"Okay, I understand." Zhao Ye nodded. "How's the preparation for the packaging factory going?"
"The packaging factory mainly acquires state-owned factories that are on the verge of bankruptcy. A total of twelve factories have been acquired, located near the soda factory with convenient transportation. Once the production equipment from the German Krones Manufacturing Machinery Company arrives, it can be installed, debugged, and put into production immediately! The workers are all skilled technicians, and there are no problems for them working in the packaging factory. In addition, Wujiang Packaging Factory has established a packaging design department and is currently looking for design talent through international headhunting companies."
"good!"
Zhao Ye was very satisfied.
Once this period is over and the production equipment is in place, the packaging of all soft drink brands will be redesigned to be more fashionable and trendy, and a large number of aluminum cans and PET plastic bottles will be used to reduce the use of glass bottles.
After the packaging becomes high-end and classy, not only will domestic sales increase significantly, but it will also be able to be exported overseas, at least to capture the Southeast Asian market.
The Soviet market is also an option; establishing good trade relations will be useful in the future.
...
Nintendo.
Hiroshi Yamauchi asked the people around him, "What moves has the Wujiang Group made recently?"
"President, Wujiang Group is selling soft drinks recently!" the secretary replied.
"Selling soft drinks?" Hiroshi Yamauchi looked completely astonished. "What's wrong with Wujiang Group? They're actually selling soft drinks?"
"I'm not sure, but I think it's a good thing for Nintendo that Wujiang Group is selling soft drinks. At least it can distract Wujiang Group," the secretary said.
"Oh, that's true!" Hiroshi Yamauchi smiled, hoping that the Wujiang Group would be more distracted, so that Nintendo could secretly develop a 16-bit game console and regain its position as the gaming industry's hegemon.
"How are Wujiang Group's soft drinks selling?" Hiroshi Yamauchi asked curiously.
The secretary hesitated for a moment before saying, "I've heard that Wujiang soda is all the rage in China, and it currently holds more than 60% of the Chinese soda market! American brands like Coca-Cola and Pepsi seem to be utterly defeated by Wujiang soda..."
Hiroshi Yamauchi's eyes widened upon hearing this.
Wujiang Group can sell soda this well?!
Hiroshi Yamauchi was utterly shocked. If the soft drink industry was so successful, wouldn't it provide a steady stream of cash for the Wujiang Group? If that money was used for game development, would Nintendo still have a chance?
"President, it's time. The president of Sony has made plans to go hiking with you. Should we get ready?" the secretary whispered a reminder.
Upon hearing this, Hiroshi Yamauchi immediately realized that Sony was heavily promoting CDs in Japan and hoped to collaborate with Nintendo to develop a CD-based home video game console. Therefore, Sony had proactively approached Nintendo for cooperation.
Sony's advanced technology can help Nintendo better complete the "Nintendo home CD-ROM console".
The large storage capacity of CDs also appealed to Hiroshi Yamauchi.
Therefore, the two companies hit it off immediately and currently have a good relationship.
However, the two sides still have some disagreements on cooperation, and the CD drive is too slow, causing games to lag. Hiroshi Yamauchi has rejected the idea of developing a CD-ROM home game console.
However, Nintendo will definitely develop a CD-ROM home game console in the future.
It's certainly the right thing to do to maintain a good relationship with Sony now.
Therefore, even though Hiroshi Yamauchi was in a very bad mood after hearing the news that Wujiang Group's soft drinks were popular in China, he still prepared to set off to go hiking with the president of Sony.
"Sony, do I still have a chance?"
Hiroshi Yamauchi wondered to himself, if Sony were a little more capable and could improve the speed of the optical drive in a short time, Nintendo could develop a CD-ROM game console, and then it would definitely be able to sweep away the "Qiongqi Game Console"!
It's quite regrettable that the renowned Nintendo is now placing its hopes on another company.
But there's nothing we can do; Wujiang Group is like they're on a winning streak, developing many classic games.
Furthermore, its hardware technology surpassed Nintendo's; the graphics of the "Qiongqi" game console were significantly superior to those of the "FC" console. To this day, Nintendo has not been able to design a graphics enhancement chip better than the MMC.
Hiroshi Yamauchi believes that Nintendo's only advantage at present is that it is already developing a 16-bit home game console, while Wujiang Group seems to have no plans to develop a 16-bit game console and has instead turned to selling soft drinks...
Are they trying to lure me in with soft drinks? To make me lower my guard?
Wujiang Group probably wouldn't...
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