Chapter 130: Retreat is Advance
Minoru Arakawa didn't like this feeling, he hadn't been so aggrieved since he left school to pursue business.
In the face of this sudden crisis of trust, when he was in school, at work, his teachers, and seniors have taught him countless times, the most important thing to do is to make people trust you again, and if you want others to trust you again, then turning yourself into a weak party to deceive sympathy is the best choice.
And now Arakawa doesn't need to think about how to turn himself into the weak side, because he is already the weak side.
Therefore, Minoru Arakawa held this press conference as soon as he ended the mid-level meeting, and the media in any country is a virtue, and soon after the news of Minoru Arakawa's press conference was released, he received many responses from the media, and they all expressed interest in participating.
Facing the long spear and short cannon in front of him, Arakawa had no reason to give birth to a disgusted feeling, but he couldn't vent his feelings, and he could only forcibly pretend to be a slightly stiff smile on his face.
"I sincerely apologize for the previous erroneous remarks that I said in public that my company's FC consoles are the best consoles in the world."
At the beginning of the press conference, Minoru Arakawa stood up and bowed deeply, which has become accustomed in the eyes of the Americans, who at first thought that bowing was a way for the Japanese to apologize, but later came into contact with more and realized that it was not such a simple thing.
For a Japanese person, if he bows to you like this for no reason, it must not only be an apology, but also something else.
These experienced American media are also very familiar with this, so at the same time as Minoru Arakawa bowed, they also lifted their spirits while pressing the shutter, and they knew that after bowing and apologizing, Minoru Arakawa would definitely take other measures.
Sure enough, a reporter from the Asahi Shimbun was the first to be named.
"President Minoru Arakawa, are you not responsible for the incident that Nintendo is preparing to sue Mars Entertainment for infringement caused by your slip of the tongue?" The Asahi Shimbun reporter's choice of words was clearly carefully considered, which was almost invisible to these American reporters who were extremely familiar with the words.
For example, a provocation is described as a slip of the tongue, an infringement that has not yet been characterized is characterized, and so on.
But the American reporters didn't bother to bother with these ambiguous statements, and they were interested in how Minoru Arakawa would answer, even though it was apparently arranged before the press conference.
Minoru Arakawa smiled first, there was not the slightest look of anger on his face, if he hadn't seen him lose control twice before because of this incident, and he wanted to kill Jester as soon as possible, then he would definitely not be able to feel the violent feelings before from the smile on his face now.
"I've been talking to Jester from Mars Entertainment before. Mr. Li has been in contact, although we have not reached an intention to cooperate, but we have established a good personal friendship, it is the company's decision to send our official letter to Mars Entertainment, without our authorization, at will to crack the decoding method of our hardware, and according to the cracked decoding method to make a simulator, this is a fact of infringement, which is also the bottom line and position of our company. ”
Minoru Arakawa also said a kumon-style sentence in strict terms, and then his tone changed sharply.
"However, we still handled this incident in a friendly manner, our views on this are completely the same as at the beginning, we don't want to take Bo Gong court for such a trivial matter, as long as Mars Entertainment formally apologizes to us for the simulator incident and promises not to carry out such infringements again, then we Nintendo will not pursue it."
At the time of Minoru Arakawa's press conference, it was already the end of the CES show, and Jester's company was a great success at this CES show, and the most important thing for Mars Entertainment and Popular Publishing was to reach a cooperation agreement with Wal-Mart, the largest supermarket chain giant in the United States.
After the official launch of the Dreambox, Walmart will also release it.
This is a milestone event for both popular releases and Mars Entertainment, which not only expands their sales channels tenfold and dozens of times, but most importantly, it is a manifestation of the official return of home video game consoles to the mainstream.
You must know that just half a year ago, such a large shopping mall like Wal-Mart was still selling the backlog of Atari game consoles, and at the end of the year, when Atari returned to the video game industry at Christmas, Wal-Mart refused to sell it.
And this time, at the CES show, Jester's Dreambox game console attracted much attention, not only was it selected as the best exhibit, but also Mars Entertainment ranked among the top three among all exhibitors in the three-day CES exhibition.
