Reborn in Hong Kong as a Tycoon

Chapter 450: Yamauchiura's Attention
Tokyo, Nintendo.

Before the appearance of the red and white machine, although Nintendo entered the video game industry, Nintendo, which only entered the industry in 70 years, can only be said to be one of the well-known video game companies in the industry, and it has not yet reached the level of dominating the Japanese video game industry in the future. .

As the president, Ura Yamauchi, although his control over Nintendo is not weak, he has not yet reached the point where he has achieved great success. He must not only respect the opinions of other directors of the company, but also obtain their support as much as possible.

Therefore, although Yamauchiura formally proposed the proposal to invest a large amount of money in the research and development of game consoles at the board of directors in December 77, it was actually approved by the board of directors in July 78, which took more than half a year.

The research and development funds of the game console alone are likely to cost about [-] million US dollars, not to mention the production cost. Once the sales volume is not good, Nintendo will definitely face huge losses.

Therefore, other directors would not easily agree to such a large investment. It took more than half a year for Yamauchiura to convince the directors to agree to develop the mainframe, which is normal.

Although Yokoi Junhei has left Nintendo, Nintendo has no shortage of talents, so there are naturally people in charge of related projects. Now it has been nearly a year since the project was initiated and researched, but unfortunately the development of the console is not progressing fast.

It's not that the R&D personnel are stuck in which technology card owner, but the lack of funds. Although the board of directors agreed to [-] million U.S. dollars in R&D funds, they did not allocate so much all at once, but allocated funds in batches. The funds were intermittent and the R&D progress was slow Naturally the card owner.

Everything else is easy to say, there is a lack of funds, some advanced equipment cannot be bought, and no matter how good the R & D personnel are, it is useless, so it is not known when the development of Nintendo's red and white machine will be completed.

But even so, within Nintendo, the research and development project that has named the game console as "red and white machine" is a key project of Nintendo.

Therefore, three days after Xingyue Video Game Company's Xingyue console was promoted in Japan, relevant promotional materials were placed on Yamauchiura's desk.

"This Xingyue video game company is an enterprise of Xiangjiang, why haven't I heard of it before?"

Yamauchiura looked at the document and asked the secretary at the same time.

"The company is either new or not well-known before."

The secretary replied aloud, and then said: "Because I just found out that the game console developed by this company is already publicizing, so the investigation on this company has just been carried out, and the specific information will not be available until the more detailed investigation results come out." Know."

This is not the Internet era. It takes a long time for an unfamiliar foreign company to find information.

"Check the relationship between this company and Xinghe Game Company."

Ura Yamauchi suddenly made a sound, but he saw in the data that the lead developer of the Xingyue console is Junhei Yokoi. He knows that Junhei Yokoi and Soo Miyamoto are now in the Galaxy Game Company. It has a relationship with Xinghe Game Company.

If it is said that Ura Yamauchi didn't care at all when Sou Miyamoto left Nintendo the year before last, then after the "Donkey Kong" arcade machine developed by Sou Miyamoto became a hit in Western markets, he thought of Sou Miyamoto, and even more so. It is the Xinghe game company that remembered the poaching of Soo Miyamoto.

Although Yokoi Junhei didn't make any movement after being poached by Galaxy Game Company, but there is a precedent of Miyamoto Sou, and Yamauchiura deeply remembered the fact that Yokoi Junhei and Miyamoto Soo worked in Galaxy Game Company.

"Yes!"

The secretary bowed and said yes, but didn't go out right away.

Yamauchipu continued to look at the investigation materials, and he found that the Xingyue host was actually sold in the chain store of the local Zhiyin Comics Publishing Company, and from this Saturday, the store can have a trial experience and accept product pre-sales.

"You can go and see it on Saturday."

Yamauchi thought to himself, but said in his mouth: "Let someone find out how many chain stores Zhiyin Comic Publishing Company has in China, and what is the cooperation condition between this comic company and Xingyue Electronic Game Company."

"Yes!"

The secretary responded again and wrote down the relevant order on the notepad.

After a while, Yamauchi Pu said in a deep voice: "These information is not detailed enough, I want more detailed information. About the Xingyue video game company, about the Xingyue console, about the sales channel of the console, etc., you have to give me Investigate clearly."

"Yes, President!"

"Don't be afraid to spend money, be fast, the sooner the better!"

"Yes!"

"This is the most important thing, you can do it now."

"Yes, President, then I'll go out first."

The secretary bowed, turned and left the office.

Ura Yamauchi was lost in thought. He was thinking about how much impact the appearance of the Xingyue console would have on Nintendo's red and white machines, and how good and bad this impact was.

"Now that the Xingyue console has not started selling, and the company's red and white machines have not yet been developed, it is too early to consider how much impact it will have. Anyway, since there is such an extra Xingyue console, the company's red and white The machine must be developed as soon as possible."

Thinking of this, Ura Yamauchi decided to have a good talk with other directors, and stop delaying the allocation of research and development funds for the Famicom.

When the time came to Friday evening, Yamauchi Pu's secretary submitted the latest information to Yamauchi Pu.

"It turns out that Xingyue Electronic Game Company was spun off from Xinghe Game Company. Xinghe Game Company is currently preparing to go public in the United States. The company's boss is Lin Baicheng, the richest man in Xiangjiang, and Yokoi Junhei and Miyamoto Soo are both in Xingyue. Work for a video game company."

"The channels of Zhiyin Comic Publishing Company are spread all over the major cities. There are several physical stores in every city, and even the counties below have physical stores, and the stores are all owned by Zhiyin Comic Publishing Company. This company is completely asset-heavy. Operate."

"Huh? The boss of this company changed in December 77. Although the legal person is still Japanese, the boss is said to be from Xiangjiang. Could it be that this person is Lin Baicheng? Even if not, I'm afraid it's the same as Lin Baicheng The relationship is not shallow, it seems that it is impossible to restrict the sales of Xingyue consoles through channels."

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Yamauchi Pu carefully looked at the investigation materials. These materials gave him a more detailed understanding of the Xingyue video game company, and at least allowed him to determine which methods were ineffective against the Xingyue console.

That's right, after learning about the existence of the Xingyue console, Yamauchiura's first thought was to find a way to target the sales of the Xingyue console.Although the research and development of the red and white machine has not been completed, if the sales of the Xingyue mainframe are hot and occupy the market, it will inevitably affect the sales of the red and white machine of the latecomers. The market is so big. If you want to make money, of course you must try your best to kill the competition opponent.

It's a pity that after reading the information, Yamauchi Pu had no good solution for a while. He decided to go to the physical store of Zhiyin Comics tomorrow to try it out and see how the Xingyue console is.

(End of this chapter)