Chapter 359 Tokyo Bay Agreement

Regardless of whether Yamauchi believes it or not, Nintendo's current predicament determines that he has no choice at this time.

Uda Zhong naturally didn't believe it, such a child's playful "kiss", in his opinion, was simply prevarication. However, there are two games, "Resident Evil" and "Dead and Alive", and Sega has to pinch its nose to recognize it even if it is not happy. So, in Fang Mingyuan's villa in Tokyo Bay, Fang Mingyuan officially reached an agreement with Nintendo Co., Ltd. on the sales subsidy of "Pokemon". With sales of one million units within the year, Nintendo Co., Ltd. will pay Fang Mingyuan 30% of the selling price as a promotion fee. And for every 500,000 units sold, this proportion will increase by 5%!

This agreement, historically known as the "Tokyo Bay Agreement", is quite famous and has far-reaching significance in the history of Japanese games in the future!

First, it is because it was from this day that "Pokemon" began to turn from a game that the vast majority of people had already considered a failure to Nintendo's ace star in one fell swoop! Since then, the "Pokemon" series of games has been out of control, and has made great contributions to Nintendo's reversal of the declining trend in the game industry! After more than ten years of growth, "Pokemon" It has also become the national animation star of the Japanese and the well-known animation image of Shijie after the robot cat, and it is also one of the most valuable brands in the history of the game industry, with a total of tens of thousands of related products across more than 100 industries, and more than 1,000 companies producing "Pokemon" related products worldwide. According to the statistics of the relevant ministry in 2008, the total value of "Pokemon" since its birth has been close to 10 billion US dollars!

Second, it was because of the extremely considerable sales of "Pokemon" later, which on the one hand made Nintendo very happy, and on the other hand, it also brought huge financial pressure to Nintendo! The total sales volume reached nearly 40 million units, which made Nintendo suffer a great hemorrhage! Almost broke Nintendo's golden body that had never lost money since it started making games!

Third, the unexpected best-selling of "Pokemon" undoubtedly further confirmed Fang Mingyuan's position in the Japanese game industry, and his "unique" vision and "flowery" variety of promotion strategies have made the Japanese game industry amazed! And after that, any game that Fang Mingyuan fancies, if he wants to buy the copyright again, the other party will offer a sky-high price! For this reason, the gamestation company had to merge and acquire several companies in the later stage before Fang Mingyuan got the game copyright that Fang Mingyuan fancied.

Fourth, it was with the help of "Pokemon" that Nintendo's position in the market was stabilized again, and since then Sega Corporation, Sony and Nintendo have established a three-way pattern in Japan. And it continued until Microsoft broke into the industry with a huge amount of money! And at that time, people were shocked to find that "Fang" actually had a stake in two of the four giants of the game console industry! And GameStation became the first company on Shijie to supply games to the consoles produced by the Big Four at the same time!

The day after the agreement was signed, the authoritative media in Japan's game industry released the news for the first time. Of course, the specific content of the agreement will not be disclosed to the public. However, the news that "Fang", the founder of "Resident Evil", is optimistic about "Pokemon" and bought the rights for millions of dollars, and will continue to be released on GB, is enough to make many Japanese people who love "Resident Evil" so much now, interested in "Pokemon".

Then, Shonen Monthly announced that it would randomly add 500 games per month to periodical buyers from June to December. Moreover, "Shonen Monthly" will also invite famous domestic cartoonists at the request of "Fang" to tailor a comic version of "Pokemon"!

In less than three days, Toei Animation, which has produced famous animations such as "Yuyu Hakusho", "Hunter" and "Chess Soul" in Japan, also announced in a high-profile manner that at the request of "Fang", the company will produce an animated version of "Pokemon" at the right time!

Japan is a big consumer of manga and animation, from children to young and middle-aged people, and even to the elderly. And "Fang", in the comic and animation world, is not inferior to his current status in the game industry. Several works that are still haunting to this day have amassed him an astonishing popularity. It's just that because Fang Mingyuan is getting older, he has more and more sources of funds at hand, and he doesn't pay as much attention to comics as he did at the beginning. Naturally, the speed of updating works has slowed down.

But this does not mean that his popularity has also begun to decline because of this, over the years, a series of games with amazing sales, as well as the Kobe earthquake, have long made the name "Fang" a household name!

