Video Game Tycoon in Tokyo Chapter 453: The heaven-sent opportunity for Surui Electroni

The ga carrier used by the GSL handheld is still in the form of cartridges.

And what's used inside are flash mory chips.

On the other hand, Surray Electronics insists on using discs because they want to promote their own standards.

As of now, it's hard to say which model is more feasible.

Discs can be low in cost, while cartridges in flash mory form can be very portable and convenient, but the cost is sowhat higher than discs.

Takayuki believes that cartridges are obviously better in the handheld form. Players can carry many cartridges to play different gas at the sa ti. However, even if it's just CDs, it's not possible to carry too many around, which doesn't quite fit the portable style of handheld consoles.

Moreover, future developnts can prove that cartridges are indeed a more reasonable form for handheld consoles. In the future, cartridges can also be very low-cost and have advantages over discs in various aspects.

However, cartridges have a fatal problem: the material production output is always unstable, and flash mory manufacturers are also very fond of creating trouble.

There are often news reports of fires, saying that production capacity will decrease. Later on, people would joke that if those manufacturers aren't making money, they could just set a fire at ho.

As to whether these fires are real or fake, Takayuki is not sure and cannot make a judgnt.

But now, the production of cartridges is obviously affected by this.

"We have quickly contacted other flash mory manufacturers, but this period of ti will lead to a slowdown in cartridge production, and so regions may face shortages."

Takayuki frowned. Fortunately, the manufacturing of storage chips in the ga console and the manufacturing of cartridge storage are separate. If they were done by the sa company, it would indeed be possible to be in big trouble.

Also, they haven't made those simple casual gas into cartridges, otherwise it would occupy more of the cartridge production line, which would have an even greater impact.

"Do we have an estimated ti? I want to know how long it will take to restore production capacity."

"It's estimated to take at least three months to possibly restore previous production capacity."

It would take three months to restore the current production capacity, making it even more difficult to expand production capacity.

For delayed product deliveries, if they exceed the contract period, the flash mory factory will definitely have to compensate.

However, previous cartridge productions were relatively short-term contract orders, and flash mory factories have always been very tricky in this regard, never signing long-term contracts, always preparing for price hikes.

But cartridges are the lifeblood of the current Gastar Electronic Entertainnt handheld console. Without cartridges, the console is just a piece of scrap tal.

And it's too early to promote network digital gas now; the soil is not mature enough.

But at the mont, there's no better solution.

"Then contact the second manufacturer imdiately and distribute the cartridge production."

The head of the outsourcing departnt nodded. "That can be done, but I'm worried about another thing."

"What is it?" Takayuki asked.

"It's very likely that other manufacturers will raise the price of cartridges, which will increase our manufacturing costs."

Takayuki said, "But this is necessary. We must et the players' demands, rather than letting players lose the opportunity to play our gas because of cost issues."

The head asked, "Can we propose increasing royalties for third-party ga companies? Let them share so of the cartridge manufacturing costs?"

Takayuki imdiately shook his head upon hearing this. "No need. They can afford this amount of money. Our royalties are already not low, and increasing them would burden them further. This would damage our reputation. Increasing the cost by a few dollars for a cartridge just for the sake of it is not worth it."

"Okay, I understand. I'll go contact if there are other flash mory manufacturers willing to take over imdiately."

After the person in charge left, Takayuki fell into thought.

Flash mory manufacturers causing such accidents in the future is inevitable because they have seemingly legitimate reasons.

Unless he directly acquires a flash mory manufacturer and only serves his own industry, he wouldn't have to worry about any accidents.

Expanding the entire industry chain, developing chips, developing various components is obviously not realistic, even if Takayuki's funds are abundant, he cannot cover the entire industry chain. Even superpowers cannot achieve this.

However, if he wants to choose a physical industry as the core, flash mory chips are obviously the best choice.

This is one of the fastest-growing physical industries foreseeable in the future, with relatively low technological content, low labor costs, and only needing to produce cartridges for their own products.

So this does seem like a feasible idea, but it would require quite a bit of money. Would his current three to four billion dollars be enough for this venture?

In Takayuki's mories from his past life, it seed that a company's acquisition of Intel's flash mory business cost about seven billion dollars.

But that was almost after 2020, by which ti flash mory chips were one of the hottest physical industries at the ti. Now, the price might not be that high, and he doesn't really need to venture into the flash mory industry; he just wants to start a cartridge factory exclusively for himself.

So perhaps three to four billion dollars would still be enough, but then the plan for his the park would have to be postponed.

Unless he earns more money.

The incident of the cartridge contract factory of Gastar Electronic Entertainnt catching fire is unlikely to cause much of a stir outside the industry.

But within the industry, it spread almost imdiately.

Especially to YOO's Nagao, who almost jumped with excitent upon hearing the news.

This is simply a heaven-sent opportunity.

If things go according to the normal routine, then the release speed of Gastar Electronic Entertainnt's electronic gas will inevitably encounter problems, and this gives him an opportunity.

So he imdiately contacted Hayakawa Ujito.

"Hayakawa, have you heard about the problems with cartridge production at Yooxing Electronic Entertainnt?"

Hayakawa had just finished a eting, and coincidentally, the topic of his eting today was this. Upon hearing Nagao's call, he imdiately nodded and said, "I know. It seems that there will be so problems with Gastar Electronic Entertainnt's cartridge production this ti."

Nagao imdiately said excitedly, "This is our good opportunity. We can take advantage of this to expand production again. If players want to play Gastar Electronic Entertainnt's gas but there are no cartridges, their demand for entertainnt will definitely not decrease. This way, we can take advantage and grab so users, right?"

Hayakawa Ujito said, "It makes sense, but I don't think Takayuki will sit back and wait for death easily."

"Regardless of whether he will sit back and wait for death, let's seize the opportunity first!"