Super Game Empire

Nintendo's quality management system is an open platform. Over the years, Konami has relied on Nintendo and made a lot of money. Of course, it follows its big brother's lead and pays great attention to Nintendo's call.

"Nani!" Shang Yue Jingzheng was stunned, "Let us... give up the copyright to Contra?"

Konami, the leader of the Nintendo Six, was actually abandoned by Nintendo. This made President Kamizuki Kage feel like he was struck by lightning!

Daxiongxin explained with sweating profusely: "This is President Yamauchi's decision, and there is this letter. The president said that after you read this letter, you will understand what he means."

Last month Jingzheng took the envelope with trembling hands. He never thought that Nintendo would treat him like this. His first thought was that Nintendo was going over old scores from back then!

Konami was heavily loaded at the beginning and was on the verge of bankruptcy due to financial problems. Starting in 1980, Sega stepped in to provide games for Sega's arcade game products exported to the United States and became Sega's game supplier. Although it was profitable

Most of the profits that came from it were basically obtained by Sega and worked for Sega, but at least they managed to survive in the highly competitive game console market.

Last month Jingzheng worked hard in the United States for three years. His technology became more and more mature, he made more and more arcade games, and the profits he received from Sega became more and more abundant. Everything was so smooth and perfect.

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But when he creatively produced and developed the "Hyper-OLYMPIC" Super Olympic game in 1983 and achieved great success, the situation became very different. Konami's wings became stronger and it began to cooperate with other companies to produce home electronics.

Game console cartridges, and tasted the benefits.

Konami came back from the dead and achieved great success. It joined the Home Entertainment Computer MSX Game Console Development Alliance. This was a major alliance jointly proposed by ASCII and Microsoft, and manufacturers such as Sony, Sharp, and Nintendo participated in the research and development. In the end, it completely fell to Nintendo's FC.

Become one of the Nintendo Six.

To describe it in the words of later generations, Konami was a rebel instigated by Nintendo. Although Sega was angry, it was helpless.

With the care of Nintendo, Konami enjoys more preferential treatment than other manufacturers in Nintendo's game quality management system. It has successively developed Space Cruiser, Super Mario, the arcade version of FC version of Super Olympics, Antarctic Adventure, etc., and it is getting better and better.

Bigger and stronger.

Other small manufacturers want to enter the Nintendo platform and can submit up to 5 games per year, but the Nintendo Six Tigers have no limit, which makes Konami follow Nintendo from beginning to end. In the case of Hudson (the manufacturer that adapted MapleStory), Namco rejected the Nintendo disk

system, last month Jingzheng still gritted his teeth and insisted on supporting Nintendo’s decision.

However, Konami has gone so far, almost to the point of humiliating the country and humiliating its power. Nintendo actually made unreasonable demands, hoping to obtain the full copyright of Contra, which gave last month Jingzheng an endless sense of desolation in his heart.

Konami is not the direct descendant of Nintendo!

This is the difference between a janissary and a surrendered general. There is always something different. Now at the critical moment, Konami, a general who surrendered from the hostile camp, will also be ruthlessly abandoned by Nintendo and become a victim.

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Last month Jingzheng opened the envelope, and this is what the letter said.

"President Keimasa last month, Nintendo has now reached an important crossroads. It is struggling and at a critical moment of life and death. Konami is not the only one who has made sacrifices. Nintendo has also paid a heavy price and lost part of the ownership of Super Mario.

But if this can help Nintendo get through this difficult time, no matter how high the price is, it will be worth it, and we will have a chance to make a comeback.

Nintendo's 16-bit game console SFC is about to be launched. It has faster computing speed and more exquisite graphics processing. It will definitely be reshuffled. The popular games on the market will be exquisitely crafted, relaxed and enjoyable casual types. And gun battles will not appear in

Highly recommended by Nintendo.

In order to compensate for Konami's losses, Nintendo is willing to pay part of the copyright fees and increase the priority and most favored treatment of Konami's partners."

Daxiongxin looked at Shangyue Jingzheng quietly, watching his whole process from shock, to anger, to sadness, to solemnity, and finally to depression. He was secretly surprised and relieved. It seemed that Hiroshi Yamauchi's letter

It worked.

Last month Jingzheng folded the letter, put it in his jacket pocket, sighed and said: "Please tell President Hiroshi Yamauchi that I need to go back and inform others about this. Within a week, we will send the soul

Douluo’s full copyright transfer agreement.”

Daxiongxin frowned and said: "Can it be faster? One week is too long, we have to go to the United States to sign the agreement."

Shang Yuejing clenched her fists tightly in her sleeves, trying to control her emotions and said, "I will do it as soon as possible!"

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Arakawa Minoru's secretary has never called Alexei. No one knows when the next negotiation will begin.

After not receiving any news for two days, Alexey couldn't help but panic: "Yang, will Nintendo give up the negotiation?"

Yang Yun was looking through the market research report of Downhill in the United States and replied casually: "No, negotiation is all about patience. Whoever is impatient will be passive. Yes! Contact this company for me, I want to visit them!

