The richest man starts with a blind box

Chapter 664 Sony Can't Sit Still
Boss Huang didn't know that at this time someone was already thinking about making himself someone else's son-in-law. We, Boss Huang, couldn't stand this kind of son-in-law routine.

In the next few days, Yu-Gi-Oh's Blind Box Huahuang Rewards will continue, attracting a large number of rare Yu-Gi-Oh players to join in the fun every day, and even many players from other counties and cities, after hearing that After such an interesting event here, they also ran over.

And the daily sales of Huahuang Rewards blind box has also increased from two copies on the first day to about 1 copies per day. As a result, it is in a full state every day, and it can be sold out in less than one morning.

However, Boss Huang no longer handles these matters personally, because now he is negotiating intensively with Sony.

It is said that the negotiations with Sony started on the third day after Boss Huang attended the NDS press conference, and this time the negotiations were completely invited by the Sony Group.

The reason, of course, is that Ken Kuragi, the head of the Sony Group’s entertainment department and also known as the father of PS, read the report written by Muto Games, and saw his vowed statement in the article that Blizzard Games will soon be comprehensive. Entered the Nintendo platform.

This really scared Kuragi Ken.

If in normal times, Blizzard is not something that can make Sony pay too much attention, but now Sony and Nintendo are fighting the most tragic time, especially in terms of handhelds. If PSP can win a big victory, then Nintendo will Being completely kicked out of its dominant position, the entire console market in the future will be dominated by Sony.

Therefore, this battle must not be lost, and any factors that may lead to failure must be strangled in advance.

So Kuragi Ken immediately sent an invitation to Boss Huang, inviting him to visit Sony, and then talking about some things in an instant.

So Boss Huang, accompanied by many relevant people, visited the whole Sony all morning. After fully understanding the glorious history of Sony, at the lunch meeting at noon, Kukaragi Kencai said with great emotion, "Congratulations to Huang He Mister and Nintendo have reached a cooperation, and we will be competitors in the future!"

"It's finally here!" Boss Huang smiled slightly, and then said, "No way, we haven't reached this point yet, who is a friend and who is an opponent, it is still unknown!"

"Search!" Ken Kuragi said with a smile on his face, "So, the rumor on the market is false!"

"I don't know what the rumor is, but I did have a good meeting with President Iwata two days ago, the two sides also reached a cooperation, and I did say a word to the reporter, and I said everything was true! "Huang He laughed.

"So that's how it is!" Ken Kuragi nodded, and after pondering for a while, said, "Since that's the case, then I won't go around in circles with Mr. Huang anymore. Our PS platform sincerely invites Blizzard Games and all its game master projects, Then check into our ps console game platform!"

"I promise to give your company's games the strongest treatment, including arranging free professionals to help Blizzard games with host-based program modification, and an 80% share of accounts after logging into the platform in the future."

"You get 80%, we get 20%," Ken Kuragi said in a deep voice.

This condition is indeed quite good, because the ps platform itself is the bottom line of 37 points, and now it can give 28 points, which is quite good.

"Not enough!" As a result, Boss Huang said very simply, "In fact, someone has already offered me such a condition, but I just rejected it. Hosting is actually a very dangerous thing, and it may lead to the collapse of a game's reputation. .”

"Moreover, the main power of Blizzard games is on the PC side. Even if Sony's power is used to host the host, the cooperation between the two forces may produce more bugs. For the future of Blizzard games, this I have to think carefully and make a decision!" Boss Huang said.

"Mr. Huang, as I said, let's not go around in circles. If you have any request, just say it. It's easy to talk about it!" Kakuragi Ken said very sincerely.

"That's good!" Boss Huang nodded, "Since that's the case, let me just say it straight, I want the IP authorization of all cultural products under Sony, including games, music, and movies. All these cultural products, Jiangnan All companies under the group can use it for free, that's my condition!"

"Wow!" There was a sudden commotion at the scene, except for a few employees brought by Boss Huang, all the Sony staff at the scene became agitated.

Some staff even stood up and glared at our boss Huang. This condition was obviously unacceptable to them.

"Mr. Huang, we cannot accept your conditions. Do you know how many cultural products and IPs our Sony Group currently owns?" Ken Kuragi said, suppressing his anger.

Compared with Nintendo, Sony is a more terrifying king in terms of copyright.

So purely in terms of game IP, Nintendo is definitely stronger than Sony.

But Sony is not just about games. Sony has a huge cultural industry, the most famous of which are Sony Music and Sony Pictures.

