Game Development Giant

After the dinner, Jester sent Carly back to his residence in Los Angeles and then hurried back to Costa Mesa overnight. Today he will have more detailed negotiations with Li Jianxi on the memory order.

After all, this is a contract worth tens of millions of dollars.

It would not be surprising for a negotiation of this level to last for several days, but it is obvious that both parties are very interested in this transaction, especially Samsung, which made the biggest concession in terms of price.

So in Jester's opinion, this negotiation may not last too long. The memory of \u003ces is only 8kb, but because the brand new 8-bit host being developed by his hardware R\u0026D department uses a dual-PPU architecture, such a small amount of RAM that can be used as both memory and video memory is definitely not enough. .

Originally, the memory of b was barely enough, but after thinking about it, Jester thought about what Mark Saini said when making a game, low memory is the biggest enemy, so he directly gave it a huge 32kb of memory. .

As for the 64kb version, it is too expensive, and it is really not used on 8-bit machines.

Later, when Mark Cerny served as the chief architect of ps4, he visited game companies around the world. The biggest complaint these game companies had about ps3 when making games was that the memory was too small. At that time, Sony's internal discussion was whether to use 2gb. The memory is still 4gb, but Mark Saini directly made the decision, 8gb.

After sleeping in his office, he got good news just after waking up in the morning.

Just when he left the company and went to Los Angeles, the team that his father had arranged to develop the Pokemon version of Tamagotchi based on the GW architecture took out their samples. As for the pet breeding program inside, he had written it before. Okay, and he also made several specific shells in advance.

This time there are three samples, and the three pets inside are also different.

For his own bad taste, Jester chose the first three Pokemon from the Gosan family in the first generation of Pokemon.

Charmander, Squirtle and Bulbasaur.

The casing, which is only half the size of the gw, has their adorable images painted on it. Jester finished sketching them, and then asked the company's artist to redesign them based on his sketches.

He doesn't care about other characteristics, he only needs one, which is cuteness.

People can't help but play with it as soon as they see it.

In fact, it is said to be a Pokemon, but it is actually just a Tamagotchi with a different appearance. However, Jester still added a combat function to it. Two different machines can fight through a special communication line.

When players raise pets, they also add a certain probability of evolution options. Of course, they will also randomly learn combat skills as the battles or time increases.

The design of the first version is relatively rough and primitive, but Jester doesn't care. Electronic pets are a creative thing, and more complete versions can continue to be developed later.

When an employee from the hardware R\u0026D department brought these three cute electronic pet machines, which were only half the size of a palm, to Jester, Jester was quite satisfied - at least they looked good. The white, yellow and pink appearance is also suitable for the target audience of this handheld device, girls.

Yes, Pokemon is indeed for both men and women, but the problem is that this is not a Pokemon, it is just a Pokemon pet machine modeled after the Tamagotchi pet machine. It only has the function of breeding but not collecting. In Jester's In my eyes, ordinary boys don't like to play with this thing.

Of course, it's just average, after all, the combat function added by Jester was prepared for these boys.

He played with it casually for a while, and then suddenly remembered that Li Jianxi would visit later. According to Korean habits, he would definitely bring him some gift, and it would not be so rude to give him a gift in return.

The gift doesn't need to be expensive, but it should have some commemorative meaning.

After thinking about it, Jester settled on the three Pokemon handheld consoles that he had just completed and didn't even have names yet. \u003con, and then added the word "game" in front of it. In this way, the name of the first console developed by Mars Entertainment, or to be precise, a handheld console, was decided.

Then Jester picked up the phone.

"Come here and take away my three newly developed game consoles, and then package them as delicately as possible. I may want to give them as gifts later." Jester said to the phone. commanded.

Although Li Jianxi didn't quite believe the 10 million-piece memory order that Jester said, he still rushed to Costa Mesa very early and brought his entire legal and contract team to the United States. , he had already spoken to his father on the phone last night, and his father also fully supported him. If the order mentioned by the other party was true, then he would win it at all costs.

This is an opportunity that cannot be missed for Lee Kun-hee himself and Samsung Electronics.

When Li Jianxi and his party arrived, Jester led his employees to greet them outside the company.

There is no need for two people to negotiate the specific details. Jester also has his own legal and negotiation team. He previously spent one million US dollars to establish an exclusive legal department and received a high salary from a large law firm in Los Angeles. A barrister was hired.

This barrister's name is Howard Garfield. He graduated from Harvard Law School and has been practicing for nearly twenty years. He has a wide network of contacts. Jester offered him a basic annual salary of US$800,000 before the other party agreed to come over.

In fact, it is not a negotiation. Specifically, it is how to negotiate some details. Because it is a large contract involving tens of millions of dollars, the legal staff of both parties are also racking their brains to think of various ways to avoid taxes, and then write them into the contract. Be clear.

