Chapter 378
Chapter 378 Killing chickens and monkeys
"Nintendo asked for an exclusive cooperation?"
In San Jose, Song Yang frowned when he heard Ken Williams mentioning this. Song Yang knew that he had heard about Nintendo's domineering, but Hiroshi Yamauchi didn't discuss it at all, and directly asked Xueleshan to be exclusive. The "overbearing" cooperation was somewhat beyond Song Yang's expectations.
If this was placed in the Internet industry, it would have been mobbed and attacked long ago. Netscape wanted to play exclusive platforms like this before, but now it is about to be dismissed, but Nintendo dares to make such a request, which also shows Nintendo's strength and confidence.
"The game console market is a platform on which Diablo must log in. If the console market is lost, it will probably be a huge loss in terms of sales for Sierra!" Ken Williams said.
Nintendo's attitude is basically that of Japanese game manufacturers. Most of them are resistant to Xueleshan's entry into the Japanese market, and Nintendo is especially obvious. They want Xueleshan to "obey" the rules set by Nintendo.
"What if I choose another game console?" Song Yang asked.
Now in the game console industry, Nintendo is the leader, but it is not without rivals. Sony is Nintendo's most direct competitor. This year, it launched a masterpiece PS console. Although the sales volume in Japan is not as good as Nintendo, it has surpassed Nintendo in overseas markets. .
In addition, there is also Sega's Saturn host, Atari, which is dead but not stiff with centipedes, has repeatedly jumped between bankruptcy and reorganization, and has also launched a game console like Jaguar, which is in line with Nintendo fight.
In addition, there are Nippon Bandai game consoles, an emerging game brand in America, the 3DO game consoles jointly established by Hawkins, the founder of EA game company who was born in Apple, and Panasonic, Telephone and Telegraph Group, Time Warner, Universal, etc. platform etc.
So now, it seems that there are many game console platforms to choose from, but in fact, there are not many choices. The most important thing is sales!
"Currently in the host industry, Nintendo's N64 and Sony's PS game consoles are the best-selling consoles. Sega's game consoles have no sales at all in overseas markets except Japan. Atari, 3DO, and Bandai have the same problems. It's too low, only consoles from Nintendo and Sony can cover the global market!"
Ken Williams said a little anxiously, seeing that the announcement of "Diablo" is already in full swing, and the release date is coming soon, but the host game platform has not signed yet, which is really not good for Sierra. Good news.
Ken Williams tends to cooperate with Nintendo, nothing else, the Nintendo N64 has more powerful performance, can show the grand scene of the game, real dynamic light source and 3D real-time calculation, etc., can make the game screen of Diablo, fully revealed to the player.
However, Nintendo's conditions are really harsh. If you want to cooperate with Nintendo, you can only allow "Diablo" on Nintendo consoles, and even the PC version cannot be released, let alone allow Xueleshan to launch "Xueleshan Online". "The game platform is online!
"Talk to Sony, as long as the console version of Diablo can be logged into Sony's PS console, Xueleshan can make concessions on the game share, and Xueleshan will also give priority to cooperation with Sony consoles in the future."
Song Yang said directly to Ken Williams that since Nintendo and Hiroshi Yamauchi were unwilling to cooperate with Xueleshan, then Xueleshan did what he wanted.
After Ken Williams left, Song Yang took a deep breath. Now he feels that Bill Gates is aggrieved. Entering the game industry, he still has to look at the faces of Nintendo and Sony.
Originally, Song Yang didn't have much interest in the console industry. After all, Xueleshan is about to launch a PC game platform. As long as Xueleshan is online and can reach the level of steam and Epic, then Xueleshan can have a powerful enough game game sales channels.
But now Nintendo's attitude towards Xueleshan makes Song Yang feel that Xueleshan wants to stay in the game industry. In the game console industry, Xueleshan also needs a channel. Song Yang is suddenly interested in Sega. If he can If Sega is taken down, then Sega's game console can make up for Xueleshan's last shortcoming!
But these are things for the future. The most important thing right now is the release of "Diablo". This is not about the success or failure of a single game, but probably about the entire ICQ, and even the merger with NBC Group , will be affected.
While ICQ and Xueleshan are busy releasing "Diablo", Japan Ben is not at peace. There are still people who are doing things against Xueleshan's acquisition of Sammy.
Satomi Satoshi was across the Pacific Ocean, and Song Yang called, "Song, there are still people on Riben's side who are dissatisfied with Sammy's acquisition. It is reported that someone wants to push Riben to investigate this acquisition!"
No need to think about it, it must be the rivals of the Sammy Company who are doing things behind the scenes, and there are other people in the billiard room who are worried that Xue Leshan's entry will affect them, so they take the opportunity to make things happen.
