Chapter 22 Cooperation
"Takahashi, we're meeting again." A rather touching voice sounded.
"Yes, we're meeting again. President Kudo." Takahashi replied.
Takahashi is now in a car on the outskirts of the city, and beside him is Hudson's president Yuji Kudo.
Nintendo announced that it would unilaterally terminate its cooperation with Wanhu and announced the abolition of Wanhu's third-party identity, which caused a sensation in the Japanese gaming industry.
This is the first time Nintendo has done this.
In the past, if Nintendo wanted to sanction a certain manufacturer, it would use such as failure to pass the game review, factory production encountered fires, floods and various accidents, resulting in the scrapping of cassettes and need to be re-paid. Nintendo would never advance half a cent, and there was no insurance option.
The only possibility of being so strict with ten thousand households is that ten thousand households have touched Nintendo's core interests.
Nintendo said that Wanhu copied Nintendo's red and white phones. Is this really true?
Through the upstream supply chain, such as Ricoh, news, although they did sell to more than 10,000 production lines for chip production, those lines did not have the ability to produce red and white machine-level chips.
Moreover, almost all industry insiders know that the source of the pirated red and white machine comes from Taiwan (Harmony) Bay.
Then...Where did Wanhu make Nintendo unhappy?
To understand why Nintendo is so angry, it is very simple for many senior executives. Standing high and looking far, looking at the overall situation from a bird's eye, it is easy to find the erosion of the "Tetris" handheld console on the Nintendo game watch market.
With the development of technology, the circuit has been miniaturized, turning a complete game machine into a machine that can be held in a palm seems to be a fantasy.
Looking forward to the future, you will know that after the success of the red and white machine, Nintendo must have some plans for the handheld console market that has already occupied by gaming watches.
However, just when gaming watches are no longer popular in the market and new machines have not yet been launched, Wanhu's "Tetris" handheld machine was released.
Although, this machine is not the direction that the industry's top leaders are optimistic about.
However, this machine already has the outline of a future handheld machine.
Can change the cassette, play multiple games, and play for a long time.
In addition, the unparalleled popularity of the Riot game Tetris, after several months of struggle, Nintendo's game watches are on the verge of being removed from the shelves in Japan. Only in the handheld console of Tetris, which has not yet been widely involved in the developed markets such as the United States and Europe, still have a certain market share.
By making such a reversal, we can understand why Nintendo implemented an "extinction policy" for tens of thousands of households.
You should know that one of the main sources of income for ten thousand households is to release games on red and white machines. Perhaps, Nintendo is trying to ban ten thousand households from making red and white machines to drag down ten thousand households' capital chain and slow down the R&D speed of ten thousand households.
Before Wanhu launched the successor model of Tetris handheld, he launched his own game handheld and regained the voice of the handheld market.
Unfortunately, Wanhu is not the small manufacturers who have no money in front of them, and who have to die without cash flow and can be controlled at will.
In addition to the sales revenue of Red and White Machine Games, although the sales amount of arcades has decreased, the advantage is stable. However, the combined revenue of these two items is only less than 50% of the total revenue of 10,000 households.
The remaining income, except for the house in my hand, is soaring every day, it is the Tetris machine.
Although the price of selling tens of thousands of households is very low, the profit per unit sold is still higher than that of the red and white machine cassettes.
In addition, the hot sales of Tetris machines are so that purchasers are paying 10,000 households in advance, which is much more reasonable than Nintendo charging in advance and closing after the settlement.
It is because of this that Takahashi was confident that he did not seek reconciliation humbly when Nintendo unilaterally fired the third party identity of Wanhu.
You should know that neither Hudson, who is highly dependent on Nintendo, nor Namco, who is an arcade dominant player, nor Taidong, have the courage to completely separate Nintendo.
After all, even if their chairman wants to do so, the shareholders will not agree. It’s nothing to be humble. Making money is important! Money won’t complain!
"Takahashi, I admire your decision very much! In fact, you have done things that many of our manufacturers want to do. Nintendo is really too hegemonic, but its red and white machines are so profitable, so we have to swallow our anger..."
Yuji Kudo said in an equal tone.
Although Takahashi was once a Hudson employee and a capable Hudson, now in less than two years, Takahashi, who has established his own business, has established ten thousand households and become a rising star.
Although Yuji Kudo cannot accept Takahashi's "betrayal" emotionally, if he had made his own choice, he would definitely choose to set up his own business if he had such strength.
Now that time has passed, if you think about it from another perspective, if anyone who goes out can achieve such a foundation, wouldn’t that mean that Hudson is also very powerful?
Takahashi did not accept Kudo Yuji's praise, and he smiled bitterly, "This is not a decision I took the initiative, it was completely passive. I had no idea in advance that Nintendo fired me from a third party. The game development department of Wanhu is also having several games developed for red and white machines. Nintendo's decision will have a direct loss of up to 500 million yen for Wanhu, and I think the indirect loss is more than 5 billion yen.
Nowadays, the scale of making games is getting more and more. Team coordination has also become a new problem. I think you have also realized the difficulties of making large-scale games.
Nintendo suddenly announced that we would fire from the third party, it was like a person picking up a heavy object and flashing to his waist, alas..."
Yuji Kudo also felt sad when he listened to Takahashi's words. Although Hudson was once known as Nintendo's "Nine Thousand Years", the games of countless small manufacturers were released on Nintendo's red and white machines through Hudson's agent.
But now it's different from before.
As Nintendo's first and second-party games become more and more proficient in developing games, as more and more third-party small factories are available. Neither Nintendo nor small factories can accept the commission and exploitation of Hudson as a second-hand dealer. Nintendo's authorization level for Hudson has been declining again and again, and now there is no obvious difference from third-party small factories.
The resentment towards Nintendo has become a synesthesia for almost all third parties. It can make people have to rely on you to make money while rushing to curse. Nintendo is also a model of having the ability to die and die.
"Takahashi, I want to invite your Wanhu to join our hosting program!"
Chapter completed!