Human beings have a very diverse demand for entertainnt.
In ancient tis, there were all sorts of tabletop gas, as well as activities like cuju (ancient Chinese soccer), dominoes, beast fighting, Go, billiards, and more.
In modern tis, entertainnt has evolved to be experienced on screens.
Movies, entertainnt shows, TV gas, handheld gas, music, and so on.
Video gas are a product that has been born less than a hundred years ago, and it only really gained popularity in the past two decades.
Such a thing can never completely occupy everyone's ti; each person has their own different ways of entertainnt and needs.
However, if a product is extrely rich in features, offers a wide range of entertainnt content, and is portable in the palm of your hand, while also eting people's daily communication needs, the success of such a product is almost inevitable.
Smartphones, in this world, have gradually beco more popular.
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Before Myron Kess and Mikfo announced their first smartphone, there were already a few relatively mature smartphone operating systems in the world.
However, everyone was still like blind n feeling an elephant, slowly figuring things out.
From Takayuki's perspective, it would take so ti for smartphones to beco mainstream.
This is not like gaming consoles, where a product with a 6 to 7-year life cycle and a sales volu of one hundred million units would be considered a top-tier gaming product.
But smartphones? The global market absorbs more than a billion units each year.
In Takayuki's previous world, Apple's sales had already reached two hundred million units before his crossing.
Comparing the market demand, the gaming industry appears to be just a small fraction.
So when Takayuki saw Myron Kess take out that sowhat familiar yet slightly unfamiliar smartphone at the live launch event, he knew the era of mobile devices had arrived.
If there was going to be a huge impact, it would certainly be on the handheld gaming market, which was almost wiped out by the mobile phone sector in the future.
If not for Nintendo later saving the day with countless top-tier gas, the handheld market in his previous world might have been relegated to niche status.
But most people in this parallel world still didn't seem to realize this.
Especially not Sury Electronics.
They had only casually paid attention to Mikfo's movents, and once they found out that they were developing a phone, they didn't think much of it. Only their mobile departnt seed to care more.
Currently, Sury Electronics' focus wasn't on smartphones but on caras, gaming consoles, and televisions.
It was just a phone; they didn't think it would have much impact on them.
At this point, Sury Electronics was still increasing its investnt in handheld consoles, hoping to seize more market share while Star Electronics wasn't focusing enough on handhelds.
It wasn't that Takayuki didn't care about the handheld market; he just knew what he wanted to do first.
He wanted to present the top-tier gas he was familiar with.
As for handheld consoles, the technology wasn't quite there yet, so he hoped the technology would improve a bit more before revisiting it.
So after seeing Myron Kess's groundbreaking product release, he rely smiled and returned to working on new ga developnts.
At the press conference held by Myron Kess, the MK1 mobile phone beca the center of attention.
It looked very stylish and had a strong sense of technology.
The sounds of caras clicking together ford a symphony, with countless reporters getting excited.
They still didn't quite understand how smartphones were "smart," since previous smartphones were generally disappointing.
But just because this phone could listen to music, watch videos, take photos, record videos, communicate, and browse the web while appearing very smooth, they were captivated.
So, on the sa day, news articles flooded the dia, proclaiming the new product and a new era.
However, so people were skeptical about the new product.
Because, no matter how you looked at it, it didn't seem like a real phone.
Real phones generally had nuric buttons.
Even so quirky manufacturers who didn't have nuric buttons would use so alternative thod, such as joystick-like buttons or complex combinations of buttons.
But Mikfo's phone was incredibly simple, with fewer than five buttons on the entire surface, which seed a little too few to be used as a phone.
It could work as a music player, though.
But this didn't bother Star Electronics' North Arican developnt departnt.
At this point, the Titanfall project was in its crucial early stages.
The team had already created a demo, but the art and animation weren't quite there yet.
Takayuki had returned to the US branch and was closely monitoring the ga's developnt to ensure everything was perfect.
As soon as he entered the company, Takayuki saw a designer with a troubled expression.
He knew him; he was the team's art designer, and his desk was piled with crumpled paper, all discarded drafts of Titanfall.
Since Takayuki proposed the basic concept for Titanfall, the designer had been working tirelessly, trying to create a Titan ch that was both powerful and realistic.
At first, Takayuki hadn't given a clear answer, just asking the team to explore it on their own.
So the designer had been stuck on this issue for a while.
"You seem to be having problems with the design?" Takayuki asked as he walked over to the designer's desk, looking at the pile of crumpled drafts.
The designer shook his head, not looking up. "The problem is huge. We've never tried this kind of near-future setting before. It's much harder than just designing a sci-fi character or a modern character. How do we make it look realistic but also futuristic? It's really hard to strike that balance. By the way, whose idea was this concept?"
"It was the company president's," Takayuki said with a smile.
"Ah, the god of gas himself? No wonder! But the task he gave us is really tough. I've been working on it for over two months and still haven't co up with a Titan ch design I'm satisfied with. It's just too difficult."
The designer was complaining, but it seed he didn't realize that the person in front of him was Takayuki himself.
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