Chapter 384
Chapter 384 The yellow mud falls into the crotch
The agreement between Song Yang and Immelt is to facilitate the epic merger of ICQ with NBC, American Telecom, and Comcast Television Network.
For Song Yang, it is to take advantage of the Internet wave in the past few years to harvest a crop of leeks, while for Immelt, it is to use this acquisition to prove himself to the General Electric Board of Directors and get a seat on the General Electric Board. The throne of the master.
If in the middle, ICQ is acquired by General Electric or other American giants, then all agreements will become waste paper, and it will have nothing to do with Immelt.
"ICQ continues to maintain this speed of development. If it can be listed on NASDAQ next year, I will officially promote the merger of NBC Group and ICQ in General Electric!"
Through the phone, Immelt said to Song Yang solemnly, obviously he had made up his mind to make a big news.
Song Yang hung up the phone and looked outside the villa. ICQ will definitely start preparations for listing, but Song Yang will not put all his eggs in one basket. It is really cheap for General Electric or Comcast. Whether it is ICQ or American Telecom, it must be split and listed, and then cashed out.
At that time, there will be too many places to operate, such as splitting Xueleshan and ICNC TV stations from ICQ, and then after ICQ merges with NBC Group in the future, buy back Xueleshan, ICNC and other departments at sky-high prices!
After cutting a few crops of leeks and cashing out a huge amount of dollars, it is estimated that the Internet bubble will be almost over. At that time, no matter whether it is to end the merger of ICQ and NBC, it will go all out and directly acquire all the shares of NBC Group from General Electric. If you buy it, there will be room for maneuvering at that time.
It's not that Song Yang is playing this game alone. On Wall Street, they play much more than Song Yang. Song Yang's this can only be regarded as a small test!
Diablo's explosive sales are continuing all over the world, coupled with the shortage of goods, Diablo has a taste of being hyped. Even if Xuele Mountain announced that it will increase production capacity, game retail stores in many regions are still selling. Started to take the opportunity to increase the price to sell game discs.
On the eBay platform, the price of Diablo discs has exceeded 65 US dollars, and Diablo is becoming a carnival for sellers!
When Diablo 1 was still on sale, Blizzard officially announced that it would start the development of "Diablo 2", which is expected to be released within two years, which further increased the popularity of the game.
Xueleshan online platform is also constantly undergoing revisions, and functions are constantly being updated. In addition to the original game download function, game scoring functions, game exchange areas, trading areas, etc. have been launched successively to continuously increase user activity.
In addition to these, Xueleshan has also formally established a new game department, which is dedicated to the development of "online game concept" game projects, and has invested in many game companies around the world in one breath.
In Bangzi alone, it spent US$12 million, US$9 million, and US$4 million respectively to invest in Nexon, NCsoft, and Actoz, an emerging game company established by Bangzi last year. More than 45% of the equity of the game company!
Xueleshan announced that it will launch a series of online games with Nexon, NCsoft, and Actoz three stick companies in the future. For the newly emerging stick game industry, Xueleshan at this moment can definitely be called rich and powerful. The three stick game companies have no room for rejection.
Xueleshan promised to provide them with research and development funds, and will also become its global game agent. Such a partner is really rare for the Bangzi game industry, which has just emerged with online games. Xueleshan expects Together with these three Bangzi game companies, they will develop a variety of online games such as "Paradise", "Rocky" and "Legend".
In addition to investing in Bangzi's game company, Xueleshan has also reached a global agency agreement with Kingsoft's Xishanju Game Studio and Target Game Studio. In the future, Huaguo's games will be translated and released globally !
By using "Diablo", Xueleshan is attacking everywhere, investing in game companies and acting as an agent for games. It also announced the holding of TGA Global Game Awards, hosting game celebrities, etc. It is quite active in the entire game industry.
However, some people are happy while others are worried. The Sony PS game console that cooperates with Xue Leshan has also seen a sharp increase in sales, but it is not a good thing for Nintendo, which is wrestling with Sony consoles.
At the moment, the atmosphere in the Nintendo meeting room is dull. Even if it was Hiroshi Hiroshi Yamauchi, the boss of Nintendo who proposed to refuse the cooperation with Xue Leshan, in Nintendo, no one in Nintendo would dare to oppose this veteran head.
Hiroshi Yamauchi's face is also a little ugly at the moment. He has always believed that the global game industry has always been decided by Japan. Since the collapse of Atari, global games have entered red and white game consoles, and then to game consoles. It is the Japanese game manufacturers, especially Nintendo, who have the final say. Whether it is a European or North American game manufacturer, it all depends on Nintendo.
