Chapter 354: The Big Four of Northern Blizzard Gather
The big fish, a chubby white man with a square face, curly hair, and a full beard, was holding his thick arms, smiling as a player manipulated Laura to infiltrate the castle.
"Guoqiang, did you see that fat man?" Yang Yun turned his face sideways and said to Zhang Guoqiang: "You go and talk to him about technology, RPG, anything, and finally bring him to me." ”
Zhang Guoqiang comprehended, straightened his collar, pretended to be unintentional, stood beside the fat man and observed carefully for a while, and then began to talk, gradually chatting more and more happily, and the two talked happily.
Yang Yun leaned on the sofa, posing as a boss with reserve and arrogance, but his eyes kept paying attention to this person.
This guy, he saw many times before he was reborn, on TV media, professional game magazines, and online news, he was fortunate to see his interview video when he was an intern reporter, because of his personal image problem, which left the deepest impression on Yang Yun.
He's Bill-Roper, one of the Big Four of Blizzard in the North!
But Northern Blizzard is a company that was acquired by Blizzard Entertainment, and now, because of Yang Yun's intervention, the former Blizzard studio was acquired by EA Company, and it didn't even call out the classic name Blizzard, let alone Northern Blizzard, so this Northern Blizzard, if nothing else, was idle and still in an unclaimed state.
After Yang Yun saw Bill, his heart quickly turned, he had a contract with KTT, and all the excellent game production companies in the PC industry were handed over to KTT for acquisition, and Longteng himself could develop original PC games, and he was more responsible for video games, and joined forces with KTT to attack EA.
This company that Bill works for. If it were to be acquired, Diablo would be produced on a video game console. It's another classic game, and it's a rare first version of the game that is good!
After a while. Zhang Guoqiang walked over with a smile on his face, stood in front of Yang Yun, and introduced each other.
Reserved, arrogant, overwhelming, disdainful expression, this is the posture that Yang Yun must make, and this is also under the siege of hungry wolves in full view. A play that must be acted.
Although the performance was very tiring, Yang Yun still got what he wanted: "Bill, I'm very busy at the exhibition today, why don't we exchange business cards first, and then talk about it when we have time?" ”
Bill didn't think much of it at all, he just worked for a small game production company called Condor-Studios, and he was just an ordinary employee who made game music. It's not a central figure at all.
It is a great honor for him to be able to talk to Zhang Guoqiang, the technical director, and now he can meet the president of Longteng Company and exchange business cards with him. This flattered him.
"I'm honored to see you, goodbye!" Bill politely left. With Yang Yun's private business card in his arms, he walked around the crowd with some trepidation.
Bill was thrilled inside. He is a fan of Sega games and is here today for the fame of Dragon. I wanted to see if there were any new games on the market, and sure enough, when I saw "Tomb Raider" that met his appetite, I couldn't help but take a few more looks, and at the same time unconsciously thought about Longteng's technological innovation and research direction, and tried to get closer to his company's project.
He didn't know that in addition to Yang Yun paying attention to him, there were also several pairs of keen eyes in the crowd staring at him, looking at this unknown ordinary person, following to find his information, trying to see some additional value from Yang Yun's favor.
Vulture Studios sent four people this time, the Vulture Four's task at CEA is mainly to find cooperation opportunities, they are just small studios, and they can still receive orders from 3DO last year, but after 3DO went bankrupt, they are now in a difficult situation.
"David! What's in it for you? ”
"No, what about you?"
"I don't either, Ubisoft, EA, these companies are too harsh."
Marcos, Eric, and David all got together with a somewhat frustrated expression, needless to say, it is difficult for a small studio like them to find a profitable outsourcing job.
"Hey guys! You'll never guess who I just met! Bill squeezed over with a red face, and he said excitedly, "Guess what? ”
"The President of the United States?"
"Michael Jordan?"
People are not interested in this kind of thing in the slightest, and if it were replaced by "I got a $5,000 order", they might have asked for more details than the perfunctory answer they have now.
"It's Yang! Yang of China Longteng Company! Bill took out his business card and proudly said, "He exchanged business cards with me!" ”
Marcos perked up, but then thought of something and said in frustration: "Aren't they a company that makes video games?" We're ...... in PC game development."
"I do know that Longteng also has PC games, but they don't have a lot of influence," Eric said. Bill, are they ready to work with us? Or are you planning to buy us? ”
Bill shook his head: "After we exchanged business cards, we didn't continue to chat. Yang said he would call me, maybe I should obediently stay at the hotel and wait for the company to call me to inform! ”
The Vulture Four can only wait quietly, hoping that Long Teng will have a pair of discerning eyes that will take a fancy to them, pull them out of the quagmire, and give them a stage to display their ambitions, just like those famous studios that were acquired by Long Teng, soar into the sky.
