NIP #412 - Reviewing the achievements of the VR era and embarking on a new journey in the somatosensory
#412 - Reviewing the achievements of the VR era and embarking on a new journey in the somatosensory
After returning to China, Lu Yu truly felt the wave of the sensory cabin era.
Because on the flight back, news about Apple and Google's sensory cabins was playing everywhere.
The passenger next to him complained, "Good heavens, the VR glasses from last time haven't even gotten off the ground, and now we're already evolving to sensory cabins?"
……
The following Monday, at work, Lu Yu opened the operational report on his computer with trembling hands.
These emails were a summary of the company's current operational data.
But he was currently in a relaxed, lying-flat state, so he usually only glanced at these summaries at the end of each cycle.
Unlike previous times, Lu Yu had seen the scene at the Tokyo Game Show, so he was somewhat mentally prepared.
Hopefully, the data won't be too outrageous…
It took Lu Yu a long time to calm down and see the background data clearly:
At this time, half a month had passed since the launch of "Taoyuan Township Battle Card."
And the total sales of the game had already exceeded 22 million sets.
According to Lu Yu's experience, breaking 30 million sets in the first month wouldn't be a problem.
And the first booster pack of the game's cards had already sold a full 20 million boxes.
Along with this, the sales of the Taoyuan Light-Year console soared, currently reaching a record-breaking 65 million units!
A game console with 65 million installed units could be considered a leader in the world's gaming industry.
Moreover, this sales figure only included the sales of officially distributed game consoles within China and didn't include the overseas market.
However, Lu Yu could foresee that if Taoyuan Township's game console were to go overseas, it would definitely be blocked by the world's Big Three, and another bloody commercial war would be inevitable.
And he planned to use this commercial war to pour another basin of water on the company, completely extinguishing the tendency of the little involution kings within the company!
……
Moreover, from the email summary report, Lu Yu noticed the outstanding performance of the sensory cabin interactive movie "Terminal Defense Line" in the overseas market.
As Taoyuan Township Company's pioneering work in the field of film and entertainment, "Terminal Defense Line" had been widely praised since its release.
This dystopian post-apocalyptic sci-fi blockbuster perfectly combined traditional screen viewing with the new sensory cabin technology, bringing the audience an unprecedented immersive experience.
Even many Hollywood academic film critics praised "Terminal Defense Line" as "a perfect combination of film art and technology" and a "revolutionary work that opens a new era of future entertainment."
Since its release in North America, the reaction had continued to rise, and "Terminal Defense Line" had rapidly spread around the world like a snowball.
In just half a month, this sensory cabin blockbuster had obtained release permits in Europe, Japan, South Korea, and other places, setting off an astonishing wave of moviegoing frenzy in those areas.
Data showed that, as of now, "Terminal Defense Line" had grossed over $580 million in the North American market, and its total box office in major European countries had reached 420 million euros.
Even in Japan and South Korea, this sci-fi blockbuster, considered "slightly dark and violent," had attracted the attention of over 4 million viewers.
In addition to the amazing box office numbers, "Terminal Defense Line" had successfully ignited a global sensory cabin interactive movie craze.
More and more film production companies had realized the huge potential of this new viewing mode and had been consulting with Taoyuan Township Company about cooperation matters.
Industry insiders generally predicted that in the next few years, sensory cabin movies would become the most sought-after development direction in the film industry!
For this reason, Spielberg, the head of Taoyuan Township Pictures, had been beaming with joy these past few days!
……
And whether it was the hot sales of the game console or the layout of the sensory cabin, it all led to one result—
No Use Tech Company's hardware orders exploded!
Previously, the Taoyuan Township President's Office had been personally supervising and inquiring about the operational matters of these branch companies, fearing that they would recklessly hire people and bring in involution kings.
But now, the amount of business orders faced by No Use Tech Company had still far exceeded the size of Taoyuan Township, this small company.
Lu Yu could no longer inquire about the personnel appointments and removals of every employee and had to delegate authority to No Use Tech.
And the result of this was the rapid expansion of No Use Tech, and the branch company currently had over 600 employees.
And it was still constantly hiring people.
In fact, in addition to No Use Tech, Lu Yu had also delegated authority to Taoyuan Dream Painting, Cat's Tea Coffee Shop, and Little Confused Immortal Company.
He hadn't inquired about these branch companies for a long time, leaving them basically in a free-range state.
As the saying goes, when the forest grows large, all kinds of birds will appear. The general environment of this world is involution, so...
Lu Yu somewhat nervously opened the system notification.
