Chapter 339: The Largest Jump Price in History

When it comes to the capital of Japan, many foreigners think of Tokyo as their first thought, but until 1868, the capital of Japan was Kyoto!

Kyoto, the birthplace of Japanese culture, is known as a capital of learning and is one of Japan's two major academic and artistic centers along with Tokyo. It is also one of the places with the highest concentration of traditional industries, and is famous for its kimonos, embroidery, bamboo products, lacquerware, Japanese fans, and sake. Kyoto is also the city with the most monuments and tourists in Japan. However, not many people have noticed that the headquarters of Nintendo Corporation of Japan is also here!

Speaking of Nintendo Co., Ltd., it is definitely the pride of Kyoto people, this small Japanese Co., Ltd., with less than 1,000 employees, but it is simply leaving behind the well-known Panasonic, Hitachi, Toshiba, Sony and other internationally renowned Japanese companies!

From the two figures, it is not difficult to see the success of Nintendo Corporation's operation - in 1993, Nintendo's per capita profit was as high as 800,000 US dollars, which is a rather astonishing figure in Japan, and even in the whole Shijie; In 1994, Nintendo's pre-tax profit ranked second among all listed companies in Japan, second only to Toyota, the overlord of the automotive industry.

However, in the near future, due to the brazen surpassing of Sega Corporation and the rise of Sony on game consoles, Nintendo's dominance in the Japanese home game console market has been replaced by Sega Corporation and Sony. Although it is said that Nintendo will launch the N64 console in the near future, it is not favored by the world due to various reasons! However, Nintendo's weapon to attract money, GB, has already seen a decline in sales, which has made many people up and down Nintendo worried.

Nintendo's president, Yamauchi, naturally couldn't sleep at night, especially when the release of "Resident Evil" was summarized on his desk.

On the first day, 2,568,973 units were sold, and the total sales in the third day exceeded 4 million units in one fell swoop! Sega Co., Ltd. also took advantage of this, and the three-day shipment of the Saturn console was already worth the total sales volume of the usual nearly ten days, and on the weekly sales list of the console, the PS was thrown off a big bit! Naturally, there is no need to mention Nintendo.

Yamauchi Park regrets it now, he knew it would be like this, and he said that he would tie this Fang Mingyuan to his Nintendo's chariot, even if it was to give him shares! Mr. Fang's stake in Sega has not yet been made public, but it is no secret among the top executives of the Japanese industry.

It's not that no one wants to raise objections, or say that they are talking about this and making trouble, but Fang Mingyuan's timing of entering Sega Co., Ltd. is too good! It was after the Kobe earthquake occurred that Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama invited him as a guest! At that time, the Japanese people were angry because the government and those with ulterior motives ignored Fang Mingyuan's advance "warning" and caused heavy losses to the Japanese people in the Kobe earthquake. At that time, whoever stood up and questioned the "square" might become the target of the Japanese people's anger, and naturally no one would do such stupid things.

Speaking of which, Fang Mingyuan and Nintendo also had business dealings, although they did not have any intimate relationship, but there was no hatred.

Yamauchi Bo is very fortunate that when Fang Mingyuan was like a rat crossing the street in Japan because of the prediction of the "earthquake", Nintendo did not get involved much. Sony is more miserable, as far as Yamauchi Bo knows, for this reason, Sony secretly compensated Fang Mingyuan for the loss of reputation of three million US dollars afterwards, so that it can be regarded as revealing the past.

But even so, it is said that Sony was not less ripped off a while ago in order to let "Resident Evil" land on PS, obviously three months later than landing on Saturn, but the price paid was only 30% less than that of Sega Corporation.

At that time, Yamauchi Bo was still secretly laughing at Sony in his heart, it was three months late, even if he landed on PS, what could he do? Players who want to play have almost all bought it for such a long time. But now, Yamauchi is too late to regret!

The sales of 4 million units in three days are also an unprecedented record in the history of Japanese games. And judging from the reactions of major media in the past three days, the quality of "Resident Evil" has been praised, and Famitong has rarely given a high score of 40 points! This undoubtedly played a role in fueling the sales of "Resident Evil".

With such good sales and good reputation, it will definitely be made into a series of games! With this cooperation between Sony, then when the next "Resident Evil 2" is released, it may have the opportunity to be released at the same time as Sega Corporation. Even if he didn't, if he had a good relationship with Fang Mingyuan, he might be able to pull him from Sega's camp to his own camp at some point.

In the shopping mall, the relationship between friend and foe is not fixed, as long as there is a large enough interest, it is not possible to change at any time! Nintendo also had a honeymoon period with Sony!

