Is it not a galgame?

Chapter 513 417 How to sell this for money? !

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The great success of The Matrix has naturally laid a solid foundation for Yuehe's future development in Hollywood. In the future, it will be much easier to find actors, directors, and discuss sponsorship and sharing.

Now that The Matrix 1 has been released, it is natural that a sequel must be produced.

So Hitotsubashi Fumi immediately approached Qing Zhiyuan and asked about the sequel's production plan and cycle.

"Since everything has been planned, it's better to do it as soon as possible." Qing Zhiyuan said.

"But there is one difficult thing." Hitotsubashi Fumie knocked on the notebook in his hand and said to Qing Zhiyuan, "The production cost of The Matrix 2 is estimated to be US$1.5 million."

Hearing this number, Qing Zhiyuan couldn't help but frowned.

Damn, movies are indeed money-burning machines.

If you shoot one film, you will lose more than 100 million.

It’s still US dollars! !

And it seems that the production costs of the next two films will only get higher and higher.

Qing Zhiyuan thought for a while, "With the advancement of pokeni special effects technology, the cost of post-production can actually be reduced."

“But the fees for actors and directors have increased,” Fumi Hitotsubashi reminded with a smile, “This time The Matrix was a hit at the box office, and the values of all those involved in the production of The Matrix have risen a lot.

Keanu Reeves' net worth alone has risen from 600 million before filming to 1500 million US dollars now.

Fortunately, we had signed with them for three years before, so his agent didn't raise the price to the sky. "

I guess you never thought that The Matrix would be a big hit before, right?

So when Keanu Reeves saw that he could sign 3 movies in one go, starting from the first one, his salary would increase by US$200 million for each movie, of course he felt that he was making a profit.

Now I'm afraid I'm going to regret it to death, why didn't I sign one movie one by one, but three movies in one go?

As the saying goes, a rising tide lifts all boats. Naturally, Keanu Reeves will not want to get off the bus now. Everyone knows very well that The Matrix 1 is just the beginning. After the next 2 or 3 movies are released, anyone can star in it. The value will rise several levels.

Therefore, everyone is still willing to follow producer Fumi Hitotsubashi to complete the filming of the next two parts.

"Okay, I'll leave the production to you, keep the cost down as much as possible." Qing Zhiyuan thought for a while and said, "If it doesn't work, just bring in some sponsors."

The Matrix 1 seems to have made a lot of money, but in fact, after you throw away some costs, the remaining profit does not seem to be as much as Qing Zhiyuan imagined. At the same time, it will be enough to support the next two movies at most. The Matrix was filmed at the same time.

Therefore, in Hollywood, investing in blockbuster blockbusters, especially in such exclusive production and shooting situations, is very risky. Once the box office fails, you will lose a lot of money.

Even a giant like Warner is expected to go bankrupt thanks to a few times.

Fortunately, Qing Zhiyuan has already understood the money-making blockbusters in the next 20 years or so. Otherwise, his behavior is completely seeking death, and there will be no difference in following the casino.

"Okay, boss." Hitotsubashi Fumi nodded.

"And..." Before she left the conference room, Qing Zhiyuan stopped her again.

"Huh?" Hitotsubashi Fumie turned around.

"Spider-Man should also be put on the shooting schedule." Qing Zhiyuan gritted his teeth and said.

"Spider-Man?" Fumi Hitotsubashi raised his eyebrows and asked with some confusion.

"Oh, that's it. Now the copyright of Spider-Man is with Pokeni... I want to adapt it into a live-action movie."

Qing Zhiyuan told Hitotsubashi Fumi about how Pokeni acquired Marvel, and blended his idea of bringing Spider-Man to the big screen with Hitotsubashi Fumi.

After hearing Qing Zhiyuan's plan, Hitotsubashi Fumi's eyes sparkled.

"Wow, if it can really be done to this extent, it looks like it will be a very powerful special effects blockbuster."

"Yeah, and it can also build up popularity again."

In the future, in the film and television industry, it will become [Yuehe's products must be high-quality]. After creating the Moon River Myth, the influence of the corresponding IP will be maximized, and then the influence will be used to spread the game. In fact, it is a complete set of coherent style of play.

The fastest popularization and dissemination in the world is definitely film and television.

Then comes the game.

To put it bluntly, film and television have strong communication power and low barriers to entry, while games have a high barrier to entry. This means that the spread is not as wide as that of film and television.

The two complement each other and complement each other, which is the most authentic core gameplay of video game linkage.

Just like The Matrix, after the movie becomes a big hit, the game can lag slightly behind. After fully utilizing the influence of the movie and letting the world know about the IP of The Matrix, launching the game at this time can achieve twice the result with half the effort.

