Chapter 515: Japan's SoftBank Group Participates in the Competition
Kutaragi Ken expressed considerable disgust, Yamauchi Pu did not express his position, and Nakata Kono didn't even bother to speak, which made the embarrassed Miyamoto Masashi gradually become angry.
Could it be that Sony will still take care of Longteng's emotions? Could it be that the hard-line Nintendo and Namco will change their stance and become supporters of the dragon? Hasn't Sony Nintendo Namco always carried the banner of revitalizing the national game industry and vowed to drive foreign games out of the Japanese market?
Rejecting him with such a clumsy excuse as the fear of offending Long Teng, Masashi Miyamoto felt really disgusting!
"So, doesn't President Kutaragi want to take over our Square Enix? We didn't even have a chance to sit down and discuss the details, and we just rejected us? Masashi Miyamoto's voice was a little cold.
Kutaragi Ken shook his head: "It's not that I don't want to take over, but Square Enix's offer is too high, and it's not the right time yet." President Miyamoto, I know that you're working on a Final Fantasy movie, so you've already invested a lot of money, right? Two years have passed, but why haven't we seen the movie come out yet? ”
Miyamoto Masashi's eyes flashed instantly, he opened his mouth, and he was speechless, this scene was seen by everyone, and everyone knew it.
Such a bottomless pit that burns money, still thinking about throwing 100 million dollars out of it? Joke, Square Enix when everyone else is a fool? They really don't have the desire/desire to sit down and negotiate!
Regardless of how Masashi Miyamoto explained, the other three all bit the bullet, they wanted to wait until the release of the Final Fantasy: Deep Soul movie, they would see Square Enix's real financial situation, and see Square Enix's real level of skill. However, it is necessary to re-evaluate it in their own way.
Masashi Miyamoto wailed in his heart that the board of directors did not give him this right. $100 million is their offer, and the bottom line is 80 million. But these people are not even willing to come out of 800,000, and they are not willing to talk about it.
But if they really wait until the day the movie is released, why do they have to toss it with such fanfare? If the movie is released as a hit, the price will definitely be more than $100 million, and Square Enix will not need to sell it at all, if the movie is dismal at the box office, Square Enix may go bankrupt directly, and it is not even worth $10 million.
The most important thing is that everyone is not optimistic about Square Enix's movie box office. This is the crux of the inability to reach a cooperation agreement!
"If you don't buy Square now now, you'll regret it!" Masashi Miyamoto protested in despair.
However, the three of them were silent in unison, and no one answered.
When Masashi Miyamoto finally left disappointed, Pu Yamauchi finally spoke: "Buying Square Enix is actually not a bad thing. ”
"But the price is too high, and I doubt it's a trap." Hirono Nakata said in a deep voice.
"This kind of thing happens too much, and Longteng's attitude makes me very uneasy. In the DND Rule acquisition, SSI was sold to Longteng, but they turned out to be dismissive of TSR, which was in charge of the DND Rules. caused the other party to be half-dead and on the verge of bankruptcy, but no one dared to buy it, I am afraid that Square Enix will also take this path......" Kuta Ryagi Ken thought the most, and he roughly guessed Yang Yun's true intentions.
"If we are not competitors. In fact, I really want to praise Yang Yun's approach, his approach to Square Enix has reached the realm of no tricks to win, and he doesn't need to say anything at all. What to do, TSR and Square Enix will mess up on their own. Plunged into despair. Yamauchi Pu sighed, he also saw Yang Yun's intentions.
Dragon Teng doesn't care about you. You played yourself to death, you deserved it.
If you want to turn the tables, you can only find a way to save yourself, if you want to go to the outside world for help, I'm sorry, others will be intimidated by the prestige of Longteng, and no one will dare to help you.
In the end, there are only two results, either TSR and Square Enix survive this hurdle, the salted fish is reborn, and they save themselves.
Either the company goes bankrupt, becomes a cabbage price, and is acquired by Longteng.
And others want to acquire? It's impossible, only Long Teng can rejuvenate the TSR and Square Enix with an unknown future, no one else can do it, whoever takes over is equivalent to stretching his neck under Long Teng's knife, when to cut, it depends on Yang Yun's mood.
For a while, everyone who had figured out all the problems was silent, and they didn't dare to imagine that in two or three years, their respective companies would become the next Square Enix.
"You're going to regret it!" Masashi Miyamoto's words have been echoing in their minds, and many fragments of memory flashed in front of their eyes, Sega, Capcom, SNK, Enix, Panasonic, Square Enix, and every Japanese game production company has been defeated by Longteng, and every bankrupt company is finally making such a desperate and unwilling roar?
