Chapter 558

Mei Tui stood facing the wall with her pipe in her mouth, looking at the map on the big screen on the wall through the white smoke. The map is densely dotted with red dots. The more developed areas are, the more dense these red dots are. Some areas are connected into a red ocean.

He held out his hand and casually clicked on a red dot in the eastern United States. A small window immediately jumped out next to him:

City: Miami

Population: 5.59 million

Sales volume: 119500 sets

Number of users: 231325

He also casually opened a red dot on the east coast of China:

City: Yongcheng

Population: 8.2 million

Sales volume: 173220 sets

Number of users: 437709

Then, Meituo opened several points in Europe, Japan and other places with dense red. The data show that although the number of users varies from place to place, the overall difference is not big. The average sales volume of space boxes is about one fortieth of the population. The number of registered users of dream guide is between two and three times that of space boxes, indicating that about two or three people share each space box, which is also expected by him.

In this matter, there are great differences between several operators of the game and agents in various regions of the space box, and there was a big quarrel at the just concluded video conference. Penguin Group believes that the most important thing of the game is the number of basic users, so it can encourage people to share space boxes. If it weren't for the high cost of space boxes, they can even give away hardware free of charge. They believe that as long as the number of users increases and users have enough dependence, it is logical to charge games and value-added services in the future; The agent led by Huanyu International believes that the core of the whole project is the space box, the dream guide game should be permanently free, and making money through hardware is the king.

Another controversial point is whether to connect with the Internet. 5g technology has been mature and commercially available. The external mobile Internet can fully meet the requirements of the data volume and space box of the dream guide. The cost of building a self built base station is too large. Now all countries are in a wait-and-see state. It is a problem whether to vigorously build a 5g base station or another dreamnet private network. Everyone hesitates and dare not take too big steps.

Since 5g base stations cannot be upgraded on the basis of 4G, major communication companies in the world have already had independent networking plans in the past two years, but the emergence of space box has delayed the implementation of this plan. It actually overlaps with dreamnet and could have been universal, but both the third space foundation and mays laboratory insist on independent networking, No one wants to spend a lot of money to build a 5g network, which is useless at last.

Now the common voice is to open the dream guide data and combine dreamnet and Internet to save social resources as much as possible. However, many mobile phone and hardware manufacturers do not support this, because it means that except for the space box, all communication and VR devices, including mobile phones, will be eliminated in a very short time.

This is what the agents of the space box are willing to see. There will be a real overlord of unifying the Jianghu in the world. The future world will be the world of the space box and the world of the dream guide.

Of course, many local enterprises have initiated antitrust lawsuits locally, suing the third space foundation and its technology companies and related laboratories for violating the monopoly act, and even someone at the United Nations General Assembly has proposed a bill that technologies related to the fate of mankind must be made public to all mankind, This requires the third space foundation and mays laboratory to disclose the core technology of the space box. However, if this bill is passed, it means that all nuclear and aerospace technologies of developed countries should be made public to the world, so it is obviously impossible to pass it.

However, the voice of opposition is sweeping all over the world, and there are more and more calls for technology disclosure, network merger and hardware price reduction. We are a little overwhelmed by the pressure, and we don't quite understand why meiwang must adhere to independent networking and rapid expansion. These are two contradictory things. No one can think of becoming a fat man in such a big project.

Throughout the video conference, Mei Tui kept silent, watching, listening and smoking quietly. Until finally, those people stopped talking, he said slowly, "say it again."

Those usually bossy and arrogant capitalists have nothing to do with this hale and hearty white haired old man. This is probably the most efficient business meeting they have ever held in their life, but they can only recognize a project they can't give up in their life. In the face of capital, capitalists are always a model of flexibility.

However, these are not important to Mei. The important thing is how to achieve the goal he wants to achieve in the shortest time - at least 1 billion users, preferably 2 billion, or even 5 billion. Of course, the latter may not be achieved in his lifetime.

The reputation of the dream guide can be said to be broken, and there is almost no bad comment. Those malicious comments on the Internet can be seen at a glance, because they have never used a space box at all. However, real users, even if they have been bought by their opponents, will really fall in love with the game and want to buy a space box after using it once. Therefore, there are reports of selling kidney to buy space box on the Internet.

Mei Tuo randomly opened the red dots in several red dense areas on the map. As a game with expensive hardware, the user coverage of nearly 10% is quite surprising. But there is still a big gap from Mei's requirements. Even if it reaches 10% in all regions of the world, it is only 700 million users.

Of course, it's easy to fake data. The operation Department of Penguin Group has long proposed to him that the number of users can be easily increased by five times than the current number, but this scheme was rejected by meiwang. He doesn't need some duplicate inactive accounts to attract the eyes of capital. He needs real users. Each user is independent and unique who can be verified by DNA verification and individual consciousness.

However, in addition to developed areas, there are still large gray areas on the map, where some red dots are scattered, and even there are no red dots in some places.

His outstretched finger slid on the map and opened a red dot in Western China:

City: Doucheng

Population: 3.69 million

Sales volume: 1532 sets

Number of users: 3421

The user base of this city is less than one thousandth of the population, and it is not the poorest area in China. Mei Tui slid her hand to the west coast of Africa and found a lonely red dot in the vast gray. He clicked and saw the data:

City: Monrovia

Population: 1.15 million

Sales volume: 1 set

Number of users: 1

Even in poor areas, there are rich people, but in the capital of this African country, only one person bought a space box. Mei Tuo doesn't know who that person is, but he knows the root cause of the problem that cannot be popularized in these places - there are no base stations there, and the operation and maintenance enterprises will not build base stations for a few users.

The only user in Monrovia must have rented a special satellite data channel provided by the third space, which will pay an extra premium.

"Professor, is there really no way to get through with the existing network and equipment?" Mei Ziqing asked carefully behind him.

Mei Tui shook her head: "no means of data encryption can stop a ghost wandering in the network world!"

"But I don't understand why we must stop it. As long as it can't rewrite our data, its existence will not affect our awareness of parasitism!" said Mei Ziqing.

"How do you know that a conscious body living in an electronic network is not a parasite?"