Chapter 029: Let You Employees Judge
Li Xuan paused for a moment and gave Du Wenqiang, who was sitting beside him, a look. Du Wenqiang took out two floppy disks from the briefcase he was carrying and handed them to Li Xuan.
Li Xuan took the floppy disk, smiled at the Japanese representative sitting across the negotiation table, and then continued: "Minister Ishishima, last year, your country's Taidong Game Company developed an excellent video game console called Space Invader, which requires 100 yen coins to play, and it is said that your government's coin issuance last year increased by 10%. Since last year, Taidong has made more than $100 million in profits from the global market with the arcade machine of Space Invaders.
I have here two computer-operated versions of our company's latest games, and I hope to borrow your company's computers and employees and let them test the excellent process of these two games for themselves! I believe that these two games developed by our company are no worse than Taidong's space invaders. And I also believe that the ratings given by your employees will definitely change your opinion of our company!"
Li Xuan confidently copied the floppy disks of the two games of Hong Kong Cubes and Tank Wars, respectively, and gently pushed them in front of Yusuke Ishishima on the opposite side.
Yusuke Ishishima, a veteran of Seiko Epson for more than 20 years, looked at Li Xuan for a few seconds, and finally nodded: "Okay, Li Jun, I hope your company's game works can really convince me!"
So the negotiations between the two sides were temporarily suspended, and everyone left the conference room and randomly selected two Apple computers in the office area. Du Wenqiang quickly copied the Hong Kong cube and the tank battle on the two computers, and nodded at Li Xuan after some debugging.
Li Xuan then smiled and stretched out his hand to signal that the game test could begin.
Liang Ning, who came to Japan with Baggage Xuan, finally had a place to use it at this time. Don't look at him a little tender, but his actual age is almost 30 years old, he has the experience of studying in Japan before joining the band, and he can speak fluent Japanese. He was the translator that Li Xuan brought to Japan, but the few people he met before were able to speak English, so he had nothing to do.
Now that he finally has room to play, he is responsible for explaining the rules of operation to every Epson employee who is recruited to play the game. Because this is the computer version, Li Xuan and Du Wenqiang are equivalent to the joysticks of the arcade machine when writing the program, and they control the four directions of up, up, down, left and right, respectively. The space bar replaces the function key, and the Hong Kong Block game is to rotate the block by pressing the space bar, and the tank battle is to fire a cannonball.
The game is very easy to get started with, and beginners can get started in less than a minute. The originally quiet and orderly office area suddenly became lively because of this unique test.
"Eh, I pressed it a little more, and it rotated too much, what should I do!" A female clerk with short hair and a round face was trying to play Hong Kong squares, but because she accidentally pressed the space bar more, the square that could have just fallen down and fit into it rotated too much, and it was too late to remedy it, and she couldn't help but sigh in annoyance.
Li Xuan saw that she was completely immersed in the game, and the smile on her face was a little more. Compared to the girls who love Hong Kong cubes, the boys love tank battles more. The sound of shells whistling and exploding from time to time in the background music makes the player sitting in front of the computer a little immersively nervous. These background synthesized sounds were all modified by Liang Ning through trial and error for a month.
With the departure of the first Epson staff who had tried the game, news of the Hong Kong Block and Tank Wars quickly spread in the office area of Epson's headquarters. Due to the restrictions of rules and regulations, ordinary staff did not dare to come to the trial area to watch the excitement. But as soon as the end of work in the afternoon passed, the flow of people from all directions quickly moved from all floors to the two computers in the trial office.
Li Xuan looked at Yusuke Ishishima's face full of stunned expressions, and couldn't help but be happy in his heart, he knew that his sales pitch had succeeded. The success of both games earned him the opportunity to speak to each other on an equal footing.
"Mr. Ishishima, in the morning, accompanied by Mr. Tsunetani, I visited your company's wafer factory, which has just been put into production. I have a question, with the capacity freed up at the scale of this fab, the number of chips your company needs to produce your printing equipment is far from being absorbed.
But as a newly established factory, it will take enough time for your products to be recognized by the market. So I would like to ask, how many levels can the operating rate of your wafer fab reach?"
Back in the office, Li Xuan asked a question that he had been planning for a long time. Whether the operating rate of the wafer factory is sufficient is a key issue related to the survival of a wafer factory.
After all, like SMIC in later generations, with the support of the Beijing Municipal Government and the central government, such a good thing cannot fall on Seiko Epson's wafer factory. Epson's position in the wafer industry is similar to that of Dongfang Electronics in the game industry, both of which are fledgling and unknown.
"So in my opinion, the cooperation between Dongfang Electronics and your company can be described as a win-win situation. The strength of our Dongfang Electronics Company is still relatively weak, and we can only focus all our energy on the developer of game software, and the core part of the hardware of the electronic game console is handed over to your company to OEM.
If our company's new game is successful, your company can not only get a steady stream of orders, but also your company's chip products such as processors and memories can also take the opportunity to make a name for themselves, so that your company's wafer factory can get external orders faster.
As for whether our company's newly developed game can be successful, I believe that Mr. Ishishima should have a basic judgment based on what he has just seen and heard!"
Back in the conference room, Li Xuan's mood was completely different, and he was now very relaxed.
"Your Excellency Li Xuan, I also think that the two games that your company has shown today are good enough. But I don't have the right to make an immediate and hasty decision about whether or not to cooperate with your company. I'm sorry that I still need to consult with someone else at the club and do a re-evaluation of your company before I can give an answer!" Yusuke Ishishima said with an apologetic bow.
"It's okay, it's as it should be! I hope Epson can finally give us a win-win choice!" Li Xuan waved his hand to show that it didn't matter, he believed that the Japanese would agree, because today's Seiko Epson Club's own staff showed the great charm of these two classic games brought by Li Xuan with practical actions.
Today's negotiations have come to an end, although the results have not come out in the end, but the pressure on Li Xuan's heart has been relieved by more than half.