Chapter 27 Target 100 million units
Finally, Lin You communicated with Qin Songyun about the material cost and selling price of the equipment, and after giving him a good idea, he sent him to play with his girlfriend.
Qin Songyun was shocked when he heard the cost. He never expected that such a high-end technology could be so cost-effective!
When I heard that Lin You was planning to price the product at only 10,000 yuan, I was even more surprised. He directly said that the price could be higher. Even if it was several times higher, players would be very surprised.
Because even if the price is increased three times, it will still be less than half of the price charged by the virtual device manufacturer.
After increasing the selling price, it will undoubtedly have huge benefits for the company's development speed.
The more people who buy the equipment, the faster the company accumulates wealth, and the more wealth it has, the more equipment it can produce and achieve rapid expansion.
Otherwise, the scale cannot be scaled up. No matter how good the game is, if 100,000 devices are placed there, there will only be 100,000 players at most.
The second batch will only be 200,000 units, the third batch will be 400,000 units, and the fourth batch will be 800,000 units...
But if the price is raised, even if the price is only doubled, after the first batch of 100,000 units is sold out, the second batch can be made to 400,000 units! The third batch is 1.6 million units! The fourth batch is 6.4 million units!
This is an exponential increasing process!
He didn't understand why Lin You gave up such a strategy.
"Old Qin." Lin You sighed, "Have you noticed that you are particularly persistent in time?"
Qin Songyun was stunned for a moment.
Lin You continued: "You are indeed right. The initial pricing determines the speed of our expansion. But how many players can this market produce in total?"
"The total number of domestic players who buy VR game equipment is about 20 million." Qin Songyun replied subconsciously.
"Yes, there are 20 million people. It is impossible for us to rob all these players. When VR games emerged, there were no players who robbed all consoles and PCs. In this case, it will take us one year to reach the ceiling, but still
It took 3 months to touch the ceiling, but the difference is actually not big.
So our goal is not to snatch these 20 million players, but to do our best to expand this group. Our equipment can not only be sold to players, why can't we sell 30 million units, 40 million units, 50 million units, or even... 100 million units?
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And we must not try to have the best of both worlds by first selling the product at a very high price and then drastically reducing the price. That would cause serious harm to players and our image.
I don’t think you can’t think of this. It’s just that you are too obsessed with time without knowing it.”
Lin You's words silenced Qin Songyun. Yes, when did he start to be so obsessed with time that he subconsciously rushes slowly to do anything?
It seems...it started from the day Xiaochun was diagnosed...
Seeing Qin Songyun in a daze, Lin You patted him on the shoulder and said, "Okay, okay, stop thinking about it and go play with your girlfriend."
Watching Qin Songyun walk up to Xiao Chun, who had been impatient for a long time, the two of them walked away hand in hand.
Lin You couldn't help but sigh. Falling flowers and wind and rain hurt the spring even more, so why not take pity on the people in front of you?
Turning back to the space carrier, Lin You and Xiao Meng watched the live broadcasts of these players with great interest.
The princess and her best friend make the fastest progress, and the princess has a strong pursuit of progress. It often happens that the best friend wants to wander around, but is dragged forward by the princess to push forward the progress.
The media guy and Xia Yi were not in a hurry. They searched every level carefully and tried to find all the runes and murals.
The rest was played more casually. Lin You didn't stare at it all the time. After watching it for a while, he took Xiao Meng to work.
The surprise for players he mentioned on Lingxi was something he suddenly thought of: a trial demo of the game could be released first, which would be backward compatible with VR, consoles and personal computer devices on the market, allowing players on all platforms to
Players can play the first two levels first.
When virtual reality equipment comes on the market later, even if they want to play the later content, their desire to buy the equipment will be stronger.
Although equipment will be in short supply for a long time, it is always good to do more.
Besides, this matter is not complicated.
If normal programmers are allowed to do this, it will naturally be very troublesome. Just the difference in operating environment may lead to piles of bugs.
But for Xiao Meng, it is really easy to make backward version compatibility when there is already a virtual reality environment, and to use the version in Lin You's memory as a reference.
Even taking into account the computing power limitations of today's computers, one hour is enough.
The only price was that during this hour, Xiao Meng had to temporarily stop using social media intensively.
Hmm... Lin You thinks this is a good thing. What does it look like for such a young child to check social software every day?
This is something only adults can do!
While working with her mouth pressed, Xiao Meng looked at Lin Youyou: "Humph! Xiao Meng wants to change the calculation parameters! She wants to reduce the owner's appearance score to the bottom 5%!"
"Stop it, surrender it." Lin You waved his hand casually. He had never imagined that Xiao Meng's appearance score would have any effect.
The leisurely afternoon passed by just like that.
Because Lin You greatly increased the scope of the map in this version of virtual reality, no one could play to the end this afternoon.
Even the princess who had reached the underground entrance before was constantly interrupted by her best friend's splashes, dragging her around, and finally just barely reached the end of the temple level.
Others advanced while exploring, and did not even reach the underground level.
However, when they came out, they all expressed that they were still very satisfied. The surprise and disbelief still remained on their faces.
Especially the one-legged girl Xia Yi, even after leaving the virtual world, she still subconsciously touches her right leg from time to time.
But at this time, what she touched was already a metal prosthesis.
However, although they had a great time, they did not encounter any problems and found no flaws that needed improvement.
So Lin You expressed his gratitude and sent them off one by one.
When sending Qin Songyun and the others away, Lin You directly gave them two devices. Qin Songyun and Xiaochun thanked him repeatedly in surprise.
Lin You just waved his hand and said casually: "It's just a special treatment for employees. Just treat it as an entry gift. Pay attention to safety on the road."
When the princess left, Lin You also handed her the set of equipment she had been playing with and asked her to take it back to play.
The princess looked surprised: "Is it okay?"
"Without your help, I wouldn't have been able to make it so quickly, right?" Lin You said to her with gratitude, "And it's also thanks to you that we have made up for the important material problems of "Journey". Helped"
I'm so busy, how can I get just one piece of equipment? Let's take it back and play with it!"
The princess happily took over the equipment and was so excited that she almost bowed to Lin You.
With the envious eyes of my best friend, we left together.
Lin You did not give a device to the princess's best friend. First, the two of them were not familiar with each other and it was not enough to give a gift.
As for the second thing, you have to satisfy the little girl’s vanity, right?
There will be nothing urgent next. Lin You was thinking, why not practice shooting after registering the company tomorrow?
Just one afternoon, Lin You felt a little itchy.
This is definitely not what he wants to play, but to prepare for the next game!
Yes, what did the writer he liked say so much?
Go out and collect materials!
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