Chapter 157: Preparing to Return to the United States

After Guo Taiming also had the intention of cooperating, in the face of the table full of delicacies, the two of them were not interested.

Although it was only a draft negotiation, not a formal contract, neither of them wanted to weaken their momentum, and now the terms of the negotiation between the two are basically the terms of the contract signed by the company's in-house counsel after that.

In Guo Taiming's view, he can indeed make certain concessions in terms of dividends, but Jester correspondingly, his investment must also impress him.

Therefore, he unceremoniously shrank the scale of the electronics industrial park that he boasted about Jester's investment in Shanghai by half -- he only won the land, and now he has only just completed the first phase of the project, and according to this investment, it can only be regarded as an investment of more than 10 million US dollars.

Jester has no objection to this, he originally enclosed land in Shanghai and did not really want to build such a large industrial park, if it were not for the fact that Pudong has not been included in the development plan now, it is too difficult to achieve five links and seven flats, then Jester will definitely circle down directly along the banks of the Huangpu River.

However, the current location is also good, and it will be counted in the center of Shanghai in the future.

Therefore, in the face of Guo Taiming's statement, Jester simply replied: "Then since Mr. Guo is not satisfied with my previous investment offer, then follow what you said, but since you said, such as the ownership of the land is still mine, but I can rent it for a long time, and the accounting of my investment will end up to the first phase of the project, and the specific statements are there, I can't remember the numbers, but I have no problem with the investment amount on the statement, right?" ”

For Guo Taiming, there is naturally no problem, after all, Jester's early construction has reduced his time by almost a year, because he can officially negotiate cooperation with the mainland, and it will be the end of this year.

However, when he heard the number of orders for Dreambox that Jester was going to place, Guo Taiming was almost frightened, and he even asked repeatedly whether his ears were wrong, or Jester said the wrong thing.

"40 million units in four years!"

This is a number that is too joking in Guo Taiming's opinion, and he even thinks that this is Jester bullying him again for not having an IQ, because in his understanding, it is very good that the current video game market can be restored to the Atari period, Atari's 2600 has been sold for so many years, and it has been popular in Europe and the United States, but it has only sold less than 20 million units, but this time Jester directly said that it will cost 40 million units in four years, which is unreasonable in his opinion.

In the face of Guo Taiming's shock, Jester was not in a hurry, he took a sip of tea very calmly before saying.

"Mr. Guo, I will do what I say, and I think it's a bit contemptuous for you to see a new industry with old eyes, Atari used to be great, yes, but they're dead, and if the video game practitioners just want to bring the industry back to the Atari era, then this dream is a little too insignificant."

Jester said very sincerely, but this kind of mouth cannon still couldn't convince Guo Taiming, he thought that Jester's price was not enough, and the order of 40 million units of this kind of blowing water could not impress him, so he shook his head, and there was still a look of doubt in his eyes.

Jester couldn't do anything about it, although 40 million units was not a small number even for someone familiar with the scale of future video games, and even Nintendo did not expect its FC/NES to reach or approach 40 million.

And Jester has set himself his own Dreambox console as the lifeline of the main product is four years, and the development plan he determined in the company is also carried out with a timeline of four years, in the game industry that Jester understands in later generations, the golden lifeline of a game console is only about four to five years, even if it is a recognized high-vitality console like FC/NES, when Sega's sixteen-bit machine was released in the United States in 89, it was also seized a large number of markets.

40 million units is a figure that Jester has taken into account based on the specific number left by FC/NES, which is not a conservative number in the development period of the video game industry, but it is definitely not an exaggeration.

Moreover, in the competition between himself and Nintendo, Sega is in a more embarrassing position than the original history, after all, their opponent at that time was only Nintendo, in this case, if Hayao Nakayama still wants to continue to go further and further on the road of home game consoles, then it is inevitable to start the development of sixteen-bit consoles in advance.

In Jester's memory, the Sega MD was officially released in Japan in eight or eight years, and the American version was released in eight or nine years, so if you don't want to lose almost half of the U.S. market in a short period of time because of the lack of response to the 16-bit console like Nintendo, you naturally have to prepare early.

