Chapter 492 Super profits in the arcade market (7K chapters, please subscribe~)

  No. 12 Mount Kellett Road, Chu Family Manor, the third floor of the main building, the rooftop swimming pool.

Chu Huan was wearing a T-shirt and big pants, with his feet soaked in the swimming pool. There was a bottle of iced Coke and some snacks beside him. He was looking at the scenery of the entire Central District in the distance. From here, he could clearly see the landmarks of Central District at this time. Building Chinese Row.

  Wu Shuhan was sitting on the deck chair by the pool. He was wearing a simple and elegant long dress, holding some documents in his hands.

   "Boss, just now when Qi Dezun called, Zhang Yuliang didn't agree with Qi Dezun's suggestion. It seems that he doesn't intend to sell the shares of Wheelock in his hand!"

  Chu Huan put his hands on the edge of the swimming pool, looked up at the blue sky, and said happily: "It's just that the price didn't agree, but it doesn't matter, it's time for the fish head to mark their debut!"

  Wu Shuhan saw Chu Huan like this, smiled and said: "Boss, are you not nervous at all at this time?"

  Chu Huan turned around and saw Wu Shuhan, who was as elegant as a chrysanthemum without makeup, and asked with a smile, "Why are you nervous?"

Wu Shuhan said: "Now is the critical moment for the acquisition of Wheelock. Wu Xiaohui called this morning. John Madden of Wheelock met with Niu Bijian of Jardine in Xiangjiang last night. The discussion must also be about the acquisition. With regard to Defeng, the negotiations between Qi Dezun and Zhang Yuliang are at an impasse, if John Madden is the first to sell his shares in Wheelock to Jardine, then your plan will come to naught!"

  Wu Xiaohui, the deputy manager of Xiangjiang Jiaku Investigation Department, Ma Jizu's assistant, is now in charge of Xiangjiang's intelligence affairs, and Ma Jizu is now in England.

  Last night, Qi Dezun met with Zhang Yuliang. As Zhang Yuliang expected, Qi Dezun really wanted to acquire the shares of Wheelock in his hand. After hearing Qi Dezun’s offer, Zhang Yuliang immediately rejected Qi Dezun’s request for acquisition.

  Chu Huan shook his head and said with a smile: "Although it is a lot of fun to do things with the sky, there are some things that we have already done enough that we can do, and the rest can only depend on God's will!"

  Wu Shuhan nodded, and said: "I understand the meaning, but considering the impact of this incident, there is still no way to do the same as you, the boss."

   "Big heart?" Chu Huan said with a smile.

  Wu Shuhan covered his mouth with a chuckle and said, "It's open-minded!"

  Chu Huan chuckled, and said: "At least until now, everything is within our expectations. If you are still worrying about gains and losses, then you really need to reflect on it!"

"yes!"

   "Go and call Qin Peng!" Chu Huan said to Wu Shuhan.

   Now the game of chess has begun, and Chu Huan is about to make a move.

   Qin Peng came up after a while, "Brother Huan, are you looking for me?"

  Chu Huan nodded and said: "How is the preparation of the people who asked you to prepare?"

  Qin Peng nodded and said: "It has been arranged. They are all first-class experts. They have been on the battlefield and seen blood!"

Chu Huan said with satisfaction: "That's right, but tell us that the first priority is to ensure your own safety, and the safety of those people is above your own safety. I don't want the task to be completed. People are hurt!"

  Qin Peng said confidently: "Brother Huan, don't worry, these people in Xiangjiang are not enough compared to ours."

  Chu Huan shook his head: "What I'm afraid of is your arrogant and complacent thinking. If other people have the same thinking as you, then don't do it. I'd rather find someone else!"

  Seeing how serious Chu Huan said, Qin Peng hurriedly said: "Understood, Brother Huan, don't worry, I will definitely make our people be careful and careful!"

  Chu Huan nodded in satisfaction.

   Then Qin Peng left the rooftop, and after Qin Peng left, Wu Shuhan came up again. Only Qin Peng and others knew what Chu Huan had just explained, and Wu Shuhan didn't know what Chu Huan was going to do.

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  Wheelock Headquarters!

  John Madden sat there with an unhappy expression, and little Madden didn't have much brilliance on his face either.

   All this is because of yesterday's meeting with Niu Bijian.

