At the end of the conference, people had mixed opinions on electronic pets. The key is that many people were full of expectations for Flamingo, but they did not expect Flamingo to launch such a simple game, which was a big disappointment. The higher the expectations, the higher the natural disappointment.
On the same day, Warner Bros. bought a lot of media and deliberately slandered Flamingo and Li Zetian.
"Chronos·Li Jianglang is exhausted, and his game design talent is completely lost!"
"Electronic pets are shoddy and rubbish!"
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All kinds of overwhelming negative news flooded the nation's newspapers.
However, on the second day, electronic pets landed in major shopping malls in the United States. Numerous students flocked to them early in the morning, and the electronic pets in major shopping malls were sold out. For a time, those who were not optimistic about electronic pets were dumbfounded.
"How can such a simple game be so popular?!"
They were full of doubts.
Warner Bros. and Sunbird can't help but be shocked, and at the same time, deeply feel that a huge crisis is coming in the near future.
To everyone's surprise, within a week, the Flamingo company blew up the electronic pet frenzy in the United States. Whether students, office workers, young or old, they all have a soft spot for electronic pets. In this short week, Flamingo has sold more than 400,000 electronic pet game consoles , $50 per machine, or $20 million in sales.
This whirlwind of electronic pets has just started, and then the electronic pet boom has been set off in Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Europe and other regions.
A month later, electronic pets were popular all over the world and almost became a phenomenon-level game. The Flamingo Company became famous, and Li Zetian was hailed by the media as the "father of electronic pets".
A supporter of ABC TV said: "The popularity of electronic pets has swept the world and made the Flamingo company famous! It can be seen that Chronos Li is not as described by some media - Jiang Lang's talents are exhausted. On the contrary, he has more talents than before. , just using a simple, unpretentious design to design an electronic pet. This lets us know that the game does not have to be complicated, but simple may be more popular!"
"Los Angeles Daily": "The Flamingo Company is aggressive, and a simple electronic pet can set off a world game frenzy. So, what impact will their carefully developed TV games have? Can Sunbird Company still keep itself in the family? Dominance in the game console space?"
"New York Daily": "The rise of new gaming giants is unstoppable!!!"
The Wall Street Journal: "Warner Bros. Shares Plunge, CEO Kevin Smith May Be Fired From The Board!"
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In a month, the electronic pet sales reached 3.4 million units, and the sales reached 140 million US dollars, which not only brought huge fame to the Flamingo company, but also huge profits. With money, Flamingo can continue to recruit, expand the company's strength, and speed up research and development. The company currently only has more than 1,000 people. Although it is a big company, it is still far from the game overlord.
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 high-value development platforms during development , and also need to pay different royalties according to the sales situation and follow the following three harsh conditions:
1. Third-party manufacturers are required to only release 5 games per year;
2. Review each Flamingo game platform game;
3. The third-party manufacturer needs to predict the sales volume of its own products, and then the Flamingo Company will make the game cassette, and the production fee will be paid by the third-party manufacturer.
Under such rules, the Flamingo Company completely threw the risk to third-party manufacturers while obtaining quite lucrative profits, and also guaranteed the quality of the game.
Of course, the premise of all this is that the Flamingo's console can beat the Atari 2600 and dominate the home console market.
Flamingo shocked the industry for the first time with its sword. At this moment, many third-party manufacturers 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 leaked for the time being to avoid plagiarism. Secondly, a special group of companies that develop junk games came to the door. If they used their games, wouldn't they smash the Flamingo Company's signboard!
The Flamingo Company, with the games currently under development, is strong enough to crush the Atari 2600 and become the overlord! At this time, the Flamingo Company has a huge right to speak, so it negotiated conditions with third-party manufacturers and forced them to agree to their own requirements! As for now, these third-party manufacturers think that developing games for Flamingo is helping Flamingos and giving help in the snow, so the conditions they put forward can be imagined...
However, they never thought about it, does Flamingo need help
When the Flamingo Company releases the game console, these game makers will probably be shocked!
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Electronic pets are still in hot sales and have become a stable source of income for Flamingo Company. Its follow-up works are also under development. Due to limited technology and hardware, in fact, it is also in terms of appearance, color, pet type and some small functions. It is not possible to make improvements, such as infrared connection, mail, multiple pets in one machine, photography and other powerful and sticky functions. .
The media are always curious about such legends as Li Zetian, and the success of the electronic pet has made him the focus of the media and the general public. Since the release of the electronic pet, the Flamingo company has not done anything. The media reporters tried to inquire about some exciting news several times, but they were all in vain. Before Flamingo launched its console, everything was in highly secretive development.
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, Galaxy Network and Sun Computer Systems, but this made them even more disappointed. Sun Computer Systems' low-key and outrageous , do not know what it is studying. As for Galaxy Network Company, there is no product under 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.
The scum in the eyes of others was regarded as a treasure by Li Zetian.
In addition to developing games at Flamingo Company, Li Zetian often pays attention to the development of Galaxy Network Company.
Xerox was sitting on Jinshan without knowing it, and handed it over to Galaxy Network. After some hard work, Tian Shuai and Zhang Yan successfully defrauded Xerox's technology authorization under the pretext of improving and promoting Ethernet technology, and at the same time became one of the framers of the Ethernet protocol standard.
Dare to ask which computer wants to access the Internet without a network card
After Li Zetian received the news, he couldn't help but be overjoyed. Galaxy Network has taken the first step of success, and the future network equipment giant is just around the corner!
He told Tian Shuai: "Start developing network cards, and at the same time contact IBM, DEC, HP, Apple and other companies to seek cooperation!"
"I'm afraid Apple?" Tian Shuai hesitantly said, if another company developed the network card, Apple might choose to cooperate, but the Galaxy Network was founded by Li Zetian. The two sides had some conflicts before, and they were not happy with each other. .
"Try to talk about it. Although Apple has been suppressed by IBM, it still occupies a lot of market share!"
"Okay!" Tian Shuai nodded and said in his heart, he had no choice but to bite the bullet and talk to Apple...