Sure enough, massive system notifications began to flood the screen:
[Production Line Supervisor Zhao Gang of No Use Tech has compressed the rest time of his team members, Leisure Points -1500]
[Li Hui, the safety inspector of Little Confused Immortal Company's workshop, took the opportunity to make things difficult for his colleague Wang Meng due to personal grudges, escalating the conflict between the two, Leisure Points -1800]
[The manager of Cat's Tea Chain Store No. 3, used his position to deduct half of the employee benefits distributed by the head office and embezzled them, causing the remaining half of the employees to compete for the limited benefits and involute, triggering a critical hit, Leisure Points -2300]
[Wu Xin, a new animator in Taoyuan Dream Painting's animation team, worked overtime for three weeks straight to compete with another intern colleague for a full-time position, triggering a 22-hit combo, Leisure Points -3200]
……
Holy crap???
HOLY CRAP!!!
Lu Yu's blood pressure rose as he watched, and he didn't dare to continue reading!
Since acquiring Little Confused Immortal, Taoyuan Township now had a total of 1800 employees.
Compared to last month, the growth rate of Leisure Point income was -180%!
In other words, this month's point income was negative, deducting 50% of last month's income!
"Heh, hehe…"
Lu Yu laughed in anger.
That's right,
He was naive,
He was too naive!
He shouldn't have delegated authority over personnel appointments and removals like that!
This world is, after all, a world of extreme involution. Where there are people, there is jianghu.
Three people can put on a good show of intrigue and factionalism, let alone 1800 people. Wouldn't all kinds of office infighting dramas be performed to the extreme?
It seemed that the Relaxing Daily Life King and Werewolf Killing system could no longer adapt to the current company size.
The thing he was worried about had still happened. The company's involution had intensified and was likely to slide towards the edge of being out of control!
At this time, the surrounding employees saw Lu Yu's reaction and whispered in the development group:
"President Lu must have seen that our games and movies are exploding overseas and is finally smiling with relief, right?"
"But to be fair, isn't President Lu's reaction too calm?"
"Look, he truly deserves to be President Lu! Now, no matter what achievements our company makes, they can't shake President Lu's heart!"
"What is the true god of management? Tactical lean back.jpg"
Lu Yu's heart was churning at this moment!
Without a doubt, he had been backstabbed in a series of combos again!
First of all, there was Spielberg's Taoyuan Township Pictures. Xia Shangyu had successfully used this film company to backstab him three times in a row!
He no longer had the strength to blame Xia Shangyu, because Spielberg's broken company's Douban score wasn't just for show.
So, does that mean he should blame himself for insisting on supporting him and even bringing Liu Mengyuan to personally participate in the movie?
In addition, the collaboration with Paramount was probably one of the reasons.
Although Spielberg's team was trash, Paramount was, after all, a century-old film factory and had real substance!
And also, those competitors, what the hell is wrong with you guys?
Pei Shengnan, Pei Shengnan, I overestimated you, but you're even more useless than trash!
Tell me, "Xie Yunliu's Biography" is such a good IP. I was counting on you to shine at the Tokyo Game Show.
What's wrong? Do you have such a big feud with me?
In order to make me earn fewer Leisure Points, are you willing to commit suicide?
And You Yi's You Yi Paradise, you were supposed to be the protagonist this time,
And Pokemon Company and Konami, why did your new card games fizzle out?
Whyyyyyyy?
Looking at these competitors he had originally placed high hopes on, Lu Yu was filled with anger.
As for the competitive products of some other small and medium-sized manufacturers, Lu Yu didn't want to say much more.
Whether it was Bilibili, or iDreamSky, or Nanshanju, the new products were lukewarm and didn't even make a splash,
……
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Lu Yu made up his mind to make a comeback in the sensory cabin era!
However, before officially starting, Lu Yu planned to first take stock of the gains from the previous few cycles to see what resources he currently had available.
In the first four cycles after obtaining the system, Lu Yu had produced a total of three main games: "My Wife is the Savior," "Terminal Defense Line," and "Taoyuan Township Battle Card," as well as 6 VR dessert-level games.
In addition to the sales of No Use Tech's game consoles, the animation licensing fees from Taoyuan Dream Painting, the annual fees for the Taoyuan Kaiwu Engine, the gift income and commercial order income from Taoyuan Light-Year, and the equipment income from Little Confused Immortal Company,
Taoyuan Township had achieved a monthly revenue stream of 1.85 billion yuan so far.
Moreover, Taoyuan Township's head office and its affiliated branch companies currently had 1800 employees!
