Chapter 1809 PSP
"We have no plan to acquire Nintendo!" Ken Ryogi knows Iwada Satoshi very well and knows Nintendo very well, so he made Iwada Satoshi's expression look much better as soon as he opened his mouth.
In fact, Ken Ryogi really has no plans to acquire Nintendo.
Because if you acquire Nintendo, it will cost at least $30 billion. Although Sony has money, it is not interested in spending 30 billion to buy a company that is destined to decline.
"What do you mean?" Iwada Satoshi asked with his eyes narrowed.
"Then I'll just say that the purpose of my visit this time is to work with Nintendo to develop a product!" Kento Ryogi said.
"What product?" Iwada Satoshi asked subconsciously.
"PSP!" Ken Ryogi said with a smile.
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"Chairman, Sony's PS2 sales are very strong. The sales of PS2 games have already occupied one-third of the market share of the Steam Game Store!" In the Daqian Games office, Mi Arakawa reported to Boss Jia.
"Is that?" Boss Jia's expression was unquestionable, and Arakawa continued, "Chairman, the entire game industry can be said to be a shared equality between PC games, console games, and handheld games!"
"But with the launch of PS2 this year, Nintendo's N64 consoles are becoming increasingly difficult to cope with. If the entire console game market is occupied by Sony in the future, it will become very difficult for us to achieve our layout!" said Miya Arakawa.
Sony launched a brand new PS2 game console in early 2000, around February.
This game console has greatly improved its image quality and gameplay. Once it was sold, it was almost sold out. Even in November, 9 months have passed, and the spot stock of PS2 is still not available on the market. Even if players purchase goods through the Steam Game Store, they still have to wait for a pre-order cycle of at least 3 months.
It is precisely because of this that the PS2 console has almost killed Nintendo's N64, and its revenue in 2000 will exceed at least US$12 billion, making countless gamers drool.
It can be said that if Steam Game Store was the most popular and lively product and war on the surface in 2000, then PS2 would have been hiding in the dark and making a fortune.
At the beginning, Sony's games were cooperated with the Steam Game Platform. Their game consoles, games, and steam game platforms could be sold directly. With the agreement between Sony and Daqian, one was in charge of the host and the other was in charge of the handheld console, and the two parties jointly divided the market equally. So Sony's PS2 developed very smoothly from the beginning, and Daqian did not cause trouble for him.
However, with the emergence of the Box Game Store, Sony was the first to take all the game consoles and games to switch to Box Games.
The most fatal thing is that when Steam Games was the most miserable, with only more than 2,000 franchisees left, Sony Games completely turned to Box Games, and then withdrew all its game consoles and games from the Steam Games store, and reached a comprehensive cooperative relationship with Box Games.
Of course, the reason why Sony has so resolutely cut off its relationship with Steam Games is of course because Microsoft has given a big price.
Microsoft first moved all of its only classic games, such as the Age of Empires, to the PS platform, and secondly, it contributed almost all the resources of Box Games at that time to promote PS2. Bill Gates himself appeared on Sony's E3 booth to stand up for Sony.
Of course, the most important thing is that the 20% off sales subsidy for Box Games at that time also took effect for Sony's PS2.
In other words, PS2 was sold at 20% off in just two or three months after it was launched, while Sony itself did not lose a penny, and all the subsidies were paid by Microsoft.
The direct result of this subsidy is that Sony's PS2 has a big hit. It sold 12 million units in a month, making Sony's profits full of fuel. Microsoft's subsidy of tens of billions of dollars is consumed so quickly, which is naturally very related to subsidy of PS2.
Otherwise, Sony would not have cut off its relationship with Steam Games.
But when Box Games showed signs of bankruptcy, Sony once again contacted Steam Games and began to prepare and plan for the re-listing of Steam Games on Steam Games.
Because considering that the Steam Game Store cannot have a console game platform, Boss Jia also pinched his nose and accepted it.
Later, when the box game was finished, Sony jumped out immediately and returned to the camp of Steam Games. Then, taking advantage of the dividends of the Internet era, he reaped another wave of fuel and money on online sales and sold more than 2 million units.
This gave birth to the amazing performance of PS2 sold 21 million units in 9 months, allowing PS2 to almost dominate the entire console market with the attitude of a king.
This made Boss Jia very envious afterwards. Sony's repeated jumping operation was too slutty, and even Boss Jia was not as slutty as anyone else.
However, it is precisely because of Sony's repeated jumps that the internal dissatisfaction with Sony in Daqian Games. At the same time, after defeating Box Games, it also gained the dominance of the two major markets of the handheld and PC markets. Then Daqian naturally fell in love with the last market, that is, the console game market.
If the console game market is also taken down, then Daqian Games will really spread across the entire game industry, almost equivalent to passing the game for a week.
"So, Chairman, I suggest that we should make corresponding preparations and never let Sony continue to be rampant like this, otherwise Sony will betray us sooner or later!" Arakawa Mi said to Boss Jia.
In fact, Arakawa is the one who hates the most. After all, Arakawa was also a Nintendo person at the time, and was born to be incompatible with Sony.
Secondly, Sony's PS defeated Arakawa Miya in the Kitami market. Later, Yuki Yamauchi became more inclined to Iwada Satoshi, which was also related to this. Arakawa Miya dreamed that she wanted to defeat Sony.
Now Arakawa Mi has finally targeted the opportunity, and of course he has to start a big killing.
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"This is our best opportunity. Daqian never expected that we, who have been immersed in the great success of PS2, will directly launch PSP to compete with them for the handheld market!" Dakuo Ryogi Ken's face was uncontrollable. "Iwata Jun, the reason why Nintendo fell to this point is actually Daqian's fault. Daqian's ban on you. After all, Sony can not get involved in the handheld market and destroy your GB!"
Chapter completed!