These requirements were first proposed by Zhu Yuxing, and then the engineering team discussed the feasibility, and then negotiated with these manufacturers.
Zhu Yuxing mainly asked for a few points.
The computing power can reach the game screen of the previous life at least comparable to the PSP era.
At the same time, the processor is also required to have strong compatibility.
This is to allow a series of games such as the previous GBA to enter the new handheld in parallel through the emulator.
Even if you can, you can run SFC and FC era games on the new handheld.
These old games don't have to really make much money for Zhuyouxing, but they can't be without.
There is also easy development, which is a preparation for game developers.
If a game console is very difficult to develop, many game developers will be discouraged from developing games on this console.
And the purpose of the processor is also directly announced at the tender meeting.
It is for the manufacture of handhelds, but this news must be kept strictly confidential by several manufacturers, otherwise they will face high lawsuit compensation.
These were all said before the tender began.
For these world-renowned processor manufacturers, it is not difficult to manufacture.
The weakest one can make this kind of processor.
There are only some differences in price.
After some discussion, the six companies finally marked the function, performance, and price of their processors, and then the bidding meeting was temporarily ended.
The winning bidder will be announced within two weeks.
Liujia patiently waited for the reply from Youxing Electronic Entertainment.
Inside Yuxing Electronic Entertainment's headquarters, Zhu Yuxing looked at the quotations of the six companies together with several heads of the engineering development department, including Airi Hayasawa.
"The first manufacturer offered a price of $110 per custom chip, and guaranteed that it could provide 20 million annual production capacity to Yuxing Electronics, and the price of the chip produced per year could also be reduced by ten dollars.
" The second manufacturer gave a price of $130 per custom chip, but they said that if they ordered 40 million a year, they would lower the price by another $30, and then reduce the price by ten years each year. Dollars."
"The third manufacturer is priced at $120 per chip, and they don't give any additional discounts, but the chips they make have always been stable and haven't had any serious quality problems. Maybe the price We can talk more."
"The fourth manufacturer is priced at $90 per chip, which is quite cheap. This manufacturer used to specialize in manufacturing industrial chips. I am afraid that they intend to expand the market through this transaction, so they are willing to Competing for this order with a lower price is equivalent to paying a tuition fee to enter a new market."
"The sincerity of the fifth manufacturer is not very good, and the price of the chip has reached one hundred and seventy US dollars. I feel that there is no need to think about it. Like the fourth manufacturer, they used to manufacture industrial chips. It is obviously not sincere to change careers without paying tuition."
"The sixth manufacturer's chip price is 130 US dollars, and the price is willing to reduce the price by 20 per year. More than ten dollars, which means that the cost of the chip will only be thirty dollars after five years, which is also quite good."
In the conference room, a person in charge of engineering development explained to the crowd the different offers and commitments of the six manufacturers.
Each of the six manufacturers has their own strengths, and with the exception of the fifth and third, the other four are actually offering decent offers.
This is cheaper than Take Yusei expected at first.
The processor is the heart of a game console.
If all costs are included, the cost of the game console can be controlled to less than two hundred dollars, which is in the range of 20,000 yen.
In this case, selling a handheld for two hundred dollars is equivalent to no loss or profit.
However, the 20,000 yen handheld is obviously not easy for current players to accept.
The price of the last handheld was just over 12,000 yen, and the price of the new handheld has risen to 20,000 in one go, which puts a lot of pressure on players.
So it is inevitable to lose some selling hosts.
But as long as the game can sell well, you will earn it.
In the end, after everyone's discussion, the manufacturers were locked in two.
The third and sixth.
One of these two is the excellent quality of the product, and the other is the price is very favorable in the future.
If a game machine is produced after the fifth year, the production cost is probably only seventy or eighty dollars.
It's not bad to wait until about the third year or so that the consoles can start making money again.
The quality of the third manufacturer is very good, and it is not completely irrelevant. You can use the annual increase in production capacity to attract the other party to lower the price again.
However, it is completely determined that the manufacturer can wait another half a month. During this time, everyone in the company's engineering development can have a good discussion about the choice of these manufacturers.
As for the meeting, it went to the next link, which was to discuss the functions and appearance of the handheld.
Before, Zhu Yuxing has decided to set the appearance of the game console as a flip, and also has the attribute of dual screens.
At that time, he had already shown the general appearance drawings to everyone.
But that's not a final draft, just an initial idea.
Zhu Yuxing also hopes to listen to other people's opinions before making a decision.
Most of them have no problem with Zhu Yuxing's vision of this game console.
Because they have long been accustomed to the unfavorable development direction.
They don't even need to be involved in the design of the game console too much, they just need to develop the game console according to the functional requirements given by Zhu Yuxing.
Anyway, in the case of the current Xingxing Electronic Entertainment, any game consoles developed are easy to sell.
"Zhuyou, to be honest, I have always felt that this kind of handheld is not particularly good."
Just when the results of the discussion were almost the same, a voice suddenly sounded.
Zhu Yuxing raised his head and looked at the door, where a person was sitting alone.
She has always been used to being alone, but she has also changed a lot.
At least she has no contact phobia now, and she no longer reacts violently to contact with others.
Tsukino Aya's silver double ponytail is still so eye-catching at all times.
"It's not very good, what exactly do you mean?"
"Dual screen, I can't imagine how to make a game with this dual screen property. Of course, you can have a lot of great ideas to create amazing games, but other developers may not be so A lot of whimsy."
This makes sense.
The NDS in the previous life was stronger in its own game lineup. Except for its own games, third-party games were actually not very powerful, at least not comparable to the third-party games of the PSP handheld console of the same period.