  Niu Bijian's attitude is the same as that of Li Jiacheng and Qi Dezun. They can accept a normal and reasonable price, and they promise to raise the funds in the shortest possible time.

   But if John Madden is asking too much, then I'm sorry, we can only settle down separately!

   Faced with such a result, John Madden couldn't be happy.

   "Contact Shi Huaiya from Swire, Yugang Bao from Universal, and Guo Desheng from Universal. I want to meet all of them in one day!"

  John Madden is ready to cast a wide net.

   "Daddy, I wonder if these people have joined forces to lower the price of our Wheelock?"

   Little Madden analyzed this matter.

John Madden shook his head and said: "The possibility is not high. There is only one Wheelock. It is impossible for them to unite in this matter. The only possibility is that these people are too stingy. They want to get our Wheelock Feng, I don’t want to spend more money!”

   Speaking of the last moment, John Madden looked a little angry.

   "Okay, it's not important to say these things now, you should hurry up and contact these three companies, I hope they can know the goods and can afford this price!"

   At this time, John Madden no longer had the self-confidence of the previous two days.

  Little Ma Deng nodded, turned around and contacted Shi Huaiya from Swire, Bao Yugang from Universal, and Guo Desheng from Universal.

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  John Madden met with three consortiums who wanted to acquire Wheelock in one day. This incident quickly aroused huge reactions in Xiangjiang.

  ‘Wheelock is up for grabs, and the six consortiums are showing their unique tricks! ’--"Sing Tao Daily"

  ‘Is it the lion who opened his mouth, or is he blind to gold and jade? ’--"True Daily"

  Wheelock's takeover case has reached this stage, the more it will affect people's hearts. Basically, if any party makes a little move, it will attract everyone's attention.

   Now that John Madden has met with Shi Huaiya, Bao Yugang, and Guo Desheng one after another, it is natural that Xiangjiang media will conduct various investigations.

   Soon the media published the asking price of the Madden family.

"Wheelock's market value before the suspension was 713 million Hong Kong dollars. According to the shares held by the John Madden family, the price should be around 150 million to 200 million Hong Kong dollars. The value of the company's stock in hand is more than doubled. Obviously, such a price is unacceptable to those acquirers.

However, John Madden also said in an interview that although the market value of Wheelock shares in his hands is relatively low, at the same time, the number of B shares in his hands is sufficient for the acquirer to control Wheelock. embodied value.

Mr. Guo Desheng, chairman of the Cosmopolitan Consortium, also accepted our interview. Mr. Guo Desheng analyzed that although the John Madden family owns Wheelock shares, although the B shares have more power to speak in Wheelock, all acquisitions should follow the market value, not to mention , even with the right to speak about the B shares that John Madden said, the value of the Wheelock shares held by the John Madden family still cannot reach the price of 500 million Hong Kong dollars.”

  Obtaining the first-hand information, the "True Pao" reported the truth, which instantly made all Xiangjiang people understand what happened.

   It turns out that the acquisition of Wheelock is deadlocked here!

  John Madden wants to get more cash, but the acquirer thinks that the stock in John Madden's hands is not worth the price.

  With this report, the public opinion in Xiangjiang began to change slowly, and many people thought that it was the John Madden family who opened their mouths to the lion!

  But soon John Madden issued a statement through a newspaper he was familiar with.

Although John Madden admits that his asking price is higher than the current market value of Wheelock, but at the same time, John Madden also shows that the land in Wheelock's hands is all high-quality land, and the freighter controlled by Wheelock is even more in this way.

  So in the final statement, John Madden stated that they are not asking for sky-high prices. In fact, their asking price is even lower than Wheelock's actual asset value.

  Acquirors and sellers start a media war.

   The melon-eating crowd watched it was quite lively, but for both parties, it was a kind of torment.

   "Daddy, those people are clearly in cahoots on price, what are we supposed to do now?"

   At this time, it can be said that Xiao Ma Deng has completely lost his previous complacency and looked a little decadent. He did not expect that after contacting these consortiums, no one could accept their price.

  John Madden also looked dissatisfied, but he didn't panic, and said calmly: "I don't want to take money, but I want Wheelock, it's their dream!"

  Seeing what John Madden said, little Madden immediately regained his spirits and hurriedly asked, "Daddy, is there anything you can do?"

  John Madden put his ear next to Little Madden's ear, and whispered softly: "You do this."

