Rebirth of America, this is my time

Before Ethan finished speaking, Hiroshi Yamauchi who was standing there already smiled.

"Mr. Jones, before we talk about these things, can we talk about something else?"

This question made Ethan put down the photo in his hand, tilted his head and smiled: "Talk about something else? What to talk about?"

“Talk about Destiny Games’ handheld representation in our country.”

Hiroshi Yamauchi was blunt, saying: "After attending your company's new product launch conference and witnessing the great sales of your company's new products in San Francisco, San Jose, Los Angeles and other areas, we at Nintendo are eager to bring "Destiny" to the market. Cube introduces neon into this magical product."

"Although we have previously reached a cooperation agreement with your company and finalized the cooperation details, what we Nintendo obtained was only your company's sales rights in the three product categories of arcade machines, home consoles, and home console game cartridges, and did not include hand-held gaming device."

"So, if Mr. Jones agrees, we hope to re-sign the contract with your company, increase cooperation projects, and negotiate specific agency details..."

Yamauchi's tone was neither humble nor arrogant.

That confident look made Ethan think this guy was quite interesting.

At this moment, Nintendo is clearly in dire straits.

But Yamauchi Hiroshi can still talk nonsense with his eyes open.

Not everyone has this skill.

"Mr. Yamauchi, do you think we can still cooperate on handheld consoles?"

Ethan looked at Pu Yamauchi with a smile.

"Of course." Hiroshi Yamauchi nodded with a smile, "In the past few years, we have cooperated very happily. Your company has brought us continuous surprises, and we have also brought you a lot of surprises." To make enough profits, in this case, continued cooperation is the continuation of win-win, isn’t it?”

It seems to be to prove that what he said is true.

Yamauchi Pu opened his clothes again and took out a stack of documents from his inner pocket.

“This is where we were last year.”

"It is also a testimony of our friendship."

To be honest, documents really cannot be put in your underwear pocket.

First, the pockets of the underwear are small, and not much can be stuffed into them. Second, the underwear pocket is small. If you force it into the pocket, A4-sized documents will turn into dried tofu.

Therefore, when Ethan saw the photo-sized palm, his eyelids jumped involuntarily, while Hiroshi Yamauchi felt good about himself and opened it, and then handed it to Ballmer respectfully. This behavior left Ballmer speechless. He glanced at Ethan and found that his boss was silent. He raised his hand to take it and started reading.

then……

The bald head’s pupils suddenly shrank!

According to common sense, as Ethan Jones's assistant, Steve Ballmer does not have the authority to read the company's sales data. But half a year ago, when Minoru Arakawa was submitting data, Ethan Jones was busy setting traps for Wall Street's financial capital and had no time to ask about these things.

Therefore, Steve Ballmer, who received Minoru Arakawa on behalf of Ethan Jones, became the first guy in the company to come into contact with Neon's revenue. At that time, he reported the contents of the report in detail to Ethan who was far away in Alaska, and dissed Nintendo completely.

As for the reason?

Very simple!

Because throughout the first half of the 1980s, Nintendo almost stopped selling their products.

The total amount of shares reflected on the report is only 20 million at full calculation.

Although this situation has something to do with them, because after "Ms. Pac-Man", Destiny Games has not released any independent arcade games. The only arcade game is "Star Wars", and that game needs to be combined with "The Empire Strikes Back". "War" package is on the market, but this is not the reason for Nintendo's sales growth.

Right?

If there are no arcade machines to sell, they can sell consoles!

But Nintendo didn't do that.

The sales time of Johnson's home console in Neon was directly set in the second half of 1980.

This resulted in a half-year vacuum period in product sales of Destiny Games in Neon.

If the temporary wait is just for better sales, then Steve Ballmer will be too lazy to complain, but when Nintendo comes up with products like GAME WATCH...

No matter how good Steve Ballmer is, he can't stand it anymore.

And all of the above happened half a year ago.

Now...

Looking at the creased report in his hand, Steve Ballmer came to Ethan's side.

Easy delivery.

