The timeline goes back two days, to Ben, Kyoto, and Nintendo headquarters.

"Atari is actually finished! Gu Biao actually wants to make a home game console himself! Ma Lu Yeyang! Why is his luck so good?"

Yamauchi Pu was shocked to hear the bad news, and almost used all his strength to shoot the case, and he didn't realize that his palm was swollen.

He only felt a burst of blood pressure rushing to his brain, fortunately he didn't have high blood pressure, otherwise he was afraid that he would have a cerebral hemorrhage.

In Yamauchi's eyes, Atari has always been a "thousand-year empire" level existence, and in the past five or six years, the country that has ruled the home game console industry has not wavered in the slightest.

It is based on this consideration that Yamauchi Pu agreed two years ago to share the spoils with Gu Biao and Akio Morita through channels, but it is not a division of labor agreement.

Since then, Nintendo has also been positioned as a "2B business game console supplier", giving up further business development directly to end consumers.

GAME-ATCH watches have not developed much except for two electronic pets in the future, and the company has focused on copycat arcade machines to make quick money, and has lost the fighting spirit to change careers.

As for the FC red and white machine in another time and space, it is even more because it was confused by Gu Ao's smoke bomb, and it has not yet been established-although it is only three or four months later than the original history, but sometimes, the vacuum period of three or four months is very fatal.

"Yokoi Junhei, Masayuki Uemura, all come to my office!" Yamauchi Pu made an internal phone and summoned his two major cadres in charge of technology, one soft and one hard.

"I want you to immediately set up a home game console project, well, it's the same as Atari's, but it should be upgraded according to the progress of the times, and the price is the best if you use today's cost-effective ones that can highlight the game performance...... More than $100. ”

Yamauchi's task was given in a somewhat incoherent and slightly chaotic manner.

After all, his brain was indeed too messy, and he was stirred up by so many breaking news.

Gunpei Yokoi and Masayuki Uemura are obviously not as well-informed as their bosses, so they don't know what's going on yet.

Yokoi Junhei spoke more straightforwardly, and he directly questioned: "President, why did you suddenly mention this matter again? We still have two porting tasks for the arcade game of the friend merchant that are currently popular." ”

Masayuki Uemura spoke more roundaboutly, and he chose to advise in a roundabout way: "President, if you insist, we can only stop the development at hand first, and we will probably lose $8 million in order sales, and more than $500,000 in deposits and liquidated damages." ”

Yamauchi Pu changed a hand that hadn't been patted and swollen again: "Don't care about the small order at the level of 10 million US dollars, I said it very clearly - stop all R&D projects, concentrate the strength of the whole company, and develop game consoles - Atari is finished, and there is a vacuum in the global market for home game consoles!

"What?"

"How can such a thing happen?"

Gunpei Yokoi and Masanukto Uemura were taken aback.

In just a few minutes, they were on the same page with their boss.

Masayuki Uemura had a little more in his mind, and quickly thought of a suggestion: "President, in that case, we have no objection to your decision. However, the company's current shipping channel construction has seriously lagged behind, and the previous two years were all in accordance with the 2B business, and the dealers were all arcade machines.

If we want to make a transition now, should we communicate with Sony's President Morita? At least with Senior Vice President Norio Oga or Minister Nobuyuki Idei? Sony's channels for end consumers are much richer than ours, and if we can't convince Sony to help revise the contract, I'm afraid we will have to sell them in our own country first, and even if we have products, it will be difficult for us to enter the U.S. market. ”

Yamauchi Pu thought about it, and sure enough, this is the truth. He nodded: "You guys go and arrange the research and development task first, Akio Morita is not in this book at the moment, so I will talk to Nobuyuki Idei first." ”

Yokoi Junhei and Masayuki Uemura listened to the president's self-encouraging words, and they wanted to laugh but didn't dare to laugh, so they could only hold back and flash people first.

But they complained in their hearts: "Nobuyuki Idei is also the head of Sony's audio and video equipment division, okay, the Walkman is in his charge." Sony's business is many times larger than our Nintendo, and a business unit is also ...... bigger than our company."

After sending off his subordinates, Yamauchi Pu personally sold his face, first took the Shinkansen to Tokyo, and asked for various ways to visit.

After all, this time, strictly speaking, Nintendo wants to breach the contract, at least revise the previous channel cooperation agreement, and how can it be done without showing a posture of begging for help.

Yamauchi Pu is almost 60 years old, it's not easy, it took a day to find Nobuyuki Idei in Tokyo, treat and give gifts and grovel, and the other party is quite easy to talk.

In particular, Yamauchi Pu played the card of Yamato's national idea, and took the banner of "we say that my home game console may be sold into thousands of households in the United States, and win glory for the electronics industry as a whole" to brainwash Inoyuki, and Izumi Shinyuki was also quite moved.

Although, "selling household electronic devices to thousands of American households", Sony has long relied on the Walkman to do it, and they are actually not uncommon with this kind of gimmick.

Besides, if Sony hadn't done it and had a foundation, why would Yamauchi come to Sony, wouldn't he just want to take a ride.

Nobuyuki Idei said that he would reflect upwards as soon as possible, and as long as the benefits of the amendment given by Nintendo could be discussed, he would definitely promote this matter as soon as possible.

