I Inherited 5,000 Years of Family Property

"Zhang, is this your capital to compete against the storm?" At this moment, Ma Hua and the others had a completely different mindset than before.

"Yes, so from beginning to end, I have never taken the threat of the storm seriously," Zhang Menglong said.

Since the LSP team won, Zhang Menglong had started developing these games.

Even if Michel hadn't troubled him, he would have initiated this revolution on his own.

Ma Hua and Ding Sanshi exchanged glances, and they both saw a trace of concern in each other's eyes.

"Do you two have any questions?" Zhang Menglong asked.

"Zhang, this indeed seems like a good game, and the player experience is unprecedented," said Ma Hua, "but, Zhang, making a good game isn't enough just on its own."

As a seasoned gamer, Ma Hua knew there were many conditions to make a game a smash hit.

First, the lower the requirements for the gaming equipment, the lower the barrier for the players. For instance, games like Minesweeper, Solitaire, and Little Tyrant can be played to their full potential.

But if you want to play a game like PUBG, once the equipment cannot support it, if the performance isn't powerful enough, then the gaming experience will be like a slideshow.

In such cases, even the best of games won't have many players willing to pay for them.

With these VR games, players have to invest a lot of money in buying the equipment, just this one condition will exclude countless players right at the threshold.

This is also the biggest reason why VR games haven't been able to become widespread so far.

"Hahaha, that's what you need not worry about," laughed Zhang Menglong, "This set of equipment may look high-end, but its value lies in its core chip, and right now we are the most powerful chip-supplying country, and we have full control over the cost."

"How much does it cost to run this equipment?" Ma Hua immediately asked.

"A regular computer can support the conditions needed for the game to run, and the cost price of this VR equipment is 184 US dollars!"

"That cheap?" exclaimed Ma Hua.

This was definitely great news!

You see, Zhang Menglong manufactures these himself, he doesn't need to share profits with anyone, so the pricing was entirely up to him. If he chose to sell at cost price, then this price under 200 US dollars, for anyone who has experienced the game, won't feel a pinch!

In the spending levels of Jiangnan City, a regular college student can't get much for a meal out.

As long as the brand makes a mark, this $184 device will definitely not be a barrier to this game!

Even more radically, he could give away the device for free with the download of the game, and once you're into the game, Ma Hua had a thousand ways to trick the money out of your pocket.

Wouldn't it be game over with a constant 648-yuan charge?

Next, Zhang Menglong dropped another bomb.

He had developed a total of 14 games, all of which could be accessed through this one piece of VR equipment!

Averaging it out, this meant each game cost only a dozen or so yuan!

A random game on Steam costs several tens of yuan, how strong would the market competitiveness be!

"There's still one issue!" Ma Hua suddenly remembered a critical factor, "What about your servers?"

This question cooled down Ding Sanshi's head, which had just been heated up in excitement.

They had just seen the game's graphics, which were virtually identical to reality. To run it on a computer, you wouldn't believe how many graphics cards it would burn through.

But now, thanks to Zhang Menglong's chips, the country had already popularized 5G technology, and VR equipment could replace both the display and the graphics card, reducing the demand on equipment, but undeniably putting a terrifying strain on the servers.

So much game data flowing back to the servers—if the computational power, processing capabilities, and storage capacities were insufficient, a server crash would just be minutes away, severely diminishing the gaming experience for players.

"Hahaha, that's not a problem at all!" Zhang Menglong stamped his foot, "The server is right here underground!"

"Can I take a look?"

"Of course!"

Zhang Menglong led them down in the elevator to the basement level.

The moment the elevator doors opened, the tech-infused corridor that seemed like something out of a sci-fi movie completely astounded them.

The server storage rooms of Tengxun Games and Wangyi Games were already quite large, but Zhang Menglong's server was immeasurably bigger.

"How big is this server room?" Ma Hua asked.

"About twenty to thirty thousand square meters."

"Twenty to thirty thousand?" The two were even more stunned. "Even for a huge server, does it need to be this massive?"

Their company's game servers were at most a few hundred square meters.

"The game server itself isn't that big," Zhang Menglong explained. "But to support the operation of the server, I set up a supercomputer for technical data support, so it takes up quite a bit of space."

"Supercomputer?"

Hearing these words, the two were dumbfounded.

"I've divided the game data into tens of thousands of cores and loaded them onto this supercomputer through some technical development," Zhang Menglong explained. Though this thing had great computational power, you couldn't just use it to play 'Minesweeper' immediately—it's more about its computing capabilities.

"This is really something only you, Zhang Menglong, could pull off!"

Some things can be bought with money, such as Zhang Menglong's mansion, Zhang Menglong's private plane, or even his 3000 domestic flight routes; anything is possible with money.

But setting up a supercomputer? Is that something money can buy? Even at a national level, that's considered a strategic-level resource!

What can a supercomputer do?

Quantum-level mathematical analysis modeling, molecular-level chemical formula analysis, weather data analysis and forecasting, design of spacecraft and fighter planes, intelligence analysis, cosmic information analysis, and exploration of the origin of the universe.

To use such an incredible device for a game server is truly astounding.

"This thing is great, gaming is incredibly fast, and watching videos is extremely smooth. Not to mention, using it to mine Bitcoin when free is also excellent. Spending several billion US Dollars to get this is truly a bargain!"

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Zhang Menglong's boasting had left Ma Hua and Ding Sanshi speechless, but since the equipment issue was resolved and the server problem was addressed, this game's advantages were nearly unparalleled.

With the support of supercomputing, this game would hardly suffer the common issues of server overcrowding or errors that typical games face.

"Mr. Zhang, what do you mean by showing us this?" the two grasped the essence.

They saw the excellence of this game. If it went live, their market share would be completely seized by Zhang Menglong. Whether it was Tengxun or Wangyi, gaming made up a huge part of their revenue, and they would go bankrupt naturally without Zhang Menglong having to acquire them.

"Don't panic," Zhang Menglong said with a smile. "As you know, promoting games is also very important. I don't own any famous gaming companies, but Wangyi Games and Tengxun Games are experts in this field. I think it would be best to let you manage these fourteen games."

"Really?" Their eyes gleamed brighter than a cat's at night.

They were literally being handed a fortune-making opportunity!

"I only have one requirement," Zhang Menglong said, emphasizing each word, "Crush PUBG for me!"