When designing the appearance of your own home console, Jester thought a lot.

In fact, industrial design is a very technical job, especially for consumer electronics. An outstanding appearance design can even increase the competitiveness of this product by one third.

After all, when people buy a product, their first impression is the appearance. Therefore, Tsuki Sumii, a master in industrial design, can become Sony's treasure.

In the future, Apple's industrial design will lead the trend, but in this era, Sony's industrial design is undoubtedly the leader of the era.

Well, Jester personally likes the design of WALKMAN.

But after referring to Nintendo's future NES, Sega's MD, Sony's PS and Japan Electric's PC-E, Jester decided on the appearance style of his game console. The body of the console borrowed the arc-shaped elliptical appearance of the front half of the PC-E, and made the decoration of the rear of the aircraft behind the body. This is to give American players a kind of visual sense of a high-tech toy.

On the handle, Jester chose the half-moon appearance on the Sega MD, which he prefers. In his opinion, this is much more attractive than the FC's rectangular handle.

And it feels much better.

In fact, the appearance design of a real gaming console is not a simple matter. The appearance design of the PS4 has been underway since its development and has not been finalized a week before its release. Sony's chief appearance designer Toru Sumii provided four alternatives. At that time, SCE's president Shuhei Yoshida looked at these four alternatives in his office for a whole night before deciding on the final option.

In Jester's eyes, the PS4's appearance is simple and elegant, which is very successful, especially when compared with XBO's pussy rubbing, it will give a sense of high spirit.

He also opened the mold to create samples when the design of his first host was completed. After seeing it, the employees of Mars Entertainment also praised it unanimously, especially the arc angle design that is different from most electronic products now.

This time the tender will be a document issued by the Ministry of Electronics Industry, but the director is Mars Entertainment Company.

Two employees from the hardware R&D department who came from the headquarters of Mars Entertainment, California, USA, thousands of miles away, were very complaining when they first came. Especially after seeing the backwardness of the mainland, they did not agree with their boss's statement about the labor and cheapness here.

In the eyes of both of them, the first thing to do is to make a product is to be of quality. If the quality is not taken into account, even if the cost is low, it will not be worth the cost.

But when they saw the samples sent by manufacturers from different provinces in mainland China and according to their design drawings, they immediately had nothing to say. Then they started to flatter Jester from the air, praising their boss for being wise and powerful, how could they know in advance that the quality of mainland products is good and cheap?

Jester just smiled and said nothing.

In fact, the low quality of domestic products in the future is due to the emergence of small private workshops. In the 1980s, when state-owned manufacturers were still mainstream, domestic products were not only stupid, black and thick, especially some products with low technical content, but also had no problem with quality.

A game console requires no more or less. Moreover, according to Jester's estimate of the sales of his game console in the future, several supporting manufacturers are definitely not enough, but in the early stage, there is no need to choose too many. This time the bidding plan is to bid for three in each category, including plastic factories, rubber factories, cable factories, and low-voltage substation factories.

Shen Maogen’s Jiangsu Plastic Factory has passed the sample elimination process and entered the candidate. There are a total of seven candidate plastic factories, and theirs is not a big deal among the candidates.

The bidding meeting was chosen in the conference hall of Friendship Hotel. The time was set at 10 o'clock, but early, Shen Maogen rushed over.

It was only 8 o'clock when he arrived at the Friendship Hotel, but Shen Maogen was stopped by the guards when he was about to enter. After Shen Maogen showed his invitation letter to be invited to participate in the bidding, the guards were much more polite, but they still refused to enter.

The bidding meeting time is ten o'clock and the arrival time is nine o'clock. These are all prescribed long ago. No matter whether Shen Maogen is persuaded or not, it is useless.

In desperation, Shen Maogen had to find a place to squat for an hour and smoke a cigarette to kill the time.

Unexpectedly, he had just left the gate of the Friendship Hotel for a few steps and heard someone calling him. He turned his head and saw that there were more than a dozen people gathered not far from him. One of them seemed to be shouting something to him, but it was too far away that he could not hear clearly.

After hesitating for a moment, Shen Maogen turned around and walked over.

"Comrade, are you here to participate in this bidding too?"

As soon as he walked into these people, Shen Maogen heard one of them asking him. The other party was asking if he was also here to attend the bidding meeting, which made Shen Maogen immediately alert and he looked at the other party suspiciously.