Yang Yun doesn't need to wait here, he is really busy today, after seeing the Sony booth and happened to meet Bill, he called a few employees, with the prepared materials, and took the initiative to visit Nintendo, the sworn enemy of his peers.
Seeing that the top leader of Longteng personally led the team over, the Nintendo exhibition area was like a great enemy, and many employees stood up one after another, looking at this group of people vigilantly and fearfully, not knowing what their intentions were.
The top person in charge of Nintendo's venue was only a vice president of the North American branch, named Jace, and after he was called out of the backstage, he asked Yang Yun to move to the rest area with some trepidation and carefully accompany him.
Yang Yun got straight to the point and asked, "What agreement did Nintendo reach with Sony?" Don't tell me you don't know, Sony will hold a press conference at noon. I just wanted to know an hour in advance! ”
Jace couldn't dodge Yang Yun's fierce gaze, and hesitated for a moment. Gritted his teeth and said: "Nintendo is willing to cooperate with Sony to port all SFC versions of the game to the PS platform......"
Hum! And so it was. Nintendo's biggest advantage is that there are hundreds of thousands of FC and SFC games! Although there are definitely not too many that can actually be ported to the past, this at least shows Nintendo's sincerity and the fact that the die-hard Nintendo camp has been fully accepted by Sony!
"Could it be that you Nintendo will give up the SFC platform in the future and become a joint venture between Sony and Nintendo?" Yang Yun sneered and asked, "Yamauchi Pu completely gave up his game platform?" ”
Jace shook his head: "It's a sharing, not a joint venture, and the game producers of the PS platform should also make a suitable version for the SFC platform." ”
"Hahahaha!" Yang Yun couldn't help but laugh, in his opinion. This cooperation plan is simply ridiculous!
Two completely different platforms, one 16-bit and one 32-bit, share a list of game producers, not games with the same content on different platforms!
Obviously, Sony is trying to quickly gain the business connections that Nintendo has accumulated in the game system and quickly open up the situation.
Nintendo, on the other hand, is interested in companies that can develop 32-bit games with high-precision technology brought by Sony. Must be technically mature companies, with supplementary agreements, and these companies' new game portings on SFC will bring a touch of life to Nintendo.
Sony dominates the high-end 32-bit. Nintendo won the 16th place in the middle and low end, and the two disadvantaged companies can only choose this way of cooperation!
Yang Yun knows that such cooperation. I don't know who is playing to death!
Nintendo is secretly preparing a new console for the N64, and Sony is secretly preparing a massive open game package. Introduce a huge number of games without restrictions.
"This is the path of death, the long way of immortality, the path of poverty! There is simply no way for the two of you to truly work together as equals, unless one acquires the other! Yang Yun muttered in Chinese. Then he said, "Jace, we have an open proposal for Ryuteng, I hope you can convey it to President Arakawa or President Yamauchi, this is the information!" ”
The secretary handed over a piece of information, Yang Yun stood up, took the initiative to shake hands with Jace, left without looking back, and continued to walk in the direction of Sony.
He is now breaking them one by one, and whether he can break the alliance between Nintendo and Sony depends on how effective this plan is!
Sony's side is much higher-level, and Kutaragi Ken personally received Yang Yun and his party, and after arranging for them to sit down, he said apologetically: "President Yang, I still have to attend today's press conference, why don't you move to the big conference room?" ”
Yang Yun smiled and said, "President Kutaragi, you don't have to be so polite. I only have a few words to say to you, and I'll leave when I'm done. In the first sentence, Yamauchi Pu has eaten more food than we have ever eaten salt, and playing tricks with him is only a dead end. ”
Kutaragi Ken's smile gradually froze, a little displeased, but he didn't know how to refute, frowned and said, "I'm sorry, President Yang, I don't understand what you said." ”
Yang Yun said with a smile: "The one who knows himself best is the enemy, and this sentence is the same in reverse." I know Nintendo's nature too well, and this is my advice for the sake of knowing you for many years and working together quite happily! In the second sentence, I have a proposal here, which has something to do with Sony, Nintendo, and even NEC, and I would like to ask Sony to give me a reply after reading it. ”
The accompanying secretary handed over the second document again and handed it to Ken Kutaragi.
Although he didn't know what was going on, Ken Kutaragi still maintained his demeanor and smiled, "Is there anything else?" If not, I'll be out of company, and I'm very busy today. ”
Yang Yun remained silent, smiled and led everyone away, and by the way, he patrolled the game exhibition area, and greeted those who knew him, or those who didn't know him, and his peers who knew him, and chatted a few words, just like a lion patrolling his territory.
He knew that after this proposal was handed over, Nintendo and Sony would definitely suffer a big loss!
It's just that they can't talk about their suffering! (To be continued......)