Minoru Arakawa returned to the Nintendo U.S. branch building, walked into his office, and saw several Tetris model toys on the table, and couldn't help but get angry, and slapped these over, stomping the Tetris model to pieces.

Angry to leave the negotiating table in New York, this is the first time in his life that he is so angry.

He studied in the Faculty of Engineering of Kyoto University, the engineering research course, and the MIT civil engineering research course, and then did not rely on the help of anyone in the family, and worked alone in Marubeni Co., Ltd. North America, until he reached the position of senior director of the North American company, zuihou was personally invited by his father-in-law Yamauchiura, to create Nintendo North America, starting from scratch, and laying down 85% of the market with his bare hands, in his life, there was only success, no failure!

In the past forty years, except for his father-in-law Yamauchiura, he has worked hard in society, and it has always been others who begged him, and he has never seen anyone's face!

But at the KTT company in New York, he saw a disgusting villain's face, and he didn't know how many pounds and taels he had, so he dared to ask for the copyright of Nintendo's Super Mario!

Such a partner who does not have a little business ethics makes him feel disgusting!

Broke some teacups again, kicked down a few potted plants, and after venting, watching the secretary sweep in a panic, Minoru Arakawa gradually calmed down, waved his hand to let the secretary go first, he wanted to be quiet.

At this time, there was a knock on the office door, and unsurprisingly, it was none other than his partner, American Howard Lincoln, vice president of Nintendo's North American division, and director of the legal department.

"The court sent a summons!" Howard's expression was serious.

Minoru Arakawa, whose mood had just calmed down, fluctuated again, and his head hurt: "What's the matter?" ”

"The FTC sued us for violating antitrust laws and violating certain consumer rights, and the federal New York state court took up the case," Howard said. Damn it! ”

Minoru Arakawa was puzzled: "Will the Federal Trade Commission Weishenme target us?" Isn't that going to make it through this Christmas in peace? Howard, can't you handle these vampires? ”

Howard was helpless: "If it is a summons from a Washington state court, I am not afraid of a lawsuit with the FTC, but I don't know what's going on, this time it is a New York state court, and I can't reach it, they have 25 justices!" You know, this kind of lawsuit will take at least two years or more, and if I get into it, I'm afraid I won't be able to do anything for two years! ”

"Damn it!" Minoru Arakawa slammed the table hard, "Based on your experience, if we fail, how much does Nintendo need to compensate?" ”

Howard shook his head: "I suggest you don't think about admitting punishment, the FTC their ability can influence the jury and the judge, once you admit defeat, it is very likely to face tens of millions of dollars in fines, we may even lose the entire market, and the court will ban us from selling game consoles and software in North America!" ”

Minoru Arakawa felt that his head hurt even more, probably because he had injured the wind when he came back from New York, and waved his hand and said, "Arrange a conference call with the headquarters tonight to help me tell Yamauchiura, and I will report in detail." ”

The roof leak happened to rain overnight, and the boat was late and had a head wind, and Arakawa felt very tired.

The year is not good, these days Nintendo has had a few bad things one after another, Raymond warehouse just had a truck crash, 80,000 sets of FC game consoles, hundreds of thousands of large arcade substrates imported from Japan and GameBoy game cards are all burned, although there is insurance, but the goods are gone, this is the most serious thing, directly affecting the sales of arcade machines and FC, and the supply chain of GameBoy handheld consoles has suffered the heaviest losses.

Coupled with the two major events that happened today, even Minoru Arakawa didn't dare to deal with it without permission, such an important matter must be notified to Yamauchiura and left to this tyrant to decide!

When it was time to work during the day in Japan, the conference call was connected, and Minoru Arakawa first reported KTT's unreasonable demands, causing an uproar.

Shigeru Miyamoto, the chief designer, was the first to object: "I don't agree with exchanging Super Mario for Tetris!" ”

For Shigeru Miyamoto, the plumber is like his own son, who wants to be snatched by someone else unless he steps on his corpse.

Yokoi Junhei, the head of the product design department, did not speak,This GameBoy designer and promoter,In fact, the impression of Tetris is excellent,It can be said,It is Tetris that has made the GameBoy a hot seller,Before the GB format game was not listed in large quantities,Tetris single-handedly,Occupy eighty percent of sales,There is no way not to please Yokoi Junhei's love。

Subconsciously, Gunhei Yokoi agrees to get Tetris, but he is smart enough not to argue.

