Compared with his target this time, the computer park company, Friedman is actually more optimistic about the Oriental Game Company. But this "God of Wealth" Mr. Li is obviously not ready to share this cornucopia with everyone.

Oriental Game Company has shown its dominance in the fields of arcades, handhelds, and home consoles. According to Merrill Lynch's internal analysis, the company's profitability is better than that of most companies on the U.S. 500 list.

"Xu Sheng, what are you talking about, so happy?" Du Wenqiang also stepped forward to greet at some point.

Friedman recognized at a glance that this man with a somewhat fat figure was the president of the Oriental Games Company, which he coveted. According to the homework he had prepared before, this Mr. Du was one of the first people to follow the "God of Wealth Lee". His influence in Li Xuan's heart can be ranked at least in the top three in the entire Eastern Bloc, and he is an object that needs to be befriended.

"We're talking about Hollywood's movie "ET the Extra-Terrestrial", and you Oriental Games have picked up a big bargain!" Xu Jiankui shook his head and said.

"Haha, how could Li Sheng's vision be wrong!" Du Wenqiang said with his eyebrows fluttering.

He has been in a very good mood lately, and the sales performance of Oriental Games has soared again, while the recent situation of competitors has been declining. Atari, for example, had a hard time, and its original flagship product, the Atari-2600, was losing ground to competition from Oriental's FC home consoles.

In order to save the decline, Atari launched a new game console, the Atari-5200, before Christmas last year, ready to compete with FC game consoles. As a result, the Atari-5200 game console, which was developed in a hurry, was found to have obvious flaws in the software system, hand crocking and other places as soon as it was launched, and was forced to be removed from the shelves for re-modification.

Although the Atari-5200 was soon re-launched after New Year's Day, it has lost consumer reputation and sales have been dismal. Atari can only keep launching new games, relying on the advantage of the number of games to attract players and compete with the FC consoles of Oriental Games.

Although Oriental Games allows third-party game companies to publish games on their own platforms, they have strict requirements for game quality, and the number of new games released every month is very limited. Many game companies could not accept the harsh scrutiny of Oriental and turned to Atari, which had more lenient terms.

Atari's own development speed was limited, and if he wanted to launch enough new games to attract players, he needed the support of third-party game companies.

As a result, Atari has completely liberalized the entry criteria for its own consoles. Other companies pay them a small fee to distribute their own games on Atari's consoles. As a consequence of this lowering of the barrier to entry, low-quality games have begun to rampant on the Atari-2600 and Atari-5200 consoles.

According to a survey by Oriental Games, dissatisfaction among players and distributors is rapidly rising. The end of the Great Crash in another time and space may soon be repeated in Atari. And when that time comes, it will also be the best time for Oriental Game Company to dominate the North American home computer market, and Du Wenqiang is now complacent.

"E.T. Extra-Terrestrial is indeed a very good movie, Mr. Spearsberg not only gives the film a strong humanistic care, but also retains the relaxed and witty rhythm of commercial films, it is indeed a good movie that is rare in decades!" Li Xuan sighed.

He was one of the first audiences in the world to see the film. Li Xuan and Zhong Chuhong were visiting Italy to coincide with the opening of the Cannes Film Festival, and they watched the world premiere of "ET the Extra-Terrestrial" on the closing day of the Cannes Film Festival.

But obviously, Li Xuan's words did not resonate much. "ET the Extra-Terrestrial" brought huge commercial benefits to Oriental Games, but Du Wenqiang, the president, didn't actually see the movie. In the 80s, there was not much market for Hollywood movies in Hong Kong, and it really took over Asia from the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park.

"Oune, who do you see coming?"

Li Xuan is definitely one of the most talked-about figures in the cocktail party, and his every move will attract the attention of many well-intentioned people. Jill smiled at his old buddy Erné Bellac.

Belrank's hair was slightly white, he was wearing a white suit, and he was in high spirits, and he looked like a sixty-year-old man at all. He had already noticed the movement not far away, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help curling: "This is what we expected, isn't it?"

"It's a pity that Mr. Li Xuan didn't let up, otherwise we could have knocked them all out before they arrived in Hong Kong!" Jill shook his head, he had just participated in the negotiations with IBM in his capacity as a strategic adviser to the Oriental Company.

Jill was also the first to learn from Li Xuan that the computer park company was preparing to launch a listing plan for external financing. It was under his construction that Bellanque had already arrived in Hong Kong from New York a week earlier. Unfortunately, Goldman Sachs did not take advantage of this.

