Oh—right.
After thinking for a moment, Chu Qingzhou remembered.
The scene before her seemed exactly like Gu Sheng's first interview.
She had raised objections then too, while the boss had acted as if she'd lost her mind, showering Gu Sheng with praise.
Was there something wrong with these two?
Chu Qingzhou frowned.
One was an abstract weirdo, the other a rich dumbass.
Gu Sheng was a dog-headed strategist, while Miaomiao was the dimwitted boss. One truly dared to imagine, and the other truly dared to do it.
Chu Qingzhou opened her mouth, wanting to say something, but she had no idea where to begin.
So, wisely, she chose to keep quiet. She even wanted to see what kind of nonsense these two would come up with.
Gu Sheng had not expected Shen Miaomiao to agree so readily.
He was momentarily stunned too.
"Very good? You mean... we can do it?"
Seeing Gu Sheng's surprised expression, Shen Miaomiao burst out laughing.
"What's wrong with you? It's rare to see you this lacking in confidence!"
This was more than doable! It was practically perfect!
It was not often that he made a suggestion that burned money. She was thrilled before she could even finish being happy about it!
More importantly, this proposal was exactly what she wanted!
Previously, Shen Miaomiao had been worrying about how to bring up developing a motion-sensing pod.
After all, everyone knew that Golden Wind entering the motion-sensing pod market now carried enormous risks.
After all!
As of the end of this month, according to the finance department's figures, Golden Wind's total revenue was only around three million.
For a small game company like theirs, that revenue was indeed not insignificant.
But for the motion-sensing pod market, it was absolutely not much!
If she rashly proposed entering the motion-sensing pod market during a meeting, the executives might collectively reject it.
Shen Miaomiao did not particularly care about other people's opinions.
What she mainly feared was Gu Sheng opposing it.
If the Principal did not approve, the project could not begin.
Yes.
On the surface, she was Gu Sheng's boss, but in a certain sense, their positions were reversed.
That was why she had specifically called Gu Sheng over today. She wanted to sound him out first and try to persuade him.
But she had never expected this!
Gu Sheng had actually come up with the same idea as her!
Sure enough, no matter how mature and steady someone was, after a streak of successes, they could not escape getting carried away!
Especially someone as legendary as Gu Sheng!
Since his debut, he had released three games, and every one had been a smash hit, each one topping platform sales charts.
His latest game had even broken multiple platform records in succession.
He himself had been granted the title of "Supernova Designer" by a top-tier gaming platform, drawing a flood of media coverage.
Since entering the gaming industry, he had never suffered a defeat. He had found success while still young; it would have been hard not to get carried away.
Yes.
Shen Miaomiao did not know about Gu Sheng's experiences in his previous life, so she naturally assumed that the reason he was being so reckless and proactively suggesting they enter the motion-sensing pod market was because—
He had gotten carried away.
Excellent!
Once people got carried away, they started making one bad decision after another and lost their former wisdom.
It looked like her good days were about to begin!
The five-dollar loss was only the beginning.
This time, Shen Miaomiao was going to clench her fist like an old white guy—she was going to give them something big!
Thinking of this, Shen Miaomiao bared her little white teeth and smiled.
"At the exchange conference before, I was very interested in the motion-sensing pod projects our competitors mentioned."
"I think this is an excellent market, and we can absolutely make something of it."
Standing beside them, Chu Qingzhou's face darkened.
At that moment, Shen Miaomiao seemed to her like one of those greasy, bald, nouveau riche bosses who knew absolutely nothing but got jealous whenever they saw someone else succeeding.
Today, they saw e-commerce becoming popular and immediately ordered their subordinates to do e-commerce.
Tomorrow, they saw livestreaming becoming popular and immediately ordered their subordinates to do livestreaming.
The day after tomorrow, they saw short videos becoming popular and immediately ordered their subordinates to make short videos.
They seemed to see only how popular and profitable those ventures were, without considering whether they themselves could actually run such projects.