When Ethan saw the numbers on the report clearly, the corners of his mouth suddenly raised.

Because the numbers on the report are very interesting.

Perhaps it was because Nintendo was pushing its own products, so throughout the second half of the 1980s, they did not sell the Johnson home console in the Neon Market as promised.

But even so, in the latest report submitted by Nintendo, their total agent sales exceeded 400 million, and these were all pre-sales.

That's right!

All pre-sales!

Previously, the agency cooperation terms signed between Destiny Games and Nintendo were as follows:

Nintendo will give up the pricing power of the Destiny Games home console in the Neon market. At the same time, Nintendo will also disclose the production costs of the home console to Destiny Games, directly showing the profit of the home console products in Neon. When the information is fully transparent, the profit that Destiny Games can get is all the money after total sales minus sales expenses, production expenses and financial expenses.

The financial expenses also include the share requested by Nintendo, which is the amount of the production cost plus three expenses multiplied by the loan interest rate of the domestic bank.

When this no-profit formula appeared, the Johnson home console product could not be pre-sold because the specific sales expenses and financial expenses could not be determined until after the sale. No matter how you estimate these matters with large room for negotiation, they will always deviate from the final data.

But even so, Nintendo still estimated the data.

Nintendo has pre-produced a total of two million Johnson home consoles. Based on the North American price of US$199.99 per unit, the product here is worth 400 million.

Among them, the production cost of the host is 98 US dollars per unit, totaling 19.6 billion; the sales expense is a commission of 10 points on the invoice price, totaling 40 million US dollars; the half-year deposit issued by Neon Postal Bank The interest rate is 6.5%. Based on this calculation, the financial cost is 19.6 billion plus 0.4 billion times the half-year period of 6.5 divided by two, which is 7.67 million .

After deducting these costs and expenses, the pre-sale draw that Destiny Game can get is 156.33 million. If the taxes that should be paid are continued to be deducted, the profit that Destiny Game can get is almost 1.2 Hundreds of millions.

And Pu Yamauchi has even prepared this money.

As long as Ethan nods, he can make money.

When a clear calculation method appeared, Ethan knew that Hiroshi Yamauchi wanted to spend money to buy Ping An, because before Johnson's home console was officially sold, all the shares were actually advance payments from Nintendo, 1.2 billion. The US dollars may not seem to be much, but if it is cash, it can definitely suck them dry.

Unfortunately……

Ethan didn't buy it.

If you put these things in front of ordinary people, or even the bald Steve Ballmer, you will feel Nintendo's sincerity.

But in Ethan's eyes, this thing is simply a waste of money.

Nintendo just gave them the money they were supposed to get from Destiny Games in advance!

Other than that, nothing was done!

Under such circumstances, this old man still expected him to be grateful to him?

Do you think he is stupid? Or do you think he is stupid?

"Mr. Yamauchi, your report is completely without sincerity."

Ethan shook his head and said: "If you think pre-sales are a sign of sincerity, then I think you can spend some money and go to college again. The teachers there will tell you that your behavior is a sign of sincerity. It may be possible to use my money as a favor to deceive fools, but at the same time, it is also easy to anger others."

"Oh, Mr. Jones, I didn't mean that..." Hiroshi Yamauchi shook his head decisively and said, "I just want to prove to you how strong our determination at Nintendo is to obtain a handheld console..."

"At the same time, I also want to prove to you that we, Nintendo, will definitely be the best partner you can find in Neon, because we never default on sharing our profits from our friends, and we will even settle the settlement in advance..."

"But I only saw you arbitrarily changing the reports behind your friends' backs!"

Before Hiroshi Yamauchi could finish speaking, Ethan interrupted: "How credible is your report? I now express strong doubts that you can do pre-sales for a project? This really makes me wonder. It opened my eyes, and also allowed me to see that your bottom line is that you have no bottom line."

"Because your son-in-law Arakawa Minoru said before that you would start selling Johnson home consoles in the second half of this year, but you didn't do that and instead offered me pre-sales."

"In this case, can I understand that if there was no "Destiny Cube", would you tell me that due to productivity and other factors, you did not complete this year's sales plan? So Johnson's home console Should the sale be postponed to next year?”

