Reborn as a tycoon in Hong Kong

Negotiations continued the next day.

During this day's negotiations, the two parties made considerable progress, but they still could not reach an agreement on the most critical share sale price, and there was a considerable gap in price.

Then came Wednesday, the third day of negotiations between the two parties.

In addition to the share sale price, other details have been agreed upon by both parties. However, if the two parties cannot reach an agreement on price, the previous detailed negotiations will be meaningless and may become useless.

However, Haruko Mouri and Wade Thomas, who were in charge of the negotiations, both wanted to succeed in the negotiation, but they just wanted to strive for greater interests for themselves, so the negotiation did not collapse and each took a step back.

Haruko Mouri, for example, no longer insists that the shares sold by Lin Baicheng have a market value of no less than US$2.6 billion, but can accept the sale of shares at a market value of less than US$2.6 billion.

As for Wade Thomas, he also added US$200 million to the US$2 billion market value originally discussed with Lin Baicheng, that is, he purchased 20% of Galaxy Games shares from Lin Baicheng with a market value of US$2.2 billion.

The difference in market value between the two is US$3 to 400 million, and 20% of the shares would be at least US$60 million. Therefore, the two parties failed to reach an agreement and both wanted to strive for greater benefits for themselves.

After the two sides still failed to reach an agreement that day, that night Maori Haruko told Lin Baicheng an idea of ​​hers and asked for Lin Baicheng's consent.

Today is May 23rd, and Galaxy Games’ first arcade game of the year, “1942,” will be on sale this Saturday, May 26th. However, some machines will still be sent to channel dealers first, so that they can be put into trial operation in game halls, so that they can accept the high price offered by Galaxy Games.

"1942" is a vertical scrolling shooting game. The game is set in World War II. Players control Allied fighter planes, and the enemy planes are German fighter planes. There are 16 levels in the game. In this game, players can control the fighter plane to dodge bullets, and can also use ultimate moves to allow the player's fighter plane to spin in the air, avoid any incoming damage, and at the same time cause a large amount of damage to the enemy plane, which can kill ordinary soldiers instantly.

"1942" was of course developed by the R\u0026D team of Galaxy Games under the guidance of Lin Baicheng. This is a relatively classic shooting game in the previous life, but Lin Baicheng has adapted it to a certain extent.

The first is the adaptation of the background. The enemy is no longer Japanese fighters. Because the Japanese market is huge, the emotions of Japanese players must be taken into account, and money must not be compromised.

Furthermore, the original version of the game has a total of 32 levels, but today's "1942" only has 16 levels. This is due to the memory gap. If you insist on designing 32 levels, many functions will be much worse, and it will be easy to It became a garbage game, so Lin Baicheng chose to sacrifice the number of levels. He felt that 16 levels was enough in this era, and the market competition was not that intense.

"1942" will be put into trial operation on Saturday three days later. Haruko Mouri decided to use the trial operation results of this game as a condition for negotiation. If the game performs well during the trial operation, then the shares will definitely be sold at a higher market value of the company. ; On the contrary, it will be lowered, and it is even possible that institutions such as Goldman Sachs will no longer buy shares.

Therefore, Maori Haruko asked Lin Baicheng for his opinion and asked if he could do this.

"Okay, you can negotiate with Thomas on this condition and determine the market value of Galaxy Games based on the trial operation performance of "1942". If the performance is good, I will not accept a market value of only US$2.6 billion."

Lin Baicheng nodded and agreed. With the success of "Space Invaders" ahead of him, he didn't think that the more playable "1942" would fail to succeed.

"Then I will tell Mr. Thomas tomorrow."

After hearing this, Haruko Mouri said: "Tomorrow he will either choose to buy the shares at a higher market value, or he will choose to wait for the trial operation results of "1942" to come out before negotiating."

"Um!"

Lin Baicheng nodded.

During the negotiations the next day, Haruko Mori presented her proposal to Wade Thomas.

"Ms. Maori, I can't decide this matter. I need to report to the CEO, and Goldman Sachs must also inform other institutions."

Wade Thomas was a little surprised by Haruko Mouri's proposal, but he couldn't make a decision on this kind of thing and could only report it.

"Mr. Thomas, I hope you can make a decision soon because there are only a few days until Saturday."

Haruko Maori spoke, and then said: "If you don't accept this gambling-like proposal, then buy the chairman's shares at a higher market value. The choice is in your hands."

"Ms. Maori, don't worry, I will reply to you as soon as possible." Wade Thomas nodded to express his understanding.

"Okay, then I'll wait for your good news."

Maori Haruko said no more, and today's negotiation ended here.

When Haruko Maori was negotiating with Wade Thomas, Lin Baicheng was still paying attention to the sales of Star and Moon consoles and game cartridges. The current situation looked good. Sales of Star and Moon consoles and game cartridges were increasing every day, despite the increase. The magnitude is not large, but growth is better than decline.

In addition to paying attention to the sales of his own Xingyue console, Lin Baicheng also secretly paid attention to Atari's reaction. After all, the Xingyue console and Atari VCS were the same type of products, which squeezed out Atari VCS's market. Atari VCS's Sales volume will definitely be affected. He is worried that Atari will use some dirty tricks against Xingyue Electronic Game Company, so he has always paid attention to it, so that he can respond as soon as possible before the dirty tricks appear.

However, what surprised Lin Baicheng was that Atari didn't respond at all, as if it didn't know that there was another product of the same type on the market, the Xingyue console.

Lin Baicheng didn't think Atari didn't know about the Xingyue console. After all, it was the only product on the market that was the same as the Atari VCS. Atari's management couldn't have known it. Therefore, there is only one possibility, and that is that Atari's management ignored the Xingyue console and did not believe that the Xingyue console could threaten the Atari VCS.

Xingyue console was underestimated by Atari. Although it was unpleasant, Lin Baicheng was very happy. He wished that Atari had been ignoring Xingyue console and Xingyue Electronic Game Company so that Xingyue console could occupy more markets. .

However, Lin Baicheng knew that this was impossible. As the sales of Xingyue consoles increased, Atari's VCS sales would definitely be affected. Atari's management was not fools and would definitely respond.

Being able to develop and grow for a period of time at the beginning was already an extremely lucky thing in Lin Baicheng's opinion, and he didn't expect anything more.