After Masashi Miyamoto hit a wall at Sony Nintendo and Namco, he went to Panasonic again, and there were not many pure-blooded companies in Japan that could afford to buy Square Enix.
Panasonic turned him down and said they would never enter the game production industry, and that their 3DO bankruptcy had been taught enough that the Panasonic board would not make the same mistake.
Sharp rejected him.
Mitsubishi rejected him.
NEC said that there was a lack of interest, and if Square Enix offered $1 million, NEC was willing to look at the face of the Japanese company, and reluctantly took the stall, and Masashi Miyamoto turned around and left.
Only one emerging investment company has shown strong interest in Square Enix, which is Japan's SoftBank Group, a Japanese telecommunications broadband company that controls a number of Japanese telephone and telegraph companies, fixed-line telephony, finance and media, and the emerging IT industry, and its founder is Masayoshi Son, a Korean-Japanese man, who made an offer of $15 million, and it is not a lump sum payment.
This is the highest offer Miyamoto Masashi has ever heard, but it is far from enough to be 100 million US dollars, he can't call the shots, and he has some emotional resistance to Son from the bottom of his heart, after all, he himself has strong national feelings, otherwise he would not be so troublesome to look for a Japanese receiver everywhere.
A week later, the whole world saw the box office of "Resident Evil", the real box office on the first day was 15.4 million, and the box office in the first week just exceeded the 100 million mark, reaching 102 million, at this rate, the total box office may exceed 200 million US dollars.
This is a low-budget movie, and the actresses are already paid much less than the male stars, Sophie Marceau is only paid $5 million, Pierce Brosnan and Will Smith are paid less, and the others combined are less than 10 million.
The highest cost is the special effects shot produced by the large computer, which are the techniques of Weta Digital and Longteng's own technology, and the rendering uses the computer group purchased by Longteng himself with a huge amount of money, which is calculated at cost price.
In the movie, there is even Yang Yun personally performing zombies, and he was kindly ridiculed for Jackie Chanteng's saving to the limit, and even the extras didn't want to hire one more.
Bringing a story that is almost completely different from the game to the big screen gradually shows the audience's super resilience, and they also love the creative content of the movie.
The setting of the Umbrella Company's underground laboratory, the good skills of the special forces, the cold-bloodedness and cruelty of the Queen of Flames, the mortal creativity of the laser channel, the boldness/sensuality of Sophie Marceau's starring, and the perfect integration of CG special effects, all of this makes players feel unsatisfied, and even begin to look forward to the next "Resident Evil" game and the shooting of the next movie.
"The world of Resident Evil will be created by you!"
This sentence appears on the end screen of the movie, coupled with the intensive bombardment for more than a month, it has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and people are looking forward to the script written by themselves appearing in the next one.
The box office revenue of 200 million US dollars, after half of the theater chain, made Longteng earn at least 40 million US dollars, which made his peers envious, but no one was jealous, because this is what Longteng deserves, and Longteng is always making innovations.
Innovation is the only way to survive!
At Square Enix, the board of directors was at odds.
One faction strongly supports lowering the offer to $30 million and selling it to SoftBank Group.
The other faction supported the initiative to woo Longteng and offered $60 million to sell the entire copyright of Final Fantasy to Longteng.
Both factions are similar in that they sell 51% of the rights to Square Enix's most valuable Final Fantasy game to other companies.
It's just that SoftBank Group took over, and the price paid was $30 million, and in the endless tug-of-war with Longteng in the future, so the price would be half cheaper.
And let Longteng buy it for 60 million, the entire world will be much cleaner, and the board of directors will take the money and leave, and no longer want to care about this matter, so the price will be doubled.
The dispute was put on the table, and the board of directors was composed of investors that Masashi Miyamoto couldn't mess with, and all they cared about was money, and Square Enix's profits over the years had already made them a lot of money, but once the big tree fell, it was normal for them to make a big profit before leaving.
The news reached Yang Yun's ears, and he laughed, Software Group, Sun Zhengyi, everyone is an old acquaintance.
"Mr. Yang, this SoftBank Group is not simple!" Yang Zhan handed over the collected information and sighed.
Yang Yun flipped through it casually, looked at its resume, and the corners of his mouth curled.
Isn't SoftBank Group the boss behind Taobao? Have you been fighting him head-on since 1996?
The owner of Japan's largest PC computer magazine, a computer software company with a market share of 13% in Japan, an overall packaged software supplier with a market share of 7% in the United States, a listed company in the first sequence of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, the world's largest PC computer exhibitor, the world's most authoritative computer and information network publishing house, holding Yahoo!
I'll you...... (To be continued......)