Chapter 625 The popular arcade
On the first day of the premiere, the feedback in the cinema was good, and many media also interviewed the audience, and the conclusions were very good, which immediately attracted many media. Note that many reporters are also very optimistic about this new 20th Century Fox movie;
The next day, some newspapers in Los Angeles also made very high comments on "The Battle of Dragons and Tigers: Street Storm", and these newspapers' Evaluation is also an important certificate for many viewers to praise the movie that is likely to be good. Of course, I am willing to try it out, and vice versa;
Of course, the most important thing is box office, but in this era, there is no efficient information circulation speed of the Internet, and the box office statistics cannot be achieved in one day or a few days. Once the statistics are counted, usually there will be a statistics after a week, and then the movie will be taken off the shelves;
However, even though the theaters do not know the overall data, they can still be based on their own achievements and within the industry. The feedback determines how much filming is scheduled, and the various data of "Dragon and Tiger Fight: Street Storm" are very perfect.
Yang Wendong, Zou Wenhuai and others naturally knew about this situation. In a good mood, they immediately invited more than 100 Chinese employees who have studied and cooperated in Los Angeles for more than half a year to come to the InterContinental Hotel to enjoy the content. All the services are free;
Compared with the movie box office revenue, these are just a fraction of the time.
It will take at least one or two months to come out in the total box office of the movie. The US market is so big that even the time of release in the east and west will not be the same, which is different from that of Hong Kong movies.
When cinemas in many cities were intensively decorating the movie "Dragon and Tiger Fight: Street Storm" released, Yang Wendong once again came to a large warehouse in Silicon Valley. "The 600 arcade machines here are the first batch we need to sell?" Yang Wendong asked, looking at the placement in the warehouse.
Wang Zhiqun replied: "Yes, Yang Sheng, these are all equipment produced in Hong Kong in October and then sent to the United States. They just arrived two days ago."
"The speed is a little slower, and you can do it next time Considering taking air freight directly, time is also a cost.” Yang Wendong said after thinking about it.
The price of air freight is more than ten times that of sea freight, but not all cases, sea freight is cost-effective. If the time can be saved long enough, the company's capital turnover can be faster. Then obviously air freight is cost-effective .
After assembled in the mainland, Apple phones in their previous lives were shipped to the United States by air. Otherwise, even if they were shipped by sea, Apple would lose money even if it was free.
Wang Zhiqun agreed, "Okay, Yang Sheng, I will negotiate this matter with Cathay Pacific."
Yang Wendong asked again: "Have these devices been tested?"
Wang Zhiqun replied: "We have all tested in Hong Kong, but after transportation, we still need to test it in the United States and be sure. Then it will be sent out. "
"Have the customer also found it?" Yang Wendong asked.
Wang Zhiqun shook his head and said, "There are basically no customers at present, because our price is as high as US$1,800, which is the income of many normal people for two or three months. The bar is not willing to buy it at all, so I I can only say that I will put the game console first, and then the bar customer will charge for games to play, and then send someone to open the box every day, and the money I earn is half the money." "Well, it's true that it can only be done at the beginning." Yang Wendong nodded and asked, "But in this way, it will cost a lot of labor, right?"
Wang Zhiqun said: "In the short term, it's nothing. We are our own people. Just do more work. One person is responsible for 20 units, which requires 30 people;
But in the long run, we still have to play games. Sell the machine to the boss, making money will be the boss's business in the future. We can only make money by making the game console itself."
Yang Wendong said: "Okay, try this first, then let's choose a family and go and see an American bar People like this game or not."
Wang Zhiqun smiled and said, "Okay, there is a bar on Rodeo Avenue that was bought by Lin Youxi, specifically for testing the game. We You can go there to take a look."
Rodeo Avenue is a famous commercial avenue in Los Angeles. It has a developed economy and many tourists. The bar culture in the United States is full of bars. So this avenue There are many bars on it.
"I bought a bar? It's convenient." Yang Wendong nodded, and he didn't care.
This kind of small thing doesn't cost much. Generally speaking, the person in charge far away from home has the right to do such things, but it still needs to be reported to the headquarters office. There is no need to apply deliberately, just mention it;
And this kind of thing is even more impossible to go to Yang Wendong's desk, otherwise he would have to be so busy.
After looking around in the warehouse, many technicians from Hong Kong were debugging the equipment. Yang Wendong also personally participated in playing a few. The content was still a bit boring for him. After playing for a while, he played. , then left.
