The virtual empire starts from the game

Chapter 408? Are you really selling it for 100 yuan? (Seeking monthly votes)

The players immediately realized: something is wrong!

Something is very wrong!

It's normal for a well-known producer to want to retire.

Two well-known producers wanted to retire on the same day.

A bit of a coincidence, but nothing wrong with it.

But all six of them wanted to retire, and they issued a statement on the same day at the same time...

Do you think we are fools?

There is definitely a conspiracy!!

The melancholy mood was swept away, and the players instantly became interested!

The keyword [retirement] instantly jumped to the homepage of Mengjinli. When I selected this keyword and refreshed the page, I saw a large number of posts discussing this matter:
[Can these producers retire whenever they want? Without any restrictions in their agreements?]
[There is definitely a conspiracy! Does anyone know the inside scoop?]
[I am dying of laughter. I heard that the rich in the Middle East value these people very much. Sony will have a harder time selling now.]
[Do you think it is possible that a certain boss named Xu is secretly doing something wrong?]
[Hahahaha, CB Insights just lowered the valuation of Sony’s gaming business by a full $150 billion!]
……

The players gloated.

The same goes for Sony's users - they are extremely angry that Sony Group abandoned its users and sold all its businesses to PIF, but they can do nothing about it.

Now seeing Sony in trouble, I feel a sense of satisfaction as if I have finally gotten my revenge!

As for Sony Group, two directors in their 70s became ill due to anger and are now being rushed to the hospital for emergency treatment.

Because the acquisition negotiations have been completely interrupted!

The value of Sony's gaming business plummets in the eyes of PIF!
But this is not just because six producers are leaving - just six producers, no matter how good they are, can't be worth $150 billion.

The real reason is: through this incident, PIF realized Xu Meng's will.

——Even casual players and netizens can guess that this matter is likely related to Xu Meng, not to mention these large institutions with huge amounts of funds.

It should be noted that competition in modern business is often a competition of information asymmetry.

Both PIF and Sony Group have very strong information collection and analysis capabilities.

They have all guessed: Xu Meng is most likely the one behind all this!
So the members of Sony Group’s board of directors were very angry.

PIF decision-makers also understood Xu Meng's attitude——

He didn't just offer 100 yuan to disgust Sony, but he really holds a grudge and wants Sony Game Station to die!
After realizing this, the negotiations were immediately interrupted!
PIF executives who had visited Sony's factory and headquarters quickly evacuated and booked return tickets on the spot.

——Six excellent game producers are not worth 150 billion, but Xu Meng’s attitude is worth it!
Even just two hours later, Zhumeng received an email:
The Saudi Crown Prince invited Dream Design to open a large experience center in Dubai and carry out a comprehensive holographic transformation of three landmark buildings.

And seriously state: [There is no upper limit on the budget], [Friends are welcome to visit].

Xu Meng was a little surprised.

But he readily agreed.

As a result, Sony did not wait for PIF to change its mind, but instead received news that the Saudi royal family invited Zhumeng to open a store in Dubai and renovate a landmark building.

The hope of selling the gaming business to PIF was dashed.

When we asked other financially strong multinational groups, we either got no response or were clearly rejected.

In the end, Sony Group's gaming business, once worth tens of billions of dollars, has fallen to the point where no one is interested in it.

……

……

A week later, the CEO of Sony Group and a dozen senior executives quietly landed in Ningzhou.

After leaving the airport, we headed straight to the Dream Building headquarters without stopping.

Three days of negotiations followed.

Three days later, a piece of explosive news suddenly made the front page headlines of almost all news websites around the world:

Sony Group publicly announced:

[All of Sony Group’s gaming businesses, including gaming platforms, player data, studio shares, gaming IP, etc., will be sold to Dream Games for 100 Xia Yuan, retaining only the music and film and television development rights of the relevant IP.]
Assets that were once worth tens of billions of dollars were actually sold to Zhumeng for 100 Xia Yuan!
Many news websites directly use words like "shocking" in their titles.

[Breaking news! Sony's gaming business was acquired by DreamWorks, and the purchase price was eye-popping!]
[Digital miracle! 350 billion% return on investment! The most amazing acquisition of this century!]
[100 Xia Yuan, to acquire assets worth 500 billion dollars! Unprecedented!]
……

Every piece of news has gained astonishing popularity.

