Chapter 561: Sega takes refuge
For Lin Qi, consolidating the pattern now does not necessarily require killing all opponents, which is not realistic. After all, the main focus of the new entrepreneurship department is to make general-purpose computers, and the functions that a PC should have, Pangu computers should have. At most, the platform is different, and the software that implements the same function is launched by different manufacturers.
However, the choice of the two major platforms should be based on the common software and habits of consumers, not that the PC has some functions that Pangu can never achieve. The two general-purpose personal computers are basically more than who has more application software and who has more application scenarios. The game is only one aspect, and Pangu, which is still a new entrepreneurship, has the upper hand.
Concentrating more game IPs on the Pangu platform is, in essence, a consolidation of resource advantages. Because, for most players, a Pangu can experience most of the games on the market, and even many console games, if the Pangu computer version is also launched, if the player has a Pangu computer, the most he can buy some peripheral hardware such as controllers, and will not buy another console.
For Sega, the unique game copyright was transplanted to the Pangu platform. In the short term, it will increase the company's profits and cash flow, but in the long run, it will reduce the number of users of Sega's own consoles.
In other words, Sega is rich and rich, and I am afraid that this kind of cooperation will not be considered.
However, now Sega's Japanese branch, at least the hosting business, is already a life-and-death juncture, and it cannot be spent in the present, and it may not be qualified to be a host for a long time in the future. So, there's not much left for Sega!
"Okay, I can give Mr. Tanaka half a day to think about it, three o'clock in the afternoon, whether you can cooperate or not, please give me an answer. ”
Lin Qi took Xiao and Uejima out of the reception room, leaving the rest of the time to Tanaka.
"Boss, in fact, our concession is a bit too much. Ueshima asked.
"Pretty well, I haven't played the two new games from Sega, but according to their usual style, both games should be masterpieces. This quality of work, though, isn't necessarily better than our own best game game of the year. But at least in the third-party game production company, it is outstanding! If we don't win over Sega, in the future, Sega will not make consoles itself, but make games for other console platforms, it will definitely not be good news!"
Lin Qi visited at will, by the way, Shangdao Lingzi had made sufficient preparations before, for the internal information, Lin Qi already knew that the first batch of games specially developed by Sega 5th generation machine belonged to high-quality products, and the first drop of blood already had an arcade version, so you can generally know the level of the console version. The other games are basically the triple-A masterpieces of this era.
So in this regard, Lin Qi is not worried at all, as long as some optimizations are carried out in the process of transplantation.
The rest of the time is waiting, Lin Qi visited some departments, and found that the atmosphere of the company is indeed not very high, although the employees are still busy, but obviously the spirit is not very good.
This made Lin Qi even more affirm the idea in his heart, after the implementation of the equity incentive system, the enthusiasm of new entrepreneurial employees has increased a lot, as a capitalist market, Japan has long developed quite mature in this system.
Between employees and the company, it is equivalent to sharing weal and woe, naturally everyone has motivation, and now it is like this, employees want to be happy and can't be happy.
"It seems that this Tanaka is very willing to spend his blood, and he may invest more than we expected. ”
Lin Qi was a little gloating, the configuration of Sega's fifth-generation aircraft was placed there, and hardware research and development was not necessarily the main investment in cost. After all, the main components are still purchased from the market, and then the hardware designer can write some code programs to integrate those parts into a complete product. The labor costs of hardware and software technicians in this era are not as expensive as those of later generations, so the development of a host hardware is the purchase of a mature program in the market, and the budget of 20 million US dollars is more than enough.
Where did more money go? There's only one answer, and that's games, and that's his goal.
The more money Tanaka burns, the more he will only earn in the future, and as for temporary losses, he doesn't care.
"Mr. Lin, our boss invites you to come over. ”
By less than two o'clock, there was already a reply.
Lin Qi straightened up and took the two back to the reception room, on the chair, Tanaka was staring at a thick stack of materials in front of him with some pain, all of which were game screens.
"Mr. Tanaka, have you made a decision?" Lin Qi didn't have any extra words, his time was also very short, and at this moment, a large number of Nintendo were being delivered to the stores.
And according to the information obtained by the company, in just two days, Super Nintendo's orders soared to 30,000 units, which is an astonishing number.
Tanaka sighed lightly, and next to him, there were four people with extremely heavy dark circles, all of whom were driving the bottom of beer bottles, obviously the game development team.
"We decided to sell, but needed a satisfactory price, which we have been working on for many years. I mean the advance payment, at least give the money, we can port the game to your company's Pangu computer, otherwise, we won't even have the money to port the game to Pangu!" Tanaka's voice was full of helplessness.
But the market is like this, it is never reasonable, and the economic crisis is always coming, not to mention that he is a Sega.
"Fixed price, upfront, $50 million. The games specially developed on your company's new platform must be launched, and in addition, the old platform, at least 10 popular games will be transferred to our platform! In the future, the company's 2 best console games every year must be simultaneously ported to our Pangu platform for sale!" Lin Qi threw out the price.
This price made Tian Zhongyi happy, and in a short period of time, they had already estimated Lin Qi's chips, 30 million US dollars, which was the offer given by the technical team. With this money, Sega's hosting project, as well as other operations, will be able to carry out normally! If there is no money, Sega may have to regrettably cut the hosting project next month!
"Mr. Lin, at this price, I think it can be added a little more. "Tanaka is tentative, it's too happy, he is also a happy person, but Lin Qi's offer exceeded his psychological expectations, and he is very prepared, no different from the team's offer.
Of course, this is less than the credit of the thick stack of information in his hand, and the reason why Lin Qi is so happy is because of his comprehensive understanding of Sega.
Of course, there is also the technical team of Sega, two million dollars, in exchange for the porting of the game, in this process, the technical teams of both sides will have a lot of contact, which is also a good opportunity to steal the teacher.
At this point, Lin Qi has never been stingy in the slightest, and every penny spent may be a piece in return in the future.
The bottom of the four beer bottles was not as old as Tanaka, and there was a bit of enthusiasm in their eyes.
Lin Qi saw it in his eyes and didn't say it thoroughly.
"A fixed price, do not accept any counteroffer, Mr. Tanaka should know very well in his heart, even if I take advantage of the fire to rob at this time, your company has no choice. Lin Qi smiled.
Hayao Tanaka sighed again, knocked on the table lightly and said, "Okay, then 50 million dollars, the advance payment must be made to our account as soon as possible!"
"No problem!" Lin Qi nodded, and asked Uejima to invite the company's legal department over to specially draw up the three versions of the contract between China, England and Japan.
"Mr. Lin is really a big deal. There was some helplessness in Tanaka's eyes, people are more angry than people, if only Sega were so rich. If you have money, even if you can't surpass a giant like New Venture Electronics, it should be no problem to catch up with the old thief of Nintendo!