Chapter Seventy-Eight: Don't Bite, John
If you want to say what Lin Yan's impression of European and American games is, in his mind, the impression of European and American games is far less deep than that of Japanese games.
Since the Atari crash, the video game market in the United States has been in a slump. The market is sluggish, and enterprises naturally have no room to survive.
Later, Japanese games occupied the American video game market. Players in the entire United States can be said to be mournful and miserable. That feeling is roughly equivalent to the feeling of the people of a backward country when they are bombarded by the guns of an advanced country and sign an unequal treaty.
After a long period of time, an industry with a history of no more than 50 years, Japanese manufacturers have occupied the American market for decades.
The American people finally got back on their feet, took back their own market, and developed their own games.
The essential reason for this development is that the center of electronic technology is in the United States, in the Silicon Valley of the United States. Japanese companies have been delayed in accessing the latest technology.
In addition, for various reasons, they are unwilling to give up the game genre they originally developed.
In addition, the Japanese economy is declining and the market is sluggish, which finally brought the American video game market back into the hands of Americans.
Japanese games and American games have their own merits. Japanese games are more arcade games and home console handheld games. And American games, there seem to be more personal computer platforms.
"On which platform are your games released?" Lin Yan asked.
He and Moder were in a café not far from his hotel.
He had just experienced some verbal deception from Modell, but he was unmoved. These days. He has visited so many businesses and met so many entrepreneurs looking for investment. For what they say. He didn't even believe in punctuation.
These entrepreneurs don't have much discipline. If their product is an ant. They can boast of it as an elephant.
When investors really invest, they will find that they are not an elephant, nor a pig, but a small ant, and they can only consider themselves unlucky.
It is precisely because of the bottomless boasting of these entrepreneurs that investors are now becoming more and more cautious in the choice of investment objects. The related investigation company also has business. If you don't investigate a company to the bottom, investors will not invest easily.
It is for this reason that Moder is also very important. found Lin Yan's. Because, judging from Lin Yan's investment behavior. He doesn't seem to have seriously investigated the companies he invests in. After all, if you look closely, it will take at least two months from the intention to the actual investment, and it is possible to do two years if not for a long time.
The reason why investors will delay for so long is, of course, because the longer it is delayed, the tighter the funds of the companies waiting for investment. The easier it is to talk about unequal treaties.
Although the company will strive for it, it will not really reject investors. It's either an investment or a bankruptcy. Choose one of the two, and there is no time when entrepreneurs see that their business still has hope of survival. Just let it die.
Lin Yan listened to Moder's description, and their main product seemed to be an airplane simulation game. And according to Moder. He was a pilot himself.
He's a pilot?
Lin Yan looked at Modell's appearance, and he felt that he didn't look like a pilot. Isn't it better to be a pilot as thin as possible? For example, the pilot in front of me, who is about two meters tall, is really not too much. It stands to reason. With this height, isn't it more advantageous to play basketball?
Looks like Moder is going to keep going.
Lin Yan stretched out his hand to stop him and said, "That's it, it's okay if you want my investment." Let's stop talking about it here and go and see what your game looks like. ”
Lin Yan is actually not very good at this kind of investment negotiation, but he has what he is good at - his knowledge of video games.
Video games, after all, are an industry where products are king. It doesn't matter if a company brags about how good its office environment is and how great its corporate culture is, as long as they don't have a game product that they can do with it, they are all garbage.
For example, the later American Electronic Arts has their sports series, and Activision has their Call of Duty series. Ren Hell has the Mario series that they have been able to run for thirty years. Even the persimmon family has their collection of little blue hedgehogs. A game company can't be remembered without a fist product. The ultimate fate can only be annihilated in the long river of game history. Whether you remember it or not, it's not necessarily.
"Okay, I'll show you there." Moder said. Don't look at him big, but he's not stupid at all. He knows that investors can watch their own games, which proves that there is a possibility of winning investment. It made him happy.
To be honest, the operating costs of his company are not high. The reason why he needs money is just that he can survive this cold winter of video games.
He believes that as long as he survives, the future of video games is bright and promising.
When Lin Yan followed Moder to his garage, he first called John Kishimoto, telling him where he was going, and if he didn't come back for a long time, he would call the police.
His act of telling John Kishimoto's home address was a very cautious act. These days, when he was in the United States, he found that compared to Japan, a country with a better security environment, the United States was not so refined, and it was much wilder.
The most direct point is that Lin Yan has been in the United States for so many days, and he has never dared to go to the street outside the hotel alone for a while. Because he didn't know what was going to happen to him.
John Kishimoto said that he had written it all down, and Lin Yan followed Moder to his house.
Moder looked at Lin Yan's behavior of reporting his whereabouts, and his confidence in persuading Lin Yan to invest was even more reorganized.
Lin Yan's behavior is, in his opinion, a child who has not grown up. Look at Lin Yan, a yellow person, looking more tender and delicious. Moder has already figured out that Lin Yan is a child of a rich family, taking his own money and coming out to squander it.
If Lin Yan could know what John Kishimoto and Moder were thinking, he would definitely be very depressed. He doesn't think he's the kind of incompetent boy in the eyes of the public. Why does everyone think that he is an image of a loser who doesn't understand anything? I really don't understand.
"Don't bite, John, this is our game." The first half of Moder said to the dog tethered to the garage door, and the second half of the sentence said to Lin Yan. (To be continued......)