Among them, Sony Music has signed more than 400 singers from different countries around the world, including Jay Chou, Michael Jackson, Britney Spears, etc. You can tell how popular singers are all over the world just by their names.

And their music is naturally all in the hands of Sony. This is a huge music library with a total of more than 50 hands. Even if only 1% of their works have been circulated, it is extremely terrifying.

Not to mention that at this time Sony Movies still has Godzilla, Black Hawk Down, American Sweethearts, Men in Black, Spider-Man, Resident Evil, Terminator and other famous movies.

The film library of these films together has thousands of titles.

Just because of the franchise of a Blizzard game, it is necessary to license such a huge IP resource to Jiangnan Group for free. Unless all the directors of Sony Group's board of directors are hit by a car, otherwise it is absolutely impossible to agree to such a condition.

"Everyone, please don't get excited. Of course I know that such a condition is not enough, so I have a new condition here!" Boss Huang paused, and then said, "I called yesterday to ask about it. In the first half of 2004, Sony Group imported a total of 2 million storage chips from Jiangnan Optoelectronics, and the total purchase contract reached 200 million US dollars, right?"

"...I don't know the exact number." Takeru Nakagi, stunned for a moment, then said.

Kuragi Ken really doesn't know, because he is the head of the game department, at most he knows how many Jiangnan memory chips are used in the game console, as for how many the whole company uses, he doesn't know.

"It's okay if I don't know. You can ask your board of directors later, and you will know what I said is true!" Huang He said, everyone nodded involuntarily, and basically believed Boss Huang's words.

After all, there is nothing to fake this kind of thing. Go back and ask the head office to check the information and you can figure it out. If you fake it here, you can only show yourself extremely stupid.

"1 million chips, 100 million US dollars, this figure is quite a lot. Then if I cut off all the 3 million US dollars, I will give Sony Group a 2% discount, and Sony will buy these 4 million chips later. , if you only need to spend 1 million U.S. dollars, can this business be negotiated?"

"You mean, you want to use the discount on the purchase of memory chips in exchange for Sony Group's authorization of IP?" Takeru Kuragi said in a deep voice, and he quickly understood what Huang He meant.

And if US$2 million is used to purchase these IP licenses, it doesn't sound so unacceptable.

Especially after Boss Huang explained in detail his own requirements for IP authorization, and guaranteed that this authorization will not spread, nor will it be used to compete with Sony Group, it is even more exciting.

After all, Sony Group's annual IP licensing business is about 4 million US dollars, but this is based on the purchases of tens of thousands of companies around the world.

If the Jiangnan Group can pay 2 million US dollars and instantly increase the IP licensing business by 25%, then this seems to be acceptable.

After all, the IP is just left there, and it won't generate a penny, but how sweet is 2 million US dollars!

And this is only half a year's data. Now that the entire electronic product industry is getting more and more prosperous, the demand for storage chips will only increase in the second half of the year, which means that at least 2 million US dollars can be saved in the second half of the year. 4 million US dollars, this is even more profitable!

Afterwards, the two parties did not discuss any business matters at the banquet. Boss Huang simply went back to the hotel to rest after eating, but the board of directors of Sony Group held an emergency meeting overnight to discuss how long coming news.

After the board meeting started, a completely one-sided situation soon formed, that is, everyone supported the signing of this cooperation agreement.

The reason is simple, because 2 million chips is not all the chips Sony needs for a year.

According to the estimates of Sony Group, in 2004, Sony needs to use a total of 3 million memory chips. After all, Sony only has the game industry. They also have MP2 production lines, MP000 production lines, digital camera production lines, and computer production lines. Related production lines, semiconductor-related production lines, and so on, a large number of production lines related to electronic products, even the memory chips themselves are produced by Sony, and these products require storage chips to store data.

So why did you only buy 1 million pieces in the first half of the year?Less than 100/1 of the total?

This is naturally because Sony is also producing memory chips. It is impossible for them to leave their own memory chips unused and all purchase memory chips produced by other companies. Isn't this suicide?
However, Sony actually purchased 1 million Jiangnan Optoelectronics chips, but this is impossible, because Sony's high-end products must use high-end memory chips in order to maintain their brand competitiveness.But such chips cannot be produced by Sony itself. In addition, the purchase price of Jiangnan chips is similar to the cost of its own production chips. Therefore, for profit, Sony chose to purchase 100 million Jiangnan optoelectronic chips without hesitation.

In fact, they are planning to purchase 2 million pieces, but the production capacity of Jiangnan Optoelectronics is still insufficient. They can only grab 600 million US dollars in the first half of the year, and other competitors have snatched the rest.

(End of this chapter)