497 Two Good News (1/2)
Chapter 497: Two Good News
Translator: _Min_Editor: Caron_
”Arrange a time. Try to set the schedule around mid-November. By then, hmm… I'll visit Hua with the Xin president as a member of the outstanding businessmen.
As for the Xin president visiting Hua, he just said it nonchalantly. If he told Zhang Yapin, he would immediately prepare for a friendly visit. With the currently friendly relationship between Hua and Xin, the always-nice Hua had no reason to reject, especially if the outcome of a visit would be mutually beneficial to both parties.
”Does Xin have this arrangement?” Xia Shiyu asked with skepticism.
”Of course. Because I'm an outstanding businessman, I received some information beforehand.” Jiang Chen made up a random excuse.
”Okay, I'll reply.” Xia Shiyu nodded.
”Is there anything else?”
”Of course. I have two pieces of good news. Which one do you want to hear first?” Xia Shiyu giggled.
”Two pieces of good news? Of course I want to listen to the better news last.” Jiang Chen was intrigued.
Even Xia Shiyu, who didn't like to laugh, was joking - the good news must be fantastic.
”It's about the virtual reality experience store - all 1.44 million virtual reality helmets have entered the market. The players were highly attracted by the virtual reality experience project and created a net profit of 500 million USD. Almost all our partner internet cafés requested additional Phantoms.”
With the unit price at 1500 USD and sales of 1.44 million, a profit of 1000 USD was equivalent to 1.44 billion in profit. And the virtual reality experience project created a profit of 500 million in just one month's time.
Of course, the reason they could make so much money was because of the magical experience offered by the helmet and people's curiosity. Even now, a lot of people still waited in line to experience the virtual reality helmet. But after some time, once the Phantom was officially released, the virtual reality experience hype would gradually cool off.
And the majority of Future Technology's revenue wouldn't be from the one-time gain of selling the helmet nor from the virtual reality experience project but the actual operations of virtual reality…
”What's the second piece of good news?” Jiang Chen laughed.
”You don't sound shocked?”
”I can imagine how crazy people can get for immersive virtual reality technology.”
Xia Shiyu smiled as she listened to Jiang Chen's confidence and continued.
”The second good news is that the 2 million Phantom helmets we released for pre-order have all been sold out with a net profit of 1 billion USD. All the pre-ordered helmets were sold out within one minute. A lot of users left comments on our forum hoping we could increase the number of units available for preorder.”
”Sold out in one minute? It looks like the market is hungry enough.” Jiang Chen smiled.
”Everything is just waiting for the final push. How's the production rate of the helmet?” Xia Shiyu asked.
”20 million units of Phantom helmets should've been completed; I'll add a few more finished production lines in a bit and the goal to produce 20 million helmets will be exceeded,” Jiang Chen said proudly.
Jiang Chen was obviously very assured with Xia Shiyu handling the operations and marketing. He only asked a few things about the operation of the company before hanging up.