And the two taller than them, one is the blue giant IBM, which has formulated the rules of the PC, and the other is Sony, which has been in the limelight for a while in recent years because of the launch of the WALKMAN.
This obviously also gave Walmart a lot of confidence in re-optimistic about the home game console industry.
At a café where Mars Entertainment stayed at the hotel, Jester met with the beautiful Newsweek reporter Elizabeth Brown, whom he had met at his press conference. Winnie sat opposite each other.
This beautiful reporter is wearing a beige professional dress today, with long golden hair coiled behind her head, and a little light makeup painted on her fair skin, because she is very close, Jester can clearly see that the other party's skin is very delicate, and there is no rough skin like ordinary European and American women.
Before leaving, Jester also saw the report of the press conference held by Minoru Arakawa before, he sneered and quickly skimmed the newspaper in his hand, and then rolled the newspaper into a ball, holding one end of the newspaper in one hand, and knocking the other end on the other empty palm.
"Miss Elizabeth, please have coffee."
Just then, the waiter brought two cups of steaming coffee, and Jester made a gesture of please.
And Elizabeth. Winnie gave Jester a serious look before smiling and saying, "First of all, thank you very much for accepting this interview with me. After a pause, her tone became a little puzzled, "Actually, I'm very curious, I used to make you unhappy with my questioning at the previous press conference, but why did you still agree to accept my request for this interview?" ”
"The question ......"
Jester frowned, hesitated for a moment before speaking.
"Actually, after being interviewed by Mr. Jerome from ABC TV, I have already said that I will not accept other media interviews or anything like that, but sometimes, ideas have to compromise with reality, and we often encounter this kind of thing when developing games, and the effect has to be subordinated to hardware, I think I should express my opinion about the words of Mr. Minoru Arakawa that involve me and my Mars Entertainment company, and you were the first to write an article to support me after my press conference."
"So you agreed to my interview just as I was booking my flight back to New York and packing my bags, so I had to book another ticket?" Elizabeth raised an eyebrow and said with a slightly angry playfulness.
Jester had also heard of this for the first time, so his face showed an embarrassed look, and then he smiled dryly and expressed his apologies: "Miss Elizabeth, this is my company's negligence, I will help you book your ticket, please don't worry about this." ”
"Haha." Elizabeth. Winnie laughed happily a few times after hearing this, then shrugged her shoulders and replied indifferently, "Actually, don't bother you, I have already rebooked it before I came." ”
The two chatted a few more words, and when the atmosphere was about the same, Elizabeth put down the coffee in her hand, reached out and stroked her hair slightly, and asked in a tentative tone: "Then Mr. Li, is our interview ready to start?" ”
"Actually, Miss Elizabeth, you should treat this private meeting with you as a simple conversation rather than an interview, because I just want to express my opinion about Minoru Arakawa's press conference, and I don't want to talk about much else."
Jester said simply and directly to the beautiful reporter of Newsweek whom he had invited.
For Jester's statement, Elizabeth. Winnie is a little angry, she is a gold medal reporter for Newsweek, the largest magazine in North America, and she has the right to publish columns on it, but she is not a mouthpiece in your eyes.
But she was about to get angry, but then she thought of Jester. Li is indeed a person she wanted to know before, she really wanted to know how a young man under the age of twenty could create such a big career in such a short period of time, in fact, this is not only her curiosity, but also the curiosity of most people.
Because she knows that no one can succeed for no reason.
"So, what would you like to say about Nintendo's previous apology and statement?" Suppressing the thoughts in her heart for a while, Elizabeth asked.
"His apology doesn't actually need to ask my opinion, because I made it very clear in an interview with Jerome before, I don't care who has the best function, what I care about is whose game is better, but the difference between the two is that the function is objectively comparable, just compare it or not, and whether the game is good or not can only be subjective, everyone has a different answer in their hearts, so the reason why I did it at the press conference, It's just that I care about his deception of gamers who want to buy a home console. ”
Jester was righteous when he said this, but in Elizabeth's eyes, if it was said that using an emulator to pit Nintendo was not a long time ago, she didn't believe it, and she didn't believe it, he had learned before that if he wanted to complete the simulator of FC, it would take at least half a year for a professional team and at least millions of dollars in research and development expenses. RS