Spider-Man is the same.

In addition to helping POKENI sell games, Spider-Man also undertakes a particularly important task -

Start the Marvel Universe.

After the success of Spider-Man, future Iron Man, Captain America, Hulk, etc. can be developed simultaneously, and then a wave of Avengers will bring Marvel to its peak.

The formation of the Marvel Universe naturally corresponds to the formation of the Marvel Game Universe.

And the starting point of it all falls on this ordinary-looking little spider.

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In November, Satoru Iwata concluded negotiations with AOL in the United States, and finally sold pokeni's RTT business in the United States for US$11 million.

After completing this matter, Iwata flew back to China from the United States.

Qing Zhiyuan gave him a clean slate, and the members of the company were applauding Iwata Satoru.

After Iwata joined the company, he first formulated a strategy to acquire Sega and Marvel, and then sold RTT. These goals were successfully completed.

Perhaps judging from the books alone, it seems that it has suffered a lot of losses.

However, from Qing Zhiyuan's perspective, he has already made a lot of money.

Using the sale of RTT to raise part of the funds, and then integrating Sega and Marvel, not only has the technical reserve been greatly improved, but it also has an IP treasure house.

In fact, it is a very remarkable thing.

It's just that the future test for Qing Zhiyuan and pokeni will be more difficult, because there are too many tentacles extending out. After the company's stall is spread, no matter which department needs money, except for games to make money, basically everything else All are losses.

If this continues, no matter how much money you make, it won't be enough.

Another thing is that at the beginning of this year, Nvidia Huang Renxun invited Qing Zhiyuan to hold a shareholders' meeting together.

Although it is called a shareholders' meeting, it is actually just Huang Renxun and Qing Zhiyuan.

Lao Huang is preparing to conduct an IPO at the beginning of next year, almost January 99, that is, to list Nvidia on Nasdaq.

As a shareholder, he will work with Qing Zhiyuan to issue 40% of the equity to raise funds.

In order to successfully go public, Lao Huang invited Citibank and Goldman Sachs to serve as underwriters, with a total valuation of US$11.4 billion.

Recruitment is based on 40%, with a total raised capital of US$4.56 million, an additional issuance of 4000 million shares, and a single share price of US$11.4.

Thanks to pokeni, Nvidia's market value is much higher than in its previous life.

Moreover, NVIDIA is now gaining momentum. The most important reason why Lao Huang wants to go public is to raise funds as soon as possible and expand the industrial chain.

It can be said that Qing Zhiyuan hit it off with him. After Nvidia went public, pokeni was able to obtain a certain amount of recruitment capital income. Although the equity was partially diluted year-on-year, it overall can help the company alleviate its recent financial pressure.

At the same time, only NVIDIA that is on the market is good NVIDIA.

After going public, Nvidia's market value will continue to soar. You must know that this guy was worth trillions in his previous life.

Qing Zhiyuan has come to understand Son Masayoshi better. The core gameplay of the capital game is to go public, raise money for the next ten years in a short period of time, and then use the money to expand to maximize the use of funds.

……

On November 11, Qing Zhiyuan and Son Zhengyi had dinner together.

Sun Zhengyi could not help but feel anxious and earnestly persuaded, "Qingsang, when will p-net be listed on the market? I will help you operate it then?"

I am very familiar with the banking business, and I also have many good friends in the bond business. If I help you find an underwriter, you can get the maximum valuation.

Maybe it can reach 8 million, no, 10 billion US dollars. "

Qing Zhiyuan smiled bitterly and said, "Don't worry yet. P-net is not profitable yet, and the valuation will definitely not be ideal."

profit? !

Sun Zhengyi was completely stunned.

According to the way your Qingzhiyuan operates now, do you still expect P-net to make a profit?

Whether it’s a website, RTT, search engine, or a bunch of messy Internet businesses, don’t I know how much it costs every month?

The advertiser fees you have collected are simply not enough to put your mouth between your teeth. How do you still expect to make a profit?

The market's current high valuation is entirely due to its confidence in the prospects of the Internet industry.

What’s the use of having so many visits?

Until now, Son himself does not know how to monetize P-NET.

"By the way," Qing Zhiyuan didn't pay much attention and put the roasted meat on Sun Zhengyi's plate with tongs. "Sun Sang, do you still remember the dandelion platform I mentioned to you before?"

Oh, yes, there is also a so-called Dandelion gaming platform.

Son Zhengyi said that this thing is going to cost money.

