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Intel and Dream Entertainment collaborated on the release of the first generation of personal gaming servers and achieved remarkable sales figures. The profits they earned shocked the world.
However, the first generation of personal gaming servers was an obstacle to the release of the second generation of personal gaming servers.
Under normal circumstances, even though computer products were updated very quickly, it would still take at least a year for them to be upgraded.
Intel's Tick-Tock strategic development model was a one-year cycle. One year represented tick, and one year represented tock.
Although Intel's expectations were very good, in reality, after the release of the i-series processors in 2008, Intel became very unreliable.
The difference in performance between the first generation and the second generation was less than 10%. This weak improvement plan remained the same until the fourth generation. This caused the players' desire to upgrade to be very low.
Currently, the relationship between the second generation of personal gaming servers and the first generation of personal gaming servers was the same. The players' desire to upgrade was not high. After all, the two servers were released less than two months ago. The time gap was too short!
In order to force the users to upgrade, Intel's method was very disgusting. That was to change the interface type of the central processing unit.
The different generations of central processing units had the interface type LGA775, followed by LGA1156, LGA1155, and the latest LGA1150. There were also high-end LGA1366, LGA2011, and so on.
It was precisely because of Intel's disgusting behavior that a series of industrial chains were triggered. When users upgraded their central processing units, they had to upgrade their motherboards. This caused Intel's motherboards and chipsets to be very popular.
In order to sell the second generation of personal gaming servers, Shi Lei was prepared to learn from Intel and sell them in bundles.
Dream Entertainment would impose restrictions on the VR gaming helmets. They had to be compatible with the second generation of personal gaming servers.
Otherwise, even if they bought the VR gaming helmets, they would not be able to use them normally.
On the other end of the phone, when Storm heard that the VR gaming helmets would be bundled with the second generation of personal gaming servers, he immediately asked, "Boss Shi, is the second generation of personal gaming servers produced by AMD?"
After Dream Entertainment acquired AMD, there hadn't been any explosive news. AMD continued to operate as usual, and AMD's products didn't have any sales activities related to Hero's World.
This situation made the players think that Dream Entertainment would not release a second-generation personal game server for the time being.
Until now, Shi Lei had personally said that Dream Entertainment would choose the second-generation personal game server and VR gaming helmet for bundled sales.
"En!
We acquired AMD so that we can personally sell our personal gaming servers, "Shi Lei said bluntly to Storm.
Storm wanted to say something but hesitated. He said shyly, "Mr. Shi, AMD's strength, how strong is it? Hmm, AMD's …"
Shi Lei interrupted the storm and said with a smile, "Is it because AMD's technology is far inferior to Intel's? Will the performance of AMD's personal game servers be worse than Intel's?"
AMD's technical capabilities were indeed slightly weaker than Intel's.
Although the two companies were competing fiercely in the personal user market, AMD had the advantage in some low-end markets.
However, Intel's overall technical capabilities were stronger, especially in the commercial sector. Intel could sell a server CPU for the price of a small car. This was something AMD could not do.
The CPU used in the personal game servers was the server level CPU. It was AMD's traditional weakness. It was normal for Storm to question this.
For high-end players, it was not impossible for them to change their personal game server.
However, if the second-generation personal game server's performance was not as good as the first-generation personal game server, wouldn't they be unhappy?
"Hahaha!" Storm laughed dryly. Shi Lei had said exactly what he wanted to say.
"Don't worry about that!
We've never denied that AMD's strength is slightly weaker, but the gap between the two is limited. With our technical support, the overall performance of the second-generation personal game server will be increased by at least 50%! "Shi Lei vowed solemnly.
In the era of 2007, the gap between AMD and Intel was not as wide as it was in the future.
In the following few years, Intel used its huge capital to invest a large amount of R&D funds and left AMD in the dust.
"Really?" Storm asked in surprise.
An increase of 50% was a huge increase!
Most of the upgraded products had an increase of less than 20%. Whether it was the computing industry or other industries, there would not be any leaps and bounds in development.
After a one-time upgrade, users would not have the desire to upgrade!
