giants of the era

Chapter 165 Treat it as a treasure!

At the end of the press conference, people had mixed opinions on electronic pets. The key point is that many people were full of expectations for Flamingo, but they did not expect that Flamingo had launched such a simple game, which disappointed people.

The higher the expectation, the higher the disappointment.

In addition, Warner Bros. bought many media outlets that day, deliberately bad-mouthing Flamingo and Li Zetian.

"Chronos Li Jiang is exhausted, and the game design talent is completely lost!"

"Electronic pets are shoddy and extremely rubbish!"

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All kinds of overwhelming negative news are flooding newspapers across the United States.

However, on the second day, electronic pets landed in major shopping malls across the United States. In the early morning, countless students flocked to them, and the electronic pets in major shopping malls were sold out.For a moment, those who were not optimistic about electronic pets were dumbfounded.

"How could such a simple game be so popular?!"

They were full of doubts.

Warner Bros. and Sunbird couldn't help being shocked, and at the same time, deeply felt that a huge crisis would come in the near future.

To everyone's surprise, within a week, the Flamingo Company created a frenzy of electronic pets across the United States.Whether they are students or office workers, whether young or old, they all have a soft spot for electronic pets. In this short week, Flamingo sold more than 40 electronic pet game consoles , $50 per machine, that is, sales of up to $2000 million.

This whirlwind of electronic pets has just started, and then set off a wave of electronic pets in RB Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Europe and other regions.

One month later, electronic pets became popular all over the world, and almost became a phenomenon-level game. Flamingo Company became famous, and Li Zetian was praised by the media as "the father of electronic pets".

The host of ABC TV station said: "Electronic pets are popular all over the world, making the Flamingo company famous in one fell swoop! It can be seen that Chronos Li is not as described by some media - he is exhausted. On the contrary, his talent is stronger than before. Duo, just use a simple, unpretentious design to design an electronic pet. This let us know that the game does not have to be complicated, and the simplicity may be more popular!"

"Los Angeles Daily": "The Flamingo Company is coming in menacingly. A simple electronic pet can set off a game frenzy in the world. Then, what kind of impact will their carefully developed TV games have? Can Sunbird Company still keep itself in the family? Dominance in the field of game consoles?"

"New York Daily": "The rise of the new gaming giant is already unstoppable!!!"

WSJ: "Warner Bros. Shares Plunge, CEO Kevin Smith May Be Fired by Board!"

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In the past month, the sales volume of electronic pets has reached 340 million units, and the sales volume has reached 1.4 million US dollars, which not only brings great fame to the Flamingo company, but also has huge profits.With the money, Flamingo can continue to recruit troops, expand the company's strength, and speed up research and development.The company currently only has more than 1000 people. Although it is considered a large company, it is still far from being the overlord of the game.

There is no doubt that the production capacity of Flamingo Company cannot meet the needs of the market. Later, it will learn from Nintendo to establish a royalty system and open the Flamingo game platform to third-party manufacturers. In addition to the need to purchase a high-value development platform during development , you also need to pay different royalties according to the sales situation and follow the following three strict conditions:
1. Third-party manufacturers are required to release only 5 games per year;
2. Review each Flamingo game platform game;

3. Third-party manufacturers need to predict the sales volume of their own products, and then Flamingo will produce game cassettes, and the production fee will be paid by the third-party manufacturer.

Under such rules, the Flamingo company completely throws the risk to third-party manufacturers while making considerable profits, and can also guarantee the quality of the game

Of course, the premise of all this is that Flamingo's game console can beat the Atari 2600 and dominate the home game console market.

Flamingo shocked the industry when it showed its sword for the first time. At this moment, many third-party manufacturers have contacted Flamingo and expressed their willingness to develop games for the game console platform under development.However, it was rejected by Li Zetian. First of all, the development of the game console is kept secret, and the detailed data cannot be disclosed for the time being to avoid plagiarism.Secondly, a bunch of companies that develop junk games came to their door. If their games were used, wouldn't it be a blow to the brand of Flamingo Company!
With the game currently under development, the Flamingo Company is strong enough to crush the Atari 2600 and become the overlord!At this time, the Flamingo Company had a huge right to speak, so it negotiated terms with third-party manufacturers and forced them to agree to their requirements!As for now, these third-party manufacturers think that developing games for Flamingo is helping Flamingo and sending charcoal in a timely manner, so the conditions they put forward can be imagined...

However, they never thought about it, does Flamingo need help?
When Flamingo releases the game console, these game makers will be so shocked that their jaws will drop!
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Electronic pets are still in hot sales and have become a stable source of income for Flamingo. Its follow-up works are also under development. Due to technical and hardware limitations, in fact, it is only in terms of shape, color, pet type and some small functions. Improvements can be made on the Internet, such as infrared connection, email, multiple pets in one machine, photography and other powerful and sticky functions, which cannot be realized. .

The media are always full of curiosity about a legendary figure like Li Zetian, and the success of electronic pets has made him the focus of the media and the general public.Since the release of the electronic pet, the Flamingo Company has not taken any action. The media reporters tried to inquire about some exciting news several times, but all were in vain.Before Flamingo launched the game console, everything was under development in high secrecy.

As a result, the media gave up the goal of Flamingo, and turned to pay attention to the other two companies founded by Li Zetian, Yinhe Network and Sun Computer Systems, but this made them even more disappointed. The low-key of Sun Computer Systems is outrageous. , do not know what it is studying.As for Yinhe Network Company, there is no product development at present, and it is researching Ethernet and TCP/IP protocols, and it feels that there is no future.

A reporter said, what the hell are Ethernet and TCP/IP protocols?Never heard of it...not newsworthy at all.

It's just chaff in the eyes of others, but Li Zetian regards it as a treasure.

When Li Zetian was developing games at Flamingo, he often paid attention to the development of Yinhe Network.

Xerox was sitting on Jinshan without knowing it, and handed it over to Yinhe Network Company.After a lot of hard work, Tian Shuai and Zhang Hao used the excuse of perfecting and promoting Ethernet technology to successfully defraud Xerox's technology authorization, and at the same time became one of the framers of the Ethernet protocol standard.

Dare to ask which computer wants to surf the Internet without installing a network card?

After Li Zetian received the news, he couldn't help but be overjoyed. Yinhe Network Company has taken the first step to success, and the future network equipment giant is just around the corner!
He told Tian Shuai: "Start the research and development of network cards, and at the same time contact IBM, DEC, HP, Apple and other companies to seek cooperation!"

"I'm afraid Apple?" Tian Shuai hesitated with embarrassment. If other companies developed the network card, Apple might choose to cooperate, but Yinhe Network Company was founded by Li Zetian. The two parties had some conflicts before, and they were not happy with each other. .

"Talk as much as possible. Although Apple has been suppressed by IBM, it still has a lot of market share!"

"Okay!" Tian Shuai nodded and said in his heart, there is no other way, he can only bite the bullet and talk to Apple...

(End of this chapter)