Chapter 178: After My Flowers Bloom, a Hundred Flowers Kill !! (Ask for Subscription)
In the 80s of the 20th century, the Japanese economy seemed to be hanging up, which can be called against the sky, creating an economic myth, and the Japanese even threatened to buy the entire United States!
In the mid-to-late '80s, Japan bought two-thirds of Hawaii's beach area of luxury restaurants, a large number of buildings, large restaurants, shopping centers, golf courses, livestock farms and plantations. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info1/5 of the millions of travelers who visit Hawaii each year are Japanese. Many Americans are deeply concerned about the Japanese attacking Hawaii again. The mayor of Honolulu said, "The city of Honolulu is about to become a ward in Tokyo." Hawaii has become a "paradise" for Japanese people to recuperate, like a "new colony".
The mainland of the United States is also in an emergency, and the city has been lost one after another.
Mitsubishi paid $846 million to buy a 51% stake in New York's Rockefeller Center, which is known as the "symbol of wealth" and "symbol of America"; Sony spent $3.4 billion to buy Columbia Pictures, known as the "soul of America"; Panasonic Corporation paid $6.1 billion to acquire Universal Pictures in the United States; the loss of the ABC Building; Citibank headquarters building changed flags; The headquarters of the Mobile Oil Company collapsed......
Professor Ezra F. Vogel, a well-known expert on Japanese studies at Harvard University in the United States, published a monograph entitled "Japan as Number One." As soon as the book came out, it immediately caused a sensation in the United States and became one of the best-selling books in the United States that year.
In response to the challenge from Japan, the United States adopted a policy of depreciation of the dollar to increase the export competitiveness of its products in order to improve the imbalance of the United States' balance of payments, which was signed in 1985. In fact, the dollar has been depreciating since the 70s......
For Li Zetian, if the Japanese want to buy the United States, he will buy Japan!
Invest the yen earned from the game in Japanese real estate and wait until a year or two before the real estate bubble bursts!!
Li Zetian didn't take the opportunity to make a profit, it was simply intolerable.
The news of the contact between Flamingo and Japanese retailers quickly spread, and the media were surprised that Flamingo had chosen Japan for the first launch of the console.
American newspaper public opinion expressed dissatisfaction with this, obviously it is an American company, why did it choose Japan to release a game console?
The Japanese media were very proud.
"Japan's economy is developing rapidly, the Japanese are richer than the Americans, and the purchasing power is stronger, and the Flamingo company chose to release game consoles in Japan, which undoubtedly shows the strong !! of the Japanese economy," some experts and professors hyped up.
United States, Warner Bros.
"Mr. Kevin Smith, what do you think about the Flamingo releasing consoles in Japan?"
"Oh, that's funny!"
Warner Bros. CEO Kevin Smith laughed loudly, "Obviously, the Flamingo Company was afraid of the Sunbird Company and did not dare to face the enemy head-on, so it ran to Japan." In the United States, the Atari 2600 dominates the market, and no third-party game developers are willing to develop games for Flamingo. In Japan, the Atari 2600 has the largest market share, but it does not have such an influence in the United States, so Japanese third-party game developers may be willing to develop games for Flamingo! Hmph, I thought Flamingo was so powerful, I swore to challenge Sunbird's position before, but I didn't expect to be a coward!"
The media added fuel to the remark, and then it made the headlines of the newspapers, and the industry was in an uproar.
Media reporters flocked to Flamingo to interview CEO Nolan Bushnell.
"Mr. Bushnell, why did Flamingo release the game console in Japan first? Is it as Warner Bros. CEO Kevin Smith said, Flamingo was afraid of Sunbird and didn't dare to fight, so it went to Japan?" the reporters scrambled to ask.
Nolan Bushnell's expression was calm, and he said calmly: "No, it's just a strategy of the company." The Japanese game market is second only to the United States, and Flamingo attaches great importance to the Japanese market, so it is considered to release the game in Japan first. ”
"Mr. Bushnell, you said it yourself, the United States is the biggest game market? Is there something wrong with Flamingo's strategy? Or is Flamingo a coward, as Kevin Smith said, afraid to fight Sunbird head-on?"
Nolan Bushnell frowned, he was upset that these reporters were always chasing the same question.
At this time, Li Zetian walked out of the company.
As soon as the reporters saw him, they rushed forward one after another, holding the microphone, wanting to interview him.
