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"This old guy finally saw the dagger!" Hearing the last words from Yamauchi Hiroshi, Boss Jia couldn't help but sneer at the corner of his mouth. He thought that although Yamauchi Hiroshi was a tyrant, he was an open tyrant.
I didn't expect this tyrant to be even more foolish.
I believe everyone has already seen that all the quality is unqualified and what needs improvement is nonsense. It is just the statement that Yamauchi Hiroshi deliberately suppressed Tomota Tajiri.
To make it clear, Yamauchi Hiroshi was envious of Pokemon, and saw the potential of this game, and wanted to spend money to get Pokemon into his own hands.
Although Tajiri Tomo now actively wants to release Pokemon on the Nintendo platform, this game is ultimately someone else's after all, and the profits will be shared with Tajiri Tomo. How can you directly capture all the game's income in your own hands and feel more comfortable.
"Mr. Jia..." Tajiri Tomoya of course couldn't make a decision, so he could only turn around and ask in an inquiring tone.
"President, I think..." Jia Yapeng lowered his head and said a few words in Tajiri Tomoto's ear. Tajiri Tomoto nodded, and then said to Hiroshi Yamauchi, "President Yamauchi, I am very grateful for your company's help to us, but this is the hard work of our group of people. We hope to improve them ourselves. If your company feels dissatisfied, we can change it until we are satisfied!"
"You are the elder I admire the most. You will definitely help us younger generations, right?" Tajiri Tomoto looked at Yamauchi Hiroshi with admiration, which made Yamauchi Hiroshi helpless.
"This little fox!" Yamauchi Hiro muttered, and Tomoki Tajiri blocked his words, making Yamauchi Hiroki no way to lose his temper. Yamauchi Hiroki is the king of the game industry after all. How could he lose his temper with a weak junior with such a good attitude?
At the same time, Hiroshi Yamauchi also understood that this Tomoto Tajiri is not stupid, and at least the secretary who follows Tajiri is not stupid. Originally, Hiroshi Yamauchi wanted to use Tajiri's young and simple weakness to fool him and fool the Pokemon's control into his hands, just like Hiroshi Yamauchi did in his previous life.
In his previous life, Yuuchi Yamauchi only used 30 million yen to acquire 49% of the shares of Tajiri Tomori Company, which is really a very cost-effective transaction.
Now that he was blocked by that secretary, Yuuka Yamauchi no longer wanted to take advantage of the tricks, and would not use the GB platform to threaten Tomota Tajiri.
Although Hiroshi Yamauchi is a master in the game industry, there are some bottom lines that cannot be touched, such as those third-party IPs of the game.
If Hiroshi Yamauchi takes a fancy to any game IP, he will use the platform in his hand to get it over, and Nintendo will completely ignite the anger of all third-party game companies.
Hiroshi Yamauchi himself also knew that these game companies had long been full of resentment towards Nintendo because of Hiroshi Yamauchi's tyrant style. If Hiroshi Yamauchi used this method to seize the game of a third-party game company, even if it was still an unsold game and had not been verified by the market, it would bring a huge sense of crisis to other third-party game companies.
Maybe it will explode.
Hiroshi Yamauchi has received some information. He heard that Sony and other damn guys are secretly developing hosts and want to enter their own market. If all third-party game manufacturers explode at that time, it will be no fun.
This is the bottom line of all game companies. Even Hiroshi Yamauchi, he dare not destroy this bottom line.
If Tajiri Tomoe agreed willingly, then other game manufacturers naturally have nothing to say, but if Hiroshi Yamauchi takes advantage of it, it will really trigger a huge crisis.
Yamauchi Hiro still can tell the difference.
"Forget it, since you said that, I won't meddle in other people's business. Although your game score is only 85, it still meets the review standards and can pass the final review!" Yamauchi said lightly, "If you don't want to modify it again, you can make a reservation today and start burning it immediately. It will be released next month!"
"Really!!" Tajiri Tomoe's face suddenly showed infinite joy, and he jumped up excitedly, and hugged Jia Yapeng behind him, as excited as a child.
"Then the next question is the selling price!" Yamauchi coughed, "I wonder how much Mr. Tajiri plans to set the price?"
"This, we plan to release two versions of green and red, each version is priced at 3,999 yen!" Tajiri Tomoya and Jia Yapeng had already discussed the price, so they said very quickly. "As for the overseas version, we think that 39 US dollars per copy is more appropriate."
"Yes!" Yuki Yamauchi nodded, and he thought so in his heart.
Nintendo's game card is priced, usually between 1999 yen and 5999 yen, or between 19 and 59 US dollars. The price varies depending on the content of the game.
This content does not refer to the game capacity, but the playable time of the game itself and the richness of the content.
Generally speaking, ordinary players can play a weekly game within a day, and the price will be below 2999 yen.
If you can play one week within three days, it will be 3999 yen.
Three months is almost the limit of a game content. As for the 4999 yen and 5999 yen above, it is supported by the brands on the game field.
For example, your game is called Mario, and it can be sold for 5999 at the original price of 3999.
Although the Pokemon game is a brand new game, it has no brand value. It is logically expensive. After all, Final Fantasy 5 is only sold for 4999.
However, Pokemon is extremely playable. Although the main plot can be finished in a few hours as long as it is fast enough, it can be finished in a few hours. However, the elements of monster cultivation included in it may be fine for hundreds of days to play, so the price of 3999 is reasonable.
After discussing pricing, the next issue is the share.
Hiroshi Yamauchi glanced at Jia Yapeng and said, "According to our consistent agreement with Nintendo, after deducting the burning fee, both of us will share the profit of 55%!"
As soon as Yuuchi Yamauchi spoke, most of the profits were gone.
Nintendo is even more cruel than Apple. Apple only wants you 30%, but Nintendo directly wants 50%. You have to be a grandson obediently. This is the advantage of the domineering platform.
And it has more than 50% profit. Generally, if you burn a cassette, the cost of the cassette is about 800 yen, while Nintendo will charge 1,000 yen directly.
Although it only earns 200 yen, all of these are Nintendo's own. If the game manufacturer dares to propose to burn it, then Nintendo will refuse to burn it on the grounds that it cannot believe in quality assurance and will damage the platform's reputation.
In short, if you don’t give this money, you won’t want to put it on sale.
"No problem!" All game companies are the same in these rules, so Tajiri Tomori agreed without any hesitation.
"So the last question, how many cassettes do you plan to print in the first batch?" Yamauchi asked with squinted eyes, looking at Tomoto Tajiri and Boss Jia.
"This..." Tajiri Tomoya was stunned. He and Boss Jia had never discussed this issue, so naturally they didn't know how many cassettes should be burned this time.
"Then let's burn 50,000 copies in Fusang first, be safer!" said Hiroshi Yamauchi. For a brand new game, the first batch of burning 50,000 copies is already a considerable number.
"Okay..." Tajiri Tomoya was about to agree, but Boss Jia quickly lowered his head and whispered a few times.
Chapter completed!