"…" Shigeru Miyamoto was dumbfounded. He lowered his head and looked at the check. Yes, it was a one billion yen cash check. Tajiri brought the money and did not owe Nintendo a single cent.
This made all of Shigeru Miyamoto's preparations go wrong. All of his subsequent scripts were prepared according to Tajiri's inability to pay the one billion yen. Now that Tajiri brought the one billion yen, he could not act anymore.
There was no script!
"Wait, I need to go to the bathroom!" Shigeru Miyamoto said with a red face. Then, without waiting for Tajiri's response, he left with the one billion yen check.
Of course, Shigeru Miyamoto did not go to the bathroom. Instead, he turned around and entered the office of the chairman, Yamauchi Yamauchi, and helplessly placed the one billion yen check in front of the chairman.
"What is this?" Yamauchi Yamauchi was stunned.
"It's the recording fee from the Rocket Team!" Shigeru Miyamoto said with a bitter face, "Chairman, they have already brought the money. What should I do?"
According to the original plan, when Shigeru Miyamoto asked for the one billion yen recording fee, Tajiri would definitely ask for an extension of time.
Then, Shigeru Miyamoto would appear to be in a difficult position. First, he would constantly reiterate that there was no extension of time. Then, he would say that he would definitely plead with the chairman.
After that, Shigeru Miyamoto would propose another solution. That is, Tajiri would pledge the shares of the Rocket Team to Nintendo in exchange for a temporary sum of money to pay the one billion yen.
Or, he would directly sell the shares to Nintendo. Either way, he would use the one billion yen debt to force Tajiri to sell the shares in his hands.
However, what Shigeru Miyamoto and Yamauchi Yamauchi did not expect was that Tajiri would actually take out one billion yen. This meant that there was no way for them to continue with their original plan.
"This …" Even Yamauchi Yamauchi could not think of anything else when he saw this. The original plan was all scrapped.
More importantly, Tajiri himself would definitely not be able to take out one billion yen. That one billion yen must be from the capital behind the Rocket Team. This meant that the capital behind the Rocket Team was also interested in Pokemon. Even if they knew that there was a one billion yen fire pit waiting for them, this capital would still jump into it and use the money to pay off Tajiri's debt. This situation was not good.
"You wait here.. I will go and meet Tajiri myself!" Yamauchi sighed. He knew that all his previous plans were useless. He could only do it himself.
"Mr. Yamauchi!" Seeing Yamauchi personally appear, Satoshi Tajiri quickly stood up and bowed.
"Yes!" Pu Yamauchi nodded and looked at Masashi Tajiri. Then, he asked, "Mr. Tajiri, did your secretary not come this time?"
"They're here! Coming! "Tajiri nodded.
"Where is he?" Yamauchi asked.
"He went to the toilet. He'll be back soon!" Tajiri said quickly.
"Oh …" Yamauchi replied. After looking at Tajiri for a while, he asked, "Tajiri, is that secretary really your secretary?"
"Chairman, you can tell? How do you know that he's not my secretary? "Tajiri was shocked and asked subconsciously.
"You're a talent, but you're only a talent in game research!" Yamauchi snorted coldly. "But your secretary is as cunning as I was when I was young. He's a despicable person!"
"Uh …" Hearing Yamauchi's comment, Tajiri didn't know whether to laugh or cry. She had long realized that the secretary behind her was the real boss.
"Who's his real identity? Which financial group is behind him? "Yamauchi frowned and asked.
"This …" Tajiri's voice was stuck in his throat.
"Mr. Yamauchi, it's not the right time for a samurai to ask about someone else's background!" A clear voice said. Secretary Jia walked in from the door.
When Tajiri saw Jia Yapeng, he felt relieved and instinctively stood behind Jia Yapeng.
Now that Jia Yapeng's identity had been exposed, everything would be handed over to Boss Jia. Tajiri only needed to be a helpless spectator.
"Oh, I don't know. Should I call you Secretary, CEO, or President?" Yamauchi asked coldly.
"My surname is Jia Yapeng. President Yamauchi, you can call me whatever you want!" Jia Yapeng said with a smile.
"Jia?" Yamauchi narrowed his eyes. There weren't many people with the surname Jia in Fusang, let alone a financial group with the surname Jia.
In fact, Yamauchi wasn't sure if there was anyone with the surname Jia in the country. From the surname, it seemed more like a Hua Xia surname.
"Mr. Jia, you're not a Fusang?" Yamauchi asked.
"I'm from Hua Xia!" Jia Yapeng replied with a smile.
"Huaxia people!" Yamauchi didn't believe it when he heard the news. Yamauchi had been to Hua Xia once before. He wanted to explore the Hua Xia gaming market, but he found out that Hua Xia was a gaming desert. Due to various reasons, the people there couldn't enter the gaming market.
