Tokyo, Japan.

Sony headquarters.

"Ono-kun, EvanWells, haven't they all accepted our opinion?" Sony's president, Kazuo Hirai, looked at Ono Kitazawa, the president of Sony's game division, with an ugly face, and asked.

Kitazawa Ono said: "I'm sorry president, I've tried my best to convince EvanWells and TimMoss to them, but their conditions are still the same, in addition to the normal salary and bonuses, they also ask for 10% of the operating profits of the games they make......"

"Yaga!" Kazuo Hirai was so angry that he smashed a good purple clay pot on the desk, and scolded angrily with a blue face: "Why don't these Americans have any team spirit at all? All day long, they know that money is money, money money, and the salary and bonus we give them are definitely the highest in the industry, and now it's good, they actually want to share the profits of the game! They don't want to think about how they can make a game without our massive investment. Yaga! ”

Kitazawa Ono stood in front of Kazuo Hirai and didn't dare to move a little, and when he saw that Kazuo Hirai was almost venting, he said: "President, since Li Haoyu's person first offered a reward of 10% of the profits to the R&D team in the industry, all the senior game R&D teams in the world have asked their employers to give them the same treatment. It is estimated that people from the two studios of Naughty Dog and Santa Monica have seen the hot sales of "Divine Paradise", which has sold nearly 13 million games this month, and can sell 25 million units this year, and at a profit of 13 million units, 10% of the profit is more than 15 million US dollars......"

Although fifteen million is nothing for the entire Sony, but once this opening is opened, if Sony's game studios and even other departments ask for a 10% profit share, then the entire Sony group will fall into an economic crisis.

Sony seems to be a world-famous company, its products are known for their high-end and tasteful, the price of laptops is not much lower than Apple's notebooks, and many people regard Sony's products as the spokesperson of fashion like Apple. At present, the market value of the entire Sony is only 18 billion US dollars, and it is also a well-known enterprise in the world, but the market value of Samsung in South Korea exceeds 200 billion US dollars.

In February 2014, Sony sold its computer brand Vaio to Japan Industrial Partners Inc. for $500 million to reduce its debt. At this point, Sony will no longer plan, design, and develop computer products, and the production and sales of computers will end after the global launch of new products in the spring of 2014.

As the helmsman of Sony, Kazuo Hirai is worried every day, electronic products are originally very meager, coupled with Sony's market share in recent years is getting lower and lower, most of the main profit growth points in the past two years are supported by the game department. If 10% of the profits are to be handed over to the game production team, it will be tantamount to adding insult to the situation of Sony, which is becoming more and more sophisticated, and maybe in the near future, the Sony brand will become history.

"Ono-kun, they don't have room to negotiate anymore?" Kazuo Hirai asked, trying to suppress the anger in his heart.

Kitazawa Ono smiled bitterly: "President, most of the Japanese employees under Naughty Dog and Santa Monica are willing to stay and be in the same boat with the company, but the Americans led by EvanWells, TimMoss, and employees from other countries are strongly demanding a 10% profit share. At present, Naughty Dog has stopped the development plan of "Sacred Lineage 2", which has just been established, and "God of War 5", which is halfway through the development of Santa Monica Studio, has also been interrupted, and other studios are also panicking, if they see Naughty Dog and Santa Monica get a 10% profit share, they will definitely follow us to ask for this share. ”

"Damn the mythical clique! Damn Li Haoyu! Damn Microsoft! ......" Kazuo Hirai kept cursing, if it weren't for Li Haoyu's mythical group to launch a game production team or studio in the industry to enjoy a 10% profit share, Naughty Dog and Santa Monica They wouldn't be asking for this money, and now he can't wait to eat Li Haoyu alive.

