Chapter Ninety-Six: Super Mario

On May 31, Li Guangyu returned to Xiangjiang, and Li Guangyu has no plans to leave Xiangjiang this year. The next thing Li Guangyu will be busy with is his marriage and Li Ka-shing's acquisition of Hutchison Whampoa.

The next morning, Li Guangyu came to the International Building Xingyu Group to learn about the company's situation during this time.

Li Guangyu was still very satisfied after listening to the reports of various departments of the company in the meeting. In the past five months, the total profit of Xingyu Group has exceeded 1.3 billion Hong Kong dollars, and the company is in the process of developing home game consoles and PC versions in an orderly manner.

After the meeting, Li Guangyu came to Li Xuemei's office and said to her: "Xuemei, the game group has developed very well under your leadership, and I am very relieved that the group has your leadership." ”

Li Xuemei is not proud of this, because last year, Xingyu Group was still the No. 1 profit under the Li Group. In the past five months, Xiangyu Group has made a profit of more than 1.7 billion Hong Kong dollars due to the best-selling toys.

Li Xuemei also found that Xingyu Group's current products are too simple, mainly on arcade machines. I only hope that the company can develop the home game machine as soon as possible, so as to increase the group's new profit points, and then compete with Xiangyu Group.

"Li Sheng, I will urge the R&D department to complete the development of home game consoles as soon as possible and open up the market in this area as soon as possible. Li Xuemei said.

Li Guangyu is also more concerned about this, because from the 80s, arcade machines will gradually decline, and the home game console market will go to glory. The reason why Lee Guangyu did not agree to cooperate with Nintendo was that he was unwilling to give up the home game console market.

"Now that I have enough money in the group's account, I don't have any new expansion plans at the moment. If you increase your investment in this area, you can also let the RB branch tap talents and ensure the quality of our group's first product,"

Li Xuemei heard that Li Guangyu would no longer transfer funds from the group's account, and she was more confident in the development of the group. Since becoming the management of the company, Li Guangyu has continuously withdrawn funds from the group's account to expand other industries. This was the case in the Xiangyu Group in the past, and now it is also the case in the Xingyu Group.

Although the two groups make money, there is not much money within the group, and Li Guangyu is all transferred away, and many times the development has to be carefully calculated.

"Li Sheng rest assured, I will increase my investment in this area in the future, and I will contact Ms. Qin Jiao and ask her to help us find talents in this area at RB, and ask the Fujiwara family for help if necessary. Li Xuemei said.

Li Guangyu saw that Li Xuemei paid enough attention to this, so he asked about game development.

"Xuemei, how is Mr. Yamamoto's game development?"

Li Xuemei saw Li Guangyu ask about the game development company, and replied: "Donkey Kong 2 of Manager Shigeru Yamamoto has been completed, and we will go on sale in the United States this month." ”

Li Guangyu was also very happy to hear that Donkey Kong 2 was about to be sold, after all, this is also one more product for the company. However, he is most concerned about how the Super Mario developed by Shigeru Yamamoto is progressing, after all, this is a gold-absorbing machine.

Lee asked, "How is Shigeru Yamamoto's development of Super Mario?"

"Li Sheng, regarding the development of Super Mario, Manager Shigeru Yamamoto's team is in the process of development, and Manager Shigeru Yamamoto expects to be able to complete the development of this game by the end of this year. Li Xuemei said.

Li Guangyu is already very satisfied with this progress, although there are some suggestions from Li Guangyu, but it still takes a lot of time to develop a product, and some games need to be developed for a few years, and Shigeru Yamamoto is fast.

Li Guangyu asked: "In addition to the development of Super Mario, does Xuemei currently have any other games in the company?"

"Mr. Li, in addition to the team led by Shigeru Yamamoto who is developing Super Mario, we have two other teams working on new games. One is the Twelfth Street Fighter you talked about, and there's a team working on a Pac-Man game. ”

Lee Kwang Woo is clear about Street Fighter, but Lee Kwang Woo is not very clear about Pac-Man.

"Xuemei, who came up with this game?" asked Li Guangyu.

"Li Sheng, the proposer of the game Pac-Man, was poached by our company from RB Nangong Dream Game Company this year. Some of his game ideas were not recognized by Nangong Meng, so he came to our company. Li Xuemei said.

Lee Kwang Woo also doesn't know how this game is, he didn't play it when he was a kid in his previous life.

Lee Kwang Woo asked, "So how does he position the game?"

Li Xuemei replied, "Mr. Toru Iwatani has positioned this game as a product mainly for women. ”

Li Guangyu for this positioning, the product does not know whether it is good or bad, can only be developed to see, if the product is developed cold, then it can only be considered unlucky, the current company in a game failure can not affect the company's development.

Li Guangyu then asked about Xingyu Printed Circuit Board Company.

"Li Sheng, at present, our company's own production of printed circuit boards is only for our own group use, due to management and staff production reasons, our company's pass rate has not been ideal, resulting in our high costs, slightly higher than imports from RB. Li Xuemei said.

"I also know that when I was at RB, I also talked to Mr. Takeshi Yamadahara, the president of Seiko Epson. After communicating with President Yamada, from the second half of the year, we will send some of the company's middle-level but Seiko Epson companies to study, and they will also send experts to our company for guidance. Li Guangyu said.

Li Xuemei was also relieved when she heard Li Guangyu say this, Li Sheng's so many companies were dragging their feet on Xingyu Printed Circuit Board Company, if it weren't for the support of the group, the company would not be able to develop at all.

"I will pass on your news to the company, and in the middle of this month, our group will conduct an assessment of the middle level of the printed circuit board company. In the next month, select outstanding personnel to study at RB. At the same time, we made some preparations for the experts sent by Seiko Epson. Strive to ensure that the company's products are of the same quality at a lower price than our imports from RB by the end of this year. Li Xuemei replied.

Li Guangyu knew that this matter was not in a hurry, Xiangjiang was still far away from RB in terms of electronics, and the employees did not know much about this aspect.

"If you don't put too much pressure on the company, let them study hard, we can always catch up. Li Guangyu said.

Li Xuemei replied, "I know, Li Sheng. ”

At noon, Li Guangyu and the senior management of Xingyu Group went to the restaurant next to him for lunch. This is also the second time that Li Guangyu has dined with these high-level executives after a few months.