24 Research & Developmen (2/2)

Sometimes I wish I was back in the 31st century.

”I think that would be great. And Larry. I want a prototype on my desk in a month time. Do make sure that it also looks good. If I see a brick, you know where it will go flying to.”

Larry Norman assures that it will be ready by then.

He dismisses my little threat since as long as he does his best, I will not chastise him. At least, I wouldn't be throwing bricks at his head.

”I will have to assemble a team to research how all of this fit together for the console. They should be able to develop a working version within a week or so. Having unlimited funding at one disposal does help.”

Larry comments.

I totally forgot about research and development phrase of the production.

It is needed for any new product.

The engineers need to know how the components fits together correctly. They also need to program the hardware, so it works as intended.

”Oh. If you have spare time, add networking capability into the hardware as well. I think we will need that once the Internet is available. Coop gameplays is very popular in the future.”

The Internet should have been commercially available on the 1st of January 1990 according to history, but there is some strange delay.

It might have something to do with Atlantis.

Atlantis has the Internet since the 1960. It should be called the Intranet instead due to it encompasses only the island nation. However, Atlantis Internet is accessible anywhere around the globe thanks to all the satellites.

Any country with a supercomputer should be able to hack into that network. It is intentional, so they can learn all the things that are happening on the island. Of course, whether they believed what they read on the Atlantis Intranet is another question.

Some stuffs did get leaked to the public hence the buzz about a super advance island nation. Atlantis appears on the news many times.

Still, no delegates being send to the United Nations yet.

I wonder who will be sent by Hydra. It must be an Atlantean due to their distinct hair and eye colors, but over the four decades, almost all second generation Atlantean are part of Hydra.

Anyway, none of that really interest me currently.

”So, are we all in agreement about the pricing?”

Everyone nods once they understand the true revenue stream.

Console does not bring in money. It is the games that do.

And I plan to release a lot of games for the console.

It is as simple as jumping into the future, grab a copy of the finished game and return to the past to duplicate and distribute.

Oh wait! It is exactly that!

Why don't I just do that for the PlayStation then?

Fuck research and development!

Larry becomes flabbergasted when I drop the working console into his hands. I brought back quite a few for everyone. They are curious of the machine they will be building.

”Dismantle it, learn how it ticks and mass produce.”