  Little Ma Deng's expression gradually became joyful, and he said: "I understand, Daddy, don't worry!"

   "Yeah!" John Madden nodded in satisfaction, and then said, "Go do it!"

"yes!"

  Subsequently, Little Madden left John Madden's office.

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   On the other side, Chu Huan didn't know that John Madden had thought of some method that he thought could raise the purchase price. Now Chu Huan was meeting Chen Haichao in his office.

   Two arcade games "Space Invaders" and "Pac-Man" have been officially launched.

  Because of the success of "Donkey Kong", Beacon Games has become a benchmark company in the arcade game industry, and it has also given confidence to those sellers and arcade buyers.

  So these two games ushered in a crazy sales wave as soon as they were released.

"North America "Space Invaders" 100,000 units "Pac-Man" 70,000 units, Europe "Space Invaders" 100,000 units "Pac-Man" 70,000 units, Japan "Space Invaders" "Pac-Man" each 50,000 units, 20,000 units each in South Korea, 10,000 units each in Taiwan, and 100,000 units in total in other parts of the world. In just half a month since the launch, the company has sold 700,000 arcade machines.

  Brought $1.5 billion in sales and $1.05 billion in profit to the company! "

  Even though he had already thought that these two games would definitely bring immeasurable cash to the company, Bao Tianming still couldn't believe it when he said these figures.

  When he was in the company before, Bao Tianming made the company's financial calculations several times, which ensured that there was no mistake in the data.

  "Because some companies purchase a large quantity, the company sells to the other party at a discounted price, so the sales are less than two billion US dollars, but the sales volume is very impressive!"

  Chu Huan was not much surprised, because he had already guessed the result.

  Arcade games are different from other commodities. This kind of game pays attention to timeliness, and everyone plays it fresh.

  So when the game is just released, it will definitely cause large-scale purchases, and in the later stage, such sales will drop geometrically.

  So if a game company wants to develop in the long run, the most important thing is to continuously develop new games.

  Only in this way can we ensure the company's continuous competitiveness in the future development.

What's more, "Donkey Kong" is the world's first dominant arcade game, which has brought great popularity to Wolf Smoke Games. Naturally, the arcade games of Wolf Smoke Games don't need to be like when "Donkey Kong" just came out. In that way, they went to the market all over the world.

   "According to the market reactions sent from various places, these two games will bring nearly 1.5 billion US dollars in profit to the company in just this month!"

  700,000 arcade machines, in the face of the entire arcade game market, can be said to be an insignificant number, but the wave of large-scale sales will definitely not appear.

  So within half a month after the two games "Space Invaders" and "Pac-Man" were just launched, the profit can reach 1.05 billion US dollars.

   But in the second half of the month, it can only provide a profit of 450 million US dollars.

  Chu Huan raised his forehead slightly. The game industry was originally an industry that Chu Huan used to siphon money. The current high profits made Chu Huan very happy, but it would be impossible to say how excited he was.

   "How is the development of red and white machine and handheld machine?"

  Chu Huan asked Bao Tianming.

  Although the lifespan of the arcade game market can reach the end of the 1990s, the lifespan of the high-profit market will not be too long, at most 10 years, but the red and white machines and handhelds are different.

These two products will be the flagship products of Wolf Smoke Games in the next 20 years. With these two products, as long as Wolf Smoke Games announces open compatibility, then in the next 20 years, any company that tries to enter the TV game It is inseparable from the wolf smoke game.

  The profits brought by these two products are the real horror!

Obviously, Chu Huan's Wolf Smoke game is not simply following the development route of Nintendo. The development route of Wolf Smoke game actually includes Nintendo, Sega, Atari, Sony, and even Blizzard, Steam, etc. in the future. series of company development routes.

Take the two games "Space Invaders" and "Pac-Man" as an example. In another time and space, these two games belong to different game companies. The two game companies became one of the most famous game companies in the world at that time.

  Nowadays, these two games are both Wolf Smoke games, and the influence and profits they bring are acceptable.

  Seeing Chu Huan's calm expression, Bao Tianming couldn't help admiring in his heart, it really is Chu Huan, in the face of such crazy profits, he can still be so calm and care about other things.

"It's all in progress. Junhei Yokoi speculates that at the end of this year or the beginning of next year, the first trial machine of the red and white machine can be launched. After three months of testing and game development, it will be next year. time to be able to market.