"That's it." Jester faced Guo Taiming's puzzled look, he could only continue to make his own guarantees, "The order of 40 million units in the past four years can be counted as my investment amount, if I can't guarantee the average number of 10 million units per year, then the corresponding shares I own will be automatically given up, you see how this is." ”

After hearing Jester's assurance, Guo Taiming was silent for a while before nodding: "Then let's start talking about specific investments and shares." ”

Jester has no problem with this.

Because Guo Taiming still has a plane at night, and this is only an intentional negotiation, and the specific content of the negotiation depends on the legal teams of both parties, although there will be some quarrels in the discussion between the two, they can also be temporarily put on hold when encountering major contradictions.

Therefore, at about six o'clock, the general intention of cooperation was almost discussed.

The two of them didn't bring assistants when they came, so some of the content they talked about was recorded by Guo Taiming himself, and then he signed his name after Jester looked at it and it didn't make sense, of course, this is not a formal contract, it doesn't have any legal effect, it's just something like a memo or something.

In the end, although there were still some small aspects that could not be negotiated, the general direction of the two sides also made the greatest concessions that they could consider.

Jester invested in the first phase of the electronics industrial park in Shanghai and the right to use the entire park for 15 years, plus an order for 40 million Dreamboxes in four years, plus a large amount of money to invest in Guo Taiming's Hon Hai Group, accounting for 40 percent of the total shares, and Guo Taiming and his wife accounted for 60 percent of the total shares of Hon Hai Group.

However, Jester also made it clear at the same time that he only has 20% of the voting rights of the 40% of the shares he holds, and the remaining 20% of the voting rights automatically belong to Guo Taiming for 20 years.

As for the specific cash investment, Jester and Guo Taiming did not negotiate, in Jester's eyes, he will only contribute 40 million to 50 million US dollars at most, because counting his other investment amounts, there are almost 100 million US dollars, and Guo Taiming asked Jester to give at least 70 million US dollars, although the difference between 30 million US dollars, but this is not a fundamental contradiction, and further negotiations can be made later.

In the eyes of both parties, this specific amount of cash only shows that there are differences between the two in the cooperation they are going to carry out, but the differences are not big, and they can be resolved through specific negotiations, and for the two, this is not a figure that cannot be compromised to each other.

After sending Guo Taiming away, Jester came to Japan to basically complete the thing, looked at the itinerary, there are still two days left, although Jester is also very interested in finding a few attractions in Japan to take a turn, but the constant trivial matters, or let him give up this idea for the time being, can only choose a time to travel in the future.

After the handover of the marketing department of Mars Entertainment, Tamahide Yoshiro was basically idle, although Jester has decided to formally form a Japanese game development team, but he brought all the elites he recruited to the United States this time, Tamahide Yoshiro didn't say anything on the surface, but deep down he still complained about him.

After all, in this way, he has become a bare-rod commander, and although he still has the title of president of Mars Entertainment Japan in his name, he really can't find anything specific to do.

Jester can only express some helplessness in this regard, after all, there are too few capable talents recruited through guò, unlike the United States, which relied on the prestige of "American Cubes" to basically die in the game industry at that time, there are many elites who have been engaged in game development, and they are thousands of miles away.

Just like before Jester asked these R&D employees in the current company, especially the game planner, to make a new game plan, but the game plans written by these planners are not attractive at all in Jester's eyes, let alone make these planned games, there is no way, Jester can only let the artists in the company temporarily participate in the illustration design of the Japanese expansion pack in the "World Storm" card, and other people also do some outsourcing work from the US head office for the time being. When these Japanese R&D personnel recruited by themselves return to Japan, they will have these elites as the core skeleton, and then officially start the game development of the Japanese branch.

However, the time does not need to be too long, according to Jester's estimates, the longest will not be more than half a year, if it is fast, four or five months will be enough.

After dealing with Japan, Jester is also preparing to return to the United States to officially start the development of "Fire Emblem". R1152