Chapter 021: Selling the Patent to Nintendo
Returning to the capital lightly, Yang Yun found Alexey openly this time.
The negotiations to authorize Tetris have entered the tense stage of Zuihou.
Yang Yun found Sega to endorse it, and deliberately let Sega's Nagano come into contact with Alexey, which shocked Ren Heaven's intelligence officers in a cold sweat.
What Sega came to talk about, what the specific content was, this is easy to find out, without Nintendo's commercial spies bribing Nagano's translator, Alexei himself will inadvertently reveal a few words to Uchimangosteen.
"Heck, Sega got in touch with us and showed that he was interested in Tetris!"
"Sega is very sincere, more than 10 million sets of sales, they can pay 2 dollars, haha ......"
"No, no, Nintendo is our number one priority, how can we work with Sega? Mr. Uchimankhut, you guys are too sensitive, I just like to see Sega's urgent ugliness! ”
True and false, sometimes false and true, only Yang Yun and Alexei know in their hearts that the two turned their hands into clouds and turned their hands into rain, playing Nintendo and Sega to the death.
And the poor Sega kid never knew that he was just a third-party bargaining chip in this business negotiation, and in Tetris's patent, Yang Yun actually didn't have the sincerity to cooperate with their Sega, they were just smoke bombs released by Yang Yun in order to force Nintendo to make concessions!
Since Nintendo already knew that Sega was interested in Tetris and had already entered the quotation link, after urgently negotiating with the headquarters, Uchimankhut signed an agreement with Alexey and Yang Yun on behalf of Nintendo.
Tetris games are licensed to Nintendo Co., Ltd. of Japan, and are charged according to the number of copies of the game, Nintendo pays the patent fee at $1.5 per copy, and the game carrier is not limited to GameBoy or FC, but can also be transplanted to arcades, the total contract term is 20 years (the maximum number of years of patent protection for video game software), and the price can be re-established every two years, and the price cannot exceed 10% each time the price rises (that is, the maximum price will not exceed $4 per copy during the contract period), And Nintendo has the right of first refusal to buy out the full copyright of Tetris games.
The price paid by Alexei is that after licensing Tetris exclusively to Nintendo, it cannot be licensed in any form to any other game console manufacturer for profit, except for the production of derivatives of PC software for personal computers.
Nintendo had no intention of expanding into personal computers, and Yang Yun would not allow Nintendo to take away the license of computer software, so Alexey and Nintendo bargained and happily signed a licensing contract.
With the humility peculiar to the Japanese, Uchiyamakhut bowed to Alexey, shook hands, and said sincerely: "Mr. Pagetzhov, you will be our most important partner of Nintendo in the future, and I hope that we can sincerely cooperate and jointly open up the territory of the game business!" ”
Alexey looked indifferent: "Nintendo is very strong, very rare, the best partner, we will continue to launch new game software, look forward to our continued cooperation in the future." Nintendo will always be our number one priority partner! ”
He is business-oriented, speaks without leakage, and has won the essence of diplomacy.
Behind the scenes, I don't know what to scold the other party for!
Nintendo is a listed company, everything is contractual, transparent, and well-behaved, so the two are not afraid of them making small moves.
Seeing off Nintendo's negotiation team, Alexey's tense face quickly bloomed like a cornflower, and he excitedly hugged Yang Yun, the tall Russian white bear, who almost strangled Yang Yun to death.
"Yang! I finally understand that you have to fight for reason! ”
After signing the licensing contract, Nintendo's first purchase contract followed, a purchase order for 1 million game cartridges, and a total patent licensing cost of $1.5 million, which made Alexey almost lose his temper on the spot.
Although this number was expected by Yang Yun, there were 1 million copies of the first game card order, and Nintendo was determined to win the North American handheld market, which also scared Yang Yun!
Yang Yun admired, no wonder Nintendo can achieve more than 90% of the global market share, it is really a big deal!
Although the price of $1.5 is three-quarters lower than that of $5, compared to the segmented share, 1 million sets of 1 dollar, 10 million sets of 2 dollars, and more than 10 million dollars of 3 dollars, Nintendo is confident that it will sell more than 10 million sets, and the fixed price of 1.5 US dollars a set is still a big advantage.
As for their own profits, Nintendo has more ways to leave them with their own profits, and a card will be more than $5.
