Chapter 1250 The Price-Lowering Crisis Ended in Vain

Judging from the technical means of 2020, a game like "Contra" can be easily produced by three or five students who have just graduated from a video game development school.

Because they have the best ideas, endless references, and very smart software.

However, these elements were not available in Kirin Game Company in 1982.

They only had the sketches given by Yin Jun and some explanations.

So they worked for a full 6 months before making the first version.

After another 2 months of continuous improvement and polishing, the final version was finally completed.

In the past few days, technical staff from Sega, Konami and Namco have been in Xiangjiang, working with engineers from Kirin Games to make the final improvements to the game.

After listening to the technical staff's report, Okubo Satoru was smiling from ear to ear when talking to Yin Jun.

There is no way, the past eight or nine months have been too miserable for electronic manufacturers except Nintendo.

After getting "Super Mario Bros." in December last year, Nintendo ported it to arcades and home video game consoles as quickly as possible.

Then, video game manufacturers around the world watched as Nintendo quickly reached the peak of its life!

In February, Nintendo's sales of "Super Mario Bros." exceeded 65 million U.S. dollars. In March, it was 80 million U.S. dollars. In April, it directly exceeded 100 million U.S. dollars. In the past four months, the average sales volume was 120 million U.S. dollars. sales! !

Calculated, they actually made 700 million US dollars in sales this year with "Super Mario Bros.", and their cost was only 500 million US dollars for Yin Jun, and a very small production cost.

The 500 million copyright fee will be paid in three years.

Looking at it this way, Nintendo will be able to pay out the 500 million in the next year at most and start making huge net profits.

Given that a game has a life cycle of at least 5-10 years, the profits of Nintendo's "Super Mario Bros." are conservatively in the $2 billion level.

Tsk tsk, it’s just a game!

Two billion US dollars is still pure profit, not sales! !

How can you not make people envious, jealous, and hateful?

For this reason, many Japanese game developers are even laughing at Yin Jun.

Xiao Yinjun only has a genius design mind, but no genius negotiation skills.

Such a good game was actually sold for only 500 million US dollars. At most, it only required some unimportant patents from Nintendo.

At first glance, this is indeed the case.

If Kirin Games does it on its own, even if it cannot earn one to two billion US dollars like Nintendo, it can still guarantee at least one billion US dollars.

Equivalent to the $500 million lost, Yin Jun used it in exchange for Nintendo's patent license.

Is it worth it?

Many people certainly don't think it's worth it.

But Okubo Satoru didn't think so.

The more contact he had with Yin Jun, the more he felt that Yin Jun wanted something great and had a very clear and terrifying plan, but no one knew about it now.

Specifically speaking of "Super Mario Bros.", it is certainly a classic among classics, but Okubo has long known that Yin Jun must have creative ideas that are not inferior to it.

Therefore, he did not hesitate to agree to Yin Jun's very harsh conditions, and also persuaded his two allies to agree as well.

Just for today.

When the technician came into contact with "Contra" for the first time, and reported it to Okubo Satoru with an emotion of great reverence and surprise, Okubo Satoru and several companions played the game over and over again. .

After reluctantly putting down the game controller, it took a long time for Okubo Satoru to calm down the turbulent emotions in his heart.

As expected of Yin Jun!

He is truly the most amazing man in the world!

He said that if he can create a game that is not inferior to "Super Mario Bros.", then he can!

"Contra"! ?

good!

very nice!

As long as they are boys, even adults who are already working will definitely be attracted by this game and will play it regardless of it!

Although it will lose many female gamers, it can still thrive as long as it deeply captures male gamers.

After all, video games are men’s games!

They discussed it and decided that they must get "Contra" so that they could fight against the increasingly powerful Nintendo and gain a firm foothold in the game market.

Even if we are all Japanese manufacturers and will not go to war directly, we can seriously fight for our own profits and fight based on our abilities to gain market share. Is there anything wrong with this?

However, although they are optimistic about "Contra", they also feel that Yin Jun has always had a huge appetite and the bidding prices are very high. Should we all work hard to lower the price?

Our deposit has already been given, why should they give us some benefits?

The deposit that several people were talking about was the technology patents and licenses that Yin Jun purchased from Sega, Namco, and Konami because he wanted to develop "Game Boy".

Like Nintendo, they signed a contract at the end of last year and transferred the patent to Yin Jun.

Speaking of which, their sincerity is enough.

How can anyone in business dislike the fact that they make a lot of money?

So it is only natural that they want to lower prices.

Okubo Satoru also had this mentality and went to Yin Jun's office to discuss it with him.

