"…" Yamauchi was silent, and his face became more and more ugly.
The reason why Yamauchi's face became more and more ugly was not because of Jia Yapeng's arrogant attitude, but because Yamauchi actually had the idea of ordering another 10 million units himself.
This made Yamauchi feel extremely ashamed, but there was nothing he could do about it. Fusang's local factory had not been able to increase its production capacity. In three months, they had only produced less than 2 million n64s. On the other hand, the Daqian had produced 5 million n64s in less than three months, greatly alleviating the shortage of n64s.
Now, the number of n64s ordered had exceeded 8 million units, and this was because Nintendo dared not accept orders from distributors due to its limited production capacity. Otherwise, the number of n64s would have jumped to 15 million units.
If the great sage could really produce another 10 million n64s in the next three months, Yamauchi would be very tempted.
"Damn Jia Yapeng!" Yamauchi rubbed his temples, trying to calm himself down. Of course, he could not continue to order the 10 million units ordered by the Daqian. Otherwise, it would be a slap to his own face.
However, Yamauchi naturally did not hesitate to accept the 5 million n64s that the Daqian had already sent over. After all, if these 5 million n64s were not delivered, the distributors would probably tear Yamauchi apart alive.
Moreover, this was a signed contract, and Nintendo did things according to the contract. There was no shame in it. However, Yamauchi was not willing to be humiliated by Jia Yapeng. He had to make Jia Yapeng kneel in front of him, so he said to Satoru Iwata, "Go and tell Jia Yapeng to call me back within three days. Otherwise, Nintendo will not sell any Pokemon game cartridges, and will also prohibit all Pokemon games from running on any Nintendo platform!"
"Also, no Nintendo consoles and gaming devices are allowed to appear in any Daqian games in the future!" Yamauchi gritted his teeth and said.
This was Yamauchi's ultimate move. He believed that Jia Yapeng would not be able to bear such a loss and would definitely kneel in front of him.
The reason was simple. Half of the profits of the Daqian games came from Pokemon games. Pokemon games had already generated more than two billion USD of profits for the Daqian games. This was the absolute cash cow of the Daqian games. Jia Yapeng would not argue with him unless he was out of his mind.
After all, according to the contract signed between Nintendo and the Daqian, Pokemon could only be released on Nintendo's platform and could not be transferred to other platforms.
Once Nintendo banned the sale of Pokemon games, then the Daqian Group's biggest IP would be scrapped. They would not even be able to participate in Pokemon games, and three WCG games would be suspended. Yamauchi did not believe that Jia Yapeng would not give in under such conditions.
Of course, the threat was only limited to Pokemon games. Nintendo does not dare to threaten other games like Kartrider games. These games did not sign exclusive contracts with Nintendo. If Nintendo banned these games, the Daqian Group could switch to the PlayStation platform, and Sony would benefit.
He had to admit that Yamauchi's calculations were very accurate. If it was a normal company that specialized in games, they would have been scared out of their wits. After all, no one dared to kill themselves with their ace game.
"President, if we do this, we'll be completely falling out with Jia Yapeng. Jia Yapeng will hate us, hate Path, and will find a way to take revenge on us sooner or later!" Satoshi Iwata said, "Perhaps Jia Yapeng will give in now, but I'm sure he won't be satisfied. I'm afraid he'll immediately start developing a new Pokemon skin replacement game. Then, he'll enter the PS platform and transfer all the previous Pokemon players to this new game. Then, we'll completely lose our Pokemon!
"It's fine. No matter how he changes the skin of his game, he will not be able to bring the classic Pokemon characters into the new game. This is the contract's stipulation!"
"Also, if Jia Yapeng can create a new skin game, can't we create a game similar to Pokemon? As long as the gameplay is similar and the Pokemon characters are more cute, we will have the advantage of Nintendo's platform. Let's see who will be able to take away all the Pokemon players! "Yamauchi said confidently.
In fact, Yamauchi had long wanted to get his hands on Pokemon. It was a good time to fall out with Jia Yapeng.
So, Yamauchi asked Satoshi Iwata to issue an ultimatum. At the same time, he asked his studio to start developing a new Pokemon game.
Don't think that Nintendo is so cultured and that they value innovation. Back then, Nintendo's headquarters had invested a lot of money into Atari's games, which allowed Nintendo to develop to its current state.
Everyone said that Huaxia was a knockoff country, but they didn't know that Huaxia was actually the third generation knockoff country. Between the 50s and 70s of the 20th century, the world's number one knockoff country was Japan.
From the 1970s to the 1990s of the 20th century, the world's number one counterfeiting country had become South Korea. China was just following the path that South Korea had taken.
Yamauchi thought that his brilliant plan would bring peace to the world. Jia Yapeng would give in to him, and he had already secretly developed a replacement for Pokemon. When the time came, Pokemon would be abandoned by Nintendo. At that time, Jia Yapeng would be so angry that he would have a brain hemorrhage.
Unfortunately, Yamauchi's first brilliant plan failed. Although Satoshi Iwata had issued an ultimatum, the Daqian did not give in. Instead, the next day, they handed a document to Nintendo.
The document stated that all Daqian games under Nintendo would cease production and licensing. In other words, Nintendo would no longer be able to produce Daqian game cartridges for sale.
When the Daqian issued this document, it was equivalent to completely cutting off all ties with Nintendo. Of course, several popular Daqian games in Nintendo were affected.
Crazyracing Kartrider, Tomb Raider, Sword and Saber Divine Realm, Heroes of Might and Magic were all greatly affected. It was equivalent to cutting off Nintendo's source of income. After all, this was a huge sum of hundreds of millions of dollars per year!
After receiving the Daqian document, Yamauchi was so angry that he smashed everything in his office. Then, overnight, all Daqian games were removed from Nintendo's channels. No new Daqian games could be seen on any channel.
This huge change shocked all the people in the game industry. A few days ago, Da Qian Games was still in a good relationship with Nintendo. How did they suddenly break up with Nintendo overnight?
What exactly happened here?
Just when many people in the game industry were curious, Sony reacted quickly. They approached Daqian and expressed their willingness to cooperate with Daqian games. They wanted all Daqian games to be released on Sony's PlayStation as soon as possible.
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