Super Game Empire

During lunch break, Yang Yun finally resigned and gave up his position as judge to a senior clerk.

Donnie ordered takeout and left a separate room for Alexei and Yang Yun to enjoy the food.

Yang Yun picked up a piece of classic pizza, chewed it slowly, and said, "I can tell from your anxious expression that there is still no news from Nintendo."

Alexey nodded, worried: "Will they refuse?"

"No!" Yang Yun was sure: "Konami has to sort out the copyright, the documents have to be sent to the United States for signature, and Nintendo has to deal with the charges in the federal court. These preparations will take time, so don't rush, maybe in the next few days

There is news. Don’t forget, Sega’s Pete is working hard secretly. He

They united with many local American companies and friends in the political circles to put pressure on the Federal Trade Commission, and secretly organized a group of people to march in front of Nintendo. All these pressures were ultimately put on Nintendo, so Nintendo will definitely be eager to cooperate with them.

You reach an agreement, and he is more anxious than you are."

"Why can't they wait?"

"Because of antitrust! Stripping away the two core games of Super Mario and The Legend of Zelda and using them to cooperate with you, an American company, will be of great help to Nintendo's settlement with the Federal Trade Commission! Unless they are prepared to give up the North American market,

Otherwise, you will definitely cooperate with us!”

In real history, in order to obtain the court's understanding, Nintendo had to cooperate with many American counterparts and authorized the game development kits for the SFC Super Nintendo and GameBoy platforms, leaving varying amounts of access quotas for American game software companies.

These preferential conditions have always been reserved for Japanese manufacturers. Even large companies like EA cannot easily obtain Nintendo's authorization.

So Yang Yun saw this opportunity and gave Nintendo a hard chop. I don’t know when the next time such a good thing happens again.

Alexei finally relaxed a little when he saw Yang Yun's calm and steady look.

But Yang Yun's next words almost made him jump: "Even if we really refuse, we happen to be cooperating with Sega EA and the others, and I haven't visited the EA laboratory yet!"

Collapsed again...

It is a cooperation of at least 50 million US dollars. If you give up, you will give up. Alexei cannot do such a big deal.

Yang Yun smiled: "You're kidding, I don't want to hand over Tetris to Sega! By the way, how many US dollars do I have in my personal account now?"

Isn’t this playing tricks on people?

Alexei felt like crying, and tried to calm himself down, saying: "1.05 million US dollars, I also have 250,000 US dollars, I will lend it to you if you need it."

Yang Yun patted his arm: "No, I'd better use my own private property to cooperate with Parker."

Card games must be mastered by oneself. Even the Parker Brothers cannot take the majority. Otherwise, how will the marketing strategy of selling Three Kingdoms and bundled sales of Three Kingdoms be implemented in the future?

Alexei shrugged: "Yang, you are really a business genius. Downey's Toy Store has sold 1 million US dollars, right? How much can I give you?"

Yang Yun laughed loudly: "After excluding various costs of the 1 million, George is willing to give me 250,000, but I plan to invest in the new card factory. With the 1.05 million, I can hold 65%."

Alexey was convinced: "Let Parker Brothers be your distributor, and your Longteng company will immediately have a global game toy sales channel! Yang, you are really a natural businessman!"

Yang Yun smiled: "Thank you for the compliment!"

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Arakawa Minoru came to New York for the third time. He now hates this city quite a lot, but even if he crosses the entire continent of the United States, he has to come. His head is getting more and more painful these days. If KTT is not solved, he may have to live there.

Entered the hospital to rest.

Alexei received him, still with a lukewarm expression, without saying a word, waiting for Minoru Arakawa to take the initiative to speak.

"Mr. Pagitzhov, will you make any new requests this time?"

The words were full of anger and disgust, but there was a faint message that Nintendo had surrendered!

Alexey suppressed his excitement and said calmly: "As long as Nintendo is willing to transfer The Legend of Zelda and Contra, we will not make any new demands."

Minoru Arakawa tried hard to restrain his anger: "We will not transfer The Legend of Zelda. This is the Contra licensing agreement, and this is our final bottom line!"

"OK, let's talk about cooperation. Half for each person, 50% for each person. How about setting the new company's registered place in New York? This international metropolis is much bigger than Redmond, Seattle. I've even found an office location.

! But for the sake of fairness, how about we hire Price Waterhouse International Accounting Firm to settle in? Come-on! We are already the best partners, don’t show a poker face, okay? If we start business one day earlier, Nintendo will

We will get the FTC’s understanding one day early…”

When he saw that he was ready, Alexei immediately changed his face to a smile, and treated himself as his master, taking care of him with ease.

This negotiation was really easy and perfect, exactly as Yang Yun expected!

What else can Minoru Arakawa say? KTT has even arranged the funeral arrangements, which can only mean that this is something that KTT has anticipated long ago, and they are taking advantage of the situation!

But knowing that the other party has evil intentions and taking advantage of the situation, what can Nintendo do?

Arakawa Minoru could only fight hard to have the new company set up under his nose. On the pretext that Seattle-Redmond has developed transportation and facilitates the shipping of Japanese products, he won over the inconsequential condition of the company's location, which saved a bit of face.

This is an unprecedented shame in Nintendo's history!

Arakawa Minoru endured the physical discomfort, exchanged preliminary opinions on cooperation with Alexei, and set an official signing date, just three days later!

