Chapter 506【The ancestor of the arcade】

  Sony Lab

  Jing Shenda is explaining to Wu Guangyao: "Chairman, please see, this is a portable tape player, this is a headset!"

  Wu Guangyao takes the prototype of the Walkman in his hand and loves it!

  Put the tape in, press the ON button, and then put the earphones on your head;

  Music spread to his ears immediately, immersed for a while, Wu Guangyao pressed the OFF button.

  "The sound quality is a little bit worse, the appearance, size, and room for improvement of the entire device! Don't launch it on the market yet, continue to improve it."

  Jing Shenda nodded and said, "I think so too, but I want to register the patent for the concept of ‘walkman’ first; after all, the technology of this walkman is not that big, if it leaks out, it’s easy to be the first!"

   "Haha! President Jingshen, I bet that mainstream music equipment manufacturers will laugh at us when we show equipment or register patents!" Wu Guangyao couldn't help but joked with his proud executives.

Jing Shenda looked at Wu Guangyao curiously, and said incredulously: "Why is this? This kind of device is simply a gospel for music lovers. It allows everyone to listen to music anytime and anywhere. I think it is a very great invention and creativity. ."

  Looking at Wu Guangyao smiling but not saying anything, Jing Shenda seemed to have a sense of understanding, and said: "What the chairman means is that they will feel that the ‘walkman’ sacrifices sound quality and emphasizes portability, and is a product with no future?"

  Wu Guangyao finally nodded!

   Jing Shenda also laughed and said, "That's right! When our products are on sale, these music equipment vendors will be late to enter the market!"

  Wu Guangyao said triumphantly: “The registered patent you mentioned is indeed urgent. In the future, we can just use the patent to talk about it. It will be even more difficult for these manufacturers to enter this industry.”

  Actually, in the previous life, the ‘walkman’ was not invented by Sony, but a German-Brazilian Andreas Pavel proposed the concept of a "portable music player" for the first time in the world.

In 1972, he used a "portable tape playback system" and "headphones" to build a gadget. This thing is the prototype of the "walkman"; as a music lover, he invented this thing with the hope that more People can listen to music anytime, anywhere.

  However, mainstream music equipment manufacturers at the time, such as Philips, Yamaha, and other established acoustic manufacturers, all believed that this kind of equipment that sacrifices sound quality and emphasizes portability has no future.

  Andreas Pavel was not discouraged. He insisted on his research and applied for a patent in 1977.

Two years later, Sony’s first WalkmanTPS-L2 came on the market. While Sony was selling on sale, it was also keenly aware that Pavel’s invention patents would pose a threat to its commercial future; therefore, Sony asked Pavel to abandon the concept of “portable music device”. The identity of the "inventor", a tug-of-war of litigation that lasted for 25 years began.

  In this life, this will not happen naturally!

  Next, Jing Shenda took Wu Guangyao to another laboratory, and saw a few arcade machines there;

  Wu Guangyao knows that the title of the ‘first ancestor of the arcade’ is about to be won by Sony!

  At this time, Akio Morita has registered the "Ping Pong" arcade game in the United States, a few months earlier than the original Atari; most importantly, 50 arcade machines have been shipped to the United States, this is the best proof.

   "Boss, do you want to experience it!" Jing Shen said with a big smile.

   "Of course, we two compare!" Wu Guangyao was full of interest.

  "Ping Pong" arcade is a battle game, there are two pairs of rocker arms, the operation is quite simple, but Wu Guangyao still has a great time;

  This game is a game that simulates two people playing table tennis. In fact, there is only one point moving between the two lines;

   is such a simple game, but in this era of lack of entertainment, it will certainly quickly arouse people's pursuit.

  It is rumored that the previous Atari only produced 12 arcade machines. After it was officially put into use, problems soon appeared. Guess what?

  The place to store coins can’t fit!

  Sony’s arcade development success is inevitable, after all, it is a large team, if even two people’s development projects can’t be done;

  That Wu Guangyao really doubted whether the IQ of Americans is higher than that of people in other countries!

  After the game is over, Wu Guangyao couldn't help but said: "The video game revolution, let us lead the Sony!"

