Game Development Giant

After Guo Taiming also expressed his intention to cooperate, facing a table full of delicious food, both of them lost interest. ..?First release, dear

The negotiation process was intense and involved mutual concessions and compromises. Although it was just a rough talk and not a formal contract, neither of them wanted to weaken their momentum, and the conditions that the two of them have negotiated now are basically what the company will do in the future. The legal affairs department signed the terms of the contract with each other.

In Guo Taiming's view, he can indeed make certain concessions in terms of dividends, but Jester must also impress him with his investment.

Therefore, he unceremoniously reduced the scale of the electronic industrial park Jester invested in Shanghai by half - he just took over the land and has only just completed the first phase of the project. According to this In terms of investment, it can only be regarded as an investment of more than 10 million US dollars.

Jester has no objection to this. He originally enclosed the land in Shanghai not because he really wanted to build such a large industrial park. If Pudong had not been included in the development plan, he wanted to build a five-year industrial park. It is too difficult to reach Qiping, so Jester will definitely circle it along both sides of the Huangpu River.

However, the current location is not bad, and it will be included in the Shanghai Center in the future. For Guo Taiming, of course there is no problem. After all, Jester's early construction has shortened his time by almost a year, because he will be able to formally negotiate cooperation with the mainland by the end of this year. If he can really cooperate with Jester If so, then he can directly use the identity of the Hong Kong company to proceed. There is no need to wait for Taiwan’s policies.

But when he heard the order quantity for the dreambox that Jester was going to place. Guo Taiming was still almost scared from ear to ear. He even repeatedly asked if his ears heard it wrong. Or maybe Jester said it wrong.

Forty million units in four years!

This is a number that Guo Taiming thinks is too joking. He even thinks that this is another insult from Jester. He has no IQ, because in his understanding, the current video game market can return to the Atari era. That’s pretty good. Atari’s 6 has been sold for so many years. It is popular in Europe and the United States, but has sold less than 20 million units, but this time Jester directly said that 40 million units will be sold in four years, which is unreasonable to him. Mr. Guo, I will do what I say, and I think it is a bit despicable for you to see an emerging industry with old eyes. Atari was once great, but they are dead. If video games If many people just want to restore the industry to the Atari era, then this dream is too trivial.

Jester said it sincerely, but this kind of talk could not convince Guo Taiming. He thought that the price offered by Jester was not enough, and an order of 40 million units would not be able to impress him, so, He shook his head, his eyes still suspicious.

Jester has nothing to do about this, although 40 million units is not a small number even for him, who is familiar with the scale of future video games. Not even Nintendo has the luxury of expecting that its FES can reach or approach it. The number 40 million.

Jester has stipulated that the lifeline of his Dreambox console as the main product is four years. The development plan he determined in the company is also based on a four-year timeline. Jester understands the future game industry. Among them, the golden lifeline of a game console is only about four to five years. Even a console with a recognized high longevity like FES was still snatched away when Sega's 16-bit console was released in the United States in 1989. Plenty of markets.

Forty million units is a value that Jester comprehensively considered based on the specific data left by fes. In the training period of the video game industry, this number is not conservative, but it must not be exaggerated.

Moreover, in its battle with Nintendo for hegemony, Sega was in an even more embarrassing position than it had been in its history. After all, their only opponent at the time was Nintendo. Under such circumstances, if Hayao Nakayama still wanted to continue using game consoles at home If we go further and further on this road, then it is inevitable to start the research and development of 16-bit computers in advance.

In Jester's memory, the Sega MD was officially released in Japan in 1988, and the US version was released in 1988. Therefore, he did not want to be like Nintendo and failed to respond to 16-bit machines. In a short period of time, If he lost almost half of the US market in a short period of time, he would naturally have to prepare early.

That's it. Faced with Guo Taiming's confused look, Jester could only continue to make his guarantee, The orders of 40 million units in the past four years can be counted as my investment amount. If I can't guarantee the average If the number is 10 million units per year, then the corresponding shares I hold will be automatically given up, what do you think?