In the evening, Yang Wendong, Wang Zhiqun, Aying, and a dozen assistants and bodyguards came to an underground bar on Rodeo Avenue;
Lin Youqi explained: "Yang Sheng, Rodeo Avenue is worth every inch of land, and the first floor is basically a luxury store. Although the bar business is OK, it cannot compare to these industries. Therefore, many bars on the prosperity avenue in the United States It's on the bottom floor."
"It's okay, the bar itself usually needs to be hidden." Yang Wendong naturally wouldn't care about this: "But since it's ours, you have to pay attention to fire protection." Lin Youxi said with a smile. : "Don't worry, Yang Sheng, the Los Angeles government has very strict control over bars, and the same is true for me. Strictly demand fire protection issues. In our bar, making money is not the first goal. As long as you don’t lose money, you will still not invest less in fire protection.”
“Okay.” Yang Wendong nodded and then said, "Give each of us some wine with a low degree, and give it some drinks, and give it a drink with the security guard."
Although he doesn't like drinking very much, the one with a very low degree , It is okay to drink as a drink, and it doesn’t matter if you taste it occasionally;
Sometimes in life, you have to try something new, as long as it is not dangerous. "I'll make arrangements." Lin Youqi agreed.
Yang Wendong and others sat in front of the bar counter. At the side angle, you could see the six arcades in a row in front of them. Many white men watched curiously, and each arcade was at this moment. There were two people playing.
"Ted, hurry up, it's time for me to play after playing."
"Matthew, you think I'm as fast as you, men can't say it's fast."
"Fuck, let's fight one-on-one later to see who is better."
Many people laughed beside them, and there were also many people standing in line, and they were still commanding the operators in a verbal way. Do.
The game is charged according to the time. Regardless of winning or losing, you can play for a certain amount of time as long as you throw in coins. However, the two players in the game will have a score, and this score is often the driving force for the competition between the two sides.
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The people in the bar served their own drinks for Yang Wendong and others. Yang Wendong was watching at the bar counter. Many people were still willing to put 25 cents coins in order to play this game for a while, and even There are also many people coming to the bar front desk to redeem it;
25 cents is not a lot for ordinary Americans, and this is a bar. Not only are people who come here all rich, but their financial conditions are generally not bad;
Assistant Aying She was also holding a notebook and a pen and recording the amount of investments of several machines. An hour later, she said, "Yang Sheng, these 6 machines made a total of US$25.75 in one hour."
"That hour was $4, average." Yang Wendong thought for a while and said, " It's around 8 o'clock now, and the time for consumption is the most active. The bar is in the middle of the night. Even if it's four times the current hour, the average income on that day is $24?"
Lin Youxi replied: "It's almost the same." , the consumption at night is not as high as it is now."
Wang Zhiqun said: "The electricity bill for a night is about 10 kilowatt-hours, which is only a few dozen cents, which is not very expensive. According to this data Look, the bar owner can get his money back in more than two months.”
Yang Wendong said with a smile: "It can't be calculated like this. Many customers of this kind of small business are repeated. People will come to drink repeatedly, but they may not play this kind of game repeatedly. Let's get a discount. I guess they can get back in four or five months. Ben, that is very cost-effective for bar owners. "
Many small business stores have the main customers of people around them. If it is a regular normal diet and fruit, the more old customers, the more old customers The more stable it is, the better; but if it is a business that occasionally seeks freshness, such as milk tea, then the business will not work after eating it a few times.
This is a summary of the experiences of some of Yang Wendong’s friends in their previous life. "It's not bad to be able to make a profit in four or five months." Lin Youxi said, "There is no such good business in this world."
"At present, it still seems Not bad." Yang Wendong nodded and said, "Then we will divide the arcades during the day to various bars in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Las Vegas, so that these bar owners can see the money-making ability of our products;
If they can make enough money in front of them, they will naturally be willing to spend money to buy it in the future. "
It would be good to be able to make a profit in two years of business, but arcades are still different, because this thing will be updated quickly, and new games will come out, and once the new games are more interesting, the customer will Who still plays such an old game?
But it is not yet this time, and now Yang Wendong's Changxing Industrial controls everything, but theoretically other game companies will be born, and without Atari, there will be other games. .
Then it may be an era of great success for hundreds of countries.
Wang Zhiqun agreed and said, 'Okay, I will arrange it now, these arcade machines will be delivered to those bar areas tomorrow. '
"Okay, then wait for your good news." Yang Wendong said with a smile.
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