Chapter 1651
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"Chairman, we must kick Daqian Games out. They had cheated us of more than 1 billion USD of subsidies!" Many of the executives shouted in the meeting room.
When the results of Da Qian Games joining the gaming box store were announced, the entire Microsoft staff was in awe.
Anyone who saw their biggest competitor cheated them of more than 1 billion USD of subsidies will be furious.
Actually, Daqian Games cannot be blamed for this. It's those gamers' fault. They saw this rare opportunity to sell Daqian Games' products at a 20% discount, especially the new Pokemon game, which is also at a 20% discount. That's why the sales went crazy!
Also, Daqian Games' stocks are sufficient. This time, more than 30 million copies of "Pokemon Black & White" were sold, and there is no shortage of stocks. The poor Daqian Games store did not react in time and gave Daqian Games 1 billion USD of subsidies.
Who can they seek justice from?!
"Mr. Iwata, what do you think?" Bill Gates asked as he massaged his temples.
Daqian Games' President is still Iwata Satoru, and he must make the decision!
"I agree with my colleagues. Daqian Games must be eliminated. Not only do we need to eliminate the steam gaming store, but we also need to eliminate the entire Daqian Games!" Iwata Satoru said angrily. "Now, the steam gaming store is almost dead. If we cut off all sales channels for Daqian Games, then Daqian Games will lose their sales channels!"
"Actually, I did not agree to let Daqian Games join Daqian Games. But it's not too late to make amends now!" Iwata Satoru said angrily.
Bill Gates had guessed Iwata Satoru's attitude, and Bill Gates knows this. But Microsoft's share prices are unstable, and they need to announce Daqian Games' admission of defeat to stabilize the share prices. This will allow Bill Gates's foundation to sell more USD secretly.
Now, Bill Gates had sold his 10% Microsoft shares, and the situation had stabilized. Daqian Games store does not need Daqian Games' good news.
So, the decision to kick Daqian Games out was made. But this is not the main purpose of this meeting. The most important purpose is to review Daqian Games store's financial report for the first month.
Bill Gates and Iwata Satoru do not need to attend this meeting with the higher-ups. But Iwata Satoru found a problem in this report, and he cannot handle it alone. He can only ask Bill Gates to make the decision together with him.
"What? Our store only sold 90 million copies of all the games in the first month of the year? How is that possible? All the franchised stores were filled to the brim. According to our estimates, the total sales for the entire month was at least 300 million!!" When Bill Gates saw the sales figures submitted by Satoru Iwata, his expression changed drastically. These figures were seriously inconsistent with the estimates made by his people. Could it be that Nintendo had taken his money when they were running the company?
Iwata Satoru saw Bill Gates's furious expression and immediately said. "All the company's accounts are clear. We did not do anything!"
"Then why is the actual figures so different?" Bill Gates asked.
"Because these franchises did not sell our game discs!" Iwata Satoru smiled bitterly.
"What do you mean?" Bill Gates was stunned. Iwata Satoru began to explain in detail, and Bill Gates finally understood the ins and outs of the matter.
In fact, the key lies in the rapid expansion of the box game store. Previously, the franchises of the steam game store had forcefully terminated their contract with the steam game store. This caused the steam game store to not take back their inventory, and a large number of franchises had accumulated at least 10,000 copies of various games in their inventory.
Then, in order to attract these franchises, the box game store forced themselves to lend these franchises money to help them pay off their debts.
However, Bill Gates neglected one thing. Although the accounts were settled with the steam game store, the inventory was still in the hands of the franchises.
These game discs were real inventory, and they were exchanged with real money. How could these franchises just leave them in their inventory?
Therefore, after joining the box game store, these franchises immediately put the inventory of the steam game store on the shelves and sold it to the players at the box game store's discount.
Although these franchises could not enjoy the box game store's discount, they still managed to recoup a lot of their losses.
Under the temptation of the discount, these franchises sold out all their game discs except for those games that they could not sell. These franchises managed to recoup their losses.
But the problem is that these sold game discs have nothing to do with the box game store, and it will not be recorded in the box game store's sales figures. This caused the box game store's sales figures to be terrible for a month. It was as if there were no discounts at all.
What's worse is that some franchises even secretly included the steam game store's inventory in the box game store's discount and gave subsidies to the box game store.
As the box game store had just been established, the franchises do not know much about the industry and do not understand the tricks of the franchises. In the end, the franchises did not discover anything and directly gave out the subsidies.
This is equivalent to Microsoft giving subsidies and helping the steam game store to sell their products. This disgusts Bill Gates.
In any case, the final statistics showed that after nearly two months, not only did the store not make any money, but it also lost a total of nearly 4 billion USD … This was not including the loans to the franchisees. It was just the various operating costs and subsidies that were lost.
Now, there was a very important problem that Bill Gates was facing, and that was how to deal with these franchisees.
Almost all the franchises did this, and Bill Gates cannot punish them severely. If he does, the franchises will collapse.
He can only give them a warning.
"As for those franchises who sold their inventory, they must follow the agreement and give us 10% of their sales. At the same time, they must return the loans to us. Anyway, they had sold out their inventory, and they can use it to repay us. Those who sold their inventory and cheated us of our subsidies will be kicked out. They are scum! "Bill Gates made a decision.
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