Although he had previously expressed optimism that Qing Zhiyuan would build such an online platform and believed the lie that he could generate value, after returning home and thinking about it carefully, Sun Zhengyi still didn’t quite understand how powerful this thing could be. make money.

Just by relying on the fees for playing mahjong online and renting a room, can you make money faster than you can by selling games?

Can you feed this dandelion platform?

Son was actually very unsure about this and was particularly flustered.

All he can think about now is to quickly go public while the outside world is still optimistic about the Internet, the Internet battle has not yet entered a fierce stage, and P-net can still be sold at a good price.

Son Zhengyi said that I am just an investment. If the investment does not return, it will be too uncomfortable.

However, it is useless no matter how anxious Son Zhengyi is, the key lies in Qing Zhiyuan's decision.

He is the major shareholder. If the major shareholder does not want to go public, there is nothing you can do about it.

The most I can do is hold the shares for a while, and then see if I can transfer some of them out next year? Even if P-net is not listed, Son Zhengyi does not intend to hold on to it.

"Remember, what happened to the Dandelion Game Platform?" Son Zhengyi was anxious in his heart, but on the surface he still asked calmly.

If it weren't for this so-called gaming platform, Masayoshi Son wouldn't have been able to get such important information from Qing Zhiyuan about setting up an [online bank].

At least from this aspect, Son Zhengyi has to thank Qing Zhiyuan.

SoftBank is now truly worthy of its name. It has both software and banking businesses. It participated in investment and established Neon Online Bank. This bank's online business has been developed and opened to the outside world in the middle of this year.

The results achieved so far are also very gratifying. Many users have started business and conducted trade through online banking, which has provided transaction convenience for some large multinational groups. At the same time, it has gradually been promoted in Neon domestically.

However, it may be different from what Qing Zhiyuan expected. Now the main customer group of online banking is companies rather than individuals.

I'm afraid it will take a certain amount of time to spread it to individuals.

However, Qing Zhiyuan had already thought of alternative B, which was the card-pointing plan, so he was not too panicked.

Qing Zhiyuan ate a piece of pork belly and laughed softly, "Our game platform has been developed and will be launched early next year." In fact, the Dandelion platform was completed a few months ago , Ken Akanishi and the others are just testing the network pressure.

"At that time, previous pokeni games can be downloaded and sold on the gaming platform."

Qing Zhiyuan smiled and said, "After our platform is launched, it will be profitable. By then, P-net's listing valuation will be higher."

Son Zhengyi really didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Although he felt that there was a problem, Qing Zhiyuan was too optimistic.

However, if you think about it carefully, it would be good to wait until this so-called gaming platform comes out and see how it works.

"Well, let's launch it as soon as possible, Qingsang." Son Zhengyi raised his wine glass, "I hope your game platform can be a big seller."

Hmm... It should be said that gaming platforms are very popular.

But it doesn’t matter anymore.

Qing Zhiyuan smiled slightly, raised his glass, and drank the wine in one gulp.

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The end of every year is so busy, but what is a little better this year is that after Qing Zhiyuan acquired Sega, President Nakayama Hayao was no longer as urging as before to have dinner with him to discuss cooperation.

Now we are a family and we only talk about our own things.

After the dinner with Masayoshi Son, Qing Zhiyuan made an appointment with Hiroyuki Hattori for dinner the next day.

"Wow, what kind of game is this time?" Hattori Hiroyuki asked with a smile.

"The sequel to Pokémon 3D World." Qing Zhiyuan laughed happily, pulled a large gift box out from behind and placed it at Hattori Hiroyuki's feet.

Hattori looked at this big gift bag that was almost 50 centimeters high and couldn't help but laugh.

Good guy, the packaging is more beautiful than any game he has seen before.

Qing Zhiyuan, this guy, seems to be no longer a human being. At this point in time, it seems that he is using it to harvest the children's New Year's money.

But...

I love so much.

Hattori Hiroyuki smiled mischievously. Having a partner like Qing Zhiyuan really makes people worry-free. They have their own corresponding marketing strategies, so you don’t have to think about how to help them sell their games better, just place an order. Game CDs will be delivered to the players themselves.

"By the way, I have to give me one of your DC game consoles." Hiroyuki Hattori said.

"It's ready." Qing Zhiyuan raised his chin to indicate that it was all in the bag.

"Yeah, sure enough it's Qingsang, so well prepared." Hattori Hiroyuki laughed, feeling relieved in his heart.

The DC game console must be dedicated to the trash can god, otherwise...

Just for the game to sell well, it would not be good if the game console suddenly dies.

"To be honest, I admire you for actually daring to start a head-on war with Sony," Hiroyuki Hattori said in surprise, "Your courage is commendable."