   As for the handheld, because some technical difficulties have not been overcome, it will take until the end of next year to complete the production of the test machine. "

   A year and a half?

acceptable!

  Chu Huan nodded, and said: "Wait for the funds to arrive at the end of the month, leave the funds necessary for the company's development, contact Xu Yi, and transfer the remaining funds to the company's accounts in major banks around the world!"

  The profits from the two games "Space Invaders" and "Pac-Man" just filled Chu Huan's shortage of funds at this time.

In order to acquire the shares of Ford Motor, Chu Huan directly poured in 1.3 billion US dollars. Although he still has a lot of cash in his hand, it is the working capital needed by various companies. It won't be used either.

   Now it's all right, with nearly 2 billion US dollars, Chu Huan can play happily again.

And during this period of time, Chu Huan actually spent a lot of money. First of all, just two days ago, Jerry Kohlberg called and said that the acquisition of North American Commercial Bank was coming to an end. Time to prepare funds.

  At the same time, Japan's acquisition of the Yomiuri Shimbun is also proceeding in an orderly manner, and I believe there will be results this year.

  Finally, it is naturally about the acquisition of Wheelock.

  Heung Kong, after completing the acquisition of Wheelock, Hehe International will gradually delist and privatize the two companies, which will also require a lot of cash.

   Speaking of the situation in North America, something happened recently that made Chu Huan very satisfied. David Maxwell finally won the ownership of HBO for North American Black and White Media.

   At this time, this company that will be famous in the future is already owned by Chu Huan.

  However, in this time and space, whether HBO can achieve another time and space after becoming Chu Huan's company depends on whether the management of Jiaku and North American Black and White Media can run this company well.

Chu Huan thought he could trust them. After all, after taking over HBO, Chu Huan deliberately recalled HBO's business strategy based on his previous life, and then wrote a plan about HBO's future development plan and faxed it to David Max Will.

  With the memories of the previous life and the talents of this life, there is no reason why HBO will be inferior to the development of another time and space.

  The funds for the acquisition of HBO were left by Chu Huan to the North American League pool at the beginning, so it has no impact on Chu Huan's current funds.

   "No problem!" After the speech, Bao Tianming asked: "What do you think about the cooperation proposal with Jay Sarno?"

  Jay Sarno's proposal has been handed over, just three days ago, after the two games "Space Invaders" and "Pac-Man" became popular throughout North America.

  The arcade game market represents an emerging commercial market. Except for Chu Huan's Wolf Smoke game, this market is a brand new commercial market for everyone else at this time.

  The new commercial market represents a gold mine waiting to be developed.

  Everyone wants to get in and get a piece of it.

   After seeing the popularity of the two games "Space Invaders" and "Pac-Man", Jay Sarno no longer has any doubts about this market.

  So his actions became extremely fast.

Chu Huan nodded slightly, and said, "I've already read the plan, and there's nothing serious about it, but you can tell Jay Sarno that we've already found him a loan provider in North America." Bank, he doesn't need to worry about this matter!"

  If you want to establish a nationwide chain of arcade game halls in North America, the amount of money you need to spend is simply astronomical.

  The most important expenditure is naturally the number of arcade machines.

  A simple calculation can draw this conclusion. In North America, there are 50 states, 311 larger cities, and 3144 counties.

Excluding counties, let’s just talk about cities, 311 cities, if an arcade game hall is established in each city, it will be 311 branches, and each branch needs at least 200 machines, which is 62,200 machines. The purchase of arcade machines requires 155.5 million US dollars, and Chu Huan's preferential price is 20% off, which is 124.4 million US dollars.

  In addition to a series of expenditures such as decoration, rent, labor, water and electricity, etc., without 250 million US dollars, it is impossible to succeed.

  This is only the initial stage. In the top cities in North America, there must be more than one arcade game hall, and the scale will definitely be larger.

  If these are included, the subsequent cost may increase to 300-400 million US dollars!

  Now according to Jay Sarno's idea, there are three investors in the chain of arcade game halls!

   Wolfsmoke Games, Jay Sarno, and local city clubs.

  However, the associations in the local cities are more involved as stockholders and will not give out cash, so the money is actually Chu Huan's Wolf Smoke Game and Jay Sarno.

