"This old man is finally showing his true colors!" Hearing Yamauchi's last sentence, Boss Jia couldn't help but sneer. He thought that although Yamauchi was a tyrant, he was a tyrant who was just and honorable.
He didn't expect this tyrant to play dirty.
He believed that everyone could see that the quality wasn't up to standard and needed to be improved were all nonsense. Yamauchi was just trying to suppress Tajiri.
To put it bluntly, Yamauchi was envious of Pokemon. He saw the potential of the game and wanted to spend money to get Pokemon for himself.
Although Tajiri Satoshi wanted to release Pokemon on the Nintendo platform, the game still belonged to someone else. When the time came, the profits would be split with Tajiri Satoshi. It was better to have all the income from the game in one's hands.
"Mr. Jia …" Of course, Tajiri couldn't make a decision. He could only turn around and ask in a questioning tone.
"President, I think …" Jia Yapeng lowered his head and whispered a few words in Tajiri's ear. Tajiri nodded and said to Yamauchi, "President Yamauchi, we are very grateful for your company's help. However, this is the result of our hard work. We hope to improve it ourselves. If your company is not satisfied, we can make changes until you are satisfied! "
"You are the elder that I admire the most. You will definitely help us, the younger generation, right?" Tajiri looked at Yamauchi with admiration. This made Yamauchi feel helpless.
"This little fox!" Yamauchi muttered under his breath. Masashi Tajiri shut him up, leaving Yamauchi with no way to lose his temper. Yamauchi was the king of the gaming world. How could he lose his temper in front of a weak junior with such a good attitude?
At the same time, Yamauchi understood that Tajiri wasn't stupid. At least, the secretary behind him wasn't stupid. Yamauchi wanted to use Tajiri's youth and naivety to trick him into taking control of Pokemon, just like what Yamauchi did in his previous life.
In his previous life, Yamauchi only used 30 million Yen to get 49% of Tajiri's shares. It was a really good deal.
Now that he was blocked by the secretary, Yamauchi no longer wanted to use trickery and force. He also wouldn't use the GB platform to threaten Tajiri.
Although Yamauchi was the most powerful person in the gaming industry, there were still some bottom lines that couldn't be touched, such as third-party IP.
If Yamauchi took a fancy to any game IP, he would use the platform in his hands to snatch it away. Then, Nintendo would completely ignite the anger of all the third party game companies.
Yamauchi himself knew that these game companies were already filled with resentment towards Nintendo because of Yamauchi's tyrannical ways. If Yamauchi used this method to snatch a game from a third party game company, even if it was an unsold and untested game, it would bring a huge sense of crisis to the other third party game companies.
If things went wrong, it might explode.
Yamauchi had received some intel. He heard that Sony is secretly developing a console to enter his market. It will not be fun if all the third-party video game manufacturers are affected by this.
This was the bottom line of all the game companies. Even Yamauchi did not dare to cross this bottom line.
If Tajiri agreed to Yamauchi's demands, the other game companies would have nothing to say. But if Yamauchi used trickery to snatch the game company's shares, it would be a huge crisis.
Yamauchi knew what was important and what was not.
"Fine. Since all of you said so, then I will not be a busybody. Although your game's rating is only 85 points, it still meets the standards and can pass the final review!" Yamauchi said calmly. "If all of you do not want to make any changes, then we can finalize it today. We will start recording it now and prepare to launch it next month!"
"Really?!" Tajiri was overjoyed. He jumped up and hugged Jia Yapeng like a child.
"Now, let's talk about the price!" Yamauchi coughed. "Mr. Tajiri, how much are you going to set?"
"We are going to release the Green and Red versions. Each version will be priced at 3,999 Yen!" Tajiri and Jia Yapeng had already discussed the price and quickly said. "As for the overseas versions, we think 39 USD per copy is more suitable."
"Ok!" Yamauchi nodded. He also had the same thoughts in his heart.
Nintendo's game cartridges were priced between 1,999 and 5,999 Yen or 19 USD to 59 USD. The price was based on the content of the game.
The content was not referring to the game's capacity. It was referring to the game's playtime and the content.
Generally speaking, ordinary players could play a full cycle of the game in a day, and the price would be below 2,999 yuan.
A game that can be played for 3 days would be priced at 3,999 Yen.
Three months was about the limit of a game's content. As for the 4,999 yen and 5,999 yen above that, it was due to the brand of the game's platform.
For example, if the game was called Mario, the original 3,999 Yen could be sold for 5,999 Yen.
Although Pokemon was a brand new game, it had no brand value. It was reasonable to say that the price was expensive. After all, Final Fantasy 5 only sold for 4,999 Yen.
However, Pokemon was very playable. Although the main storyline could be completed in a few hours as long as one was fast enough. The game's content could be played for a few hundred days. Therefore, the price of 3,999 Yen was reasonable.
After discussing the price, it was time to talk about the distribution of the profits.
Yamauchi looked at Jia Yapeng and said, "According to Nintendo's usual agreement, after deducting the cost, we will split the profits 50-50!"
Yamauchi said that and more than half of the profits were gone.
Nintendo was even more ruthless than Apple. Apple only asked for 30%, but Nintendo directly asked for 50%. You still had to be obedient. This was the advantage of a domineering platform.
Moreover, it was more than 50% of the profits. Normally, the cost of burning a game cartridge was about 800 Yen, but Nintendo directly asked for 1,000 Yen.
Although it was only 200 Yen, it was all Nintendo's own money. If the game manufacturer dared to ask for their own game cartridges, Nintendo would refuse to burn the cartridges on the grounds that they could not trust the quality of the third party's game cartridges and that it would damage the reputation of the platform.
In short, if they did not pay, they would not be able to sell the game.
"No problem!" The distribution rules were the same for all game companies. Therefore, Tajiri did not hesitate and agreed.
"Last question. How many cartridges do you plan to print in the first batch?" Yamauchi looked at Tajiri and Boss Jia and asked.
"This …" Tajiri was stunned. He did not discuss this with Boss Jia. Naturally, he did not know how many cartridges to burn this time.
"Then let's burn 50,000 in Fusang first. It's safer!" Yamauchi said. For a brand new game, 50,000 copies of the first batch of copies was not a low number.
"Okay …" Tajiri was about to agree, but Boss Jia quickly lowered his head and whispered a few words in his ear.
Takashi Tajiri's expression suddenly changed. He looked at Mr. Jia, and after making sure that he wasn't crazy, he braced himself and said, "Mr. Yamanouchi, we think that 50,000 pieces may be too little. Let's burn 1 million pieces for the first batch and increase it later. How about it?"
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