Soon, Nintendo was pleasantly surprised to find that the sales of "Pokemon" began to increase significantly, from obscurity to almost triple jump into the top 20 of the weekly game software sales list...... Top 15 ...... Top 10!

And with the release of the "Pokemon" manga and anime in the second half of the year, the growth momentum has not slowed down with time, but has a tendency to rise all the way!

At the end of the year, those who cared about "Pokemon" in Nintendo and even in the Japanese game industry were shocked to find that the total sales of "Pokemon" had actually reached more than 5.7 million units! Far beyond people's expectations, it entered the top three of the best-selling games list that year in one fell swoop! Moreover, on this year's best-selling game list, except for "Resident Evil", which was far ahead with sales of more than 10 million units, the gap between the sales of "Pokemon" and "Pokemon" was only more than 780,000 sets!

Nintendo is undoubtedly the biggest direct beneficiary of this miracle, and the GB, which had already "revealed" its declining trend, was strongly promoted by "Pokemon" and its sales rose from 1,000 units on Wednesday to 60,000 units in the most recent week! The total sales volume was as high as 4.12 million units! It shocked and coveted Sega Corporation and Sony!

Of course, all of this is just another story. Except for the confident Fang Mingyuan, no one would believe that after just half a year, "Pokemon" would undergo such earth-shaking changes.

After sending off Yamauchi, Fang Mingyuan and Uda Zhong finished dinner in the villa and rushed to the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo by car. Here, there's also a dinner party!

This is a charity dinner, the initiator of the dinner is the vice president of Sony Co., Ltd. Heikei Jiro, although in Fang Mingyuan's previous life, this one can only be said to be unknown, all his light is covered up under the halo of Sony's celebrities, but in this life, Fang Mingyuan knows that this one is the third person in Sony Co., Ltd., and has considerable power!

Fang Mingyuan was actually not very interested in these so-called charity dinners, and he didn't want to show his face in front of everyone. However, Heikei Jiro sent someone to send an invitation, and Lin Lian also had to attend this dinner, and Fang Mingyuan, who was about to return to China, could only nod and agree if he wanted to spend more time with Lin Lian.

Fortunately, Uda Zhong also received the invitation, and at that time, Fang Mingyuan would follow behind him, pretending to be his junior! Anyway, strictly speaking, Uda Zhong can also be regarded as his elder, and he doesn't feel a psychological loss.

"Fang Jun, don't underestimate this Heikei Jiro!" Uda Zhong said with emotion, "He is the founder of Sony Corporation, the child of Akio Morita's friend, graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1973, entered Sony Corporation, and has worked in many departments of Sony Corporation, and in 1993, he officially became the vice president of Sony Corporation! In Sony Corporation, although his reputation is not obvious, he is also a very important figure!"

"Director Yutian, I'm very strange, Ping Jingjun Weishenme must invite me?" Fang Mingyuan said thoughtfully. It was precisely because Heijing Jiro sent his secretary to personally send the invitation that Fang Mingyuan was a little difficult to refuse.

"Hehe, Sony can't sit still now!" Uda Zhong smiled and said, "Who made your "Resident Evil" sell so well! Three months later, the PS version will be launched, Sony must be a little anxious!"

Fang Mingyuan smiled, this is certainly a reason, but Fang Mingyuan feels that this should not be the main reason. After all, PS console production is only a part of Sony's business, and it seems that the No. 3 person in the entire company is dispatched for the sake of a game software! He has a feeling that Heikei Jiro's invitation this time may not be so simple! I am afraid there is a deeper meaning behind it.

At this time, in the KMON Restaurant, one of the 17 restaurants of the Imperial Hotel, which has a history of 106 years and has hosted countless royalty, heads of state, celebrities and international business leaders, the service staff of the Imperial Hotel are busy preparing for a charity dinner that is about to begin.

And in the upstairs suite, Heikei Jiro, who is over half a hundred years old, is once again determining with his assistant whether the guests he values will definitely arrive at the dinner.

"Vice President, Fang Jun has left his villa in Tokyo Bay, and is on his way to the Imperial Hotel with Director Uda Zhong of Sega Corporation!"

Heikei Jiro nodded, crossed out Fang Mingyuan's name on the guest list in front of him, and let out a long breath.

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