Yamauchi even thought that in the next few hundred years, Hua Xia people would be honest farmers or workers. They would never have the opportunity to play games.
Therefore, Yamauchi directly gave up on the gaming market in Hua Xia. He didn't think that Hua Xia people would be interested in the gaming industry. In fact, he didn't even put Hua Xia people in his eyes.
He didn't expect that the person in front of him was actually a Hua Xia person. This was very strange.
Could it be that this Hua Xia person was just a cover? Or his identity as a Hua Xia person was just a cover?
But there was no doubt that there was a large consortium behind Jia Yapeng, and it was either from the mainland or the West. There was no doubt about it.
Because Hua Xia people couldn't take out 1 billion Yen, Yamauchi was very sure of this. That place was so poor that even birds wouldn't shit there. It was also a place where private tycoons and entrepreneurs were not allowed to exist. The capital behind Jia Yapeng couldn't be Hua Xia's capital.
He was just a cover. This Jia Yapeng was most likely a Hua Xia person. He was no longer a citizen of Hua Xia.
Yamauchi thought of a lot of things for a while.
But no matter what, after Jia Yapeng exposed his identity, all the coercion and bribery methods were useless. The next step was to carry out business negotiations and cooperation.
"Jia Jun, I believe you have seen that the quality of Pokemon isn't as good as we expected. The sales figures aren't optimistic. Jia Jun, what do you think?" Yamauchi asked.
"I think that if the chairman is willing to give us a chance, give us some color pages in the magazine, and put them on the bookstore counter, I think the sales will be much better!" Jia Yapeng laughed.
"Oh, so you think that I'm deliberately suppressing you?" Yamauchi said coldly.
"That's right, that's what I think!" Jia Yapeng laughed.
"You …" Yamauchi was so angry that his eyes almost popped out. No one had ever dared to talk to him like this.
"Chairman Yamauchi, don't be angry with me. In fact, we didn't do anything. From the beginning to the end, you were the one who made things difficult for us. Please give us a way out!" Boss Jia said with a bitter smile.
"I didn't make things difficult for anyone. There are a lot of games like you that didn't get any extra resources. Your company is a new company, and the game is also a new game. We don't have any problems!" Yamauchi said calmly. "But Mr. Jia, we are both smart people. I also think highly of you, so I won't beat around the bush with you!"
"If Pokemon isn't helped by more power, it won't be able to sell!"
"I personally feel that it's a pity for this game. I think that if both of us work together to maintain this game, it will have a chance to come back from the dead!"
"We, Nintendo, are willing to provide a sum of money to invest in Team Rocket. I hope that Mr. Jia can cooperate with us. If we work together, there might be a chance!"
"Oh, how much is Nintendo willing to pay?" Jia Yapeng asked with a smile.
"Just this one billion!" Yamauchi threw the one billion check he just received to Jia Yapeng. "I want to buy 51% of Team Rocket's shares!"
"51% of Team Rocket's shares, one billion!" Tajiri gasped. "He sold all his shares for 50 million. Now 51% of Team Rocket's shares is worth one billion Yen?"
"That one billion is still my check!" Boss Jia sighed. "Chairman Yamauchi is using my money to buy 51% of my shares. This is a good deal!"
"Yes, this is a good deal!" Yamauchi nodded.
"Mr. Yamauchi, for this game, Nintendo can already take 70% of the sales. Can you leave the remaining 30% to us poor people?" Boss Jia said pitifully.
"With Nintendo's support and marketing, the sales of Pokemon can increase by a hundred times, or even a thousand times. But we only need to take half of the profits. You won't lose anything! "Yamauchi said calmly.
"That might be the truth!" Boss Jia nodded and said, "But I have a special characteristic. If I don't give it a try, I won't be satisfied. Maybe I'm not at the end of my rope yet. Maybe I can still sell that one million game cartridge. "
"I'm sorry to inform you that according to the contract we signed, if a game can't sell more than 5,000 copies in a month, Nintendo has the right to take the game off the shelves at any time and not sell it through any channels!"
"There's such a rule?" Boss Jia was shocked.
"Chairman, there is indeed such a rule!" Tajiri whispered into Boss Jia's ear.
The situation was basically over. According to the contract signed by Nintendo, all game cartridges can only be sold through Nintendo's approved channels. At the same time, Nintendo doesn't allow third-party manufacturers to sell any cartridges.
In other words, if Nintendo decides to remove a game cartridge from the shelves, it means that the game cartridge can't be sold anymore.
If that's the case, all the pre-printed game cartridges and the initial research and development costs will all go down the drain and will be borne by the third-party manufacturers alone.
If Nintendo really took the game off the shelves, Pokemon would be dead for sure.
The situation seemed to have become a dead end.
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