Yamauchi Pu also believed it, and invited guests to dinner in Tokyo for two days.

Then he finally got a notice from Nobuyuki Idei: Tomorrow Executive Norio Oga will fly back to Tokyo to communicate with President Yamauchi about the revision of the contract, and Executive Director Oga has the full authority of President Morita to decide everything.

……

"Senior Minister, I'm sorry to let you take time out of your busy schedule to negotiate with me on behalf of President Morita. ”

The meeting place is one of Tokyo's most exclusive restaurants, and Yamauchi specially made the best chunks of blue flag tuna belly and real sea bream sashimi.

As for sake, I didn't choose particularly expensive sake, but chose the mid-to-high-end "Shiri Matsu".

"Zi Himatsu" is a sake brewery brand that has been run by the Morita family for 15 generations and has been passed down from the middle of the Ming Dynasty in China, and is now inherited by Akio Morita's younger brother.

There is no doubt that Yamauchi Pu chose this wine to shoot Sony's sycophants.

Within Sony, almost all high-level banquets are made of Zi Risong, which is also a tacit practice.

Who doesn't want to slap the president's ass, even if you don't like the taste, you have to praise it for being delicious.

After three rounds of drinking, Oga Norio set the tone of the negotiations:

"President Yamauchi is polite, I don't know your intentions very well, I can only say that our President Morita means that if you can help, for the sake of everyone is the company, you will help if the conditions are right. However, if it violates Sony's core interests, I can only say that I can't help it. ”

Yamauchi got straight to the point: "Actually, it's nothing, we at Nintendo will never infringe on the business that Sony is running." What we hope is to revise the dealer management agreement two years ago, and we will only infringe on the business scope of Tiankun Entertainment at most.

However, we will pay the corresponding liquidated damages in full. If Sony breaches the contract with Tiankun Entertainment because of its cooperation with us, we will also pay the liquidated damages. ”

Norio Oga: "I'm afraid this won't work, President Morita has just signed a deeper cooperation with Gu Biao, if Nintendo has to breach the contract, we will also bear the responsibility for the breach of contract, I'm afraid you can't afford it." ”

Yamauchi was taken aback: "How is it possible?"

Norio Oga: "I can't tell you the details of our latest cooperation with Tiankun Entertainment, this is still a trade secret between us and them. All I can say is that this involves a multi-year exclusive use of Sony's latest core technology, as well as a bet on sales and market share with it.

What I can tell you is that the amount involved in this sale is more than 100 million US dollars, and even according to the 20% liquidated damages, it will be nearly 30 million. Coupled with the R&D and promotion expenses invested due to reasonable reliance, it can be legally counted as a full loss in the event of a breach of contract.

So, if Nintendo insists on defaulting, you have to be prepared to help us pay at least $50 million in damages for Sony - I don't know, can cooperating with Sony's channels bring such a big benefit to President Yamauchi? If not, I advise you to find another way. ”

50 million dollars!

Is Gu Biao the devil!

It's really everything blocked in front, leaving no way for those who follow the trend to live.

But if you think about it, it was a huge market with annual sales of 20~3 billion US dollars before the collapse. Now that the market has collapsed and shrunk, the vacuum left behind is still very valuable. If you can snatch it up with $50 million in liquidated damages, or at least win the first move, it's worth the gamble.

If this matter is really breached in the future, a lawsuit, although it will drag on for a long time, it is estimated that 50 million can be awarded - the amount of liquidated damages written in the contract between Gu Biao and Akio Morita must be far more than 50 million.

It is estimated that Gu Biao calculated that the book sales of 10 million floppy disks could be 100 million 2, and he really dared to write "100 million 2 million compensation for gambling not meeting the standard". In the end, 50 million was awarded, which was already a "reasonable price" discounted by the court.

"Special Minister of Dahe! Tiankun Entertainment is a Chinese company, and our sense of honor of the Yamato nation, you can't help foreigners harm their compatriots!"

Norio Oga's expression immediately changed: "President Yamauchi, that's not right, our Sony is an international company. Everything we do is in accordance with the laws of the countries in which we operate. Besides, the channel sharing agreement was signed by you in person with President Sheng Tian and Gu Biao. Ma Feng and I were both in charge of specific negotiations back then. Now you want to break the contract and cross the line!"

At this moment, Sony is like a conscience of American imperialism. Whoever can help them promote the technical standard of the 3.5-inch floppy drive to the Americans to accept, they are willing to cooperate with that person in the peripheral business, regardless of whether they are called this company or not.

It's a pity that Yamauchi Pu wants to pay for it, but his strength doesn't allow it. Nintendo doesn't have a bank, so it can't come up with that much cash flow.

Besides, even if you gamble, will you win? In any case, the R&D of Tiankun Entertainment has been five months ahead of them, and that is an established fact.

It's not worth the gamble.

After the new machine comes out, it will be sold in China first, and then it will seek to build its own European and American channels in the future.

As for the cooperation with Sony in other technical support, Yamauchi is not in the mood for this. After a little communication, I found that there was no common interest, so I had to give up.

After holding back a mouthful of resentment that was almost internally injured and returned to Kyoto, Yamauchi Pu could only instruct his subordinates to step up development, while cursing inwardly: Gu Biao!

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