Chapter 1295: Make a Decision

"In terms of film, it is in our interests to promote Westinghouse to acquire Sony Pictures, although it is contrary to our other strategy of putting more large studios in the hands of overseas giants, but in the long run, let Westinghouse take back the weak Sony Pictures , It’s better than letting it get to Disney or Paramount. Therefore, next, we need to ensure that Sony’s film business will not have any turnaround, and we will try our best to grab high-quality projects that may fall into Sony’s hands.”

"There are also special effects and other aspects," Amy Pascal added on the side: "We can refuse to provide special effects support for Sony's important projects by increasing the quotation."

"Yes, in short, it is to force Sony to give in and give up the movie business."

Los Angeles, Malibu.

In a small conference room in Daenerys Studios, this is an annual summary and strategic planning meeting of core executives such as Daenerys' Amy Pascal, Robert Iger, and the heads of the three labels.

After discussing the film business, Simon looked down at his memo, looked up at Nancy Brill, who was attending the meeting via video in London, and continued: "Let's talk about games, first of all, take the topic just now, Nancy , in order to suppress Sony and pave the way for our own console plan, Daenerys will temporarily reduce the development of console games or transplant to console game platforms. This includes Nintendo consoles. This year and next two years, We try our best to develop online games and PC stand-alone games.”

After hearing what Simon said, Nancy immediately said: "Boss, I think it is enough to snipe Sony, and there is no need to target Nintendo too much. Nintendo's 32-bit host has many problems, and it is difficult to pose a threat to us in the future. And its 8-bit There is still a large market stock of consoles and 16-bit consoles, and we also have Nintendo’s preferential treatment of royalties, and the annual profits are quite considerable.”

Several other executives in the small conference room saw Nancy unceremoniously questioning Simon's decision, and their expressions were a little subtle.

In fact, Nancy has always been like this.

However, during this period of time, because of the gossip that a certain boss had finally hooked up with a small senior executive, it was immediately fun to listen to Nancy pick Simon's thorns.

It seems that it is still not completely conquered.

Simon has always been a person who allows his subordinates to give him opinions and find faults. Of course, he will not be angry because of this, and it is even more impossible to allow the small executives to contradict him because of the change in relationship with Nancy. Hearing this, he nodded with a smile: " I just set a general direction, and you can handle the specific details yourself."

Nancy nodded, and hung her head to write and draw on the screen, looking completely businesslike.

Simon also continued: "In terms of content, the recent success of "Counter-Strike OL" has made some people think that PC games and console games will be eliminated, and that we should completely switch to online games. I have already expressed my attitude towards this , I want to emphasize again this time, although I am very supportive of the development of online games, I do not think stand-alone games will be eliminated. Therefore, our investment in stand-alone games will not only not be reduced, but will continue to increase. Over there, you They all need to clearly show a similar attitude to avoid fluctuations in the hearts of some teams."

"Counter-Strike OL" was first launched in the United States on November 21 last year. A simple success is not enough to describe it, but a complete phenomenon.

As of January 1 this year, in just six weeks after its launch, Counter-Strike OL has sold a total of 4.54 million sets in North America after selling 1.13 million sets in the first week.

Based on the unit price of US$69, the sales of this game reached US$310 million in North America alone.

Even if the hottest wave of sales of this game has begun to slow down as the year-end holidays have passed, considering that the game far exceeds the long-term sales cycle of movies, and it is only in the United States, it is only time for "Counter-Strike ol" to break through 10 million sets of sales Problem, it is not impossible to even hit 15 million to 20 million sales.

Overseas, after the local success, Daenerys quickly rolled out the game overseas. At present, "Counter-Strike OL" has been launched in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and South Korea. Also as of last week, overseas Cumulative sales have exceeded 2.3 million sets, and the sales price is basically the same as that in North America, and the revenue is close to 160 million US dollars.

Even though a huge R&D and marketing budget of 50 million U.S. dollars was invested in this game in the early stage, just relying on the sales of "Counter-Strike OL" for one and a half months since its launch, Daenerys has already made a lot of money.

Compared with many stand-alone games that took a year or two to accumulate millions of sales even for phenomenal games, the cumulative global sales of "Counter-Strike OL" reached 6.8 million sets in just one and a half months. It can break through the 10 million mark in at most three months.

This kind of sales speed inevitably makes many people think that online games are the future of the video game industry.

Simon has no control over how other game companies will change their strategies. For Daenerys, even though "Counter-Strike OL" was pushed by Simon, he still has not lost his judgment.

Online games and stand-alone games have their own advantages and disadvantages, just like theater movies and TV movies, they can be shared and coexist.

If Daenerys is a small company, Simon may concentrate on one of them, but with the current volume of Daenerys Entertainment, it is more in line with the long-term interests of both.

This was a small-scale summary and decision-making meeting, and did not involve too many details. Everyone discussed it and soon turned to TV, music, theme parks and other businesses.

