Chapter 234: The Chairman of Walmart
The invitation to the Honor Handheld press conference has been sent to the invitees, because the initial Honor Handheld was only sold in the United States, so the people invited were all related to the American game industry.
As the first handheld computer of the Honor Group, the people invited must not be too low-level, so the vast majority of relatively large game companies in the United States and well-known game designers have received invitations.
If the Honor Group had not formed an alliance with Sony and Sega, then there would have been a lot fewer people who agreed to attend the press conference, and except for a very small number of people, not many people would have believed that Xu Qing could defeat the huge Nintendo.
Even so, some companies and designers eventually declined the invitation, and in Denning's expectation, the invitation list of 500 people, 400 people, is already considered a success.
In addition to inviting people related to the game industry, Honor Group also invited 100 electronic pet players.
These 100 electronic pet players were invited by lottery, some time ago, Xu Qing immediately drew 100 in the future community, the requirements are very simple, must be electronic pet players and registered users of the future community.
At that time, more than 800,000 people participated in the lottery, which is not very large compared to the sales of nearly 100 million electronic pets.
Of course, this is also because there are only a few million registered users in the future community, and it is already very powerful to have more than 600,000 electronic pet players participate in the lottery among millions of people.
There are three reasons for the lottery, one is to promote the Honor handheld, and the other is to give back to the players of the electronic pets, so that they have a higher impression of the Honor Group.
The third is to increase the number of users for the future community, many electronic pet players did not register for the future community before, Xu Qing raised such a lottery, many people in order to be able to draw, ordered to register the future community.
According to the data monitoring of the future community, the number of users in the future community increased by 200,000 more than usual during the period from the beginning to the end of the lucky draw.
Xu Qing would not say that the third reason was the real purpose of his lottery.
In the blink of an eye, the time came to December 24th.
Since 7 o'clock in the morning, the entire Honor Group has been busy to make final preparations for the press conference to be held at 2 o'clock in the afternoon today.
The conference was held on a large lawn in the Bay Area, covering an area of more than 50,000 square meters, which is usually used by people to camp, and is now used by Xu Qing as the site of the press conference, and Xu Qing also paid a sum of money to the municipal government.
Like the press conference of Sony PS, the press conference of this Honor handheld is also open-air, and anyone can come to the press conference, but the invited people are officially received by the Honor Group, and the location is close to the stage.
The implementation of the press conference was completed yesterday and is being guarded by a large group of security guards.
Honor Group will receive all guests at the press conference, and guests will also come directly to the scene.
Xu Qing had breakfast and also came to the Glory Group, wandering around to see if there was anything he needed help with, but after walking around, there was nothing to do with Xu Qing at all.
After nearly 2 years of development, Xu Qing's subordinates already have a group of subordinates with outstanding abilities, and there is no need for Xu Qing to do everything like he did when he first took over Carney.
Seeing that there was nothing to do, Xu Qing came to the press conference again, and there was nothing to do here that Xu Qing needed to help.
However, Xu Qing saw a lot of people gathered here, and these people basically came to the press conference spontaneously, and most of them were Xu Qing's fans.
When these people saw Xu Qing appear, they immediately shouted Xu Qing's name loudly, if they were cheering for a Hollywood star.
In terms of popularity, Xu Qing is more well-known among young people than many Hollywood stars, after all, Harry Potter and electronic pets are very popular among young people.
Xu Qing waved his hand to these people, causing even greater cheers, and after thinking about it, Xu Qing walked up to these people, took a notebook and a pen, signed his name with a sigh, and then handed it back to the original owner.
Seeing this, these people immediately went crazy, desperately squeezed Xu Qing's side, wanting Xu Qing's autograph, and Carlyle's bodyguards immediately surrounded Xu Qing nervously, they had never encountered such a situation.
As Xu Qing's name grew bigger and richer, Xu Qing's fans in the United States also grew.
Now that Xu Qing is walking on the street, there will be people who want him to sign autographs from time to time.
There were at least a thousand people gathered here, most of whom were crowded to Xu Qing's side, and Carlyle's bodyguards couldn't bear it, so they hurriedly called the group of security guards who guarded the stage facilities to come over to help resist the crazy fans.
Xu Qing probably signed more than 100 names, his hands were a little sore, and when he looked up and saw more and more people, Xu Qing hurriedly left the press conference.
After having lunch at the villa, Xu Qing returned to the press conference at one o'clock at noon.
There are already guests who have come to the scene, but these early guests are received by the senior management of Glory Group, and the guests who need to be personally received by Xu Qing will come last.
The reporter has been here for the most part, and Xu Qing invited hundreds of media from all over the world to this press conference.
These media all know the grudge between Xu Qing and Nintendo, and Xu Qing reimburses the travel expenses, accommodation expenses, and a lot of money, and all the media who were invited came.
As time passed, more and more guests came, and several guests who needed to be personally received by Xu Qing also came.
Walmart Chairman Robertson Walton, Barnes & Noble Bookstore President Rice, Norio Ohga and Hayao Nakayama were four heavyweight guests.
Robertson's promise to attend the press conference was a bit unexpected by Xu Qing, when he invited Robertson, he didn't think Robertson would agree.
Xu Qing and Wal-Mart are several levels behind, and the probability of Robertson's refusal is too great, but this time the main sales channel of the Honor handheld is Wal-Mart, out of politeness, Xu Qing invited Robertson by the way.
As a result, Robertson simply agreed, not thinking much about it at all.
Xu Qing greeted Robertson with a smile: "Mr. Robertson, welcome to the press conference of the Honor Handheld, I didn't expect you to agree to attend, I feel very honored." ”
Robertson smiled heartily: "You are a big partner of Wal-Mart, electronic pets have brought huge profits to Wal-Mart, and the upcoming Honor handheld will definitely be as good as electronic pets." ”
Xu Qing felt that the purpose of Roberson's agreement to attend should not be because Xu Qing was a big partner of Walmart.
Now Wal-Mart's sales are close to 100 billion US dollars, and the sales brought by electronic pets to Wal-Mart are only hundreds of millions of US dollars, and Xu Qing is not a big partner.
Under normal circumstances, a vice president of Walmart is qualified enough to attend the Honor handheld press conference.
If you don't understand, you don't want to, if Roberson really has other purposes, he will definitely tell him, he doesn't have time to think about it now, he has to entertain a few other heavyweight guests.