Preliminary intention order

"You wait!"

Tomohiro Tomita was momentarily at a loss for words after Takayuki's mention of one million.

He had negotiated large-scale production orders before.

However, he had expected the sales volume for this type of product to be around 200,000 at most.

One million units, if priced at 600 yen each excluding manufacturing costs, would amount to 600 million yen.

In this era of bursting bubbles, a 600 million yen order was already considered a large one.

Converted into the contemporary currency, it would be roughly around 64 million yen.

This amount of money could buy over a hundred sets of three-bedroom apartments around the Imperial Palace in Tokyo.

Of course, this was just a simple price conversion.

With a production order of 600 million yen, if calculated as income, just this order alone would yield at least 100 million yen in profit.

It seemed... this one order could quickly help him get out of his current predicament.

But the premise was that this young man wasn't just talking nonsense.

He looked at Takayuki seriously and asked, "Takayuki-san, are you sure you want to produce one million mainboards?"

"Of course, around one million is the quantity for my first batch of production. We can continue negotiations for subsequent batches."

This was just the first batch?

Could this guy be any more outlandish?

Tomohiro Tomita felt Takayuki was absolutely crazy.

But that was none of his concern.

"Takayuki-san, I just roughly estimated that if it's produced by our company, perhaps we can offer a price of 700 yen."

"650, no more."

Takayuki instantly touched the bottom line.

When he started producing this thing, he had basically figured out its cost. Because the cost of all the components on the circuit board had become so cheap that it exceeded the storage cost of the warehouse itself, if a few more months passed, these items in the piled-up warehouses would probably be directly destroyed.

In the future, after 2000, countless counterfeit manufacturers could even produce a machine capable of running NES games for just over ten RMB, add a cheap outer shell, which would cost around forty RMB at most, and then sell it to individuals for two to three hundred RMB, which was a significant profit.

Takayuki was relatively conservative in his production. After all, he and Sayuri were just amateurs. If he found an expert to optimize it, the cost might be further reduced.

With technology from a decade ahead of the original world, theoretically, a machine with a cost of just over ten RMB for a circuit board, like the popular crap consoles in China at that time, with a large black blob on the circuit board, would be achievable at this time. They were shaped differently, like a lucky draw.

Of course, there was no need to be so stingy. After all, that thing completely disregarded quality to cut costs. It would probably be scrapped in just three to five months of playing.

The counterfeit manufacturers completely ignored any issues with after-sales service, selling a batch and then running away.

But Takayuki still had to pay attention to the company's reputation.

650 yen. Takayuki directly gave the bottom price. Once the first batch was produced and sold, Takayuki planned to find an expert to optimize it, which could further reduce the cost by at least 100 yen.

Facing Takayuki's very calm smile, Tomohiro Tomita knew the other party was a knowledgeable person in the field, but the negotiation still had to continue.

After a long stalemate on the price, they finally reached a preliminary agreement at 650 yen per board. Next, Tomohiro Tomita would take the drawings back and provide them to the production department, then finalize the cost price of the final version.

Buying one million such circuit boards in bulk, those manufacturing companies would probably be quite happy.

Because this would solve a large part of their storage problems, which was much better than outright destruction, thus, the price could be lowered further.

Without any hesitation, after signing a simple letter of intent, Tomohiro Tomita hurriedly left.

He was eager to go back and show off.

As for Takayuki, he began to calculate his own little abacus in his mind.

Now, due to the bursting bubble, banks were tightening their lending, making it not easy to get loans.

However, it was still possible for him to negotiate something.

In the early stage, borrowing 100 million yen to pay for initial advertising expenses and deposits was completely feasible.

Moreover, during this process, he could also sell a batch of high-priced game consoles initially and make some money back.

Oh right, the second game also had to be released at the same time.

Super Mario could be bundled with the game console as an appetizer, but the second game would definitely start charging, with prices ranging from 3,000 to 5,000 yen.

In the past life, countless game companies, after years of sales experience, finally determined the price of a game software, which could only be maintained between 3,000 and 4,000 yen, which was equivalent to a range of three hundred to five hundred RMB.

Once it exceeded that range, the game's sales would plummet. This was a conclusion drawn from years of experience, until after the millennium, when some companies began to consider raising the price of games, touching the bottom line of players.

After finishing the deal with Tomohiro Tomita, Takayuki had several people interested in working come to apply.

Takayuki accepted them all, and next, he prepared for large-scale production.

If the final assembly production couldn't keep up, producing one million circuit boards would be in vain.

Meanwhile, Sayuri, at this moment, was somewhat excited acting as a supervisor.

She had never done anything like this before, so she watched the construction workers very seriously.

It wasn't until five o'clock in the evening that Sayuri reluctantly ended her day as a supervisor.

It was almost a day's work, and about half of the interior decoration of the building was already completed.

It was estimated that it would be completed by tomorrow afternoon at the earliest, and at most, a simple acceptance inspection would be conducted the day after tomorrow before moving in... oh no, before starting work.

Just as she was about to leave, Takayuki suddenly suggested that they go eat something together.

Of course, Sayuri happily agreed.

How could she refuse when the boss was treating?

The two of them went to a sushi restaurant, ordered a few dishes, and then clinked their glasses of juice.

"To celebrate the official opening of the company, may our finances flourish in the future!"

"May our finances flourish?" Sayuri didn't quite understand for a moment.

"Oh, this is a Chinese idiom, roughly meaning making lots and lots of money."

"Ah! Then may our finances flourish!" Sayuri happily clinked glasses with Takayuki once again.

Then, Sayuri chugged down a big gulp of juice.

"Ah, feels great!"