Hearing what Satomiji said, Song Yang couldn't help but let out a foul breath. He felt that Riben's opponents were like vicious dogs. If they didn't teach them a lesson, they would keep chasing and biting them, only to hurt them. Only vicious dogs wag their tails and beg for mercy!
"I see, President Satomi Hara, you don't need to worry about these things, you only need to manage the business of Sammy and Shirakushan Nippen Company well!"
After Song Yang put down the phone, he paced back and forth in the room for a few steps, and then made a few more phone calls. Song Yang found so many shareholders and consultants for Xueleshan Ribenzene Company, isn't it just for this moment? It can't be that these people take money for nothing and don't work, right?
Nipen Asahi TV broadcasted the news, "The latest news from the Ministry of Finance will implement a new amendment to the "Foreign Exchange Law" to review and restrict foreign funds flowing into Nippon to ensure the safety of Nippon Corporation..."
Although he didn't mention his name, he was going for Sammy Company, but at this juncture, the biggest news in Japan recently is undoubtedly the news that Sammy Company was acquired by Xuele Mountain for 86.3 billion yen. , I can't help but criticize Sang.
Immediately afterwards, several Japanese media broke the news, "Multiple organizations in Japan and Tokyo claimed to have received a report on Sammy, and then conducted a joint inspection of Sammy, sealing up Sammy on the grounds of product quality. A batch of pachinko equipment worth more than 2.4 million dollars, and issued a large ticket!"
The Japanese pachinko room operator was also suddenly revealed that it had terminated its cooperation with Sammy and no longer ordered pachinko machines from Samy. Even the Japan Pachinko Hall Chain Association decided to expel Samy Group. For a while, Sammy Company felt a little stormy.
And at this moment, a statement from the American Foreign Affairs Council suddenly brought all this to an abrupt end.
A magazine affiliated to the American Foreign Affairs Committee, suddenly in the latest issue of the magazine, it claims to protect the overseas profits of the American company and prevent the American company from being unfairly treated overseas!
After this magazine, an expert on Asian issues employed by the American Foreign Affairs Council said in an interview with the Washington Post, "I have some concerns about the markets in certain Asian regions. America's investment in the Asian region is being Being treated unfairly, I think that when necessary, it is necessary to take special measures to protect the interests of the American company overseas!"
These words were full of murderous intent. When the magazine and this interview were spread to Japan, people in certain industries in Japan began to break out in a cold sweat.
Only on the second day, the Special Search Department of Japan's prefectural police also suddenly announced that it would launch an investigation and prosecution against a congressman in Tokyo. This is not new in Japan, but what is special is that this congressman has other One identity is one of the public advisors of the Japan Pachinko Hall Chain Association, but this time he was pulled out by the Japan District Prosecutor's Special Search Department as a target!
The Pachinko Room Chain Association, basically the pachinko rooms in Japan will join this association in name, and most of the people who can serve as consultants in this association are figures from the House of Representatives and Senate of Japan, with a deep background in Japan, or Powerful MPs.
And this time, the members of the billiard room chain association were suddenly sued, which caused a lot of people in the billiard room industry to become silent for a while.
The speech of the American Foreign Affairs Committee and the action of the Japanese District Prosecutor's Special Search Department made those companies who wanted to drive Sammy and Xueleshan out of Japan before, and those companies disappeared in a short time, and no longer targeted Sammy. The company heard that the seized batch of Sammy pinball machines were immediately unsealed, and the fines were revoked. The pachinko machine operators who refused to cooperate with Sammy also changed their minds. Start soaring!
Whether it is the congressman consultants in the billiard room or the opponents of Sami Company, they are not targeting Sami Company. It is hard to say whether they can kill Sami Company. The group behind Sami is absolutely powerful. All kinds of tricks to kill them, physically...
Without any constraints, Sammy started to go on a rampage at the time of Benton, and Satoshi led the people to start grabbing the pachinko market in an open and honest manner.
Song Yang didn't pay too much attention to the Japanese benzene market. Now that Sammy is in Japan, it's a fake tiger's prestige. With the amulet of the suzerain country, neither the group of congressmen nor the opponents in Japan dare to take action against Sammy. , if Sammy can't develop, then Song Yang should consider changing to a Japanese agent.
Less than 24 hours before the release date, Xueleshan publicly announced that it has reached a cooperation with Japan Sony on the "Diablo" console version, and will log in to Sony's PS console through game discs and cassettes.
America entered the hottest period of the new general election, and the "Diablo" printed with the Blizzard LOGO entered the release date!
(end of this chapter)