However, how to get into the relationship between the two parties with Fang Mingyuan has become a headache for Yamauchi.

In the afternoon, Yamauchi sat in his office, looking at the documents somewhat absent-mindedly and looking at the watch from time to time.

He was waiting for the arrival of Yokoi Junhei, just this morning, the head of the Tokyo R&D department, Yokoi Junhei, met with Fang Mingyuan, because the meeting was proposed by Fang Mingyuan, Yokoi Junhei didn't know what he wanted to talk about with him. Yamauchi Bo was also very curious that at this time, Fang Mingyuan would make an appointment with Yokoi Junping.

"President, Minister Yokoi is here!" The beautiful secretary pushed open the door.

"Huh? Let him in! Yamauchi Po's 'spirit' perked up.

"President, I've kept you waiting!" After entering the "door", Yokoi Junhei bowed deeply.

"Well, Yokoi-kun, sit down by yourself!" Yamauchi waved his hand. He noticed that Gunpei Yokoi seemed to have a happy face.

After the secretary brought the tea and withdrew, the happy face of Yokoi Junhei said: "President, my meeting with Fang Jun this morning was very successful!" ”

"Success?" Yamauchi Bo sensitively grasped the key words in Yokoi's words and said, "He came to me to discuss something about Pokemon. ”

"Pokemon?" Yamauchi couldn't help but feel a little disappointed in his heart, "Pokemon" has only sold more than 100,000 units since its release, and it can be said that it is an out-and-out failure game in the history of games released by Nintendo! When Yamauchi Bo thinks about it now, he actually pinned the development of GB on such a game, and he feels that he must have been dizzy at the beginning!

"What does he want?" Yamauchi asked.

"Fang Jun has acquired the ownership of Pokemon from Gamefreak Game Development Club!" Yokoi Junhei said, "Fang Jun said that he has a way to make Pokemon sell more than one million this year, or even higher......"

"What did you say?" Yamauchi immediately jumped up from his boss's chair, propped his hands on his desk, and shouted loudly.

"Fang Jun said he had a way to make Pokemon sell more than a million this year, or even more......," Yokoi repeated as a hush to his boss's reaction.

"He's not kidding, is he?" Yamauchi was sure that he had heard correctly, and after a long pause, he said, "When did he acquire the ownership of Pokemon from Gamefreak?" Why didn't I hear any wind? ”

Yokoi Junhei smiled bitterly: "Just three days ago, the contract was officially signed by the two parties. For this, Fang Jun paid a million dollars. Now all the copyrights of "Pokemon" except for the right of authorship belong to Fang Jun! "It's not just Yamauchi who doesn't know, it's himself, and he just learned from Fang Mingyuan's mouth in the morning.

The two sides negotiated the copyright of "Pokemon" in just two days, and the agreement was reached, which can be described as fast. However, he can understand that the sales of more than 100,000 units, as well as the obvious neglect that Nintendo has shown these days, have made Gamefreak Game Development Club lose confidence in the future of "Pokemon", and at this time, it is definitely a surprise to be able to sell it for a million dollars!

One million dollars, so that the development and production costs of the game are removed, and the gamefreak game development club can still get a considerable surplus profit on it, plus the sales expenses of the hundreds of thousands of sets, the overall income is also good! If it weren't for this million dollars, Gamefreak Game Development Club would definitely lose money on Pokemon! Therefore, in two days, it is normal for the two sides to reach an agreement without anyone knowing.

"A million dollars!" Yamauchi Bo couldn't help frowning, it was really a bit unexpected that Fang Mingyuan would offer such a high purchase price for that failed game. Could it be ...... That Fang Mingyuan can really bring this game back to life?

Looking at Yamauchi's thoughtful appearance, Yokoi Junhei kept silent knowingly. Because in the morning, he was also puzzled by Fang Mingyuan's offer of such a high price to acquire the ownership of "Pokemon", and he didn't understand what Fang Mingyuan liked about it! It's just that until now, he hasn't figured out where Fang Mingyuan's confidence comes from!

Yamauchi Bo racked his brains for a long time, but he didn't figure out what was there about this "Pokemon" that Fang Mingyuan took a fancy to! I had to give up in despair.

"Yokoi-kun, you just said that Fang Jun said that he can make "Pokemon" sell more than one million this year, or even higher, is this true?" Yamauchi Bo looked directly at Yokoi Gunpei with his eyes and asked very solemnly.

This is a big matter for Nintendo! No room for even the slightest joke!

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