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Alexei looked down: "Kenner-Parker-Toys, Kenner Parker Toys? Yang, what are you doing?"

Yang Yun turned to the corresponding detailed catalog page and smiled: "This is a very interesting company. Parker Brothers has developed an interesting game called Monopoly, which translated into Chinese is - Monopoly!"

Kenner Parker Toy Company was registered in Salem, Massachusetts. Alexey arranged for his secretary to call the phone and got good news. George Parker, the current president of the company, was visiting a customer in New York. The other party would inform him of the meeting later.

Time and place.

Alexei asked: "Yang, Monopoly is a physical card game. What does this have to do with us at KTT? Super Mario is not ours yet. Are you preparing for the game peripherals in advance?"

Yang Yun was delighted: "Alexei, does any company I want to meet have to have something to do with KTT? My own Longteng Entertainment Game Company cannot contact them? In a sense, I am still you.

Where are the competitors!”

Alexey shrugged: "It doesn't matter, I have always been your subordinate."

Yang Yun laughed loudly and hugged Alexei's shoulders affectionately. This brother who conquered the world together did not ask him to take merit, but only asked him to have no faults. Besides, Alexei did a good job, KTT

The future looks bright.

Soon the other party called, and Alexei took Yang Yun to visit him and went to a large toy store called Downey Dolls on Fifth Street.

Entering the manager's lounge, George Parker said apologetically: "Sorry, I can only borrow Downey's office. What do you two want from me? Very few Japanese people want to know me, old George."

Yang Yun said seriously: "Mr. Parker, I am Chinese."

Perhaps Yang Yun's performance was too formal. George Parker put away his casual smile and said, "Sorry, you Asians all look the same."

The atmosphere relaxed a little, and Yang Yun got straight to the point: "I wonder if Mr. Parker is interested in investing in and setting up a factory in China?"

George Parker thought for a while and said: "Sorry, we already have partners in Taiwan and Hong Kong."

Yang Yun waved his hand: "It's not Taiwan or Hong Kong, it's mainland China. Should it be called the red China area you are most familiar with?"

George Parker understood immediately: "Oh! That's that place!"

Then there is no more content.

Yang Yun and Alexei looked at each other, what was going on?

At first he asked if he was Japanese, but Yang Yun couldn't bear it. Then when he heard the word China, his first thought was Taiwan and Hong Kong, and Yang Yun couldn't bear it anymore.

But after explaining clearly about Mainland China, why don't you say anything? Is this discriminating against Mainland China?

Alexei remembered something and whispered: "Yang, is it because of that incident?"

Yang Yun suddenly realized that when he came to the United States, he had to first go through the border from Beijing to Shenzhen and then fly from Hong Kong to New York. At first, he was wondering why he couldn't take a direct flight from Beijing to New York and had to go in a big circle from Hong Kong.

Now that the United States is blocking mainland China, public opinion in the United States is one-sided. Of course, George Parker has heard a lot of negative news, so he has no interest in Yang Yun's proposal.

what to do?

It’s been almost a week since I came to the United States. Although I’m fighting with Nintendo every day, figuring out each other’s thoughts, everything I talk about, think about, and do is make plans for KTT.

But he has always been thinking about Longteng's Three Kingdoms game development.

Yang Yun found Parker Brothers because of his physical chess and card toy sales channels and card production experience.

This is a big plan. The Three Kingdoms game will be sold globally through Sega channels, and Yi Zhongtian's Three Kingdoms books will be sold at the same time. In addition, the physical cards of the Three Kingdoms game will also be put on the agenda.

Yang Yun has carefully analyzed that there are only two types of customer groups who truly love the culture of the Three Kingdoms.

The first type is China, Japan, South Korea, and other countries in Asia that are influenced by China and understand some of the Three Kingdoms culture. Among these countries, China and Japan are the main players and the largest customers of Longteng. More than 90% of the games will be sold to this group.

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The second type is overseas Chinese and students all over the world, mainly in wealthy capitalist countries such as North America and Europe. There are about 30 to 40 million people. Less than one-twentieth of them can become real customers of the Longteng Three Kingdoms game.

, it is estimated that there are less than 2 million customers.

In addition, there are some pure foreigners who are full of interest in China and eager to understand Chinese culture. They may buy the Three Kingdoms game and read translated Chinese books to get in touch with Chinese culture, but this number is even pitifully small.

There are only so many people who like the Three Kingdoms, and these are far from enough. If we use ordinary publicity methods, there will always be so many people who will buy it, and those who don't will never buy it.

How to dig deep into the potential customer base and expand the customer base is something Yang Yun needs to consider.

He wants to find a way to turn people who don't like the Three Kingdoms into liking the Three Kingdoms. He wants to guide these ordinary groups and turn them into fanatics and buyers of the Three Kingdoms culture.

As long as 10% of these ordinary people can be transformed, the number may be equivalent to the entire North American market.

The tool that produced this 10% change was the Three Kingdoms Killing Card Game, which he had high hopes for!