Even a few game manufacturers in North America and Europe have performed well in the past few years, but that's all. But who knows, this time Xueleshan and Blizzard can break through Nintendo's control.
Let Hiroshi Yamauchi and Nintendo worry not about how many sets of "Diablo" sold, but the sudden appearance of PC games and the Xueleshan online platform.
"Ryoji Nakabachi, that idiot, he doesn't know what kind of company he is working with. Sony's mainframe is infested with tigers, and sooner or later he will have to pay the price!"
After a dull moment, Hiroshi Yamauchi scolded the president of Sony Electronics angrily. In order to compete with Nintendo, Sony's mainframe dared to play with anything. Hiroshi Yamauchi could see clearly that Xueleshan was definitely not willing to stay under Sony for a long time. With the growth of Xueleshan Online's PC game platform, PC games have become a new game industry on par with consoles, and console manufacturers will completely lose their right to speak at that time!
Yamauchi Hiroshi feels that now that the game console industry joins hands, especially if Nintendo and Sony join forces, it is possible to stop the Xueleshan online platform from continuing to develop, at least it can stop the smooth development of Xueleshan.
But now on Sony's mainframe, for that little sales, let's not stop Xue Leshan, but instead work hard to promote "Diablo". Sooner or later, I will be bitten by Xue Leshan!
Yamauchi Hiroshi's son-in-law, Arakawa Minoru, said helplessly at this time, "Perhaps Sony hosts also know this, but they dare not do anything to Xueleshan. Entrance to Xuele Mountain!"
Sony has a global market. In the past ten years, the father of the suzerain country used the name of the old man to split up Toshiba and Japan's semiconductor industry. I can still vividly remember it. Now Sony's products are sold in America. There are also places in Europe and around the world. Sony does not want to experience another incident of being split and fined by America.
So, even if he knew that Xueleshan was pulling wool, Sony would pretend he didn't see it. The ghost knows whether a war with Xueleshan would become another excuse for America, and he didn't know who was standing behind Xueleshan. How many dignitaries in America did not see such a strong industry as the billiard room, but after the appearance of the American Foreign Affairs Committee, did they also start to collectively go blind? !
Yamauchi Hiroshi snorted and didn't speak. He also knew that Arakawa was telling the truth, but his heart was still filled with anger. He was always arbitrarily assertive. In the game industry, when did he ever get slapped in the face like this.
"Nintendo will develop new games as soon as possible. The next time Xueleshan releases a new game, it will be a duel between Nintendo and Xueleshan!"
Hiroshi Yamauchi still decided to snipe Xueleshan's new game once again. This kind of face-to-face competition and the drama released at the same time are the mainstream dramas in the era of red and white machines. No matter how overbearing Liga is, it's impossible to stop Nintendo from releasing new games at the same time as Sierra, right? !
There is not only one person who is as angry as Hiroshi Yamauchi, the president of CUC International, Silverman, is also not much better.
No matter how high the sales volume of Diablo since its release, Silverman's life is as sad. Before CUC International Corporation sold Sierra Mountain and Blizzard to ICQ at a sky-high price of 400 million US dollars, Wall Street at that time In praise of Silverman's investment vision, the "junk goods" bought for more than 100 million US dollars back then were sold for 400 million US dollars!
At that time, both CUC International and Silverman were highly praised, and the stock price of CUC International was soaring all the way, but who would have imagined that it has not been a year since the previous junk goods, in the hands of ICQ, turned out to be The sweet pastry.
The "Diablo" developed by Blizzard has sold 4 million sets of horror sales in a single month, breaking many records in the history of American games. If it can really reach this level, it means that ICQ can earn nearly 900 million US dollars from this game. Compared with the 400 million US dollars spent on buying Blizzard, this can't be said to be a profit. It is stealing money from CUC International!
The higher the sales volume of "Diablo", the more blamed Silverman was, thinking that he was blind and let Xue Leshan and Blizzard go. If Warman gives some more funds, maybe it will be released. Xueleshan even launched a platform with tens of millions of users like Xueleshan Online. Why didn't Silverman think of this? !
These accusations made it impossible for Silverman, who was still proud of himself when he sold Xueleshan and Blizzard, to say nothing. The stock price of CUC International has plummeted during this period. The board of directors of CUC International is accusing Silverman of being incompetent and Some Wall Street investors wondered if Silverman had collected black money and deliberately sold Blizzard and Xueleshan at a low price!
(end of this chapter)