Chapter 46: The Yellow-skinned Monkey
The legal terms are so dense that it is not easy for professional lawyers, let alone non-professionals. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Yuji Kudo and Brown did not read the contract from beginning to end, but signed their names on a piece of paper under the guidance of their respective lawyers.
"Smack!" the hairy hand clasped together with the yellowish hand.
Yuji Kudo bowed very much.
Takahashi witnessed all this as a bystander, and from his point of view, he did not see the kind of saber-rattling business negotiations at all.
It seems that each of them is relatively satisfied with the conditions, and there is no bargaining. Let Takahashi think a little that it had been discussed before meeting again.
However, there is no good way to verify whether this is the case or not.
"We're leaving, excuse me. Yuji Kudo said goodbye with his handbag.
Brown next to Alice didn't hold back, and symbolically said, "I have a chance to come to California." ”
"There's still a chance to stay!" Brown said toward Takahashi.
Takahashi shook his head.
"That's really a loyal subordinate," Brown boasted. ”
Yuji Kudo, who was sitting in the car, smiled and nodded, waving goodbye.
During the journey to the airport, Yuji Kudo kept his eyes closed and did not say a word.
"Tell me what you think. Yuji Kudo asked Takahashi.
"I think it's going well, they agreed to our conditions, they didn't take back the authorization, and the authorization of the red and white machine is still on our side. Takahashi said painlessly.
"Don't want to stay in the United States?" asked Yuji Kudo lightly.
Takahashi immediately replied, "No. ”
Yuji Kudo didn't speak, turned his head, and threw a look.
"There is no future for the United States. "The collapse of Atari has basically ruined the entire video game industry in the United States." Trying to recover is not a matter of one or two years. As you can see, Broadbond said that it was the four major computer game publishers in the United States, and that's what it looks like.
Our company also makes computer games, and no matter how much computer games sell, how much can they sell? There is no market here, and there is no future here. ”
Yuji Kudo nodded when he heard this, Takahashi's reasoning was the same as he thought. Don't look at Atari's most powerful era a few years ago, an extremely inferior ultra-deteriorated version of "Pac-Man" with a capacity of only 4K can easily reach six million sales.
Want to know how much this game will cost?
Thirty-nine .9 dollars, equivalent to 10,000 yen. It is equivalent to Takahashi's previous ten days' hard work, and it is equivalent to his current one-day performance fee.
Want to know how many porters there are for this game?
There is only one. This player, who has borne countless infamy, does not want to make such a degraded version. He asked his superiors for more smelting available, and to achieve the effect of the arcade version, he needed at least 8k, and 4k was not enough.
However, the interested Atari superiors refused his request. 4K is 4K, it can't become 8K, and they can't accept a doubling of the cost.
The arcade of "Pac-Man" is so popular that even if it is a short sale of cartridges, it will be rushed to buy. There are really games in the cassette, and it's already very cheap for these foolish consumers.
What is the cassette capacity cost for 4k?
Eighty cents, like Atari's case of buying tens of millions of dollars at once, only needs twenty cents for each piece of 4K memory.
Add to that eighty cents of packaging costs, plus ten dollars in circulation costs.
For a $39.9 cassette, they can earn at least $28.9.
Even, some professionals pointed out after the collapse of Atari that for every cassette sold by Atari, the net profit was not less than thirty dollars.
That's why Atari dared to make inferior games, and dared to put an inferior Pac-Man cartridge on the market with 12 million cassettes at once.
Even if they destroyed the remaining six million cartridges that were not sold, they would have nothing to lose.
Such excess profits made them gradually lose their hearts. Video games are no longer a product that brings joy to players, but a tool for capitalists to make huge profits.
Atari has taken the lead, and naturally few people have given up a lot of money to make high-quality games.
Except for a few industry consciences like Activision, the rest is just a dog of capital.
Again and again, again and again.
In the end, the majority of players could not bear it anymore and voted with their feet, choosing to send Atari to the abyss, and choosing to let the entire American video game industry with the interests of the whole world die.
After such a collapse, even the manufacturers who are still alive can only survive for a while.
Even Broadbond, known as the Big Four in the United States, is not having a good time today. Otherwise, they would not have been so quick to reply to Hudson's fax, and their original idea was to quickly terminate the cooperation with Hudson and instead hand over the authorization of the red and white machine to another company to make a profit. How could I think that the stupid Hudson actually made such a whimsical proposal.
When Brown saw the fax, he jumped out of his chair in excitement. How old is Ben Cai, and wants to sell "Gold Diggers" for a million on such a small piece of land? This is simply a fool's dream!
While he looked at the flyer and jumped around, he also wanted to meet this "genius" who gave him charcoal in the snow and drafted this manuscript. He then sent a fax to the drafters of the document, just to see this "genius" and to ask if this person who had brought him such great blessings was willing to work for him.
Even if it's really incapable, it's nothing, it's a big deal to use a month or two, just get rid of it. As for the life and death of others after losing their jobs in the United States, it's about their own, just be happy.
At the end of the parting, he said to Kudo Yuji "When you have a loyal subordinate", although there was regret on his face, but his heart was happy, and he wished that Kudo Yuji would reuse Takahashi.
If Takahashi's head is hot again, and he comes up with some magical way of cooperation, won't he have to count the money until his hands cramp?
Yellow-skinned monkeys are fools.
Brown counted the small amount of money of 100,000 US dollars, and despised Takahashi and Kudo Hiroshi, isn't it just that there has been a little money in the past two years, people are stupid, there is a lot of money, and it is easy to cheat.
Alice, who was on the side, smiled when she looked at the money.
Another 12 hours passed when I flew back to Narita Airport from the United States.
It was late at night when he returned to the company, and when Takahashi was about to put his expensive suit in the closet and change back into ordinary clothes to go home, he suddenly saw his uncle in the corridor, sobbing silently.