Reborn in Hong Kong as a Tycoon

Chapter 156 Rejecting Atari
Atari's management and Nolan Bushnell naturally didn't know that Atari VCS would usher in a big sales explosion next year, otherwise they wouldn't have offered such good terms to Lin Baicheng.

A guarantee of 2000 million US dollars is already a very high condition for Atari.

However, the reason why Atari made such a condition was because after their internal judgment, after the game "Xiangjiang Cube" was ported to Atari VCS, it would greatly promote the sales of Atari VCS.After the sales of Atari VCS increase, Atari can earn more from the sales of other game cassettes.

What's more, even if Lin Baicheng was given a 20% sales share of the two game cassettes, it's not that Atari didn't make money from the sales of these two game cassettes, but it didn't make as much money as other games.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Bushnell, but I still can't promise you."

Lin Baicheng shook his head and rejected the conditions offered by Atari. The console of Xinghe game is already under development. Even if the development cannot be completed next year, it should be almost the same in 1980 the following year.

Therefore, now that the two games are authorized to Atari, although it can earn [-] million U.S. dollars or more in the short term, it will strengthen Atari's strength in a disguised way, so that when the Xinghe game console comes out, it will beat Atari's Hosts are even more difficult.

Compared with the short-term profit of [-] million U.S. dollars, the long-term profit that the Galaxy game console can bring to the Galaxy game company is more. This is Lin Baicheng's major layout in the game, and there must be no mistakes.

"Why is that, Mr. Lin?"

Nolan Bushnell was very puzzled. In his opinion, Atari's offer was already quite high, and Lin Baicheng had no reason to refuse.

"Mr. Bushnell, I admit that Atari's offer is very good, and I was moved just now, but I still have to refuse."

Of course, Lin Baicheng couldn't say the real reason. How could it be possible for Atari to be wary of Galaxy games when the game console has not yet been developed, so he said another reason.

"Mr. Bushnell, you should know that the two games "Xiangjiang Square" and "Pac-Man" were developed by my company last year, and have been exclusively licensed to several companies. If I license it to Atari now If it is sold on video games, it will inevitably have a major impact on arcade sales and damage the interests of agents."

"At present, my company's arcade machines are selling quite well, so it is impossible for me to damage the interests of agents because of short-term interests. In this way, how can any agent be willing to cooperate with me in the future? Even if I can find other agents, what can I earn? The profit received will inevitably be greatly reduced.”

This is not entirely Lin Baicheng's excuse, because even if the console of Galaxy Games is developed, as long as the time is before the summer of 1980, Lin Baicheng will not transplant these two games to the console, but will choose to develop other games. console games.

The prime sales time for arcade machines is three to five years, so Lin Baicheng wants to protect the interests of agents for three years, because he is not going to give up the arcade market for the time being and maintains a good cooperative relationship with agents.

Nolan Bushnell immediately said: "Mr. Lin, Atari VCS is a video game, not an arcade machine. I think the exclusive license you signed should only be an exclusive license for arcade machines, so you will not violate the contract if you license it to Atari. of."

"Mr. Bushnell, this has nothing to do with the contract, but I want to protect the interests of the agent and maintain the agent system, so that the games I develop later can be accepted by the agent in the first place and earn more for me. profit."

Lin Baicheng shook his head, paused and said: "Let's put it this way, although the profit of 2000 million US dollars is quite a lot, I think maintaining the agency system can bring me more, unless Atari can offer something that I can't refuse. Conditions. And this is at least several times more than 2000 million US dollars, I don’t think Atari can offer such conditions, right Mr. Bushnell?”

"Several times of 2000 million US dollars, Atari really can't offer it."

Nolan Bushnell shook his head helplessly, not to mention multiple times, even an increase of 50% would not work, this condition is already the limit he has won from the parent company Warner.You know, Atari only spent about 800 million U.S. dollars on the research and development of the Atari VCS console, and the licensing fee for the two games of Xinghe Games was [-] million U.S. dollars. May promise to give more.

Nolan Bushnell said unwillingly: "Mr. Lin, do you want to stop thinking about it? A profit of 2000 million US dollars is already quite a lot!"

"Sorry, Mr. Bushnell!"

Lin Baicheng directly shook his head and refused, not giving the other party any thought.

Seeing Lin Baicheng's resolute attitude, Nolan Bushnell, who knew that Atari could not offer better terms, knew that it would be useless to continue, so after chatting for a few words, he got up and left.

Lin Baicheng and Isabella sent Nolan Bushnell and his secretary out of the company, and then they returned to the office.

Isabella hesitated and said: "Boss, this is a profit of 2000 million US dollars, it's a pity to give up like this."

Lin Baicheng said seriously: "You also know that Galaxy Games is developing consoles, and Atari will be the company's competitor sooner or later. We can't do things to strengthen competitors, even if we can earn 2000 million US dollars or more. .”

"I see, Boss, I just think it's a pity."

Isabella nodded in understanding.

Lin Baicheng nodded and said: "I just thought of one thing, that is, Atari and Fairchild Semiconductor have a lot of talents in research and development of hosts, you can see if you can find someone, is there anyone willing to go to Xinghe in Xiangjiang The game goes to work, and the salary can be given a little more."

This is what Lin Baicheng just thought of, thinking about poaching some talents from these two companies, maybe he can speed up the development of the Galaxy game console.

"Boss, I will try my best, but I can't guarantee that someone is willing to work in Xiangjiang."

Isabella can't guarantee it, because the treatment of talents in this area is not low, so some people may not be willing to work in remote areas of Asia.That's right, in the eyes of most people in the United States, Asia is a remote area, and Xiangjiang is no exception.

"Try as much as you can, but let's say it first, the leading person is Yokoi Junpei. Unless you can find heavyweight talents, they will all be managed by Yokoi Junhei."

Lin Baicheng is very optimistic about Yokoi Junhei's ability, so unless he has hired a very powerful talent, Lin Baicheng must ensure Yokoi Junhei's dominant position, lest the final developed console is not the type he wants.

Isabella responded: "I made a note, BOSS!"

The conversation with Nolan Bushnell didn't take long, so Lin Baicheng then went out of the office area to develop office software with Aiden Sherland and others, and continued the research and development work.

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