After Minoru Arakawa left, Alexey couldn't believe what happened.

What seemed to him to be basically impossible was actually completed bit by bit under Yang Yun's remote control command!

Although he himself feels that Tetris and Super Mario are almost completely equivalent games, there is no meaning of exchange and sharing at all, and the sales of Contra on the Nintendo 8-bit FC platform are not outstanding. Compared with Tetris and Super Mario,

, it’s not a game of the same level at all. Even if it became his own and got it, he didn’t feel that he had taken advantage of it.

But this incident at least made Nintendo bow its head, and as Yang Yun said, KTT took the opportunity to enter the animation, game and toy peripheral industry. In any case, it has gained a little!

"Yang! You did it!"

"We did it!"

"Yes! I did it! I brought Nintendo to its knees!"

"Alexei, it seems that your illness is not serious. I did it, okay? Thank you!"

The two of them were talking excitedly in the KTT office. They punched each other, slapped each other, and their penetrating screams made the employees working outside excited. They spread the news to each other: KTT was officially cooperating with Nintendo.

!

After defeating the landowners, the next step is of course to divide the fields.

Yang Yun said: "Help me arrange a meeting with EA and let me attend as your senior consultant."

Alexey laughed loudly: "Yang! I have seen through this trick. Sega is destined to be the unlucky one who is tied up again, right? You have done this trick in the capital, and you have not considered Sega at all.

Within the plan!”

Yang Yun smiled mysteriously and imitated Lu Meng from "Three Kingdoms" and said, "Have I really been... seen through?"

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EA, Electronic Arts, and President Larry Probst received a call from Alexei, and both parties happily made an appointment to meet at EA headquarters at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon.

After hanging up the phone, Alexei put on his coat, stood up and said, "Hurry up and get ready, this time it's our turn to travel across the United States. This will be a long journey."

EA is headquartered in San Mateo, a small town next to San Francisco, California. It is located between San Francisco and Silicon Valley. It is 4,000 kilometers away from New York and takes five or six hours by plane.

Yang Yun thought for a while and said, "Why don't you let Fujita Qi go with us? Some things are more convenient to talk about together."

It's easy to make an appointment with Fujita Sai, but Sega is on pins and needles these days, full of expectations for KTT's negotiations, and hopes and fears coexist.

Upon hearing Alexei's call, Fujita Qi and Peter rushed over immediately, ready to accept this disturbing result.

Yang Yun did not disclose any information about the outcome of the negotiations, but instead asked: "What is the relationship between Sega and EA? I need a clear answer. To explain in Chinese proverb, I am afraid of accidentally hurting my teammates. To be honest, we are preparing to order two

Get a ticket to San Francisco.”

This problem was acutely discovered when Yang Yun asked Sai Fujita for help after his first negotiation with Nintendo.

At first, Yang Yun asked who should pay for the multi-million dollar bill, Fujita pretended to be stupid, and Peter said he couldn't help.

Then Yang Yun lied and said that EA agreed, so Fujita Sai's expression changed drastically and he immediately said that he would ask the headquarters for instructions.

Yang Yun vaguely felt that Sega seemed to be quite wary of EA, and there must be some hidden secrets that he didn't know, so he did not disclose the results of Nintendo's negotiations, but in front of Sai Fujita, he proposed to go to San Francisco to meet with EA.

Must know why!

Sure enough, Fujita Sai's expression changed drastically. Although he tried hard to restrain himself, the bulging blood vessels in his neck, his slightly trembling body, and his desperate expression made Yang Yun understand one thing. Sega did not want to see EA grow.

, EA is a great threat to them!

Yang Yun waited quietly, while Alexey and Peter were thoughtful.

Fujita Sai finally recovered and said: "This is not a secret anymore, and it doesn't hurt to say it. EA intends to enter the video game console industry. This year, it has contacted many hardware manufacturers and is even preparing to purchase Atari production lines."

Yang Yun was surprised: "Atari, a bankrupt company, does EA want to bring it back from hell? Others don't know. Don't you, Sega, don't know how much money it costs to make hardware and platforms? How many years has EA been established?

?Six years, or seven years? Are they overestimating their capabilities?"

Sai Fujita shook his head: "You don't know something. EA is preparing to go public and has found investors to join forces to acquire the Atari production line. This investor is Warner Corporation."

hiss……

Yang Yun was also shocked. What does Warner mean? When Atari went bankrupt, Warner sold it, and now it is teaming up with EA to reacquire Atari?

Could it be that I am not running the business well, so I found a master like EA and then I can get back on my feet?

It’s hard to say that EA got help from Warner and successfully went public. EA also has rich experience in game production. Now it wants to enter the video game industry. The two parties joined forces to reacquire Atari, revive the glory of the United States, and sell American-made game consoles.

Globally, it is not impossible.

Yang Yun thought for a while and asked: "Alexei, you have cooperated with EA. Are they really ready to enter the video game industry?"

Alexei nodded: "Maybe, I heard that they provide game software to Nintendo."

What?

Is EA in the Nintendo camp? Yang Yun couldn't believe his ears and looked at Sai Fujita in surprise. Sure enough, Sai Fujita gave an affirmative answer.

Yang Yun's mind was spinning rapidly. Now was the critical moment after the fight against the rich to divide the property. Should he regard EA as a tiger, or should he try to turn him into a friend?