"I think this is stupid and unnecessary. Mr. Iwata Satoru is too naive!" A Financial Officer from Microsoft retorted.
"How am I presumptuous?" Iwata Satoshi retorted.
"Then I would like to ask Mr. Iwata Satoru, have you calculated how much we need to spend if we want to help these franchisees?" The finance department asked.
"This …" Iwata Satoshi stuttered.
"Since you don't know, then let me tell you!" The Financial Officer snorted. "We had conducted a survey of 100 franchisees and found out that each franchisee had paid an average of 1.72 million USD."
"Based on what Mr. Iwata Satoshi said, we will take away 80% of the Steam Games stores. That means there will be 21,000 franchisees. Based on the average 1.72 million USD per franchisee, we will need to pay 36.1 billion USD. All of this money will be given to Daqian Games. Aren't we giving our enemies a huge fortune?"
The Financial Officer's words sent chills down the spines of the executives who heard Iwata Satoshi will control the gaming industry.
36.1 billion USD is a scary amount. Only idiots will use this amount of money!
"You are wrong!" Iwata Satoshi stood up and said. "Everyone might think that spending 36.1 billion USD to give Daqian Games is an exaggeration. But if I say that we can use 36.1 billion USD to buy the entire Steam Games Store, will you still think it is an exaggeration? "
"…" The atmosphere changed again. Although Steam Games was not listed on the market, it had tens of billions of profits every year. According to the traditional P/E ratio of 10 in the US stock market, Steam Games was a large company with a market value of hundreds of billions of USD. It could instantly become one of the top 20 companies in the US stock market!
After all, Microsoft's market value had just exceeded 200 billion USD.
If they can use 36.1 billion USD to buy 100 billion shares, it will not be a loss!
"Also, we don't need to use 36.1 billion USD in cash!" Iwata Satoshi continued. "First, everyone is mistaken about one thing. We are not using 36.1 billion USD for these franchisees. We are lending them the money!"
"We can make an agreement with these franchisees. If they want our help, they'll have to pay all kinds of compensation fees. We won't be able to help them in full. At most, we can help them pay 70% of the compensation. The remaining 30% will have to be paid by them. This way, we'll have to pay 25 billion from 36.1 billion!"
"The remaining amount we will pay them is equivalent to the plan we gave them. They will use their franchises as collateral. Although we will not ask them for the money directly, we will take half of the profits from the movie stores to repay them until all the loans are repaid! "
"According to my calculations, if everything goes well, it will only take about five years to recover the 25 billion USD. Moreover, we can also collect a small amount of interest. The 25 billion USD will become 28 billion USD. This is much better than depositing the money in the bank."
"When that time comes, we'll be able to obtain the entire gaming market without spending a single cent. Isn't this something that even a fool can figure out?" Iwata Satoru finished his sentence and everyone fell into deep thought.
This is a good plan!
Although they will have to pay a large amount of cash, they can get back the cash and still get the entire gaming market. This is not a loss at all. In fact, it will be a huge profit!
"They are indeed cunning Fusangpeople. What a bad conscience!" When everyone thought of this, they started looking at Iwata Satoshi in a weird way.
On the other hand, Bill Gates went into deep thought. He kept thinking about the pros and cons of this plan and realized there is a loophole in Iwata Satoshi's plan.
All these plans must be built on the premise that the box games will defeat the steam game stores and take away the majority of the market.
If this can't be achieved, then I'm afraid that the 25 billion USD will still be a heavy loss!
Of course, if Iwata Satoshi's plan succeeds, Microsoft will enter the gaming market, and their share prices will increase by at least 100 billion USD. All these are tempting, and it is like a poisonous apple.
It was just that Bill Gates was in a dilemma as to what to choose.
"What do you think?" Bill Gates asked Tony, who is standing beside him.
As time passed, Bill Gates realized that Tony was indeed a good talent. He relied on him more and more!
"Chairman, didn't you make this decision when you dropped out of school?" Tony asked softly.
"Haha! You bastard!" Bill Gates laughed and said. "That's right. This is a risky plan, but I am willing to take the risk!"
"You are wise!" Iwata Satoshi looks at Feng Yu with admiration.
"Don't praise me yet. This is not only Microsoft's problem. It is also Nintendo's problem. Microsoft will not be the only one lending this sum of money to the box games. Nintendo must fork out the money too!" Bill Gates said coldly.
Nintendo really thinks Microsoft is a fool. They are lending money to the box games for free, and they don't need to do anything. They only need Microsoft to bear the risk.
"We, Microsoft, can lend you 1 billion USD!" Satoshi Iwata knew he must fork out the money and agreed.
"No. 1 billion USD is too little. Microsoft is lending 25 billion USD, and you are only lending 1 billion USD. Are you kidding me?" Bill Gates said coldly. "I also don't want you to split the money with us. You only need to fork out 10 billion USD, and we will take care of the remaining 15 billion USD! "
"Mr. Bill Gates, Nintendo does not have so much money!" Iwata Satoshi quickly said.
"Don't lie to me. Back then, Da Qian gave you one billion USD as ransom. Later on, there was also the money for the sale of Zelda. In addition, you entered the steam game store two years ago and developed many games. Your income has greatly increased. How can you not take out ten billion USD? Bill Gates is lying through his teeth. He knows Nintendo does not even have 5 billion USD or 3 billion USD, let alone 10 billion USD. After all, Nintendo had invested a lot of money into the console development.
"We only have 2 billion USD at most. This is all our funds!" Iwata Satoshi replied helplessly.
"If this is the case, then Microsoft can lend the remaining 23 billion USD. But 3 billion USD must be invested into the box games and get 30% shares."
"30% shares?!" Iwata Satoshi is shocked. If Iwata Satoshi gives this 30% to Microsoft, they will only be left with 21%, and the company will fall into Microsoft's hands.
"When the company was set up, we used 1 billion USD to get 49% shares. Now, we are only getting 30% for 3 billion USD. This is a huge concession!" Bill Gates said firmly. "I only have two choices. Either Nintendo uses 10 billion USD to develop the company, or accept 3 billion USD for 30% of the shares."
"If not, let's not talk about this anymore. If the company continues to operate normally, we will have a high chance of defeating the Daqian!" Bill Gates said.
"How can we still have a chance? When the Daqian reacts, we will have no chance …" Iwata Satoshi sighed. But he knows it is impossible for Microsoft to take out 20 billion USD without sufficient incentives.
Iwata Satoshi made up his mind when he thought about the opportunity to defeat the Daqian.
"Fine. But I have a condition. The company must be controlled by Nintendo!" Iwata Satoshi said.
"No problem. We don't know how to manage games anyway. This is something we've agreed on a long time ago!" Bill Gates agreed without hesitation. This cooperation was considered to be a success.
Steam gaming store!
Danger!!!
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