After hearing Jester's guarantee, Guo Taiming was silent for a while and then nodded: Then let's start talking about specific investments and shares.

Jester had no objection to this.

Because Guo Taiming still has a flight at night, and this is just an intention negotiation, the specific content of the negotiation depends on the legal teams of both parties. Therefore, although there will be some quarrels in the discussion between the two, they will encounter conflicts. Large places can also be temporarily put on hold.

Therefore, before about six o'clock, the general cooperation intention was almost discussed.

Neither of them brought an assistant with them when they came, so Guo Taiming personally recorded some of the contents of the discussion, and then signed his name after Jester looked over it and it made no sense. Of course, this is not a formal contract and there is no The legal effect is just like a memorandum.

In the end, although some small aspects were still unresolved, both sides made the biggest concessions they could think of in the big direction.

Jester invested in the first phase of the electronics industrial park in Shanghai and the fifteen-year right to use the entire park, plus an order for 40 million Dreambox units in four years, plus a large amount of capital. Hon Hai Group, which invested in Guo Taiming, accounts for 40% of the total shares, while Guo Taiming and his wife account for 60% of the total shares of Hon Hai Group. Of course, although the controlling stake is still with Guo Taiming , but Jester will become the largest individual shareholder of Hon Hai Group.

However, Jester also made it clear at the same time that for the 40% of the shares he owned, he only had the voting rights for 20% of the shares, and the remaining 20% ​​of the voting rights automatically belonged to Guo Taiming. The time is twenty years. Of course, Jester made this concession, and the dividend rights of all the company's profits he owned became 50%, instead of the 40% corresponding to his 40% shares. forty.

As for the specific cash investment, Jester and Guo Taiming have not reached an agreement. In Jester's eyes, he will only contribute 40 to 50 million US dollars at most, because including his other investment amounts, it is almost as much as 100 million U.S. dollars, and Guo Taiming asked Jester to pay at least 70 million U.S. dollars. Although there is a difference of 30 million U.S. dollars, this is not a fundamental contradiction and can still be further negotiated later.

In the eyes of both parties, this specific amount of cash only shows that the two have differences in the cooperation they are planning to carry out, but the differences are not major and can be resolved through specific negotiations. Moreover, for both parties, This is not a number that cannot be compromised.

After seeing off Guo Taiming, Jester's mission in Japan was basically completed. He checked the itinerary and found that there were still two days left. Although Jester was also interested in finding a few scenic spots in Japan, But the constant trivial matters made him give up the idea temporarily, and he could only choose a special time to travel in the future.

After the marketing department of Mars Entertainment was handed over, Tamahide Yoshiro was basically free. Although Jester had decided to formally form a Japanese game development team, he would bring all the elites he recruited this time. In the United States, Tamahide Yoshiro said nothing on the surface, but deep down he still complained about him.

After all, in this way, he became a mere commander. Although his name still bears the title of President of Mars Entertainment Japan Branch, he really couldn't find anything specific to do.

Jester could only express some helplessness about this. After all, there were too few capable talents recruited through recruitment. Unlike when he relied on the reputation of American Cube to cheer up in the United States, where the game industry was basically dying. , there are many elites who have been engaged in game development, and they are like each other even though they are thousands of miles away.

Just like before, Jester asked the current R\u0026D employees in the company, especially the game planners, to plan a new game, but the game plan written by these planners was not attractive at all in Jester's eyes. , let alone these planned games. With no other choice, Jester can only ask the artists in the company to temporarily participate in the illustration design of the Japanese expansion pack in the World Storm card, and other people will also do it for the time being. Some outsourcing jobs were sent from the American head office. When the Japanese R\u0026D personnel recruited by them returned to Japan, with these elites as the core skeleton, the Japanese branch's game development could officially begin.

However, the time does not need to be too long. According to Jester's estimation, it will not take more than half a year at most. If it is faster, four or five months will be enough.

After dealing with matters in Japan, Jester is also preparing to return to the United States to officially start the research and development of Fire Emblem. )

ps: I have something busy these two days. The two chapters missing yesterday and today will be made up over the weekend.