Chapter 365: Two Million Dollars
For a while, some people in the venue exchanged ears and whispered.
"Of course, it's not difficult to buy Resident Evil now, and there is plenty of supply on the market! But I think this set of "Resident Evil" has an unusual significance! The auctioneer's next words on the stage made the scene lively.
"Because this is a set of mantissa numbers, and it has the autograph and seal of the father of "Resident Evil", the always mysterious 'Fang'! Moreover, in the hometown of 'Fang', six 8s are very auspicious numbers, representing the good blessings of wealth and prosperity! ”
People immediately became interested, although "Resident Evil" can be bought everywhere, but "Resident Evil" with the autograph of "Fang" is now the only one that comes out! The popularity of "Resident Evil" is obvious to all, such a game that is enough to leave a name in the history of games, and its founder, the signed version of the mysterious "Fang", still has a certain collector's value! And as a businessman, the Japanese don't pay attention to atheism, who doesn't want to be lucky?
Even if you take 10,000 steps back, all of these are not considered, this game is also a good gift for people! Who doesn't have a young child, and how many young people don't like comics, anime, or games? To be able to get the signature of a "Fang" who has excellent works in these many fields, and still not make them ecstatic?
Of course, this is mainly because Fang Mingyuan, who has never engaged in any signature sales, has too few signature works circulating outside!
Seeing that many people in the venue showed a tempted look, the auctioneer took the hot railway: """Resident Evil" signed by 'Fang', the starting price is 500,000 yen!" ”
As soon as the auctioneer's words fell, someone in the crowd shouted, "Five million yen!" ”
People can't help but be a little surprised. Although five million yen is indeed not a big deal for these people's net worth, as soon as this one opened his mouth, he increased the starting price tenfold, you know, the market price of a set of "Resident Evil". It's only 8,888 yen!
"Five million yen! Mr. Masato Tojo of Kyushu Shipping Company bids five million yen! haha, the official signatures of 'Fang' are quite rare! I believe that if he wins this lot at this price, Mr. Tojo will definitely not feel a loss in the future. The auctioneer laughed.
"Ten million yen!" Uda Nakashi raised his hand.
"Ten million yen! Mr. Nakashi Uda, director of Sega Co., Ltd., bid 10 million yen! The auctioneer exclaimed excitedly. A game that was originally worth only 8,888 yen can be auctioned for a high price of 10 million yen, even if it has the autograph of "Fang", this amount is unexpected.
Heikei Jiro, who had returned to his seat, turned his head to look at it, raised his hand and said, "I'll pay 20 million yen!" ”
The venue immediately set off a new **! 20 million yen, which is equivalent to nearly 150,000 US dollars, although for the net worth of these people here. It's still not a big amount, and they buy a car casually, and it's much more than that. But it is extremely rare for the "signature" of a living, non-politician to be able to be auctioned at this price.
Fang Mingyuan was a little speechless, this was purely because he learned that this was a charity gala, and there was also a product of a whim after the charity auction. Now he was actually lifted to such a height by Uda Nakatsura and Keijiro!
"Forty million yen!" Someone in the crowd raised their hands again. This time it's Lin Lian!
"Sister Lian?" Fang Mingyuan said in surprise.
Lin Lian smiled. leaned into his ear and whispered: "Twenty million yen, it's too little, how can you be worthy of your identity as Fang Shao." ”
Fang Mingyuan shook his head with a wry smile, the price had already been quoted, and it was naturally impossible to recover it. Anyway, this money. In the end, it also fell on the country.
Before the auctioneer could speak, an old voice came from the other side of the banquet hall, "I'll give you 80 million yen!" ”
"Up......roar" There was an uproar in the venue, and everyone looked at the voice, only to see that the person who raised his hand was none other than Nintendo Co., Ltd. President Yamauchi!
"Eighty million yen! The highest bid now is 80 million yen! It is the pride of our Japanese game industry, Mr. Yamauchi Bo, the president of Nintendo Corporation! I'm sure President Yamauchi is a business celebrity who is familiar to all of you here. Nintendo Corporation, which he single-handedly founded, still holds an amazing record of never losing money! "The auctioneer was so excited that he was about to look up to the sky and scream! Even if the starting price of a lot is only 500,000 yen, even if the final price stops at 80 million yen, it is more than 100 times higher! Moreover, a signed newly released game can sell for more than 500,000 to nearly 600,000 dollars, which is in the history of Shijie auctions. Also unprecedented!