The questioner obviously knew that this would cause other people's misunderstandings. He waved his hand quickly and signaled that he had no other intentions. He also explained: "Comrade, don't get it wrong. I just asked curiously. I also came to participate in the bidding this time. I am Liu Tongwen, the director of Lunan Cable Factory..."

This self-proclaimed name is Liu Tongwen, wearing a pair of black-framed glasses with broken legs and white medical tape. She was wearing a shabby Zhongshan suit, which was worn but very clean. There was a hero pen inserted in her top pocket. Shen Maogen looked carefully and found that it was the same style as his, and he immediately developed a favor to the other party.

So he nodded and grinned and said, "I am Shen Maogen from the No. 1 Plastic Factory in Southern Jiangsu. Just call me Lao Shen. Our factory was also selected as a candidate for this bidding."

As soon as he finished speaking, a young man who was dressed in disguise and incompatible with Shen Maogen, Liu Tongwen and others suddenly looked at him with his eyes.

Shen Maogen felt very sharp. Almost instantly, he felt this almost unconcealed and hostile gaze. He also turned his head and looked over with his eyes. At the first glance, he felt a sense of disgust in his heart.

The young man was wearing a suit and tie, and had a pair of calf leather shoes from the Ai-dyed factory. He was polished with shiny greasyness. He also used hair wax to touch his hair very flat. When he was in southern Jiangsu, Shen Maogen was very disgusted with this kind of young man who touched hair wax. In his eyes, such people were all second-rate people who didn't learn well.

"Hmph." Shen Maogen couldn't help but snorted coldly.

Liu Tongwen next to him pulled Shen Maogen's sleeve and whispered to him: "His name is Pi Guangze. He is the new director of a plastic factory in eastern Guangdong. I heard that he had just graduated from university and was promoted to the factory director after working as an assistant for one year. Moreover, he has relatives in the Ministry of Electronics Industry..."

Suddenly, Shen Maogen understood why the other party was hostile to him. It turned out that he was the opponent of this bidding.

However, Shen Maogen, the director of these college students, has never been disdainful to them. A young child knows how to manage factories. He calls for reform all day long, so that he can do whatever he wants. He also doesn't listen to the old man's opinions. He just said that it's not like this in Southern Jiangsu, but he knows that no one in any factory that uses such college students as factory directors will end.

However, Shen Maogen turned his eyes and seemed to have thought of something. Then a smile appeared on his face that made people look very friendly, and he took the initiative to walk to the young college student director named Pi Guangze, took out a box of Daqianmen cigarettes that had just been unpacked and had only eaten one, and took out one and handed it to the front of the place.

"I'll give me one?"

Unexpectedly, Pi Guangze just frowned, and a look of disdain appeared in his eyes. He reached out to block it and uttered three words coldly: "Don't smoke."

"It's not a problem, it's not a problem. My daughter said it's better not to smoke, as smoking is harmful to health."

Seeing the other party like this, Shen Maogen was not angry but happy. He smiled and lit the cigarette in his hand, then took a beautiful breath, and then asked in a close tone: "The little comrade is also from the plastic factory?"

Pi Guangze might have thought that it was not good for him to have such a cold face, so he replied: "Well, Yuezhou Guanghua Plastic Factory."

"Oh!" Then Shen Maogen's face suddenly showed a long-awaited look, and his tone became even more enthusiastic, even a bit like a flattery, "I have heard of your factory. The quality of your factory is good, and it is much better than our factory. Many of our products are not good at it. You don't know that our factory is almost out of business recently. This time we came to participate in the bidding, but I just left the fate of our people. But I don't think much of it. After all, we are a small factory and cannot compare with you big factories and have no competitiveness."

Being flattered by his competitors made Pi Guangze feel a little fluttered. Although he has only taken over Guanghua Factory for a few months, he also has some understanding of Guanghua Factory's past. Although it is still a bit famous in eastern Guangdong, he may not be famous in other provinces.

"Have I been the factory manager for several months, and our factory's products have been sold to southern Jiangsu? No, after I go back, I will check the recent sales records. If I really make a name for myself in southern Jiangsu, the salesperson in charge here will hold a conference to commend it."
Chapter completed!