"Don't worry. This is my promise!" Shi Lei replied with a smile.
"What about the second-generation personal game servers?" Storm did not express any more doubts. Shi Lei's credibility in the outside world was still quite high.
Shi Lei thought for a while and finally decided that the second-generation personal game servers would be sold at the same price as the first-generation servers. This was to make it easier for the players to accept.
However, in order to express more sincerity, Shi Lei decided to collectively raise the price of each level of the second-generation personal game server by one dollar to make it a round number.
The original price of the lowest-end personal game server was 1,999 USD. After the price was adjusted, it was 2,000 USD. It was a real price. There was no 'more than a thousand USD' word game.
"In terms of price, we will refer to the first-generation personal game servers. We will increase the price appropriately. After all, the performance increase is more than 50%. The cost pressure will increase by a lot." Shi Lei did not directly explain the situation to Storm.
Storm was also mentally prepared. It was acceptable to increase the price of the second-generation personal game servers by a large margin.
"It is reasonable to increase the price. After the official website's pre-sale system opens, I will pre-order 100 sets of God-grade personal game servers.
Oh right, Director Shi, does AMD accept private pre-orders for personal game servers?
I would like to pre-order a personal game server with better performance. "Storm asked Shi Lei about the specific situation.
The first-generation personal game server that Storm was currently using was custom-made by Intel. Its performance was far superior to the God-grade personal game servers.
Shi Lei did not have any special restrictions on the players' private pre-orders. AMD could accept pre-orders.
After receiving an affirmative answer, Storm chatted with Shi Lei about the Hero's World before hanging up.
Shi Lei put down his phone and carefully thought about Storm's' bad idea '. He had to admit that Storm's suggestion was very good. If Storm did not mention it, Shi Lei would not have thought of the evil idea of pre-selling.
"Storm is a genius!"
Shi Lei praised to himself. Unfortunately, Storm's background was too big. It was impossible for him to join Dream Entertainment.
Shi Lei once again opened the backend of Dream Entertainment's web server. He personally wrote the source code and prepared to follow Storm's suggestion to develop a pre-sale system.
Through this pre-sale system, players could pre-order a VR gaming helmet in advance. However, if they wanted to buy a VR gaming helmet, they would have to pay the full price.
After about half an hour, Shi Lei finished writing the pre-sale system with Izur's help.
The pre-sale system used Dream Entertainment's Dreamer Payment System to make it easy for players from all over the world to pre-order.
"Izur, stress test the online pre-sale system. See if there are any bugs."
Shi Lei ordered Izur to perform the test. Izur's highly human-like logical thinking program was very effective for stress testing. Izur could easily find bugs in the program.
After about ten minutes, Izur sent out a notification. "Sir, after 1.67 million tests, the system automatically fixed three bugs. The stress test passed."
After Izur found a bug, it would automatically fix it. If Izur could not fix it on its own, it would notify Shi Lei.
Izur was an advanced pseudo-artificial intelligence system. Other than its lack of creativity and independent emotions, it was not much different from a real human.
Shi Lei nodded and looked at the time. It was 10: 18 AM, Xia Xia time. Shi Lei immediately set the time. The pre-sale system would be released at 10: 20 AM.
This time, the pre-sale system finally returned to Xia Xia time. Dream Entertainment would no longer be ridiculed by players as an "overseas company".
June 19th, 10: 20 AM.
A picture advertisement appeared on the front page of Dream Entertainment's official website. In the picture, there was a black, fully-enclosed helmet that looked very futuristic.
There was a long, mirrored LED display outside the black, fully-enclosed helmet. In the display interface, there were dark blue words that showed some basic information, including the remaining battery of the helmet, the stability of the data connection, and the status of the remote connection.
At the top of the black, fully-enclosed helmet, there was a flashing blue button with the word 'power' engraved on it. There was an introduction beside it. This button was not only the power switch but also the wake-up button. It could alert players that there was a call from outside.
Below the picture advertisement, there was an eye-catching, bold, blue text with a hyperlink — VR Gaming Helmet Pre-sale!
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