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   Chapter 384 The yellow mud falls into the crotch

  The agreement between Song Yang and Immelt is the epic merger of ICQ with NBC, American Telecom, and Comcast.

For Song Yang, it is to take advantage of the Internet wave in recent years to cut a crop of leeks, while for Immelt, it is to use this acquisition to prove himself to the GE board of directors, so as to sit on the GE board The throne of the leader.

   If in the middle, ICQ was acquired by General Electric or other American giants, all the agreements would become waste paper and have nothing to do with Immelt.

   "ICQ continues to maintain this pace of development. If I can be listed on the Nasdaq next year, I will be at GE and officially promote the merger of NBC Group and ICQ!"

   Across the phone, Immelt said solemnly to Song Yang, apparently making up his mind to make a big news.

Song Yang hung up the phone and looked outside the villa. ICQ would definitely start preparing to go public, but Song Yang wouldn't put all eggs in one basket. It was really cheap for GE or Comcast. Whether ICQ or America Telecom must be split and listed, and then cash out.

   There will be too many places to operate at that time, such as splitting Snow Mountain and ICNC TV from ICQ, and then after the merger of ICQ and NBC Group in the future, they will buy back Snow Mountain, ICNC and other departments at sky-high prices!

After cutting a few leeks and cashing out a huge amount of US dollars, it is estimated that the Internet bubble will be almost the same. Whether it is to end the merger of ICQ and NBC, but to go all out, directly from General Electric, to give the equity of NBC Group. If you buy it, you will have room to operate.

   This isn't Song Yang playing this game alone. On Wall Street, he's playing a lot more than Song Yang. Song Yang's game can only be regarded as a small test!

Diablo's explosive sales are continuing all over the world. Coupled with the shortage of stock, Diablo has a taste of hype. Even if Xue Leshan announced that it will increase production capacity, game retail stores in many regions have Start taking the opportunity to sell game discs at a higher price.

   On the ebay platform, the price of Diablo discs has exceeded 65 dollars, and Diablo is becoming a carnival for the 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 made the game even more popular.

The   Xue Leshan online platform is also constantly being revised, and the functions are constantly updated. In addition to the original game download function, the game scoring function, game communication area, trading area, etc. have been launched successively to continuously improve user activity.

   In addition to these, Xue Leshan also formally established a new game department, dedicated to the development of "online game concept" game projects, and invested in many game companies around the world in one go,

In Bangzi alone, he spent 12 million US dollars, 9 million US dollars, and 4 million US dollars to invest in Nexon, NCsoft, and Actoz, the emerging game companies established by Bangzi last year, respectively, and obtained these three companies. More than 45% equity of the game company!

Xue Leshan announced that it will launch a series of online games in the future with the three stick companies Nexon, NCsoft, and Actoz. For the newly emerging stick game industry, Xue Le Shan at this moment can definitely be called rich and rich, and it is thrown out in the face of Xue Le Shan. The olive branch, the three stick game companies have no room for rejection at all.

Snow Leshan promises to provide them with research and development funds, and will also become its global game agent. Such a partner is really hard to come by for the stick game industry that has just emerged online games. Snow Leshan expects Will work with these three stick game companies to develop "Paradise", "Rocky", "Legend" and other online games.

In addition to the game companies that have invested in Bangzi, Xue Leshan has also reached a global agency agreement with Jinshan's Xishanju Game Studio and Target Game Studio. In the future, Huaguo's games will be translated and distributed globally. !

   With "Diablo", Xue Leshan is attacking everywhere, investing in game companies and acting as a game agent, also announcing the TGA Global Game Awards, hosting game celebrities, etc., in the entire game industry, are quite active.

   However, some people are happy and some people are sad. The Sony PS game console cooperating with Xue Leshan also has a surge in sales, but it is not a good thing for Nintendo, which is wrestling with the Sony console.

   In the Nintendo conference room at the moment, the atmosphere is dull, even if it was Nintendo boss Yamauchi who refused to cooperate with Xue Leshan, but at Nintendo, no one dared to oppose this veteran leader.

Yamauchi Pu's face is also a little ugly at this moment. He has always believed that the global game industry has always been in the hands of benzene. Since the collapse of Atari, global games have entered red and white game consoles, and then game consoles. It has always been It is the Japanese benzene game manufacturers, especially Nintendo, who have the final say. Whether it is a European or North American game manufacturer, they all have to look at Nintendo's face.