"Then do you think we will win?" Qing Zhiyuan asked.

"Well...it's hard to say," Hiroyuki Hattori smiled, "but I will try my best to help you."

He has also seen the press conference. Sega's DC game console is really awesome.

However, Hiroyuki Hattori said that his personal feelings cannot affect the market. The most important thing is what the players think.

The most critical question is whether I have more confidence in the Sega DC or the Sony PS2. Should I wait an extra year to buy the PS2?

"So, the first battle is very important."

Hiroyuki Hattori twirled his wine glass and said, "Actually, third-party game developers are also waiting and watching, don't expect your "Automata" to have such a big sensation.

But it's no use.

These are all pictures and falsehoods.

Look at Konami, Namco, and Square, aren't any of them old foxes?

Virtual things are useless. What can really impress them is the real sales of DC game consoles. "

"Yes." Qing Zhiyuan nodded seriously.

He thought so too.

Regardless of Pokeni's dominance in public opinion so far, the media and players have great expectations for them.

But in fact, the first part of the journey was lonely and difficult for pokeni.

Only by achieving great results and letting the world see the sales volume and subsequent vitality of DC machines can you build enough confidence in them.

And it is crucial to drive performance in the first place.

This is also the reason why Qing Zhiyuan suppressed the Pokémon and didn't release it. In addition to harvesting the new year's money, it was also equivalent to holding the show for the DC machine.

This action was actually, to put it bluntly, a huge gamble.

Bet on whether players will buy DC game consoles just for Pokémon.

This is the greatest power of exclusive games.

Just like Sony signed pokeni and Square as exclusives back then, the only difference this time is that Qing Zhiyuan only has himself.

……

The two were drinking and chatting.

It's almost time to say goodbye.

"By the way, there is one more important thing." Qing Zhiyuan thought of something and handed the two prepared cards from his pocket to Hiroyuki Hattori.

"what is this?"

Hattori Hiroyuki lowered his head and glanced. It was a hard card made of paper. The pattern was quite beautiful. It read: Dandelion Game Point Card.

The lower half is a scratch-off seal.

"Click." Qing Zhiyuan said.

"It says face value on it."

"3000 points." Hiroyuki Hattori asked with some confusion, "What's the use of this?"

"This is the same as currency." Qing Zhiyuan said, "It is equivalent to 300 yen."

300 yen is almost equivalent to 15 yuan soft girl coins. For neon people, it is just the money for a breakfast.

Qing Zhiyuan initially set the price higher to take into account the inflation that may occur in future games.

"Is this money?" Hattori Hiroyuki was shocked.

“You can understand it this way, it’s just the currency in the game.

It's virtual currency, not real. "

Qing Zhiyuan thought for a moment and said with a smile, "But its value is artificially assigned. For those who need it, it is valuable. For those who don't need it, it is just garbage."

Hattori Hiroyuki rolled his eyes as he said the same thing as he didn't.

"When the time comes, this thing can be used to recharge and serve as currency in virtual games. We will put all the point cards into offline retailers for sale."

"oh oh."

Hattori Hiroyuki almost understood that this should be what Qing Zhiyuan told him last time.

only……

Can this thing really make money?

In fact, Hattori Hiroyuki still had some doubts in his heart.

However, this did not stop him from giving it a try.

"Then if you give us a discount, will you give us a discount?" Hiroyuki Hattori asked.

"Of course," Qing Zhiyuan laughed, "and we will sell recharge point cards with different denominations in the future. I'll give you a 8% discount on each one."

"So few?" Hattori Hiroyuki was a little unhappy.

"Hattori-san, believe me, you won't feel short of it when the time comes, and we still have operating costs included."

Once the online platform is opened, how many billions of virtual coins will be circulated every day? Think about it, how can this amount of money be so small?

"Okay." Hiroyuki Hattori accepted the card doubtfully.

……

After discussing everything at the wine table, Qing Zhiyuan sent Hattori Hiroyuki out of the barbecue restaurant.

Hattori Hiroyuki got into the car and waved to Qing Zhiyuan outside the window.

"It will definitely be a big seller."

"Thank you."

The car arrived at the same place and stopped, and Hiroyuki Hattori opened the gift box one by one.

First, he put the Sega DC game console into the trash can.

Then he put in two more Pokémon discs.

Finally, he suddenly remembered what was in his pocket, and Hattori Hiroyuki continued to gently throw two 3000-point point cards into the trash can.

After doing this, Hattori Hiroyuki closed his eyes and prayed devoutly:

"Hope! Well... the game console is a big seller!

The game is a hit!