"Mr. Li is deliberately waiting for the price to be sold, waiting for more competitors to participate!" Blanc said with a chuckle.

Listing the computer park company is only one of Li Xuan's intentions, and there is no specific timetable at all. It depends on the plans given by various investment banks, which one can impress him the most. Among the equity of the computer park company, Aikang Company accounts for 25, Oriental Technology Holdings accounts for 50, Oriental Game Company accounts for 20, and the remaining 5 is reserved for the company's management and employee shareholding.

Although Aikang Company is a listed company, it is absolutely controlled by Li Xuan. So in fact, he can completely decide the entire listing plan of the computer park company.

"The competition has just begun!" In the other corner of the banquet hall, there was also a personable white man, showing an unruly smile. He was Morgan Stanley's "Firebird" Lloyd.

"Mr. Li Xuan, I wonder if IBM has any opportunity to continue to cooperate with your company and take a stake in the computer park company?" In order to show the importance of this cooperation, Mr. John Ober, CEO of IBM, personally flew from New York to Hong Kong.

In fact, this also faintly reflects the improvement of the status of Dongfang Electronics Company and Li Xuan. If it were an ordinary partner, how could the CEO of IBM fly for more than ten hours to personally come to Hong Kong to sign the equity agreement, knowing that the Oriental System Software Company in which they have a stake is an American company headquartered in Silicon Valley.

Li Xuan shook his head: "The computer park company may only accept financial investment in the short term!"

Compared with strategic investment, financial investment generally focuses on economic returns for the purpose of short-term direct arbitrage. When these funds are invested, they will not compete for the company's management rights, but they are more concerned about their own withdrawal plan. For example, when the company goes public, the shares they hold are not like other major shareholders, which have a long lock-up period, and can quickly arbitrage away. But this is obviously contrary to the purpose of IBM's shareholding, and Li Xuan expressed his refusal in a euphemistic way.

Unlike the previous Oriental system software companies, the computer park company has no monopoly worries. Now it is able to occupy 50% of the US PC retail market, and that is because the market is not fully competitive. With the expansion of the market in the future and the influx of a large amount of capital, the decline in the market share of computer park companies is an inevitable trend. In the future, as long as the market share can be stabilized at about 30, Li Xuan will be very satisfied, and even this number is not easy to guarantee.

Moreover, the terminal retail industry has always been one of the industries with the largest number of jobs. This is of great significance to expand the overall influence of Dongfang Electronics Company in the United States. Such companies are rarely attacked, but are often co-opted by politicians because they can influence the votes of many people. Destroying them means depriving many people of their jobs, and it will come at a huge political cost.

Obviously, the terminal retail industry can have a significant impact on the entire industry. Taking Aikang's ABC series of personal computers as an example, although its own performance is excellent, the previous explosion of sales in the United States is inseparable from the priority promotion of computer park companies, so Li Xuan is naturally reluctant to other computer companies to take shares.

John Ober shook his head regretfully, IBM also started with PCs and only used external sales channels. In the past, IBM completed all the large-scale and medium-sized products from R&D, production, sales and after-sales service.

In the past, the PC was sold in cooperation with computer retail stores, which was opposed by a lot of opposition within IBM. If Ober now proposes to take a stake in the computer park, the opposition within the company will certainly be even louder. Managing a giant company like IBM has far more internal constraints than outsiders imagine. Ober and Li Xuan exchanged a few words, and the other party saw that his mind had been decided, so he had to give up with some displeasure.

Li Xuan put the bottomed wine glass on the tray of a passing waiter, and then walked to the spacious open-air balcony outside the Peninsula Hotel.

From here, you can see the night view of Victoria Harbour. Thirty years later, 8 p.m. would be the time when the 44-towered Symphony of Lights, a laser light show, starts on time every night. But now, it is clear that this famous show is not yet in the night view of Victoria Harbour.

"Li Sheng!" a voice as crisp and soft as a yellow bird came from beside him.

Li Xuan raised his head and followed the voice, and found a pair of big moist and smart eyes looking at him with a twinkle. The bewitching and charming face made Li Xuan recognize the other party at a glance.

"Miss Guan, hello!"

Li Xuan smiled politely at her, this "rich businessman killer" is known as one of the most beautiful faces in Hong Kong in the 80s. Guan Zhilin, who is now in her twenties, is the most beautiful era in her life, and she does have charming capital. R1152