Old Sun went back and raised two million three hundred thousand US dollars, which was already an incredible feat. In the past, let alone two million three hundred thousand, twenty-three million, or even two hundred and thirty million would have been no problem.

Who told him to fail in his investments and fall on hard times?

With such a small amount of money, it was only because of years of personal connections and the trust of clients that they entrusted themselves to him for management. As for how they would divide the money among themselves, that was Old Sun's problem.

Not only should we take care of Lao Sun, but we should also take care of that kid Mitsui Teng, giving him 2% of the funds, also according to Lao Sun's proportion. Over the years, Mitsui Teng has earned several seven-figure sums in commissions from Xing Baohua alone, so he can easily come up with 2% of the funds.

And so the game company was established. R-Ben Haina Investment held 68% of the shares, Lao Sun held 10%, Mitsui Fuji held 2%, and the rest remained in the stock pool as incentive shares.

If more capital is introduced later, it will require collective dilution or Xing Baohua to sell some of his shares to maintain the enthusiasm of the shareholders.

The total scale of 23 million is indeed not large, but it can be operated for at least several years. Even after the money runs out, it can still raise funds by using Xing Baohua's name or Lao Sun's name.

If you're going to go for it, go for the high-end, follow the PS route while also being compatible with PCs.

Initially, it was a market, and it relied on selling CDs.

Whether it's home devices or computers, they all use the same format. Of course, as computer configurations improve later, CDs might not sell as well. Most people can basically play by downloading free resources online.

Once this model takes off, how do you make money? The free versions alone can bankrupt the legitimate ones. It's not that there's no way, it's just a bit troublesome and not very beneficial for early promotion. When necessary, promotion should be the primary focus.

Xing Baohua also wanted to bring Microsoft in, so that they could use their system for promotion and help them perfectly implement the DX multimedia protocol.

Of course, we don't have it now, but we can prepare some in advance. Besides, this agreement is to be finalized by Xing Baohua; wouldn't it be better for Microsoft to make an appropriate purchase or take a stake?

Once the world is unified, the speed at which money is made is like a flood bursting its banks, unstoppable.

In the early stages of the business, the two shareholders were assigned positions; they couldn't just invest money and wait for returns! They had to work. Mitsui Fuji, a smooth-talking broker, was responsible for contacting and recruiting game studios.

They weren't giving tasks to their clients; they were just coming to work at this company.

Old Sun was in charge of the company's overall operations and recruiting hardware engineers. Home gaming equipment needed to be built. Putting all those electronic components together required hardware talent.

Xing Baohua had a general idea of ​​how to minimize the cost of household appliance components. The setup started as 2D, with pseudo-3D support. It only looked somewhat 3D; the content was still 2D, created by visual effects.

On the hardware side, the cheapest domestically produced chips are used, so R company only provides the design drawings and content solutions. Overall production and assembly are still done domestically.

This greatly reduces various expenses and costs, resulting in substantial profits.

Its biggest competitors now are Atari and gaming hardware manufacturers such as Nintendo and Saturn.

There are no more than five that can be considered truly capable. With high-quality game content and competitively priced hardware, none of those five can compete, and Xing Baohua's products are poised to quickly dominate the European and American home gaming equipment market.

Regarding content, Xing Baohua decided to start with a few strategy games, such as those in the Legend of Sword and Fairy series, Three Kingdoms strategy games, and Tower of Destiny games. For sports, he suggested racing games like Speed ​​Drifters and Road Rash, or if all else fails, a cartoon version of a car game.

Let's modify the shooting game and turn the duck-shooting game into a VR police game.

In short, the game content is developed based on the 2D framework. Since E-Ross Blocks cannot be licensed, it will be changed. It will be changed to something like a pill doctor, and the little bee will be changed to a bubble shooter.

In short, just keep burning through the twenty million dollars. Once it's gone, raise another two hundred million to keep burning.

As the money burns, its reputation grows. Does software burn through cash?

The more money you burn, the more money you can make. A good software may not seem profitable, but it actually has many monetization projects, just like communication software. We can't see the real profits, but how much money it burns will occasionally be revealed, such as how many billions it has burned, etc., which are actually said to investors.

In fact, game software is even more expensive. Companies that have the strength to survive are basically considered to have seen the light of day. With capital operation, investors generally make money.

If it weren't for the poor internet connection, Xing Baohua would have released a simple online game. Unfortunately, he can only release single-player games now.

The biggest drawback of single-player games is piracy; you can play them without spending money.

Xing Baohua had prepared for this; he sold serial numbers, made them into plastic cards, and sold them in convenience stores.

This is similar to the way prepaid cards were sold back then.

In short, we need to find a way to stop piracy. One serial number should support two devices: one home version and one PC version.

The system will be bundled, but the promotion phase will not be too rigid. Once a certain scale is reached, this charging system will be implemented after an update of the content.

At least several hundred thousand units of the home version need to be sold before charging can be considered.

The PC installation rate would need to reach tens of thousands of units.

If they start charging fees right away, the road ahead will probably be very difficult.

Xing Baohua spent over a week explaining the content to the programmers. The rest was up to them to come up with the script and design according to the outline.

After stabilizing the situation somewhat, we went to Hong Kong to meet up with Zou Wenjuan and found a private medical team to take charge of Zou Wenjuan's subsequent rehabilitation training.

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