The things they often said were, "If they can succeed, why can't we?" and "Only accomplishing big things with little money proves your ability."
Then they came up with a series of completely unrelated plans that applied effort in entirely the wrong places, running their employees ragged like grandsons, only to accomplish nothing in the end.
Of course, Shen Miaomiao was different from those idiot nouveau riche bosses.
Those bosses were merely uncultured, not stupid. They did everything they could to cut costs and squeeze value out of their employees in order to accomplish big things with little money.
But Shen Miaomiao did not care about costs at all. She spent money like water, as though she had a personal grudge against it.
Of course!
With a boss like that, employees would certainly be delighted.
The budget was unlimited!
As long as it remained within the company's financial means, they could go wild!
How many designers dreamed of that?
Seeing Shen Miaomiao agree so decisively, Gu Sheng grinned. "If that's the case, then the scale of our investment will need to expand..."
Shen Miaomiao's eyes lit up.
Look at that! That was what professionalism looked like!
The project had not even been formally finalized, and he already knew to ask for money. Where else could she find such a precious treasure?
"Come on, tell me. I'm listening..."
Shen Miaomiao was so delighted she looked like she might bite someone. She waved for Gu Sheng to explain further.
She loved hearing talk about spending money.
"First, if we want to enter the motion-sensing pod market, we need to secure equipment support."
Gu Sheng said,
"From what I understand, there are currently five major motion-sensing pod manufacturers on the market, three of which are foreign."
"The remaining two are Xunteng Technology's 'Polar Bear II' and Yiyou Technology's 'Yiyou x1.'"
"Among them, Yiyou x1 has only become widespread in recent years, so its market share may be relatively low."
"But considering that all our games launch on Yiyou, choosing Yiyou x1 would be more cost-effective for us."
This was the conclusion Gu Sheng had reached after weighing his options.
He knew that motion-sensing pods and gaming platforms made money differently.
Generally speaking, gaming platforms earned money through revenue shares.
The percentage varied, but it was usually around thirty percent.
Yiyou's rate was quite low at only twenty percent. To support small and mid-sized games, it had also introduced a policy at the beginning of this year that waived revenue shares for games with a total investment cost below five hundred thousand.
That was one of the main reasons Gu Sheng had always released his games on the Yiyou Platform.
But the profit model for motion-sensing pods was different—
Since there were only a handful of motion-sensing pod manufacturers worldwide, it was a seller's market.
So, for a game to launch on a motion-sensing pod and receive platform support, it not only had to pay a revenue share, but also a "device launch fee."
At the low end, it was tens of thousands. At the high end, it could reach over a hundred thousand.
Gu Sheng felt this was highly unreasonable.
But there was nothing he could do about it.
"The main reason I recommend that we choose Yiyou x1 is because both its launch fee and revenue share are relatively low."
Gu Sheng said,
"On top of that, we're currently in a honeymoon period with Yiyou, so I think there's still room to negotiate on the price."
Gu Sheng's reasoning was sound.
But Shen Miaomiao frowned.
She was a little conflicted.
Judging by market share, she naturally preferred Yiyou x1.
After all, its low market share meant the number of players buying their game would be limited, effectively curbing game sales.
But the problem was that Yiyou x1's launch fee and revenue share were both low, which did not seem conducive to increasing her investment.
Hmm—
What should she do?
Shen Miaomiao pondered silently.
Was there not an option with both low market share and a high device launch fee?
Or should she develop a motion-sensing pod herself?
That would not work either.
Shen Miaomiao shook her head.
Motion-sensing pod development was an enormous undertaking, requiring investments of tens of millions or even hundreds of millions.
Given Golden Wind's current financial situation, they still had a long way to go before they could independently develop motion-sensing pods.
But if they really developed in the future, investing in motion-sensing pod research and development would not be a bad way to lose money.
For now, she tucked that loss-making scheme away and considered again how she could have the best of both worlds.
Or maybe...
I should make another trip to Zhongjing and talk to Yan Sheng. Maybe I can see if he'll raise the price for us.
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