Li Jianxi was invited by Jester to his private office, chatting and waiting for Jester's hardware R\u0026D department to test the memory chip samples brought by Samsung this time. If only the test passes, then they will Contracts that are discussed make sense.

As soon as they met, Li Jianxi gave him the gift he prepared according to Korean custom.

"This is the first 64kb memory chip produced by Samsung Electronics." As he said this, Li Jianxi handed a very ornate box to Jester with both hands.

Jester also quickly stood up and took it with both hands.

Such a gift does not matter whether it is expensive or not, but whether it is meaningful. Obviously, the gift Li Kunxi gave Jester is very memorable. This seemingly ordinary piece of memory is the beginning of Samsung's rise.

Then Jester picked up a very Chinese-style wooden box from his desk. This was something Jester had just sent to Chinatown to collect it. It seemed to be still huanghuali wood. It was quite heavy in his hand. It was just a box. The box cost more than two hundred dollars, but it was indeed well made. According to the shop owner, it seemed to be the work of a famous craftsman.

The box was padded with velvet, and three very cute-looking game consoles were placed in sequence.

"This is the first game console that we at Mars Entertainment have just successfully developed. Because we were in such a hurry, we didn't have time to prepare a gift for Chairman Li, so I had to use this to make up the number. I heard that Chairman Li has three daughters. And our Mars Entertainment game console called on is designed for the target group of girls, and these three consoles can be considered gifts from me to them."

Jester said apologetically.

What he said surprised Li Jianxi. It was true that he had three daughters, but he was not a big shot. How could the information that he had three daughters spread across the ocean to the United States?

This made him couldn't help but admire Jester's intelligence gathering ability.

"Mr. Li, you're welcome." Even though he thought so, Li Jianxi still took the gift quietly.

Then the two parties talked about some opinions about the future, but at first Li Jianxi only thought that Jester was a pretty outstanding young man with strong ability in making games, but he didn't know much about him in other aspects. .

In fact, there is nothing to know. A person's ability may have nothing to do with age, but a person's knowledge must be closely related to age. After all, Jester is only a young man who is just nineteen years old.

But when Jester could talk to him about Gorbachev's impact on the Soviet Union after he came to power, the possible changes in the world market structure after the reform of the mainland, the United States' blind fanaticism induced by Reagan's mercantilism When there is a hidden crisis, he speaks clearly and rationally.

These are the hottest topics in this era, and countless people make countless comments on them every day. Although most of them are slap-in-the-head conclusions, there are also wise people who can point out the core of the problem to the point.

Jester understands the general trend of the future, so he can make reasonable deductions based on some current situations, of course with reservations - and in the eyes of others, he is just speculation.

It's just that his speculation is reasonable.

At first, Li Jianxi could interact with him for a few words, but gradually the whole chat topic completely entered Jester's rhythm. He was almost talking and Li Jianxi was listening.

Moreover, Li Jianxi nodded repeatedly from time to time, obviously agreeing with it.

Although these are just some false and empty topics for chatting, Li Jianxi can still feel the young man Jester's grasp of the world situation. This is not an ability that a young man of this age can possess.

"This person's future will be limitless." This is Li Jianxi's evaluation from the bottom of his heart.

"I have the same point of view as Chairman Lee. I also believe that Samsung's future lies in consumer electronics. It is feasible to vigorously develop the electronics industry. However, the current rulers in this area are Japan and the United States. You want to catch up with and surpass them. , this is not easy." Jester bluntly told Li Jianxi his current ambition.

Let Samsung Electronics surpass Sony and Panasonic, consumer electronics giants, and become the number one in the world.

Perhaps no one would believe it, but this was the ambition of an electronics company that could not even be considered second-rate, having just produced 64kdram and the first color TV just a few years ago.

Isn’t it a bit whimsical?

But Jester knew exactly what kind of courage and ability the middle-aged man sitting in front of him had.

He knew the determination of a person who concluded that only the first can survive such a cruel law of competition.

Li Jianxi's somewhat rigid face showed no expression. He did not deny Jester's statement, but just sighed and said: "This is too difficult."

The technological generation gap between them and Japan is really too big. If nothing extremely special happens, they will never have the chance to complete this idea. The technological blockade is like a curse that is firmly placed on Samsung's head. superior.

If it weren't for Japan's technological blockade, it wouldn't have taken them so long to manufacture the first color TV.

"Yeah, it's too difficult." Jester didn't know that if it weren't for the financial crisis in the 1990s that caused heavy losses to Japanese companies, and Samsung directly hollowed out the technology groups of many large Japanese companies, then Samsung would also It is simply impossible to rise as fast as a rocket in the new century.

Time is also fate.

At this time, Jester glanced at Li Jianxi. The middle-aged man's eyes did not show the slightest hint of discouragement, but were as firm as ever.

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