In recent months, a group of very young entrepreneurs has emerged.
They are extremely generous with their money and have no qualms about frequenting various places, boasting about their paths to entrepreneurial success.
"Let me tell you, as long as you recruit a few young programmers and create some simple games, it only takes half a month to complete production. Then, put it on the market, and you can immediately get returns of more than ten times your investment. Now is the best time."
In a night club KTV, several young people, accompanied by young and beautiful women, excitedly hold expensive champagne, recounting their recent path to wealth.
Many people nearby are listening attentively.
"Can electronic games really make so much money? Why didn't I notice before?"
The young man holding the champagne sneered, "Heh, you just lack insight. Nowadays, electronic games have become popular entertainment products. As long as you create them, everyone will rush to buy them. You don't have to worry about sales at all!"
"Come on, let's dance and sing! Let's celebrate today's gains!"
In these nightclubs, they freely splash money, creating a stark contrast with many families.
Children look happily at the game consoles and cartridges purchased by their parents.
They are just a little confused because these seem a bit different from the game consoles their classmates have.
But since they are all called game consoles, they should be similar, and their parents are very generous, able to buy more than ten games at once. Even if there are some they don't like, there are always some they do. Besides, they can show off how many game cartridges they have at school.
However, when they excitedly turn on the TV and insert a game called "American Soldiers: Adventure," the TV immediately emits piercing screams, frightening the children almost to faint.
The parents are startled too, quickly coming to turn off the TV, then looking puzzled at the cartridge and glancing at their somewhat frightened children.
"Dad, this is different from what my classmates said. They didn't say this thing would scream."
"Maybe... there was a mistake somewhere in the operation. Let's lower the TV volume a bit."
The father is also somewhat uncertain, then lowers the TV volume to the minimum and tries to turn on the game console system again.
But even so, the noise from this cartridge is still very loud, making people feel annoyed.
However, it's fortunate that at least the game has started running.
The appearance of this game looks basically like Contra, with almost no difference in gameplay, very crude.
But at least this game can be run through the controller.
In the end, the father couldn't stand it and directly turned off the sound, which slightly improved the gaming experience.
The child soon forgot the previous unpleasantness and began to concentrate on playing.
But the good times didn't last long. After just passing the first level, the game console began to lag inexplicably, with obvious delays in the game's graphics. In short, all kinds of bad gaming experiences combined, making it very uncomfortable to play.
Finally, the child couldn't stand it anymore and decided to try another cartridge.
What followed was changing multiple cartridges in a row, but the result was the same, with no improvement at all.
The game would either suddenly lag or the game itself was not well-made, completely a half-baked prototype, only playable for about ten minutes before the game ended.
In the end, the child gave up completely, starting to doubt whether this was the fun game his classmates boasted about. Why was it so trashy?
What's there to boast about with this thing?
He didn't even want to brag about it to his classmates tomorrow.
In the nightclubs, young entrepreneurs continued to boast about the future of electronic games, while at home, children gradually put down their controllers, and some even began to feel disgusted.
And across the ocean in the United States, Takayuki hasn't slept for a night.
He's constantly thinking of countermeasures.
Increase the production of the SFC? It's not impossible, getting a professional company to contact China, the world's factory, but it's a bit far-fetched to think that distant water can solve immediate thirst.
This kind of situation where bad money drives out good must be killed off quickly, without any delay.
However, increasing production must be put on the agenda.
So the next morning, Takayuki instructed the company's business department to handle this matter. He just needed to specify the specific country for outsourcing and let the company's business department supervise the quality.
Actually, if possible, Takayuki also hoped to give a little feedback of cutting-edge technology to China through this method, but this required bypassing the surveillance of the United States, which would be a bit more complicated. But as long as there was a will, there was a way.
Besides doing this, Takayuki also contacted Shenda Electronics, the factory that has been manufacturing game consoles for Gamestar Electronic Entertainment.
As the cooperation deepened, coupled with the initial sincerity of cooperation, Takayuki has now become Shenda Electronics' largest customer, and still the priority customer for everything.
Because of Takayuki being this big customer, they expanded the factory, a rare positive development in Japan's contract electronics industry.
Takayuki directly called his long-time partner, Zhida Electronics sales manager, Hideyoshi Tomita, who is now the main business manager.
"Tomita-san, I remember your FC production line was planned to be phased out."
Tomita Hideyoshi almost instantly answered Takayuki's call. It can be said that without Takayuki, there would be no Hideyoshi Tomita now. He treasures the friendship with Takayuki very much, without any slack, and is very clear about the positions of both parties. Takayuki has more initiative.
Hearing Takayuki's inquiry, he nodded and said, "That's right, isn't the FC production line planned to gradually reduce capacity? So we are preparing to eliminate the old production line. Do you have any questions?"
Takayuki immediately said, "I need you to immediately reactivate these production lines. There is an urgent job to be done now."
Hearing the word "urgent," Hideyoshi Tomita immediately straightened up his chest and said seriously, "Okay, I understand. I will arrange for the factory to re-plan the new production line. Our new factory was just completed not long ago, and the production line hasn't been fully planned yet."
Hideyoshi Tomita didn't know what Takayuki wanted to do, but the request of a major customer is the top priority. Anyway, Takayuki wouldn't not pay, since Gamestar Electronic Entertainment has been estimated to have a reserve fund of over tens of billions ever since the gaming industry flourished. It's already a very powerful company.