   Wolfsmoke Games can naturally provide the cash needed for their share of investment, but Jay Sarno’s side is in a difficult position.

  So he needs a bank loan to complete his investment share.

  In view of the fact that the arcade game market has just emerged, and the scale will only get bigger and bigger, at least there are still ten years to go, so Chu Huan is not worried that there will be problems with this loan.

Since Jerry Kohlberg has made it clear that the acquisition of North American Commercial Bank is coming to an end, and that the complete acquisition can be completed by the end of this month or the beginning of next month, Chu Huan naturally hopes that the loan will be completed. I can go to my own bank.

  Designate a profitable business, why give up!

   "Tell Jay Sarno that the bank I contacted for him has the lowest loan interest in North America!" Chu Huan added.

   After all, Jay Sarno is the major shareholder of the new chain arcade game hall, and the other party has the absolute right to speak in the company, so if Chu Huan wants to get this customer, he still needs to give certain preferential policies.

  Bao Tianming nodded and said, "Understood!"

  In fact, both Chu Huan and Bao Tianming miscalculated Jay Sarno's ambitions. The newly established Caesars chain of arcade game halls achieved profitability in a very short period of time, and it was a huge profit.

  After seeing such a situation, Jay Sarno simply started the development route of crazy expansion. In just five years, the Caesars chain has achieved a scale of 1,500 chain stores throughout North America.

  Chu Huan's Wolf Smoke Game accounted for 30% of the shares.

  In the craziest period of the early and mid-1980s, this company alone brought Chu Huan more than 10 billion dollars in revenue every year.

   And Jay Sarno has also appeared on the world's richest list many times because of the Caesars chain, as well as the cover of "Time" magazine.

   In later generations, Jay Sarno is known as the giant who changed North America with games!

But Jay Sarno's brilliance only stayed in the 1980s. In the late 1980s, arcade games began to be slowly replaced by video games. The Xiangjiang Ship King is the same.

  At that time, Jay Sarno simply thought that this was the law of market adjustment, and at that time Jay Sarno also became dissatisfied with Chu Huan for sharing his profits.

  So Chu Huan followed suit and finally made a fortune, and officially quit the Caesars chain!

   But that's all for another day!

  Bao Tianming said: "If this is the case, I think there should be no problem with Jay Sarno!"

  Chu Huan nodded and said, "Then I will leave this matter to you!"

  Bao Tianming nodded and said, "Don't worry!"

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  Chu Huan ushered in a bumper harvest here, but Zhang Yuliang was very unhappy today.

  Because someone sent him a news that shocked and angered him.

  If Cheng Zhitao is Zhang Yuliang's confidant in the business field, then Peng Guoliang is the talent Zhang Yuliang relies on most when dealing with some shady situations.

  Peng Guoliang is not from Xiangjiang, but from South Vietnam. After coming to Xiangjiang, he killed a person because of a bowl of barbecued pork rice. Later, he hid in the Kowloon Walled City and became a gold medalist there.

  But later, Zhang Yuliang found out by chance and coincidence, and stayed by his side.

  Specially responsible for some shady things for Zhang Yuliang.

  After learning that Chu Huan knew about his plan, Zhang Yuliang asked Peng Guoliang to find a group of people to secretly watch the family members and the company.

   Just today, Peng Guoliang brought bad news to Zhang Yuliang.

   "Boss, through observation, a group of people are currently investigating the company's situation, and these people have already met with Cui Xiuying."

   After speaking, Peng Guoliang handed Zhang Yuliang a stack of photos.

"According to our people's investigation, Cui Xiuying was driving home after work at the company yesterday afternoon, passing by a seafood shop, and stopped to buy seafood, but the person in the photo was also at the seafood shop, during the time Cui Xiuying was buying seafood , he put a kraft paper bag into Cui Xiuying's purse."

  Zhang Yuliang said with a gloomy expression: "How do you know that what the other party put in Cui Xiuying's bag is the company's information."

   "Because our people have paid attention to this person a long time ago. He has been investigating the company's situation recently. In order to avoid alarming the enemy, the people below didn't know who he was at that time, so they didn't touch him."

   Peng Guoliang replied.

  Zhang Yuliang sat on the office chair, looked at the people in the photo, and after a long silence, he said with a gloomy expression, "Why are you forcing me?"

   Continue to code words~~

  

  

  (end of this chapter)