The larger the company, the more often it will compete with other companies and have to use some of its competitors' products.
For example, Mickford, under pressure from many parties, Myron Keys finally embarked on the path of supporting game development, and for this reason he finally formed his own team.
This team is still very immature. Although there are some experienced game developers among them, they still behave very immaturely.
In order to enter development status faster, Myron Keys had to pay a large sum of money to obtain the right to use Unreal Engine.
This amount of money is almost 10 million per year, which really makes him feel a little heartbroken.
But there's nothing he can do about it, because his team is really not good at it.
If you develop your own video game engine, it will require more additional investment and expenditure. It is better to directly purchase the right to use a more mature engine.
According to the research of the team members, if they want to develop a game engine from scratch that is comparable to Unreal Engine, the investment required will probably exceed one billion U.S. dollars or more.
And this is something that Myron Keys cannot accept now.
At least until the game industry can make enough money.
There are not a few companies that buy the right to use Unreal Engine with this idea, but as long as they accept Unreal Engine and become accustomed to Unreal Engine's ease of use and powerful functions that are fully capable of developing various types of games, they will continue to use Unreal Engine.
There's no way to go back.
Looking at Surui Electronics now, Hayakawa Ueto even purchased higher-end services, and once he purchased them, he continued to do so for ten years.
On Mickford's side, it is not only Unreal Engine that uses Yuxing Electronic Entertainment's technology, but also Yusing Electronic Entertainment's flash memory chip technology.
Youxing Electronic Entertainment is the first company to develop new flash memory technology.
In its own game cartridges, in order to maintain the quality of the game cartridge itself and reduce costs, Youxing Electronic Entertainment uses a medium similar to optical disk storage, and combines it with traditional flash memory technology, so that it is as cheap as optical disk storage
The cost is low, and the transfer speed can be maintained on par with ordinary memory cards.
Moreover, Youxing Electronic Entertainment is still vigorously promoting the rapid innovation and low-price strategy of flash memory technology. Many technologies are aimed at reducing costs as much as possible.
These technologies are also favored by companies in various fields, and it is impossible for Mickford to avoid them.
In addition to being a very forward-looking person, Myron Keys is also a person who is very good at exploring various ways to reduce costs.
So even if it is a competitor's technology, he will still use it even if he is unwilling to do so.
On his desk are various technology patent licenses purchased from Surui Electronics.
Looking at the authorization of these technology patents, he felt a little headache.
Why are there so many patents related to Youxing Electronic Entertainment?
It is inevitable that part of the money I earn will be given to Zhu Youxing, which is really a bit unwilling.
Thinking of Zhu Youxing, he picked up the phone and called his assistant in.
"Boss, look for me."
His assistant, who is almost the same age as him, is Myron Keys' right-hand man.
He doesn't need a vase, he needs someone with enough ability.
But the person he admires most should be the strong woman from Yusei Electronic Entertainment, Matsuhashi Minoru.
In his eyes, Zhu Youxing is more like an idealist, and he also has the ability to have a forward-looking vision.
And it is impossible to run a top company well just by relying on these two characteristics.
Minoru Matsuhashi has played an indispensable role in Yuxing Electronic Entertainment's growth to this point.
If possible, he really hopes to have a capable person like Matsuhashi Minoru.
Watching his assistant come in, he asked: "Is there any new news in Yuxing Electronic Entertainment recently? I mean, except for some cooperative projects between him and Facebook."
The assistant nodded and replied: "Yes, they have recently been vigorously promoting the expansion of the video game community, so they have spent a lot of money."
"Still promoting the expansion of the video game community? Doesn't he have more actions on smartphones?" Myron Keys said unexpectedly.
"No, the cooperation with Facebook seems to have been only to continue to provide high-quality video games, and there seems to be no further ideas."
Myron Keys felt relieved for some reason when he heard the news.
Fortunately, it's not too bad.
As long as he does not continue to increase investment in smartphones, he is confident that he will continue to maintain his dominant position.
As for the handheld console that Youxing Electronic Entertainment wants to develop?
To be honest, he really didn't take it to heart.
He has severely defeated the handheld field.
And the market has also proven that more people still prefer to use smartphones.
People's top priority when going out in daily life is only their smartphones, with handheld devices taking a secondary place.
However, out of caution, Myron Keys still asked: "How effective is their publicity now?"
"The effect is definitely there. The general sales situation in the electronic game market has also improved recently, but it is still not comparable to the field of smartphones. More people will still choose smartphones."
Myron Keyes said: "That's good. Next, we will increase investment in hardware. The manufacturing of the second-generation chips also needs to be faster. The first generation did not gain an advantage, so the second generation needs to be strengthened."
The assistant nodded and immediately wrote down in his notebook: "I understand."
"Also, can we make a breakthrough in flash memory-related technologies now?"
The assistant's pen paused and he looked up at Myron Keys.
"Boss, do you want to get rid of the patent control of Youxing Electronic Entertainment?"
"Yes, we should be able to study flash memory-related technologies, right? This is easier than our chip research and development."
"It is indeed simpler, but now there is a problem."
"what is the problem?"
The assistant hesitated and said: "This is based on the existing technology development route. However, almost every link of the current technology development route cannot escape the technology patents of Youxing Electronic Entertainment. Unless we create a new flash memory
Technical route, otherwise there is no way to get rid of it.”
"Then this...is it difficult?"
"It's difficult, it's not easier than our chip development."
Myron Keys frowned: "Isn't the patent of Youxing Electronic Entertainment a technology monopoly?"
"Unfortunately, not really. They have always been very open in terms of technology patent licensing. As long as you pay, you can use their patented technology. Even competitors like us will not impose additional restrictions. They do not have any
The trend of technological monopoly, even if we want to use this reason to complain, it will be difficult to achieve any results."
"Okay." Myron Keys said with a headache, "I understand, so let's do it."