Reborn in 1991, helping dad become the richest man

Chapter 220: Is there any potential in combining VCD with games?

February 21st.

Tang Xionghua began to implement the plan discussed with Tang Yichen. First, he registered a research laboratory and at the same time contacted the regional manager of Yanglai abroad to ask them to help contact foreign headhunting companies.

When it comes to recruiting people, you don't have to do it yourself. Just pay them money and offer them a salary, and someone will naturally help you with these things. They can even arrange everything for you, whether these talents go abroad or come back to China, as long as you have money.

But Tang Xionghua is not short of money now.

Just recruiting some people and setting up a research and development room, even if it is automobile research and development, the initial personnel and equipment will cost about 200 million yuan. Of course, these 200 million yuan are definitely not enough.

A car is a huge technological entity. If Tang Yichen really wants to achieve results, he estimates that it will cost at least hundreds of millions of yuan.

Ten billion these days!

It has to be said that this is a crazy move and investment by "543". No wonder no domestic company has chosen to delve into this area these days. The most common way is joint ventures between state-owned enterprises and foreign companies.

For example, the Santana in China is a joint venture between state-owned enterprises and foreign companies.

However, in Tang Yichen's opinion, this method is really meaningless.

What’s the point of just making money without core technology or even your own brand?

Breathtaking.

Anyway, Tang Yichen would not choose to do this if he were to live his life again.

Money, there are so many ways to make money in this day and age.

However, it is undoubtedly better if, in addition to making money, you can also get something that gives you a sense of accomplishment.

Of course, the main thing is the layout.

Without our own core competitiveness, when my country rises in the future, no matter what we do, it will be difficult and we will be squeezed, harassed and even strangled at every turn.

However, on the 23rd, when Tang Xionghua came back from outside again, he brought Tang Yichen a piece of news.

Sony has embarked on a new path!

"According to my research, Sony actually started to allocate some resources to research VCD shortly after our VCD came out last year. They even collaborated with Nintendo before, but the cooperation broke down later, so they chose to go it alone.

But in the end they focused on VCDs, which delayed the launch of their game consoles. In fact, they seemed to have developed this thing years ago.

And now, after VCD was suppressed by us, they have to restart their original plan!

When I got this news today, I happened to be with Academician Mi. After hearing this, he said that this could actually be done.

Game consoles, which involve both software and hardware, are less technically demanding than computers but more technically demanding than VCDs. For Wanhua, or the chip R&D department, this is a good entry point.”

After his father finished speaking, Tang Yichen nodded and said, "Indeed, the game console market is actually quite large. Just look at the Little Overlord in our country.

However, this thing is not a new market in the domestic market, and now there are not only Subor but also other game consoles on the market.

If we do this, there is no need for this.”

After a pause, Tang Yichen continued seriously, "The most important thing is that we are now considered a large international company. If we want to do this, we must obtain authorization. After all, whether it is a memory cartridge game console or a CD storage game console, the intellectual property rights are now controlled by small countries.

We have to do this. If we do the same as Subor or other domestic companies and directly pirate, it will affect our VCD industry and company reputation."

Wanhua, or now Tang Xionghua, can no longer be regarded as an ordinary Chinese business owner.

Multinational corporations have the face of multinational corporations, just like Sony in the past.

Cherish your feathers and abide by international patent laws.

But in this situation, maybe they can get the copyright of the game consoles in the small notebook countries. After all, they can't enter the domestic market now, and they are very angry. So much money has been earned by piracy and infringement, and it's useless for them to hire people to file patent lawsuits.

Because Xiaobawang has not gone abroad and has no plans to go abroad, and it is a local protected area.

As a foreign company, even if he hired the second-best lawyer in the country, it would be of no use.

The Little Overlord is still the Little Overlord.

Other pirated products are still alive and well.

However, Tang Yichen is not like Tang Xionghua. The difference between him and Tang Xionghua is that he has experience in the future.

So when Dad talked about this, he suddenly thought of something.

"Dad, it suddenly occurred to me that we don't need to make a game console. We can directly add functions to our VCD, let the game disc be read out by the VCD, and then add a handle interface to the VCD.

In fact, as soon as I heard you mention the Sony game console, I knew that their original intention was to imitate our VCD and combine it with Nintendo's game console to develop something.

They must have used our patent to make changes to this thing. They haven't told us yet, but they can't deny it. Even if they have made innovations and changes, the core patent for CD audio and video combined decoding is ours.

We can trouble them for this, and then we can directly take their game consoles and integrate them into our VCDs to produce Wanhua's third-generation VCDs."

Tang Yichen suddenly remembered that it seemed that this function would be available in the future DVD era.

Simply store multiple games on one disc, then read them with a DVD and play them directly.

"Uh……"

Tang Xionghua was stunned, then slapped his head!

"Oh, my brain, why didn't I think of this!" After saying that, Tang Xionghua stood up.

"Uh, where are you going, Dad?"

"You should go to bed early. I'm going to the company!"

The company he was talking about must be Wanhua.

Tang Yichen did not stop this. He knew that if he insisted that his father not go today, he would have something on his mind and would not be able to sleep.

After watching his father leave, Tang Yichen didn't go to bed either. It was still early, just a little after seven in the evening.

After thinking about it, Tang Yichen also stood up, changed his shoes and went downstairs.

There was no Subor game console at home. Although Tang Yichen had seen this thing before, he didn't want to buy it.

In fact, Tang Yichen had seen this thing when he was selling fish and shrimp in Chuzhou in 1991.

However, as a man in his thirties at the time, Tang Yichen didn't have much interest in these games. After all, he had tired of playing them in his previous life.

Even when he saw this thing, Tang Yichen's first reaction was to sigh. It was such a big market, but it was a pity that when he was reborn, he had already become famous all over the country, and there was no place for him in the market.

Besides, there was no sign of VCD at that time, so Tang Yichen didn't think much about it.

But now, when this was mentioned again, Tang Yichen suddenly became interested again.

Go buy one and reminisce about your childhood, it seems pretty good...