Reborn Tokyo Golden Age

"Bai Chuan-san, what do you mean by another deal?"

Kudo Yuji felt a little strange, as far as he knew, Shirakawa Electric should not have a computer business.

"As Kudo-san saw, Shirakawa Holdings is not only involved in electronics manufacturing like Shirakawa Electric.

At the same time, we also have a software design club like HAL, which is partial to the computer field. Games are one of our businesses.

In addition, software and computer peripheral application tools are also within the scope of HAL's business. "

Bai Chuanfeng stretched out his hand to signal Kudo Yuji, and looked at the spacious office area behind him.

In addition to games, there are also software, computer-aided equipment, compatible machine environment language development and other departments. They have divided their office areas into different categories.

Even Shirakawa Kaede asked Iwata to fetch several products developed by HAL and put them in front of Yuji Kudo.

Chinese character reading and writing cards, trackballs, sound cards, and several application software for NEC and Fujitsu were also displayed on the computer in front of them.

From soft to hard, everything is available.

Looking at the various computer-related auxiliary tools in front of him, Yuji Kudo also looked surprised. He really didn't know that HAL still had such a business.

"Baichuan-san, what do you mean?" Yuji Kudo seemed to understand what cooperation Baichuanfeng was talking about.

"As far as I know, the business situation of Hudson Software does not seem to be good, and you seem to want to continue the software business?"

Yuji Kudo nodded calmly. Hudson Software has only been established for a few years, and he never intends to give up his ambition.

"In this way, HAL can inject capital into Hudson and use it exclusively to support your company's software business.

In addition, Hudson and HAL can also communicate more in their respective software fields, and communication will promote each other's growth.

Even in terms of business, we can also provide Hudson with a broader platform, such as Fujitsu Computer. "

Hearing the last sentence, Kudo Yuji's eyes lit up, this is possible.

One of the reasons why Hudson's business has not improved is lack of reputation, and the lack of a platform for development is the most important factor.

Sharp's platform is too small. It's not that he didn't try to promote his software to Fujitsu and NEC.

But people simply ignore him, there are so many clubs in Tokyo that are engaged in the computer business, why should others choose you?

In the final analysis, there is no personal connection. In stark contrast, HAL has never lacked business, because there are people behind the latter.

Fujitsu Computer has a huge user base. If Hudson can get close to this big tree, he will never have to worry about bankruptcy in the future.

"Baichuan-san, I don't know how HAL plans to inject capital?" Yuji Kudo was moved.

Instead of letting Hudson Software hang here half-dead, it is better to simply join the camp of a certain giant.

"25 million yen, 45% of the shares." Bai Chuanfeng happily offered the price.

Judging from Hudson's current business situation, 25 million yen is considered a premium acquisition, and he did not provoke Yuji Kudo's sensitive nerves.

Bai Chuanfeng knew that in such a club that had just started a business, the founders were generally very reluctant to hand over the leadership to others.

Some people with strong personalities would even rather the club operate at a loss than hand over their hard-earned business to others.

The fact is exactly as Bai Chuanfeng thought, Kudo Yuji agreed to such an offer after a few seconds of consideration.

Hudson can't even come up with 5 million yen now, so what is he dissatisfied with at 25 million yen.

However, just when Kudo Yuji felt that the matter was about the same, Bai Chuanfeng unexpectedly made another condition.

"Just now Kudo-san said that Hudson also has related research in the field of semiconductor development?"

"Hay" Kudo Yuji nodded without knowing it, "I'm just working on improving the performance of game screens, etc., and developing chips in related fields. This is more like an auxiliary tool."

"For 10 million yen, SIC bought this team as a package."

"Hey!" Yuji Kudo was stunned.

This. Is this the strength of the super rich? Tens of millions of yen are as rare as 1,000 yen in the other party's mouth.

Hudson does have such a team, most of them are composed of recent college graduates.

As for the graphics enhancement chip, they did develop it. The same thing is aimed at Sharp computer games, and such a thing has been tossed out.

Although this team is relatively young, its technical strength is not bad, otherwise it would not have won the order from Sharp.

In fact, Hudson's technical team in later generations contributed a lot of talents to the computer software department under Softbank.

To what extent, there were so many that they formed their own school, and later they became independent as a software company.

This is Hudson's powerful influence in the software field in the future, and of course that is more than two decades later.

At this moment, neither Yuji Kudo nor Bai Chuanfeng knew what would happen in the future.

But the words "game graphics chip" alone are worth Bai Chuanfeng's shot without hesitation.

Even if the current game graphics chip is very simple, even if Hudson's team has only done some auxiliary development work based on the architecture of other chip companies.

But this still made Bai Chuanfeng determined to win them, because Neon was too short of relevant talents in chip design.

So far, SIC's talent pool is basically cultivated by itself.

As for the talents recruited from outside, to be honest, none of them are usable so far.

In Bai Chuanfeng's eyes, this chip development team. Even if they don't have that much experience, their value far exceeds the entire Hudson Corporation.

Game graphics chips, the prototype of the future GPU, SIC is where they should be.

After hearing the name of SIC, Kudo Yuji's eyes showed a hint of surprise.

He knew what Bai Chuanfeng meant. He wanted SIC to accept his team.

To be honest, if those guys heard that they were going to join SIC, they would probably jump for joy.

When they were in Hudson, they had studied the SIC chip countless times in private.