Netizens' reactions to Sony Group's statement were even more exaggerated:

"100 Xia Yuan? The waste paper in your office can be sold for one or two million, right?!"

"Even if the factory was dismantled and sold as scrap metal, it would still be worth more than this!"

"Are you crazy?!!"

"Even if you sell it to me, I can still pay 1000 yuan! Is 100 yuan a joke?" "I just checked the calendar, today is not April Fools' Day!!"

"Has the editor gone crazy? Or has he been bribed by Dream Building?"

"I agree with you selling it to Dream Building, but I don't understand the price. If you don't want to sell it, why don't you just give it away for free?"

……

Netizens really can’t understand it.

Until Zhumeng showed up and issued another announcement——

[Starting from the second half of this year, Dream Games will cooperate with Sony Group in the fields of music, film and television, hardware technology, etc.]
[Please stay tuned]
After this announcement appeared, netizens who reacted quickly finally understood——

It turns out that Sony is not really selling its gaming business.

Instead, they packaged up the deteriorating and difficult-to-get-out gaming business and gave it to Xu Meng as a gift.

What this transaction actually gained was not the 100 Xia Yuan.

But it was Xu Meng’s promise to “turn hostility into friendship”.

And join the Dream Building Ecosystem, which provides other businesses with a ticket to enter the virtual world.

——The gaming business is indeed the number one pillar of Sony Group, with revenue accounting for 25% of the group’s total revenue.

But if it loses this 25%, Sony Group still has another 75% of revenue to maintain.

Anyway, the gaming business is doomed, so using this cost to pave the way for other businesses is a display of business courage!

Another party involved in this acquisition that shocked the world——

Make a dream.

I quietly updated my social account profile and added four new words:
[Investment Genius]
When the players discovered this change, they burst out laughing on the spot:

"What does this have to do with investment?"

"Isn't it you who forced Sony to this point?"

“Redefine [investing]!”

"So, Boss Xu, what are you going to do next? How are you going to deal with these players?"

……

Everyone started team building under the first post on his homepage.

Some people are making jokes, and some are asking what to do next.

After all, Sony has hundreds of millions of registered users around the world, and they are all users with considerable purchasing power.

They were all indignant and directed at Sony before, and many of them also clamored for Sony to be sold to DreamWorks.

Now that Sony has been sold to DreamHub, they are starting to worry about how DreamHub will handle this matter.

Invest funds to revitalize Sony Game Station?

impossible!
In Sony Group’s transaction statement, DreamChina did not take over the hardware at all.

The PlayStation has apparently been completely abandoned!

What about Sony’s game store, online services, player game library, and cloud archives?
They were extremely anxious and desperately hoped that Xu Meng would come out and say something to give them reassurance.

But Xu Meng's reaction once again exceeded everyone's expectations.

He did not talk about the behind-the-scenes news of the acquisition, nor did he say how he would deal with Sony's online gaming business. Instead, he posted a post that left netizens scratching their heads:
[In one hour, the online conference live broadcast will start. Welcome to watch! ]
But no matter how confused I am, I still have to watch the live broadcast!

Xu Meng's live broadcast has never disappointed anyone! ——

An hour later, with millions of viewers watching, Xu Meng's live broadcast room lit up.

Standard online meeting mode - the entire screen is divided into 8 small windows, and each window contains a person participating in the online meeting.

However, only Xu Meng in the upper left corner can be recognized by everyone at a glance.

The remaining seven European and American faces are not so easy to recognize.

Fortunately, Xiao Meng was very considerate and gave everyone an identity -

[Gary (General Manager of Raw Entertainment)]
[Pyle (Director of Raw Entertainment Project)]
[Granton (User Researcher of Biotech Entertainment)]
[Ludy (character artist of Shengcai Entertainment)]
[Duke (Diversity Recruitment Officer of Shengcai Entertainment)]
[Niels (Raw Entertainment Localization Expert)]
[Austin (Shengcai Entertainment Story Planning)]
The labels of "Shengcai Entertainment" made the audience quickly understand: this was an online meeting held by Xu Meng for Shengcai Entertainment.

After realizing this, the first reaction of a large number of domestic players is:

"Ah? Is Shengcai Entertainment still alive?"

(End of this chapter)