   Even a few game makers in North America and Europe have performed well in the past few years, but that's all, but who knows, this time, Xue Leshan and Blizzard will be able to break through Nintendo's control.

  Let Yamauchi and Nintendo worry not about how many sets of "Diablo" were sold, but the sudden appearance of PC games and the Xue Leshan online platform.

   "That idiot, Ryoji Nakabachi, he doesn't know what kind of company he is cooperating with. Sony's host is infested with tigers, and sooner or later, he will have to pay the price!"

After a long silence, Yamauchi Pu scolded the president of Sony Electronics angrily. In order to compete with Nintendo, the Sony console dares to play anything. Xue Leshan Online's PC game platform has grown up, and PC games have become a new game industry on a par with consoles. At that time, the right to speak of console manufacturers will completely cease to exist!

  Yamuchi felt that now the game console industry is joining forces, especially if Nintendo and Sony join forces, it is possible to block the Xueleshan online platform and continue to develop, at least it can stop the smooth development of Xueleshan.

But now on the Sony console side, for the sake of that sales volume, let alone blocking Xue Leshan, they are doing their best to promote "Diablo". Sooner or later, I will be bitten by Xue Leshan!

Yamauchi's son-in-law, Miro Arakawa, reluctantly said at this time, "Maybe the Sony consoles also know this, but they don't dare to do anything to Snow Leshan. The American Foreign Affairs Commission publicly supports Snow Leshan, and the Japanese marble industry has acquiesced. Entrance to Snow Le Mountain!"

Sony has a global market. In the past ten years, the father of the suzerain country used the name of Lao Maozi to split and toss the Toshiba and Nippon Benzene semiconductor industries, but I can still remember it, and now Sony's products are sold to America. And around the world in Europe, Sony doesn't want to experience another fine by America split.

Therefore, even if he knew clearly that Xue Leshan was picking wool, Sony didn't see it at all. The ghost knows whether the war with Xue Leshan would become another excuse for America, and he didn't know who was standing behind Xue Leshan. How many America dignitaries have not seen an industry as strong as a billiard room. After the America Foreign Affairs Committee came forward, did they start to become blinded collectively? !

  Pu Yamauchi snorted and did not speak. He also knew that Arakawa was telling the truth, but he was still full of anger. He had always acted arbitrarily.

   "Nintendo needs to develop new games as soon as possible. The next time Snow Mountain releases a new game, it will be a showdown between Nintendo and Snow Mountain!"

Yamauchi Pu still decided to snipe the new Xue Leshan game once. This kind of face-to-face competition, the drama released at the same time, is the mainstream drama in the era of red and white machines. No matter how domineering Liga is, it's impossible to stop Nintendo from releasing new games at the same time as Xue Leshan, right? !

   The same annoyed as Yamauchi, but not only one, the president of CUC International, Silverman, was also not much better.

How high the sales volume of Diablo has been since its release, how sad the life of Silverman has been. Before, when CUC International sold Snow Leshan and Blizzard to ICQ for a sky-high price of 400 million US dollars, Wall Street was all over the place. In complimenting Silverman's investment vision, the "junk goods" that were bought back by more than 100 million dollars in those years actually sold for 400 million dollars!

At that time, both CUC International and Silverman were highly touted, and the stock price of CUC International was soaring, but who could have imagined that it was not even a year old. The sweet pastry.

The "Diablo" developed by Blizzard sold a terrifying sales volume of 4 million sets in a single month, breaking many records in the history of American games. It was even given a target of 15 million sets by Wall Street analysts. To be able to achieve this level, it means that ICQ can earn nearly 900 million dollars for this game. Compared with the 400 million dollars spent when buying Blizzard, this can no longer be said to be profitable. It's money grabbing from CUC International!

The higher the sales of "Diablo", the more accusation Silverman will be. He thinks that he was blind and let go of Xue Leshan and Blizzard. Blizzard's "Diablo" was almost completed at that time. If Warman gives some more funding, maybe it will be released. Snow Mountain has launched a platform with millions of users such as Snow Mountain Online. Why didn't Silverman think of this? !

These accusations made Silverman, who was still proud when he sold Xue Leshan and Blizzard, be speechless, and 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 even Some Wall Street investors wondered if Silverman had collected black money and deliberately sold Blizzard and Snow Leshan at a low price!

   (end of this chapter)