"Although you have the right to extend the time in the contract we signed, when you use the extended time to sell your own products..."

"We have to suspect that the core purpose of your Nintendo holding an agent is to block the sales of our Destiny game in the Neon area, so that your own products can be sold at high prices!"

"When you don't even pretend anymore..."

"You still want me to accept this ridiculous argument?"

"ha--"

"Hirashi Yamauchi!"

"Do I look like a fool?"

"ah!"

The sudden sound made the corners of Yamauchi's mouth twitch.

When Ethan unceremoniously tore off his disguise, this guy who had entered his twilight years finally put away his smile and said: "Mr. Jones, according to our previous contract, our Nintendo has self-developed products. power, so I personally feel that GAME WATCH is not against the rules."

"Oh - you're not pretending anymore, are you?"

Ethan shrugged and said: "I didn't say you violated the rules, so don't worry. At the same time, I also want to tell you that our Destiny Games has the right to license "Destiny Cube" to any other Neon company, because according to the previous Judging from the contract, our behavior is not illegal."

"So, you can go back now."

"Go back and watch me sell "Destiny Cube" into your country!"

"Go back and watch GAME WATCH's sales explode!"

"As for the news from your mouth?"

"You know one thing!"

Ethan looked at Hiroshi Yamauchi with sharp eyes and said word by word——

"Now! It's not me who needs you!"

"It's you! You need me!"

Ethan's words made Yamauchi Hiroshi take a deep breath.

The hands in his pockets were instantly clenched.

That's right!

The transfer from Ethan's mouth was the real reason why Hiroshi Yamauchi chose to stay!

Because he knows better than anyone that once "Destiny Cube" enters Neon, their Nintendo handheld project will die violently. This is not a commercial problem, but a gap in inspiration!

Even though their GAME WATCH has many advantages, for example, it is smaller, easier to carry, and cheaper than the handheld console of "Destiny Cube", but when Ethan Jones takes advantage of the fact that it is fun, After that, their GAME WATCH became garbage.

After all, the biggest selling point of video games is that they are fun.

If a game is not fun, even if it is sold cheaply, even if it is completely free, it will not attract the attention of the public, and it may even make the public think that it is garbage and cannot be sold at a high price.

In this case, they can only resist the risk of sudden sudden death of their product by holding the "Destiny Cube" in their hands. Once Ethan Jones hands it over to others, other businesses who want to pursue profits will inevitably He will attack them unscrupulously.

Nintendo couldn't bear the impact.

Yamauchi Pu couldn't accept this kind of failure.

so……

The old man closed his eyes and took a deep breath.

It seemed that he had made a decision. After opening his eyes again, he said slowly: "Mr. Jones, I am telling you frankly that in the current Neon world, only we, Nintendo, can stand with you."

"the reason is simple."

"Because all other game manufacturers have been bribed by your enemies."

Yamauchi Pu's words were very concise, and he directly explained everything he knew.

When Nintendo became Neon's largest game manufacturer, they wanted to maintain their position in the world and began to monitor Neon's peers for a long time.

Then, they discovered that the company Taitong had some bad behavior.

Their chairman, a Jew who came to Neon as a refugee during World War II, had frequent contacts with some white people in early 1979.

At first, Pu Yamauchi thought Taitou was communicating with his own tribe, but when the boss of MGM showed up in Tokyo and became Taitou's guest, Pu Yamauchi smelled something unusual, because at the time he felt …

"I think Taidong wants to save the country through curves."

"Want to get Neon agents from MGM for video games like Tom and Jerry."

"To break the fact that the Neon game market is completely monopolized by Nintendo."

"But after I looked carefully, I found that this was not the case."

"Because Taitung has never announced that it has reached a cooperation with MGM."

"Not only that, after Taitung came into contact with MGM, the former president of the American Film Association suddenly came to Neon and became a consultant to Taitung Electronics."

"When this situation occurs, I know that your enemies have already laid out their plans in Neon..." (End of Chapter)