After all, this is Neon's only independent CPU chip. While everyone is proud, they are also yearning for it.

In the eyes of these technical geeks, SIC is like a holy place in their hearts.

Sighing slightly, Yuji Kudo nodded, "Hudson agrees to the deal."

After all, Hudson's business is now focused on software and games, and semiconductor design is indeed not mainstream.

That being the case, it may not be a bad thing to take a sum of money to let people go simply because of the beauty of being an adult.

"Happy cooperation!" Bai Chuanfeng stood up with a smile and shook hands with the other party.

The subsequent detailed contract will be drawn up by a professional legal team.

Since then, Shirakawa Electric's FES has won the contract of the first three-party game manufacturer.

In the future, games developed by Hudson will only be launched on the FES platform, which is the prototype of the game exclusive system.

In addition to Hudson, in order to concentrate on dealing with the home game console, Bai Chuanfeng also met with the person who met Enix.

Its founder is Yasuhiro Fukushima, who is about the same age as Yuji Kudo of Hudson, and coincidentally also has a round face.

It's just that Fukushima Yasuhiro's round face is much smaller than that of Yuji Kudo, who looks like a freshly baked pancake.

Also, Enix's Yasuhiro Fukushima doesn't know anything about the game compared to Hudson's Yuji Kudo.

That's right, the founder of this game company neither knows how to develop games nor understands games.

So how did the Enix game come about?

As I said before, Fukushima Yasuhiro paid for the "Game Interest Contest", and the winners were rewarded with cash.

The total prize pool is 3 million yen, the first place is 1 million yen, and the following places are 600,000 and 200,000.

The prize money is definitely not much, but it is what it is, and it received more than 300 entries when it was held for the first time last year.

As a result, Enix's game library instantly filled up, and only 13 of the more than 300 works could be used, but this still made Enix a small fortune.

Because of these 13 computer game works, 2 have been released on the computer platforms of NEC and Fujitsu last year, and more than 200,000 copies have been sold so far.

Thanks to such a move, although Enix was just established last year. But with more than 200,000 copies of the game sales bottom line, Fukushima Yasuhiro is not short of money at this time.

Because even if all kinds of commissions are removed, the profit he can get is at least 300 to 400 million yen.

So for this cooperation with Baichuan Electric, he just came with the idea of ​​creating another channel for his own games.

Fukushima Yasuhiro did not have the sense of crisis of Yuji Kudo, so he was much tougher in negotiations.

In the end, each took a step back and reached an agreement with a 30% commission.

At the same time, because Enix has its own promotional channels, Shirakawa Electric will no longer be responsible for the later promotion of its game cassettes.

This virtually saved a lot of publicity fees, and Enix didn't object to the game exclusive agreement.

Because at this time, only the game consoles of Shirakawa Electric are about to be launched on the market, even if Enix wanted to sell them, they couldn't find another person to take them over.

As for Enix's upcoming FES games, Fukushima Yasuhiro brought two games at once.

One is called "Gate Gate" and the other is called "Portopia Serial Murder Case", and they are also computer transplant games.

Fukushima Yasuhiro not only brought the game, but also the producers of the two games, Nakamura Koichi and Horii Yuji.

Because Yasuhiro Fukushima doesn't understand the game, he needs two designers to personally explain the various gameplays of the game to Kaede Shirakawa.

Koichi Nakamura, who is only 17 years old, has just graduated from high school, and he will go to the University of Electrical and Communications to study in the beginning of spring.

The "Door" he developed is to operate the protagonist on the stage to guide the monsters to lock them in the door, and lock all the monsters to complete the level.

To be honest, Bai Chuanfeng is more interested in him than in his games.

The 17-year-old programming genius and his fat classmate Iwata Satoru were even surpassed by him.

Bai Chuanfeng has already made up his mind, this Nakamura Koichi, HAL is sure to dig.

But there is no hurry now, there will be opportunities to contact him later.

As for the second game, Portopia Serial Murders, it's pretty special.

You can tell from the name that this is a reasoning adventure game, first-person, non-linear game, open world, multi-branch plot, and role-playing.

The above features are the first time to appear in computer games. Although they are still a little immature, they can definitely be regarded as opening up a brand new genre of games.

Bai Chuanfeng played it for a while, and the narrative was complicated, the plot twists and turns, and it was fascinating.

Another genius, it is really rare to be able to develop a role-playing game with so many characteristics in the embryonic period of video games.

Bai Chuanfeng dared to bet that those who like this game will regard it as a masterpiece in the future, while those who don't like it will sneer at it.

As for these two games, Bai Chuanfeng also accepted them without hesitation.

Their sales may not necessarily explode, but profitability is almost certain.

The most important thing is that Shirakawa Kaede has already missed Nakamura Koichi and Horii Yuji.

Anyway, there was no employment contract between Enix and them, only a game publishing contract.

In this case, things will be much easier.

Bai Chuanfeng immediately found Satoshi Iwata after sending away the person who sent Enix away.

"From this year, HAL will also hold the 'Golden Cross' game contest, and our prize money has been increased to 10 million yen.

The game theme is not limited, and the platform is not limited. After the producer and HAL sign an agreement, they will be divided in the form of copyright royalties. "

"Eh?!" Satoshi Iwata was taken aback by Bai Chuanfeng's big hand and a series of measures.