Did Lenovo know how to make games?
Under normal circumstances, they wouldn't do it.
Lenovo was in the computer and cell phone business, not online games.
They wouldn't go into other industries easily.
However, this also depended on whether the other industries were too tempting.
When a certain industry was more tempting than them, it would be a different matter.
Chen Yu had tempted Sina to make games.
Sina was in the business of web portals. They wouldn't make online games.
However, online games were so profitable. What reason did Sina have not to do it?
Moreover, online games were an internet business. It was similar to their web portal business.
It was the same for Lenovo.
Lenovo wasn't in the internet business, but it was in the IT business.
The internet belonged to the IT business.
Online games belonged to the internet.
Similarly, online games belonged to the IT business.
But then again, if Lenovo was a profitable company, he wouldn't have been tempted.
The reason why he was tempted was because he didn't make much money in this area.
Using Lenovo's financial report as an example.
Lenovo's total sales last year were about 110 billion yuan.
An annual sales of more than 100 billion yuan was equivalent to a giant.
Logically speaking, a giant like this should be very profitable.
However, from Lenovo's financial report last year, Lenovo's profit was only 1.7 billion yuan.
The profit was less than 2% of the total sales.
However, compared to Huanyu Technologies …
Alright.
How could this be compared?
Huanyu Technologies could easily beat Lenovo in terms of profits with any game.
However, Chen Yu couldn't go and fool Lenovo so obviously.
It would be too obvious. Yang Yuanqing wasn't stupid.
For this, Chen Yu came up with an extremely comprehensive plan.
First, Chen Yu sent Xie Zhang to Korea to acquire several gaming companies.
Because of Chen Yu, Korean online games didn't have the opportunity to be sold in China. Although a few games were popular, they were short-lived. Later on, they were completely suppressed by Huanding Technology. The local market in Korea was obviously too small, so they weren't doing well. As such, the market value of these gaming companies wasn't that high. Xie Zhang went over to talk to them and smoothly reached an agreement.
However, even though their market value wasn't high, they had produced a few decent games.
They don't have much of a market in Korea, but it's different in China.
After the acquisition was completed, Huanyu Technologies officially announced the recruitment of game agents.
Yes.
This time, Huanyu Technologies did not want to operate anymore. They wanted to officially become a landlord.
Once such a business was announced, all the major gaming companies in the country swarmed over.
The first one to call was Zhu Jun.
Nine Cities had gone downhill after the successful operation of Miracle. In addition, Zhu Jun had invested a lot of money in football and urgently needed a big game to continue its life.
Next was Shengda.
Shengda had started out as an agent, so he was very experienced in this field.
Of course, NetEase was also very interested.
Even though NetEase was very good at creating games, they were also considering going the agent route. After all, Huanyu Technologies was very good at creating games, but wasn't it also an agent? Moreover, they had taken a new route and were recruiting agents.
Some people here would ask why the local companies didn't directly act as agents for Korean games, but why did they have to get Chen Yu to act as agents?
There were four reasons.
First, there were companies that acted as agents from Korea before, but they realized that the results weren't good.
Second, some agents returned with good performances, but the competition in the domestic market was too fierce. For example, Huanyu Technologies was suppressed by them, and these games were almost done for.
The third reason was that he trusted Huanyu Technology's foresight. Ever since Huanyu Technologies entered the online gaming industry, they had never produced an online game that failed. Even their worst game had more than a million players online at the same time. In addition, Huanyu Technologies' predecessor was a gaming portal, so they had a better understanding of online games.
These games that were acquired by Huanyu Technologies were a reflection of Huanyu Technologies' foresight.
Those that were picked by Huanyu Technologies were at least more confident than going to Korea to act as agents for an unknown game.
Of course, the most important reason was that most agents were more optimistic about Huanyu Technologies' influence.
Whether it was their market or their experience, they would be of great help to these companies.
At the very least, if they were to act as agents from Huanyu Technologies, they wouldn't be suppressed by Huanyu Technologies.
However, even so, Chen Yu wasn't interested in companies like Nine Cities, Shengda, and NetEase.
They were the big shots in the gaming industry, so it wouldn't be a problem to act as agents for them.
However, the problem was that Chen Yu wasn't looking for agents like them.
Chen Yu was looking for partners like Lenovo who could give him OEM orders.
However, he didn't know if Chen Yu was too imaginative, or if these companies couldn't keep up with Chen Yu's pace.
Ever since the agency plan was announced, these companies didn't contact Chen Yu at all.
Many of them took the initiative to contact him.
Other than Shengda and NetEase, there were also Sohu, Jiuyou, Baidu, and so on.
Other than these internet companies, a few software companies were also interested.
For example, Tidal, Youyou software, and so on.
However, other than Tidal, these companies weren't involved in electronic manufacturing, so Chen Yu had a headache.
F * * k.
Why didn't these guys who were in the computer and electronics industry think about the internet and games?
On the other hand, a large number of internet companies went into electronics and other industries.
No wonder the internet companies in the future were getting better and better, while the electronics companies were getting worse and worse.
However, it was normal.
Most internet companies were more advanced in their thinking and were more receptive to new things.
On the other hand, electronics manufacturing companies were more traditional and didn't cross over easily.
However, although they were a little conflicted, with such a huge temptation, some companies were finally moved.
For example, Qinghua Tongfang.
Qinghua Tongfang was a high-tech company controlled by Qinghua University.
Their business scope was very wide. They had new energy businesses, biomedicine, and information technology.
Among these businesses, Qinghua Tongfang's information technology was the most famous.
Their flagship product was Qinghua Tongfang's computer.
Although Qinghua Tongfang's computer didn't have much market share in the future, in the early domestic market, although it couldn't be compared to Lenovo, Qinghua Tongfang's computer brand had a certain reputation in the country.
Of course, this company came to Huanyu Technologies just to try their luck.
They didn't think that they could get the agency.
After all, before them, hundreds of internet companies had already gone to Huanyu Technologies.
Moreover, there were a few well-known online gaming giants among them.
They had the experience and strength to back it up.
Although Qinghua Tongfang was capable, they didn't have experience in online games. However, online games were really too profitable, but they didn't need much technology to operate. You only needed a server, and then you could act as an agent. An ordinary undergraduate student could do such a business.
In fact, they didn't even need an undergraduate student.
Just the agency technology alone was enough for a junior high school student.
For example, who knew how many junior high school students had set up a private server for a series of games.
Although a private server was a private server, there wasn't much difference between operating a private server and acting as an agent for online games.
However …
What they didn't expect was that Huanyu Technologies actually signed an official agency agreement with them. They didn't have much hope.
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