Minoru Arakawa was about to express his opposition when suddenly Yamauchiura's angry voice came: "Baga! Don't you have the courage to buy him? 50 million, 80 million, the last thing Nintendo lacks is abundant cash! You coward, what are you hesitating about? ”

Arakawa Minoru trembled and didn't dare to speak anymore, Yamauchiura's harsh and ruthless style has long been spread throughout the industry, everyone calls him a tyrant, and there can only be his voice within Nintendo, and no other opinions are allowed.

"Tetris we have to get it, don't you see the great promise of it? Are they all blind? No one in the whole company is optimistic about it? ”

"Mr. President, I agree!" Yokoi wiped his sweat and said: "According to the GameBoy sales report, the long-term growth of Tetris will be much higher than that of Super Mario, and in this year's Christmas promotion, the sales of Tetris game cards should climb to a new peak, surpassing the Super Mario series, I personally agree with and support your decision!" However, the other party put forward harsh conditions, nothing more than to increase the value, we can raise the price again, 50 million is not enough, we will add another 10 million, 20 million, it is best to buy in cash! ”

Arakawa was irritated for a while: "The other party has made it clear that he will only accept the exchange and will not accept any conditions. And, I have two other things to report......"

After the Federal Trade Commission's complaint and the truck crash report, Minoru Arakawa's vest was soaking wet.

These aggravated things will inevitably attract the rebuke of the tyrant, each of these three things is not easy to solve, fortunately the truck crashed and no one died, if there are dead people, I am afraid that even the warehouse will be sealed.

Replenishment was not timely, so it had to be shipped from Japan as soon as possible, and at the same time, suppliers in the North American market had to take inventory and delay the inbound time to move from affluent warehouses to scarce points of sale for at least a week.

The lawsuit of the Federal Trade Commission cannot be underestimated, the Japanese headquarters will send the head of the legal department to Japan, join the lawyer team of the US branch, and fight this long lawsuit with them, which can be delayed for half a year or half a year, and Nintendo is ready to fight a lawsuit for two or three years.

The most headache and urgency is to get KTT, one more day of delay, one more batch of time bombs produced in Nintendo's factory, one more point of the task of the Christmas promotion, and one more point of uncertain danger.

Sure enough, more than 70% of the time in this conference call was Yamauchiura's scolding, and even Shigeru Miyamoto was innocently lying on the gun, and was evaluated as short-sighted and unenterprising, a Super Mario is a baby, and he can't even see the huge market of Tetris!

"All rights reserved! I want to get the full rights to Tetris! Home consoles, PCs, business computers, mobile devices, anywhere you can think of is covered! But I'm not going to give up Super Mario, my bottom line is co-owning, joint venture! Arakawa, if you mess this up, I'll break your legs even if I run to the United States! ”

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Minoru Arakawa sat down at the negotiating table for the second time, and it was obvious that he was very tired, and he was tired of a lot of things that he was dealing with.

This time, Alexei is in high spirits, there is good news every day here, and the opponent is in a deep quagmire, and everyone here is in good spirits.

Minoru Arakawa said: "Mr. Pagetzhov, Nintendo headquarters vetoed the exchange of Super Mario copyrights, this is an impossible thing, shall we talk about it in another way?" ”

Alexei said: "Last time you walked too fast, you probably didn't understand me. We're not trying to trade Tetris for copyright with Super Mario, we're going to cooperate. Last time, my opinion was that KTT took out Tetris, Nintendo took out Super Mario, and we jointly formed a third-party company to operate these two games, with equal rights and equal benefits. ”

Arakawa put down a stone in his heart, the bottom line given to him by his father-in-law is exactly this, but he didn't expect it to coincide with KTT's idea, and sure enough, ginger is still old and spicy!

It's not the first time Nintendo has done this kind of thing, it used to invest in electronic component factories with Philips and Sony, and later cooperated with Microsoft to jointly invest in third-party companies to provide satellite signal support for its networked games, and it is not impossible to operate as a joint venture, Nintendo is a public company, and everything can be absorbed and tried.

The key is how the joint venture is distributed!

"If it's a joint venture, it's fine, but you need to hire a third-party appraisal agency to evaluate the assets of Super Mario and Tetris, and then distribute the proportion and interest in the joint venture," Arakawa said. ”

Alexei shook his head: "I want to say two points, first, we insist that the two games are equal, and the joint venture company should each account for 50%. Second, considering certain factors, the rights of Tetris and Super Mario can be shared together, but KTT also has to get the full rights to the two games The Legend of Zelda and Contra for free! ”

Bang dang......

The water cup was knocked over on the table by Minoru Arakawa, and Alexei only saw his round eyes, and he could even stuff an egg in his mouth!

"Are you kidding?" Arakawa really seems to be listening to the Arabian Nights.

Is there such a negotiation?