From the perspective of future generations, Minoru Arakawa's speech is very reliable and has foresight.
But the problem was that the franchisees of the steam game who attended the meeting had a bad feeling. They felt that this was Da Qian's fault. They felt that it was a foolish thing to do and that Da Qian couldn't bear to part with those few profits.
All in all, this QQ conference actually had a negative effect. Many franchisees expressed that they were very disappointed with Daqian Youfei.
Some of the franchisees even started to contact the box game directly, hoping to start a new cooperation or something.
When this news reached Microsoft, the entire Microsoft staff cheered. Tony immediately took the phone records of the franchisees to Bill Gates to report the good news.
"Chairman, this is great news. Our plan is very successful. There are already franchisees of steam game stores who want to join us!" Tony said excitedly.
"Really?!" Bill Gates was very excited when he heard this. He grabbed the phone records from the other party and looked through all the phone records. Sure enough, they were all asking about the franchise policies of the box game. Obviously, they wanted to change their allegiance.
After reading the phone records, Feng Yu realized that the percentage of profits given to the franchisees by the gaming box is the same as the steam gaming store. Both are 20% of the total sales.
That's why all the franchisees who called to inquire are satisfied. Some franchisees even reprimanded Da Qian and Minoru Arakawa over the phone. They said Minoru Arakawa had slandered Microsoft and will lower their share of profits from 20% to 10%. They are measuring the heart of a gentleman with their own yardstick.
"Very good!" After reading all the call records, Bill Gates nodded with satisfaction and said, "Daqian is indeed a company that came from a poor village. They understand that in business, sometimes giving up is for the sake of better progress!"
"The percentage of profits and profits they are holding on to will only help us!" Bill Gates snorted. "According to our plan, we will hold a press conference to announce our policies on the gaming box. We will let the franchisees from the steam gaming store know about our policies. If we can get all the franchisees from the steam gaming store to join us, then we will cut off the Daqian Group's biggest cash cow!" Bill Gates's face is red with excitement.
Because the Da Qian Group wasn't listed at all, outsiders didn't have a detailed understanding of the profit distribution of the Da Qian Group.
But the Daqian Group is very big now, and many large fund managers are researching the Daqian Group. After all, any action by the Daqian Group will cause a huge stir in the stock market.
According to these fund managers' research, most of the Daqian Group's businesses are not profitable, and some of them are even losing money.
Daqian has three profitable businesses, and the two biggest businesses are Daqian games and Daqian mobile phones. These are the Daqian's two fists, and the annual profits from each of them are more than 10 billion USD.
The third fists is Daqian Entertainment, and their annual profits are estimated to be around 2 to 3 billion USD. Although their profits are higher than most companies, they are nothing compared to the two fists.
If Microsoft wants to defeat the Daqian Group, they must break the Daqian Group's two fists.
The steam gaming store is the most powerful finger in the Daqian Group's fists. If Microsoft can break this finger, then the Daqian Group will be crippled.
At the same time, Microsoft can seize the opportunity to snatch the market and make huge profits from this market.
But the steam gaming store has monopolized the entire industry, and Microsoft must pay a high price to break this monopoly.
Microsoft is not interested in this at first. But because of the Hongmeng System incident, Microsoft, who hates the Daqian Group, decided to destroy the Daqian Group at all costs.
That's why Microsoft is willing to do this. After all, Microsoft had spent more than 1 billion USD to cover their losses in the past month.
Microsoft's plan is to attract the gaming store's customers, merchants, and game developers at the same time. All three parties must make profits, and their profits must be higher than the steam gaming store.
Then, Microsoft will have to bear all the costs incurred by Feng Yu.
First, Microsoft's products are being discounted. But when Microsoft negotiates with third-party game developers, it will be based on the original price, and Microsoft will pay for the discounts.
That's why Daqian Games' remaining few hundred million USD was used as subsidies in the blink of an eye.
But this is not enough. Microsoft borrowed 600 million USD from the company to invest in Daqian Games.
It can't be helped. At present, investors or banks all over the world don't have the guts to spend money to attract customers. After all, they want to challenge the steam game store's monopoly position. The chances of failure are extremely high.
Once they fail, all their investments will go down the drain.
Microsoft had no choice but to fork out the money themselves. The committee member had wanted to use this opportunity to get more shares of Daqian Games, but Nintendo refused. In the end, Nintendo used the company to borrow money from Daqian Games.
Microsoft will borrow a sum of money from Daqian Games and will return the money to Microsoft after the games are profitable. Nintendo must hold on to the company's shares, or else, they will lose control of the company.
Bill Gates had no choice but to agree to let Microsoft fork out the money.
Therefore, this era was really not a good one. It would be the best era 10 years later. Didi, Kuaidi, Meituan, Hungry, and all kinds of money burning wars, all kinds of discount coupons flying everywhere. You could eat a six-course meal for 3 RMB, and you could go from Xidan to the airport for 5 RMB. All these were the investors' real money, and each of them was happier than the other. Indeed, the era could not be compared to the past!
But the investment is meaningful. For example, the gaming companies, gamers, customers, and franchisees of steam games are all eager to make a move. Microsoft is treating them as their father, and they want to turn the industry around and defeat the steam game stores. This is an impossible goal, but it's now possible.
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