Super Tycoon

Larry Prost, the chairman of EA at this time, is also one of the three founders of EA. At this time, he brought two bodyguards to a hotel.

After finding the corresponding room, I saw two black bodyguards standing at the door of that room.

"Is it Mr. Zhang's room from Zhi Duoxing? Please let me know that Larry Prost is here."

The bodyguard hung a walkie-talkie on his waist, and after speaking a word into the headset microphone, the door opened within ten seconds.

"Mr. Prost, hello. Please come here. I hope you understand."

Of course Prost understands that Zhang Yang is not suitable to appear in their company with great fanfare, just like he would not go to Zhiduoxing's company headquarters in North America.

It is obviously more appropriate to meet in private.

"Mr. Zhang, I heard from Bob that you didn't have a very pleasant chat. I came here this time to clear up the misunderstanding from last time."

Bob, the CEO of EA, had a harsh talk with Zhang Yang before. At that time, he also invited Zhang Yang to join 3DO on behalf of EA, but Zhang Yang refused.

I heard that Zhang Yang met Hawkins again two days ago, but they still broke up unhappy. The current 3DOS is full of difficulties.

"It's nothing, it's just some small misunderstanding, I've already forgotten it."

Prost smiled. If you really forgot, why did you contact me this time instead of Bob? Of course, there is no need to say these words.

"Mr. Zhang, then I'll get straight to the point. Our company has a batch of games that can be licensed to Zhiduoxing Company to run on Zhiduoxing G."

"However, with all due respect, because the graphics display function of your company's game console is the weakest on mainstream home game consoles at this time, some games may not be able to run on it."

"We can only authorize some substandard games, it's not that we are unwilling to authorize more fun games to you."

Zhang Yang nodded to express his understanding: "I hope this authorization is a one-time buyout. Since they are all old games, can EA make some concessions in terms of price?"

Prost shook his head: "Mr. Zhang, even the old games are high-quality products. At least in terms of sports games, we are second to none in the world. Your company's game consoles just happen to lack this type."

I have you, this is my advantage.

"It's a pity that these games are not exclusively licensed. They already exist on other people's game consoles. Running them on our game consoles is nothing more than icing on the cake. I can't offer a high price."

Of course those games can sell, he plans to release a collection, and it will be no problem to sell millions of discs. If you earn ten dollars a piece, tens of millions of profits will come.

So the cost for him to buy these games must not be too high. If it costs several million to buy out a game, and after more than a dozen games, isn't his work in vain?

Those are not considered to be masterpieces of games, and they will not help the sales of consoles much. Zhang Yang will not do this kind of loss-making business.

Prost stirred the coffee in front of him with a spoon: "Mr. Zhang, your company's new game console is planned to be launched next year. When exactly?"

"It may be the first half of the year, or it may be the second half of the year. It has not been decided yet." Zhang Yang will not give a definite answer, which is also a business secret of Zhiduoxing Company.

Sometimes a time to market is also very important. If competitors also take some measures at that time, it will have a great impact on the sales of Zhiduoxing.

It must be launched in the second half of next year at the latest, because Souni has announced that their PS2 will be launched in the millennium, and Zhiduoxing wants to seize the time advantage.

In fact, the reason why Sunny has accelerated the development of PS2 is because Sega Bandai's Uranus is too outstanding in terms of 3D performance.

If Souni doesn't have a new console, their PS1 will soon become obsolete. Now the price of PS1 has dropped again, only $119. Relying on the price advantage, they regained some market.

However, Zhang Yang has already made a response here. The price of Zhiduoxing G has also been reduced to 119 US dollars, and the price of Zhiduoxing GMINI is 149 US dollars.

When Zhiduoxing G2 is launched, the production of Zhiduoxing G will be officially discontinued, and the price of Zhiduoxing GMNI may also be lowered again, to see who can compete with them in terms of price.

The console price is low, not only Nintendo can do it, Zhiduoxing can also do it. They didn't lose money when the price was lowered, it's just that the host didn't make a profit.

Therefore, Zhang Yang needs to find more games for the Zhiduoxing series, relying on game sales to make up for the loss of console sales, so as to ensure the company's operating profits.

The profit of Zhiduxing G series, including games, does not reach 20% of the net profit, which is indeed much worse than Nintendo.

Nintendo has always had only about 5,000 employees, and the number has not changed significantly for many years. Calculated according to the per capita output value, it is several times that of Zhiduoxing.

Zhang Yang also hopes to build Zhiduoxing Group into a high-margin enterprise like Nintendo, and take the elite route, so many of the company's work will have to be outsourced.

The number of Zhiduo Xingguang's factory workers is more than 15,000. Some have retired in the past two years, and they have tried their best to control the entry of personnel, but it is still a long time away from the scale of less than 10,000 in his mind.

In terms of games, he also doesn't want the company's team to continue to grow rapidly. Small but sophisticated is the future.

Prost picked up the coffee cup: "Mr. Zhang, I can give you a list of games that are currently available for sale, but you must buy them all."

"A total of eighteen games, forty-two versions, I will give you one million dollars for each, a total of forty-two million dollars, no bargaining."

"But here I can give you a promise. Next year we will launch several 3D game masterpieces, including basketball, football and other world's most popular game series. Originally, we planned to sign a contract with Sonny, and now we can give you half a year Exclusive authorization, half a year later, we will sell it to Suuni."

In half a year, Zhang Yang did some calculations. With Zhiduoxing's global synchronous distribution capabilities, tens of millions of copies should be sold in half a year, as long as the other party's game is really fun. In fact, after the first half of the year, Sunny's new game console may not be released yet, and the half-year deadline is meaningless.

According to his memory, EA's sports games at this time were indeed the top in the world. But it seems that Sunny developed it himself, so EA still didn't tell the truth.

"What kind of games are they, and how do you sell them?"

"FIFA, NBA LIVE, Need for Speed, The Sims, etc., are definitely hot items. We have to share fifteen dollars for each copy. I know this price is not low, but the price has risen now, right? I believe that Zhiduoxing The price of the game CD will definitely increase."

"Through our evaluation, I will give the licensing fee twelve dollars. We can set a guaranteed sales volume, and we can also prepay for one million copies in advance. The exclusive right to sell will be extended to one year."

Since it's a good game, Zhang Yang doesn't mind booking it first, and see what Suuni will do when the time comes.