Understanding Okubo Satoru's purpose, Yin Jun smiled and motioned for him to listen to a phone call.

"Hello, Mr. Yamauchi?" Yin Jun spoke in English after dialing the phone on speakerphone.

Okubo Satoru was stunned when he heard this, and then sat up straight.

The one Yamauchi who is qualified to have Yin Jun call him personally must be Hiroshi Yamauchi of Nintendo.

"What? Mr. Yin, have you thought it through?" As expected, Hiroshi Yamauchi's voice came from the other side of the phone.

"I have already told you that this matter has been decided to cooperate with Sega. I can't change it." Yin Jun said with a smile, "I just have a question that I can't figure out. I want to ask you, why do you know Can it be so fast? They just came here the day before yesterday, and today you already know the general details of "Contra"? "

Hearing this, Okubo Satoru felt a chill all over his body.

Why?

How can it be! ?

Why did Hiroshi Yamauchi actually know about "Contra"?

There is a traitor among us!

Okubo Satoru didn't have time to think too much. As the helmsman of Sega, he knew very well where the core of the problem was.

The most terrifying news that this phone call revealed to Okubo Satoru was that not only did Hiroshi Yamauchi know about "Contra", but he also made a price for Yin Jun!

Even though he didn't know how many details Yamauchi Hiroshi knew, Okubo Satoru knew that with Yamauchi Hiroshi's vision and courage, especially after having such a good cooperation foundation with Yin Jun, his asking price would definitely not be low.

"Haha, this is not the right thing to tell Mr. Yin." Yamauchi changed the topic and said: "If you are not satisfied with my 600 million US dollars and the quotation of those patents, then we can use a share-sharing cooperation method, how about it? "

"You have your persistence, and I also have my promise." Yin Jun said, "Since I promised Sega and the others last year, I will not regret it now."

"Really? That's such a pity!" There was unspeakable regret in Hiroshi Yamauchi's words, but his next words made Okubo Satoru stunned: "I wonder, Mr. Yin, do you have any plans for the next game? We also It’s possible to cooperate.”

"have!"

In the eyes of Okubo Satoru, who couldn't tell whether it was anticipation or nervousness, Yin Jun nodded, "It's no worse than "Super Mario Bros." and no worse than "Contra". I can meet you all next year at the latest."

"good!"

Yamauchi Hiroshi laughed, "Then please keep it for Nintendo, and we will give you the best reward!"

"It's fair competition for everyone, let's wait until the game comes out!"

Yin Jun did not agree to Yamauchi Pu, and after talking to him for a few more words, he hung up the phone.

"Mr. Yin, I understand!"

Without waiting for Yin Jun to say anything else, Okubo Satoru immediately gave up all previous plans, "500 million US dollars, paid within three years. We can sign a formal contract tomorrow."

Yin Jun smiled and nodded, without making any additional requests, "I wish us a happy cooperation."

"The new game project you just mentioned..." Okubo Satoru immediately got to the point, "We at Sega also have a chance, right?"

"Yes." Yin Jun said, "Everyone competes fairly. I mean what I said."

"Okay!" Okubo Satoru breathed a sigh of relief, "I'll go back and prepare. The three of us will come over tomorrow morning to formally sign the contract!"

The details of Yin Jun's contract have been discussed with them a long time ago, including the patents previously given by Sega and other three companies, which are all part of the contract.

The only previous disagreement was over value.

Now Okubo Satoru knows that if he is too stubborn, he will definitely be poached by Nintendo, and of course he will never hesitate again.

Money is easy to talk about, but the key lies in whether you can get good projects.

If a project like "Contra" was thrown away, he would regret it for the rest of his life.

Before leaving, Okubo Satoru still couldn't hold back and asked Yin Jun another question: "Mr. Yin, I don't know why you don't agree to Nintendo's better conditions, but agree to our worse conditions?"

"I said it was because I promised you before, do you believe it or not?" Yin Jun asked without answering.

"believe!"

Okubo Satoru smiled and bowed politely: "Then I'll take my leave. See you tomorrow!"

After listening to Yin Jun's answer, he understood that he would not get the answer he wanted.

But no matter what Yin Jun thinks, at least the biggest goal this time has been achieved.

The next step depends not only on whether the three alliances can produce "Contra", but also on whether the alliance can get the next Yin Jun game.

snort!

Hiroshi Yamauchi!

Nintendo!

Regardless of how strong you are, you can tell from Yin Jun's attitude that he doesn't have a good impression of you.

It’s really unclear who will win in the end!

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