  Jing Shen nodded happily and was also inspired;

Although President    is not technical, he is a very visionary creative person!

  It seems that the products that the president envisioned are all great inventions, which I can’t help but admire.

Wu Guangyao added: “From now on, Sony’s game department must quickly strengthen its technical capabilities. This ping-pong arcade machine is just a primitive class, and there is still some distance from the real arcade machine. I hope you will pay attention to this project! Come on, this project is worth billions of dollars, even tens of billions of dollars!"

  Jing Shen was a freshman, but I didn’t expect the boss to value this project so much!

   asked tentatively: "President, this kind of arcade game only needs bars and other entertainment venues. How can the market be so big?"

Wu Guangyao said with a smile: "As long as this arcade game becomes colorful, graphic, and highly playable, then a game room will be born! When we do business, our main consideration is customer demand, not something. Place; I think in our age, entertainment is still scarce, so a lot of this kind of game equipment is naturally needed."

  Jing Shenda bowed to Wu Guangyao, and said seriously: "Teached, President!"

  Wu Guangyao said with a smile: "Actually, I ask you to strengthen Sony's technical capabilities, and there is another idea. Are you interested in it?"

   Jing Shen blurted out: "Naturally! Even listening to the president's idea, I feel it is an honor, let alone participating in this design and production!"

  Wu Guangyao said: "The TV is a display device, it can display rich pictures, if you are playing games, do you think it is more entertaining!"

   Jing Shen nodded, but still had no idea!

  Wu Guangyao continued: “Invent a host that can be connected to a TV, and then operate it with a handle! I can only imagine this point. You set up this project first, and our laboratories in Japan and the United States will proceed at the same time!”

  Ishenda seriously said: "I will set up a laboratory in the United States and Japan immediately, and I will report to you as soon as I have a clue!"

Wu Guangyao patted his beloved general and said: “Don’t be under pressure. You are my chief technical officer and the chief technical officer of Lenovo Group. Overall management is your job. You only need to comment on specific research and development and review the results. That's it!"

  Jing Shen was greatly moved, and thought in his heart, if it were not for this president, how could he have developed Trinitron TV and become a world-renowned figure, and the British royal family would even award himself a knight;

  If it weren’t for this president, the walkman, arcade, and video game consoles would not have the turn to research and develop them on their own, because they hadn’t thought of these ideas!

  Importantly, the president never allowed everyone to say that these inventions have his shadow, and gave all the credit to his subordinates. This kind of spirit is really admired!

  Moreover, the more you work with this president, the more you admire him;

  Lenovo Group is not listed, some employee shareholders who want to sell their shares, this president has never been greedy;

  After the shares were repurchased to the company, they were once again awarded to Lenovo Group’s meritorious officials.

  Stayed in Lenovo Group for almost ten days, and did not wait for Yiqiao Group to attack again;

  Naturally, Wu Guangyao has no interest in continuing to watch good shows, and plans to return to Hong Kong!

  It took a whole month to come to Japan this time, and Wu Guangyao sorted out the four main businesses:

For animation (Touhou Group), with the'criminal evidence' of Hitotsubashi Group provided by Otowa Group, plus the evidence collected by Touhou Manga in various bookstores, it can be said that no matter what moves Hitotsubashi Group will do next, Touhou Animation Co. It is a safe and secure win.

In terms of convenience stores (Baiyou Group), Wu Guangyao has almost arranged it. The Baiyou Group will add 440 stores within two years, and the total number of stores in Japan will reach 1,000. Among them, franchise stores are expected to be around 300. .

Lenovo Group, Wu Guangyao has also arranged tasks, enough for Lenovo Group to develop for a period of time; of course, for some well-known games, Wu Guangyao plans to write an outline later and hand it to Sony; such as "Snake", "Super Mario", For games like "Hong Kong Cube", Wu Guangyao will come up with the outline at an appropriate time.

  In shipping, Wu Guangyao mainly visited some important customers. When everyone saw Wu Guangyao, they asked Wu Guangyao to reduce the freight; Wu Guangyao also adjusted it appropriately to stabilize these customers' bargaining chips for two years.

  After all the work was arranged, Wu Guangyao set off for Hong Kong!

  (End of this chapter)