It's a win-win!
Yang Yun is very satisfied with the price, he is not unaware of the terrible sales of Nintendo in the future, but he still signed the contract.
Because he is now rushing for time and speed, instead of caring about the millions of dollars, for him, he only needs a small start-up capital, $1 million and $5 million, the effect is the same.
What's more, if he insists on the high price, Nintendo may really give up, and at that time he will have no way back, so he can only look for Sega cooperation, not to mention the high patent fees, and he has to be hostile to Nintendo, and the gains outweigh the losses.
Now he has no capital to confront Nintendo at all.
For a licensing order of 1 million, Nintendo wants to hand over $1.5 million to Alexei for patent royalties, and after three or seven cents, Yang Yun can get $1.05 million, and immediately become a millionaire, or a millionaire, converted into RMB according to the black market price at that time, it is already tens of millions.
Both of them were excited about the contract.
After the celebration, Yang Yun said, "Alexey, do you want to listen to my advice?" ”
Alexei excited: "Yang! What a blessing to know you! It was as if I had seen beautiful plump Russian maidens beckoning to me, vats of vodka, tons of caviar, and beautiful cranberry blossoms blooming towards me! Stalin is on top, oh, damn it, you say, I'll listen! ”
Yang Yun smiled: "According to the agreement between us, you will get a share of 450,000 US dollars, although this money seems like a lot, it is far from enough, and we are not the time to enjoy it now." I suggest you, go to the United States to register a company to run this thing, because in the next twenty years, we will all deal with Nintendo, I want you to stare at Nintendo, the more they sell, the more we earn! Alexey, don't you want to get into the game industry? Go to the United States, maybe you will get more, please trust my judgment, absolutely nothing wrong! ”
Alexei nodded: "Yang, I see what you mean." Again, long live the friendship between the Chinese and Soviet peoples! Leave this matter to me. ”
Yang Yun nodded: "I believe in you too." Alexey, you first gain a foothold in the United States, immigrate to the past, maybe in a few years I will follow you too! ”
Yang Yun is really good for Alexey, now there is not much time before the collapse of the Soviet Union, go to the United States in advance to avoid the limelight, and exchange all assets for hard currency dollars, which is definitely much stronger than the ruble he exchanged for 450,000 US dollars and returning to Russia to be his tyrant, two years later, the ruble will be almost worthless!
According to the agreement, Alexey came to New York alone, registered a computer software company, the name is Karinka-Tetris-Technology-Co.Ltd, referred to as KTT, Chinese name is Cranberry Cube, specializing in the development of computer game software, the company has only two shareholders, and it is Alexey who coordinates and operates externally.
Yang Yun became a hidden investor, almost no one knew that he was the biggest boss of KTT, he stayed in China, and now that he has money, he can finally make a big move.
When Yang Yun left the Overlord Company, he signed a simple agreement, promising that within one year after leaving the Overlord Company, he would not use the source code of Glutton, Tetris, Pacman, and Tank Wars for his own benefit.
That is to say, although Dabawang Company did not prohibit Yang Yun from engaging in the same industry, the ownership of these four games should be Dabawang Company, and Yang Yun can no longer be handed over to others to use, otherwise he will be sued by Dabawang Company for violating the agreement, and Director Feng of the Group's Personnel Department warned that if Yang Yun violates the agreement, Dabawang Company will jointly and severally investigate the responsibility for the first leak.
This kind of anti-competition agreement is very common, and even Zhao Yongping was forced to sign a three-year anti-competitive agreement when he left Dabawang and founded Bubusheng Company on his own, and Zhao Yongping could not produce game consoles for three years, otherwise he would have to pay Dabawang a huge amount of liquidated damages.
Being restricted from using the source code of the four games and forcibly relinquishing the ownership of these four games is no problem, but after the breach of contract, he will be held accountable for the inexplicable leak last time, and it can only be said that the big overlord company is too ruthless and has no human touch at all!
With all the benefits of the four games in exchange for his free body, Yang Yun no longer owes the big bully anything, he has no psychological pressure at all now, there are thousands of classic games, a year will pass soon, as long as he stands firm, what about the output value of 1 billion? Yang Yun was not afraid at all.
Of course, before creating his own company, Yang Yun has one more thing to do, which is very important and necessary - to visit Sega again!
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