"This Yamauchi!" Fang Mingyuan covered his head, he could completely imagine that many Japanese media would definitely report on this matter tomorrow.
Uda Nakashi was also shocked by Yamauchi's generosity at this time! This old guy, in order to curry favor with Fang Mingyuan. It's really all-encompassing!
"100 million yen!" Without waiting for everyone present, digest the shock brought by the offer of Yamanuchi. Heikei Jiro had already raised his hand without showing weakness. Sony and Nintendo are not just rivals, they are also rivals!
In 1988, Sony announced a partnership with Nintendo to develop a new generation of Nintendo consoles. But this cooperation, in 1992, was torn up by Nintendo on its own initiative. Up and down, Sony regards Nintendo's behavior as a betrayal! It was in such an unfavorable situation that Ken Kutaragi, the person in charge of the development of the console at that time, tried his best to fight for the independent development of a new generation of game consoles from Norio Ohga, the top management decision-maker of Sony at the time. That's why there was a later PS host!
Today, PS has been successfully launched, and although the overall performance is not as good as that of Sega Corporation and Nintendo, it has also achieved satisfactory results. But that doesn't make any less of the Sony people's hatred for Nintendo! Therefore, on various occasions, Sony people and Nintendo have a lot of targeted behaviors more or less darkly or brightly.
This time for the charity dinner, Heikei Jiro just politely sent an invitation to Yamauchi, and he didn't expect him to come. No one expected that Yamauchi would actually come to the Imperial Hotel when he and Fang Mingyuan were talking in the small conference hall! I also participated in this auction! Up to now, it can be said that the three giants of Japan's home game console industry are gathered at the Imperial Hotel!
Of course, Heikei Jiro knew that Yamauchi had just reached an agreement with Fang Mingyuan, and now he could barely be regarded as Fang Mingyuan's ally. And the reason why he quoted a sky-high price of 100 million yen was to put it bluntly, it was also to show favor to Fang Mingyuan! At the same time, it is not without the meaning of suppressing himself and Uda Zhong in front of everyone! This is something that Heikei Jiro will never tolerate!
"110 million yen!" What Heikei Jiro could think of, Uda Zhong could naturally think of too, and immediately fought back. Now, it's not just a matter of cheering, it's a matter of Sega's face!
"130 million yen!" Heikei Jiro didn't wait for the auctioneer to speak, and immediately shouted.
"140 million!" Yamauchi said calmly!
"160 million yen!"
"180 million yen!"
"200 million yen!" As a result, the auction price quickly increased to 200 million yen in a daze!
"200 million yen! President Yamauchi of Nintendo Co., Ltd. bids 200 million yen! The auctioneer's voice was already trembling slightly, 200 million yen, almost 1.3 million dollars! Such a high offer, even at the official auction, is not low, and now it seems to have appeared casually at the auction of a charity dinner!
"200 million yen for the first time!" The auctioneer said loudly, "All of you here, has anyone offered a higher price?" ”
"Two hundred and fifty million!" Uda Zhong gritted his teeth and said. It's not that they can't get this money, and that's it, Sega Corporation, let alone more than a million dollars, if necessary, can also take out 10 million dollars. But with it here, in order to suppress Yamanuchi, is it worth it?
Heikei Jiro also hesitated a little, more than a million dollars, just to fight with Yamauchi here for a breath, it was really a bit of a waste. If it is more, although he is the vice president, if he wants to come up with such a huge amount of money, it will cause great criticism in the society, unless he pays out of his own pocket!
"Two hundred and ten million!" The surface of the mountain does not change the color of the tunnel. Yamauchi Bo was also a little sore at this time, originally in his mind, his offer of 80 million yen was enough to take Fang Mingyuan's signature, but it jumped all the way to 200 million yen! Such a high auction price is completely outrageous! But Yamauchi didn't want to give up halfway! With his position in the Japanese game industry, in the past few years, as long as he opened his mouth, if he had no choice, no one would dare to compete with him like this.
And now...... The more this is the case, the more it arouses Yamauchi's dissatisfaction! The failure in the home host market does not mean that he has also admitted defeat!
"Two hundred and fifty million ......," Heikei Jiro had not finished speaking, when someone in the crowd suddenly shouted in English: "I'll pay two million dollars!" (To be continued.)