"Xu Sheng, there is a Yankee at the front desk downstairs, saying that it is Atari in the United States, clamoring to see you?"

Although it has been a month since he was exposed by the Oriental Daily, there are still some people who come to me occasionally for an interview for a few days, all of which are rejected by Xu Zhi, and at the same time, it is decided that no matter who he is, if he wants to see him, he must make an appointment!

Of course, Xu Zhi knew about Atari and said, "Let him in!"

"Okay. ”

......

After a while, a Western ghost guy with a height of 1.85 meters was brought into Xu Zhi's office by Xiao Zhang.

Mister Xu, under Michael Jeff, marketing manager for Atari in the United States. The visitor shook hands and said.

Xu Zhi shook his hand and said, "Please take a seat!"

Michael smiled: "This is the first time I have come to Xiangjiang, but when I was in the United States, I once heard that there is a city in Asia, although the population is only 5 million people, but the business is very developed, and several world ship kings and trade tycoons have been born.

These are actually polite words before the opening remarks, just a piece of water, so as not to be embarrassed!

Xu Zhi said with a smile: "The geographical location of Xiangjiang determines that it must have great potential in business, coupled with the hard work of the Chinese, some successful people must be normal." ”

Michael said: "But no matter how hard you work, you can't achieve such an achievement at such a young age like Mr. Xu, and create a wonderful game like Xiangjiang Cube!"

Xu Zhi was too lazy to talk nonsense, and asked directly, "Mr. Jeff is here for the Xiangjiang Cube?"

Michael nodded and said: "Yes, Xiangjiang Cube now has a large number of players in the United States, but they can only go to the arcade hall to experience this kind of game, in our Atari view, the game should be given to every ordinary person, so we Atari intends to transplant the game of Xiangjiang Cube to our latest home game console, so that more players can better experience the game of Xiangjiang Cube!"

And so it was. Xu Zhi actually guessed the other party's possible purpose from the beginning, but still asked: "Does Atari want to buy out the copyright of Xiangjiang Cube on the home game console?"

Michael nodded and said: "Yes, our company is willing to pay $2 million to buy the copyright of Xiangjiang Square in FC, Mr. Xu, this price is already the highest price for our Atari game software, and it is estimated that it will be difficult to appear again in the future." ”

"It's only 2 million..."Xu Zhi didn't bother to be verbose, and directly refused: "I'm sorry, I'm not interested." If it's okay, I'll have a date right away. ”

Seeing that Xu Zhi was about to drive people away, Michael hurriedly said: "Mr. Xu, the price matter can actually be talked about again!"

Xu Zhidao: "There's nothing to talk about, I just don't want to sell, so there's no need to waste time here." ”

Michael asked, "Why? Millions of dollars, isn't Mr. Xu tempted?"

Xu Zhi shook his head and said: "A few million dollars is good, but our company's main product is the arcade machine in this area, if this game is transplanted to the home game console, who will come to the arcade hall to play the game? Who will come to buy our arcade machine?"

Michael naturally knew this problem and said: "Mr. Xu, any game has a life on the arcade, if Mr. Xu is worried about such a problem, then we can negotiate cooperation first, and when the arcade market changes in the future, we Atari will release the game cartridge, isn't this the best of both worlds?"

Xu Zhi smiled: "Then you can wait until then, Mr. Jeff, I'm going out?"

Seeing that he couldn't convince the other party, Michael could only take out a business card and say, "Mr. Xu, if you change your mind, please feel free to contact me......"

......

Although it was fake to tell Michael that "there was a date", everyone knew it, but it was still a real trip, Xu Zhi wandered around the building after leaving the office and came to He Guoyuan's office.

He Guoyuan was processing some of the company's documents, and when he saw Xu Zhi coming, he asked, "What happened when Xu Sheng came over?"

"It's nothing, I'm annoyed by a ghost guy, come out for a walk!" Xu Zhi said with a smile, and slowly told He Guoyuan what happened just now.

After listening to this, He Guoyuan smiled and said: "This ghost has a good eye, in fact, I also think that our Xiangjiang cubes are more suitable for family game consoles, arcade machines are too expensive for ordinary players, and game consoles only need to pay the money of the cartridge at one time, and you can play as much as you want in the future!"

"The same cannot be said. Xu Zhi said: "In fact, all games are better experienced on game consoles, after all, as long as you pay the cost once, which is like an arcade machine, one or two coins per game, this kind of gameplay is more suitable for companies to make money."

Think about it again, which one is not more comfortable to play at home, which one is not more comfortable to play at home, the old Arkanoid Blocker, the now popular Space Invaders and our upcoming tank battle Pac-Man?"

He Guoyuan nodded and smiled: "Yes, but after all, we are capitalists, and arcade machines are the best profits! But if in the arcade market, our games have shrunk, do we really want to sell this game to a company like Atari?"

Xu Zhi turned the pen in his hand and asked, "What do you say?"

He Guoyuan said: "I think we should develop our own home game console, so as to really maximize profits!"

"Yes, ambitious!" Xu Zhi smiled: "Actually, I also have this plan, I originally wanted to wait until the tank battle and Pac-Man were released before starting, but the people from Atari came, but it reminded me that the development of game consoles is not something that can be successful overnight, we can do it first." ”

He Guoyuan nodded and said, "Okay, I will set up this department and start developing home game consoles." ”

Xu Zhidao: "At present, there are still not enough talents in this area here in Xiangjiang, and I think we can poach professionals in this area from Japan and the United States, especially Atari, which they released last year The Atari-2600 is very successful, and there must be a lot of people with development experience." ”

He Guoyuan said: "If you want to go to the United States to poach people, I'm afraid it's difficult, right?"

Xu Zhidao: "Not necessarily, Atari's achievements are indeed very high now, but their company's treatment of technical employees is not good, as far as I know, many people have left their jobs to start their own businesses, so you can send people to the United States to see, if the Yankees are not willing to come to Xiangjiang to work, you can also set up a branch there, let them study in the United States, and Xiangjiang can communicate with them in the interval." ”

He Guoyuan said: "Okay, I'll arrange someone to go immediately!"

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