He had originally wanted to recruit some hidden dragons and crouching phoenixes to lie flat with him, but unexpectedly, he had actually recruited hidden dragons and crouching phoenixes in a certain sense.
And now, the people newly recruited by these involution kings were polluting the entire company.
Under the influence of these little involution kings and those poisoned by wolf-like culture,
Currently, the company had a cumulative balance of 5.26 billion yuan!
"This… this is too exaggerated!"
……
While Lu Yu was dazed, a system prompt popped up in front of him:
[This round's cycle is about to be settled, the current Leisure Points are 95625 points, being converted… ]
[9562500 yuan has been credited to your personal account.]
[The next settlement cycle is: 120 days later]
Seeing this prompt, Lu Yu's expression changed from joy to sorrow and then to joy and then to sorrow, constantly changing…
Good heavens, the point income for one settlement cycle directly reached over 9 million, which could be said to have set a new record!
This was where Lu Yu was surprised!
Lu Yu could probably guess why he was able to set this record.
Because, although the employees hadn't stood up, the players who attended the Tokyo Game Show had!
In this round's cycle, the participating players had contributed a lot of Leisure Points!
This was all because of the BUFF Lu Yu had on him:
[Grand Gathering Lv3: In the next 120 days, Taoyuan Township's fans will receive a 200% increase in Leisure Points when participating in game exhibitions.]
So, Lu Yu looked back at the records and realized that at the exhibition, those surprised foreigners looked like they had never seen the world, with hundreds of critical hit points.
Seeing this, Lu Yu breathed a sigh of relief.
As long as he, Lu Yu, continued to spread Taoyuan Township's various anti-involution cultural products, there would still be many opportunities to earn points!
The system continued to prompt:
[This round's cycle tasks are being settled]
[The company has completed the following additional task: Before the cycle settlement, release a new VR game produced by Taoyuan Township Company, the game must be a two-player battle mode, and the budget invested in the project needs to be no less than 500 million.]
[Congratulations on completing the cycle additional task: Reward a random surprise lottery draw]
Afterwards, the lottery turntable began to spin, and then burst out with orange light:
[Empathy Lv3: In the next 120 days, Taoyuan Township's employees will receive a 300% increase in Leisure Points when experiencing virtual cockpits.]
[Received a new additional task for this round's cycle]
[Additional Task: Before the cycle settlement, release the first sensory cabin flagship game produced by Taoyuan Township Company, the game must be an open-world Xianxia theme, and the budget invested in the project needs to be no less than 2 billion, and use at least three cutting-edge innovative technologies.]
[Task Reward: Random surprise effect]
In fact, Lu Yu had already had some preliminary ideas in his mind these past few days.
That was, Taoyuan Township's next main work must be unconventional enough, and it must be a flagship.
Lu Yu made this decision not because he had figured it out and didn't want to stop the employees from involuting.
On the contrary!
Through the success of "Taoyuan Township Battle Card," Lu Yu deeply reflected on his past business strategies.
He had previously thought that choosing a niche track for the theme would inevitably become a market unpopular, and then he would be beaten to pieces by the giants, and the employees would completely give up, and the anti-involution cause would be stable.
But he didn't expect that although the theme was niche, there was also less competition, which instead allowed Taoyuan Township's group of little involution kings to accidentally succeed!
This time, he would do a real flagship, one with huge investment, until he was battered and bruised!
Lu Yu used the word battered and bruised, which was not an exaggeration at all!
Entering the sensory cabin war, Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo, these three companies were all quite large and had formed relatively mature rules, secondary markets, and global events.
Over the years, new flagship games had constantly emerged, wanting to challenge the status of these three companies, but they had all been killed and left without a trace.
With Taoyuan Township's current size, what would be the result of rashly entering this market was already conceivable.
To put it bluntly, it's not easy to make a sensory immersion RPG game into a blockbuster. It requires a lot of work in card design, IP, and game rules.
But if you want to make it mediocre and a failure, there are too many failed card games to reference. Just the card games under Bandai Namco alone are countless, each one failing after another.
Wanting to create a failed product? Isn't that so easy?
Thinking of this, the corners of Lu Yu's mouth curved up in satisfaction.
...
At this moment, Liu Mengyuan, who was sitting not far from him, also received a system notification:
[Acquired 83050 skill points in this cycle]
[Among them, 39392 skill points are related to career development]
Liu Mengyuan's pretty face instantly froze.
Good heavens, she finally managed to make the proportion of skill points acquired from her career exceed 50% in the previous cycle.
How did it drop again in this cycle?!