo's premium.

The cassette production costs that need to be paid for later when the game is released, except for giants like Wanhu, Konami, Namco, and Taidong, almost all the remaining manufacturers rely on loans to pay.

Larger manufacturers may receive loans with lower interest rates, after all, they have successful experience in the past.

However, those small manufacturers who have just paid the premium have never paid the red and white machine games, so naturally no financial institutions are willing to give them loans with normal interest rates.

Making a game is like opening a treasure chest. Not only can you open treasures without a treasure chest, but you may also open a bunch of stones.

Therefore, small manufacturers use high-interest short-term loans to pay Nintendo's advance funds. The interest rate for this short-term high-interest (harmonious) loan is at least 20% annualized interest rate, and the highest is even more than 50%.

For these manufacturers, issuing games on red and white machines is gambling. If they win the bet, they can pay back the principal and interest and continue to make games. If they lose the bet, they will immediately withdraw from the industry.

Although the corpse would not sink to Tokyo Bay, I am afraid that I will have to bear high loans in the next few years.

Nintendo has no requirements for the source of funds, and very few manufacturers can even get low-interest loans from Nintendo. Of course, there is also a price, that is, they can and can only make games for Nintendo in the future.

The rapid growth in sales of red and white machines has quickly expanded Nintendo's century-old workshop.

A large third party is like a slave working for Nintendo, while a small third party is worse than a slave. He has to sell himself before he can work for Nintendo.

As for the president of Wanhu, Takahashi, who knows the secret of the handheld price of Wanhu's Tetris, is not calm at this moment.

Want to know why Tetris handheld console is so cheap?

hey-hey.

I won't tell you!
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