Li Zetian said lightly: "If you want to fight, after Christmas, Sunbird Company will be removed from the list of overlords in the game industry!!"
As soon as the words fell, the audience was in an uproar!
Removed from the list of gaming overlords!!
What a big breath!
Everyone looked at Li Zetian in surprise and wanted to continue interviewing him, but he had already turned around and walked into the company at this time!
It doesn't matter, that sentence just now is already hot enough to make headlines!
On the same day, major media in the United States quoted Li Zetian's sentence one after another.
As soon as the newspaper came out, the industry was shocked.
Warner Bros. CEO Kevin Smith couldn't help but be furious when he saw the newspaper!
"Okay, then we'll wait and see!! Kevin Smith laughed angrily, and ordered Sunbird to speed up game development, be sure to develop 20 games to stop Flamingo before Christmas, and at the same time give an ultimatum to all third-party game developers, whoever dares to develop games for Flamingo will be banned!!
As soon as the ban order came out, most of the third-party game developers were frightened, although they were very unhappy, but they were afraid of Warner Bros. 's obscenity, so they naturally didn't dare to disobey the order!
There is no such thing as an airtight wall, and Warner Bros. has been reported.
The journalists came to the Flamingo company again.
In an interview, Nolan Bushnell said: "Hello journalists, I will not say much here, but I will relay to you an ancient Chinese poem that Chronos Li once said! He said, 'When autumn comes, September 8, I will bloom and kill a hundred flowers!' Warner Bros. thinks that Sunbird is a competitor of Flamingo, but in fact, we don't take it seriously. After the release of the Flamingo console, not only the Atari 2600, but all the consoles on the market will be reduced to garbage and scrap!!"
Damn, so awesome?!
After the release of the Flamingo console, all other consoles will be reduced to garbage and scrap?
This breath is just a blast!
Everyone was in an uproar, daring to love the Flamingo company not to take any competitors in their eyes!
The news immediately reached Kevin Smith's ears, and his face turned red with anger.
"Chronos・Li is just a big talk, why does Flamingo dare to call the world's game consoles?"
As for why?
Kevin Smith soon learned.
On November 1st, the Flamingo-1 home game console was fully launched in Japan, and at the same time, a total of 11 games were released: "Super Mario", "Contra", "Tank Wars", "Double Dragon", "Saroman Snake", "Metroid", "The Legend of Zelda", "Pac-Man", "Donkey Kong", "Super Arkanoid", and "Chinese Cube". The first 7 games are all new games, and the last 4 games have been improved, and the game graphics are better looking and more fun.
First of all, the Flamingo-1 console outperforms all other consoles on the market with excellent graphics, and secondly, the 11 games released are classics, each of which is a game that players can't put down, they have never played such a fun game, as if overnight, the game world opened a door and entered a new era.
As soon as the Flamingo-1 game console was released, it immediately caused a sensation in Japan, and countless Japanese players went crazy and snapped up it.
Almost all the shops have a long queue of tens of meters, especially Akihabara, which is the most impressive.
Akihabara is Japan's most famous electric street with thousands of electronics stores, and at this moment, it is simply shocking that this is the first time this has happened in Akihabara's history.
In addition, Flamingo has released a variety of game novels and comics, which has further piqued the enthusiasm and interest of players!
At the end of the day, the Flamingo Company announced its sales to the public, selling 1.05 million Flamingo-1 consoles and 9.55 million game cartridges along with 3.6 million game novels and 660 game comics.
As soon as the news came out, the entire game industry couldn't help but be in an uproar.
Astound!
Afraid!
Unbelievable!
Nolan Bushnell, CEO of Flamingo, said: "Since it was the first day of the console launch, many Japanese gamers had not received the news yet, otherwise the sales would have been higher. However, there is no doubt that with the game's good reputation, there will be more sales in the next few days than on the first day!"
Warner Bros. was the first to receive the news, and CEO Kevin Smith showed an incredulous expression, and he even repeatedly asked "whether the news is true" three times. When he learned that the news was accurate, his expression was gloomy, and he fell into his chair.
The Atari 2600 sold a maximum of 200,000 units during the Christmas sale, and the best sales in Japan were only 50,000 units a day. This is a world of difference compared to the Flamingo-1 game console.
Not to mention how Japanese newspapers are reporting on Flamingo at the moment, the headlines of American newspapers have already written: "Flamingos are popular in Japan, and Sunbirds are about to fall !!"
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