After a while, Kazuo Hirai asked, "Ono-kun, you go to talk to them again, we can give them some of the profits, no more than 3% at most." In addition, with this part of the profit sharing, their performance bonuses are all gone. ”

Kitazawa Ono shook his head and said, "President, I have already told them before, they are not satisfied with the 5% profit share, let alone only 3%?" They must be on par with the Mythical Group, and the 10% profit share must not be less, otherwise they will leave en masse! ”

Kazuo Hirai's face was blue and white for a while, and he instantly seemed to be ten years old, he leaned back in his chair and asked, "Ono-kun, do you think we should agree to these insatiable Americans?" ”

Kitazawa's ambitions are also very entangled, if he doesn't agree, Naughty Dog and Santa Monica Studios will leave a large number of elites, and Sony's current game industry will be dealt a fatal blow. If it is promised, the entire Sony will be in trouble, and even collapse and become a second-rate company.

"President, I don't think we should agree to the vampires of EvanWells and Tim Moss, if they leave, we will merge the rest of Naughty Dog and Santa Monica into a studio, and I believe it will still be very competitive in the game market. As for other game studios, we can also do the same and integrate two or more studios into one studio. In this way, there is no instability, and maybe the remaining employees will be more competitive! Kitazawa Ono considered the words to express what was in his mind.

Kazuo Hirai nodded and said, "That's the only way to go, we Sony will never bow to anyone!" Ono-kun, this matter is for you to deal with, and you must do your best to minimize the impact! ”

"Hey!" Kitazawa Ono bowed deeply and bowed: "Kitazawa Ono will never live up to the president's expectations!" ”

……

In Santa Monica, California, USA, in the president's office inside the Naughty Dog Headquarters, two middle-aged men in their forties sat on the sofa and said something.

"Mr. EvanWells, did you think Sony would accede to our request?" One of the men asked, and this person was Tim Moss, the president of Sony's global studios Santa Monica studio, who was the technical director of Santa Monica Studios and later took over as president of Santa Monica after the resignation of the original president of Santa Monica.

EvanWells, president of Naughty Dog, sneered: "Sony doesn't dare to do this, our Naughty Dog has more than 80% employees in the United States and other countries, and you Santa Monica also have 50% non-Japanese employees." Just as our group resigns, Sony's two largest studios will paralyze the group, and they will not take such a big risk to force our entire group to resign. ”

In the hearts of Americans, interests always come first, and EvanWells' skills are among the best in the world, but the salary they get is far less than that of their peers who work in the Huaxia Myth Group. is also an American, and the Starry Night Studio, a subsidiary of the Mythical Group, has received nearly $200 million in profits, with the lowest sharing of hundreds of thousands of dollars and the highest exceeding $10 million.

Thinking that he had worked hard for a year to get five or six hundred thousand dollars, EvanWells's heart suddenly became unbalanced. He had already asked Sony for the same treatment as the studios under the Mythical Group more than half a year ago, but Sony put it off again and again, until now the matter has intensified, and the employees of the two studios Naughty Dog and Santa Monica have gone on strike.

TimMoss said hesitantly, "Mr. EvanWells, what if Sony really doesn't agree to our reasonable request?" ”

EvanWells snorted, "TimMoss, with our skills, where can't we find a better job than Sony?" And I heard that the mythical group has a lot of intention to recruit game talents recently, if we go to the mythical group, we can definitely re-establish a studio, you must know that the games we produce in the mythical group are all shared by 10% of the profits after they are put on sale! Our compatriots have worked in China for less than two years, and they have only shared nearly 200 million US dollars in profits, so I don't think we will be worse than those of our compatriots who make stand-alone games, right? ”

TimMoss was excited all of a sudden, yes, the current Sony is already in decline, and Nintendo is only desperately trying to maintain its market share, EA and Activision Blizzard have no plans to enter console games in a big way. Only Huaxia's game company is ambitious and also owns the Xbox console, and they can be reused at this time, which is definitely much better than staying at Sony.

Just when TimMoss fell into a fantasy, the phone in the office rang and remembered, EvanWells took the phone and listened for a while, then hung up the phone expressionlessly, and said to TimMoss: "Mr. TimMoss, Sony has replied just now, they don't agree to our request for 10% profit sharing, I think we can go and contact Huaxia Mythology Group." ”