After the one-hour meeting ended, the others left temporarily. Simon looked at Nancy on the wall screen and asked, "How are you doing?"

"It went well. Both EMI and PolyGram are very active in our contact. If external conditions permit, we can win these two at once." Nan hoped here, still with a businesslike expression: " However, since I can only win one, I am thinking about poaching some singers from EMI."

Simon smiled and said, "I know this, I'm asking how are you doing?"

Nancy paused, but she still couldn't hold back, she wrinkled her nose and said in a rigid tone, "I've already moved out of your property in London, and I'm going to Holland next, and I don't plan to live in the place you arranged. Boss, after getting more in touch with your life, I realized that you have raised so many women, much more than I imagined."

Simon ignored some of Nancy's words, with a look of connivance: "It's okay, you can live however you want."

Nancy rolled her eyes slightly, with a bit of arrogance: "I'm still reconsidering our relationship."

Simon nodded: "Well, but you must be cautious, I am such a good man, if you miss it, you will never meet again."

Nancy lost her temper and glared at someone: "Boss, I'm serious."

Simon also restrained his tone, with a sincere expression: "I am also very serious. I never thought of turning the women around me into cage birds. You are all free. I am also very happy to see the women in my life can be happy. Wonderful."

When Nancy heard what Simon said, her expression softened unconsciously, and her mouth was still unforgiving: "It sounds like sweet talk."

"Do you want to hear more?"

"No," Nancy raised her chin slightly, refused, hesitated a little, and couldn't help asking: "Are you really dating Concubine Dai, that?"

"No, she doesn't fit my aesthetics, and her skin is rough, I don't like it."

Nancy looked disbelieving: "Liar, do you think I haven't heard that Jenny ran over a while ago... Tsk, she actually hit Concubine Diana... It's really disgraceful." :"all because of you."

Simon raised his hands in a gesture of surrender: "Okay, my fault."

"So, you admit it?"

"No."

Nancy tilted her head and suddenly realized: "Then how do you know that Concubine Diana has bad skin?"

Simon fired a discharge at the woman opposite: "I have eyes, very attractive pair, and good eyesight."

Nancy curled her lips to avoid her gaze: "You changed the subject again."

"Well, I just feel pity for her. After all, it's a pity that a woman who has done a lot of things all these years suddenly dies one day."

Nancy was very smart, and immediately heard Simon's implication, and subconsciously turned her head to look at it: "You... mean... you can't?"

"If I were the British royal family, in order to prevent a wayward woman from continuously damaging the little prestige left by the royal family, I would probably do something."

Nancy blinked her eyes, understood, and then launched another attack: "You mean, if one day I am too self-willed and damage the prestige of the Westeros family, you will also kill me?"

"Why do you want to damage the prestige of the Westeros family?"

"I mean what if?"

"It's dangerous for women not to make such assumptions that embarrass men."

Nancy followed closely: "So you will definitely kill me, right?"

"Honey, why don't we break up now?"

"asshole."

After that, it was black.

However, Simon also knew that instead of hanging up, Nancy deliberately raised her hand to cover the camera, and there was obviously a rustling sound from the speaker.

After a while, the little hand moved away, revealing Nancy's petite face again: "Then will you go further with her?"

Simon shook his head firmly without hesitation: "No."

"fraud."

"I'm going to Europe on Friday, don't rush to come back there, how about playing together for a few days then?"

The little woman on the opposite side was obviously moved, but said: "I'm very busy."

"I'm also very busy, but no matter how busy I am, I have to rest, don't I?"

Nancy tilted her head, looking very reluctant, and said deliberately: "I want to go to Ukraine to see, it is said that you raised more girls there, is that okay?"

"Okay, what kind of girls do you like, I'll find a group for you."

Nancy repeated: "I mean your little girl."

"Guaranteed to be raised by me."

Nancy: "..."

In an office at Daenerys's London headquarters, Nancy was very conflicted. A certain guy across from her had completely obeyed her various difficulties. Why didn't she feel like she had taken the initiative at all?

Think about it for a while.

Immediately understood.

asshole.

A playboy who is good at coaxing women with sweet words.

I am not so easy to coax!

So I stopped putting on a show, and this time I really hung up the video communication.

Let's see how you play!

However, after hanging up the call, I sat alone in the spacious meeting room, looking out the window at the night that had already shrouded London just after six o'clock in the afternoon, and somehow missed it.

Wanting to reopen the video communication again, I feel that I should be more reserved.

perhaps.

Because he was offline, he had already left.

still

Yuyu finally decided to take another look. If he just left like this, it meant that a certain guy didn't really care about him.

Then...

As he spoke, he clicked the Unicom button of the video communication software again.

The little heart was raised high.

There was almost an instant connection, and then there was a guy's hateful smile on the screen: "Baby, miss me so soon?"

Nancy felt like a little mouse who was caught stealing food, her cheeks were hot for some reason, so she hung up again decisively.