Super Tycoon

"You mean, Sega sued several sellers of second-hand game cassettes, claiming that they violated the law? The court still accepted it?"

When Zhang Yang heard the news, Zhang Yang also looked confused. What's the reason? Are your products not allowed to be sold second-hand? If we don't like the co-authorship, we can only pile it into the warehouse or throw it away?

"Mr. Zhang, it should be for ND. Their ND is compatible with MD game cartridges. Many players have updated their game consoles now, so they sold Sega's MD. Few people buy second-hand MD, but second-hand game cartridges of MD are sold. It’s not bad, many people who bought ND bought second-hand game cartridges.”

"And it's not just Sega, Nintendo seems to be paying attention to this case. If Sega wins the case, Nintendo will follow suit to sue the seller of the second-hand game cartridges."

After Zhang Yang thought about it, he understood that Sega and Nintendo believed that the second-hand game cassette market was booming, which affected the sales of their new cassettes.

If everyone who loves to play their games buys new cartridges, they all make a huge profit. Especially Sega, their ND basically didn't sell many cassettes.

Of course, the sales of their Saturn game discs are not very good. The most popular game, VR Warrior, has sold less than two million copies.

In contrast, although Sunny doesn't have any masterpieces at present, it is actually brewing. Souni has purchased licenses from many car manufacturers and intends to launch a racing game with a collection of major sports cars.

This game is the most famous GT racing car on the Suuni platform in the previous life. The entire series has sold nearly 100 million sets, which can be regarded as a top hit.

Nintendo has a lot of popular games, many of which have exceeded one million, and there are also masterpieces with sales of over ten million.

If there is no second-hand platform, Nintendo's cassette sales can also be improved. Of course, they didn't think that they would stop selling second-hand game cartridges by letting others do so, but they had to go through a second authorization.

In other words, if you sell our company's second-hand game cassettes, you must also give us a dividend, otherwise you will infringe our game copyright.

In fact, second-hand game cartridges have indeed affected the sales of new game cartridges. But it seems unreasonable to ask second-hand sellers to ask for dividends again in this way.

"Then where will they hold the court, the United States or the island country?" Zhang Yang asked.

He was particularly interested in this news. It would be a ghost if this kind of thing can be successful. He didn't even know how there was a court to accept this case.

How can there be a lawyer to take this kind of lawsuit.

"There are all of them, mainly in the United States. I heard that those second-hand sellers have also hired well-known lawyers. I guess some of them will fight this case."

When Matsutajiri Satoshi heard the news, he also thought it was a joke. How the hell do you still care about second-hand sales?

When someone buys your cassette, whether you want to play it yourself, give it away, or throw it away is the power of others, and you can control it. Now that they have sold it, what's the problem?

Although the interests of Sega and other companies have indeed been affected, there are so many second-hand goods buyers and sellers in the world, and I have never heard of anyone suing second-hand sellers for this reason. There is no such legal support!

However, many places in Europe and the United States have a legal system of the sea. They do not have clear and detailed legal provisions.

Under normal circumstances, the jury will find some people who are innocent and have no interest in the parties, but this kind of thing is not sure, and one person may be bribed.

But it is not realistic to try to bribe all the juries. After all, not everyone is willing to take the risk of breaking the law to get money. What's more, many cases can continue to be appealed. If they are caught in the future, they will also go to jail.

It is precisely because of this legal system that we often see some weird judgments, which is why the status of lawyers here is so high.

There is a saying here, everyone needs a doctor and a lawyer in their life.

"Okay, you can pay attention, let's not get involved in this kind of thing. By the way, are our second-hand game discs selling well?" Zhang Yang asked with great interest.

"It's okay, not too good, not too bad. The main reason is that our game CDs are sold relatively cheaply, and those second-hand dealers can't make too much profit, so naturally they are not willing to do it. The biggest impact of this is Sega and Nintendo."

Zhang Yang squeezed his chin and said into the microphone: "What do you think if we support those second-hand sellers?"

Matsuda Jiri was stunned for a moment: "Mr. Zhang, then you will completely tear yourself apart from your colleagues."

Zhang Yang smiled: "Do you think there is still a possibility for us to cooperate? Sega Bandai has once again become the second in the industry at this time, and is planning to launch an impact on the number one Nintendo."

"On consoles, on games, we are all competitors, and they have never considered cooperation before. The same is true for Nintendo, who wants to annex us."

"We're not friends in the first place. Why should we care about face? At this time, our solidarity with those second-hand dealers will definitely make them happy and increase their chances of winning."

"You think, once Sega wins the lawsuit, then Sega's ND may be revived, and Nintendo's game sales will also increase rapidly, which is not good for us."

"Speaking of which, we also need to take some protection measures for the product. How about adding an activation code on the game CD?" Zhang Yang also began to think about how to reduce the impact of second-hand game cassette sales on them.

All kinds of software in the previous life required a unique activation code. After a machine was registered and used, it could only run on that machine. If the machine was replaced, it would not be able to run.

Once the machine is connected to the Internet, this will become easier, and some pirated software can also be retrieved.

"Activation code? Like those computer games, right? I understand, it will make people do technology research and development in this area."

"No, I have shares in some game companies in the United States, and they have the corresponding technology. I can just buy it directly, and it won't cost much."

"Now you are concentrating on supporting those second-hand dealers in the media, and you should also support them on the Internet, so that players will spurn Sega, and by the way, bring the flames of war to Nintendo."

Zhang Yang felt that it was a pity that Suuni didn't show up, because Suuni only produced one generation of game consoles, and second-hand game CDs were traded very rarely, and the impact was minimal.

However, Suony’s recent actions are not small. In his previous life this year, Suuni’s game camp began to exert its strength, and finally suppressed the Nintendo camp. After the launch of PS2, Suuni’s revenue really surpassed Nintendo’s and leapt to the top of the industry. First.

In this life, Zhang Yang will not let Suni be the only beauty in the past.