Video Game Tycoon in Tokyo

Chapter 23: Order ?

Chapter 23 - Order ?Tomohiro Tomita didn't necessarily need this order from Takayuki to survive, but if he could secure it, he could definitely live a fairly decent life.

"How many finished circuit boards does your factory produce daily?" Takayuki suddenly asked.

Tomohiro Tomita was already accustomed to this question.

He quickly organized his thoughts and replied, "When you talk about production volume, it definitely needs to be compared with the complexity of the PCB. The more complex the PCB, the slower the production process. But you can rest assured, our Shinda Electronics Corporation has many high-end partners. When faced with products of varying complexity and high volume requirements, we can meet the demands. So, regarding production volume, I think you can feel confident."

"Well, different levels of complexity will indeed affect production volume, but Shinda is indeed trustworthy."

In Takayuki's memory, there was no such large factory for manufacturing circuit boards in his previous life.

But in this world, after doing some online re

The circuit board schematic of the NES wasn't complicated, it could even be said to be overly simple.

In this era, there were already mature flip phone production lines. The circuit boards in flip phones were much more complex than this, and now flip phones were beginning to take shape as smartphones, they just hadn't been widely promoted yet.

Looking at such a simple circuit board, Tomohiro Tomita actually felt a bit disappointed.

Yes, disappointed.

This thing... probably had a quite low cost.

If that was the case, then this order was really just a small one.

At most, it would slightly change how his boss saw him.

After a simple estimate, he thought that if their factory produced it, the cost could probably be compressed to less than 600 yen.

Just looking at the chips soldered onto the circuit board, they were all products that were outdated by over ten years, and they didn't even seem to be popular products back then.

Nowadays, these products were probably piled up like mountains in many chip manufacturing factories, worrying about not having a place to sell them, and they were probably considering collectively disposing of these chips.

And yet, there was a chance to use this stuff.

If they were to purchase in large quantities, the cost of the chips could probably be lowered to 600 yen, and then, adding the manufacturing cost of up to 100 yen per circuit board, it would indeed be hard-earned money.

However, even with such an order, it was what he was eagerly seeking now.

"Takayuki-san, I roughly estimated it, how many of these circuit boards do you plan to produce for the initial order?" Tomohiro Tomita had a rough idea.

If the other party proposed to produce 50,000 to 100,000, he would give an approximate price of around 900 yen, and then, after a little negotiation, he would negotiate it down to 850 yen per circuit board, which would be a fairly good result.

And if Takayuki planned to produce between 100,000 and 200,000, he could offer a minimum price of 750 yen.

"For the initial order... let's start with 1 million, of course, initially I might only be able to provide a deposit, it's not possible to give all the money at once, and I need to slowly recover my capital," Tomohiro Tomita said very understandingly.

"Uh-huh, I understand this very well. A deposit is sufficient, we can slowly negotiate..."

At this point, Tomohiro Tomita suddenly felt like he might have misheard something.

"Wait, Takayuki-san, did you just say approximately how many of these circuit boards you plan to produce?"

"One million, what's wrong?" Takayuki looked at the other party in confusion.

Cough cough!

Tomohiro Tomita suddenly coughed violently on the spot.

One million?

Had he misheard?

Produce so many of these circuit boards?

Was this young man crazy?

Could this game console produce one million?

Even if it were produced, who would buy them?

A single arcade could only take about thirty to fifty at most, and adding a few years' worth of depreciation, it would require about fifty or sixty at most.

If all the arcades in Tokyo provided them, that would still be only fifty thousand units.

If the game console were to spread nationwide, it would indeed be possible to sell more.

But that would certainly be a very long process, and at most two hundred thousand units would be sold.

The other party just casually mentioned one million.

This already shocked Tomohiro Tomita.

"Um, you just mentioned that you had roughly estimated the price. May I ask what the specific price is?" Takayuki asked.