Reborn America, this is my time

Chapter 149 Benefits Are Fisted Down
"So this is the solution Nintendo came up with?" In the top-floor office of the Destiny game, Evelyn Johnson raised her head from behind a desk full of draft paper.

Ethan Jones was standing by the window, pressing down one of the blinds with his index finger, and looking down at all beings through the slit.Wearing a beige suit, Arakawa was standing next to the Toyota Corolla in the parking space at the entrance. Although the weather was hot, he still maintained a good posture, with his hands in front of him and his head slightly lowered, as if he was praying to the gods. But it was more like waiting anxiously for news.

"Interesting." Ethan Jones retracted his fingers with a smile.

With his movement, Ben's twisted blinds closed instantly.

The silver leaves blocked the last ray of light, and the room illuminated by incandescent lamps greeted him when he turned around, "I told him to go, but he didn't go, as expected of me, stubborn."

Half an hour ago, Arakawa sent Ethan Jones a solution to Nintendo's unwarranted case. On behalf of Nintendo, Arakawa solemnly declared that after a series of self-examinations, they were convinced that Ethan Jones' guess was true. There is nothing.But because the two parties have cooperated for many years and already have a deep friendship, after careful consideration, Nintendo decided to give up the right to pursue, and hoped that Ethan Jones could stop unreasonable speculation and refocus on the cooperation itself. At the same time, They also came up with a new cooperation plan.

And that plan is now lying in the hands of Evelyn Johnson.

To be honest, after reading the plan submitted by Nintendo, Ethan Jones scolded Minoru Arakawa with extremely high-sounding words, to the effect that "how do you guys have the face to do such a thing?" something? ', 'What I want is an apology', 'Special!I am not interested in money! ', and then he told Arakawa to leave, and went back to wait for the result.

But the real thoughts under the curse...

hey-hey--

Really fragrant——

Ethan Jones sat down on the armchair in front of the desk, and looked at his sister with a smile, "Evelyn, do you think Nintendo's solution is not good?"

"Of course not!" The girl said loudly: "On the surface, the solution they proposed is full of sincerity, because they once again gave up the benefits of the cooperation that has already been signed, and gave a sincerity share in the possible cooperation. , but at the same time they sent us a message to admit that our previous guesses were all correct."

The girl dropped the Nintendo partnership document on the table.

Leaning back, crossing her arms, she looked at Ethan with a serious face, "Since they did it—" She elongated her voice and asked, "Then how can we continue to cooperate?"

"How does Nintendo feel to me now?"

"That is, a man stabbed us with a knife while covering his face and found that he didn't stab us to death, and then took out the first aid kit to make up for his mistake!"

"MFxxk!"

"This kind of thing is disgusting!"

"This behavior is more—"

"Shameless!"

Evelyn gritted her teeth and gave her own evaluation.

"Hahahaha——" The black and white words made Ethan laugh out loud.

Staring at the delicate figure in front of him, catching the endless anger spreading between his brows, Ethan Jones raised his hand and held it under the light.The five fingers moved lightly, jumping like an elf, but the shadow on the table that was born because of it contracted irregularly in the darkness.

"Nintendo is already very sincere." Looking at the shadow on the table, Ethan said with a smile.

"What?" Evelyn raised her eyebrows.

She looked at Ethan in surprise, pointing at the documents on the desktop with her hands like sticking sand.

"Oh! Sxxt! Is this called sincerity?"

"of course."

Ethan nodded and said, "At least they admit that they did all this, didn't they?"

"But..." Evelyn wanted to express her objection.

But Ethan's words were faster——

"Oh—my dear sister, although people have always said that shopping malls are a battlefield without gunpowder smoke, and everyone wants their competitors to die. For the sake of profit, many people even strangle their competitors to death with their own hands, but this is not the place after all. The real battlefield, but a pile of business."

"Since it is a business, its core will always be profit."

"Nintendo's ability to cut meat and make profits actually represents their sincerity. If you still think it's not good, then is it possible that Hiroshi Yamauchi should die to apologize?"

Ethan spread out his hands, shrugged with a smile, "Although they themselves pay attention to the spirit of samurai, I can't let Hiroshi Yamauchi come to our place with a samurai sword and commit seppuku, right?"

"Not to mention whether he is willing or not, even if he is willing, that's not enough."

"Because I can't stand the scene where the intestines splattered all over the place and the blood splashed all over the room!"

"If Hiroshi Yamauchi looked at me with apologetic eyes and kept saying sorry with a mouth full of blood before he died, then I might pass out on the spot!"

"I admit, I'm a coward and I have nightmares."

Having said that, Ethan directly wrapped his arms around his body, folded his legs, and curled up on the chair.

The trembling appearance and Congxin's words made Evelyn unable to hold back any longer, she burst out laughing, and at the same time waved her hands full of disgust, saying: "Oh Ethan——you are so disgusting——"

"Hmm." Ethan shrugged and pressed the topic with a smile.

After being interrupted by him, the anger in Evelyn's chest also subsided a lot.

"So you decide to accept?"

"Why not?" Ethan asked back: "The cooperation offered by Nintendo is full of sincerity. I think there may be no more sincere partner than them in this world."

Ethan admitted that when he found out that Hiroshi Yamauchi was willing to adjust the project commission from 14.00% to 20.00%, a flash of surprise did flash in his heart.

Although Arakawa had calculated a dividend account with him a few days ago, he said that the sales of "Snake" arcade machines brought Nintendo an operating income of 30.00 million, after deducting nearly half of the cost and his pumping After the success, Nintendo can still get about [-]% of the net income. In this case, even if Nintendo makes an extra six points, they will still make a profit, but this account cannot be calculated in this way.

When the video game industry was developing savagely, all cooperation and negotiations had no basis for reference, and were ground out bit by bit based on the feelings of the two parties. This was the case with the negotiations between Ethan and Atari before, and later with Sega and Nintendo. The same is true for door-to-door visits. In this case, when they talk and talk, they gradually form a practice. This practice can be called a standard.

Although no one in the entire industry has borrowed this standard at all, because in the past few years, only his Ethan Jones game has achieved massacres, but this does not mean that the standard he brought is meaningless. As time goes by, this will definitely become a benchmark for industry insiders to negotiate, and the bargaining power given up by Nintendo is a good thing.

In the past, it was Nintendo, Sega and those companies that controlled the market channels that offered sharing plans and waited for others to bargain, but now, it was he, Ethan Jones, riding on the channel dealers to do his best.

When the 20.00% sharing ratio appeared once, the channel dealer's bottom line had already been severely trampled under his feet. In the future, if an agent is still needed, it will be easier to ask for a price.

Not to mention--

The backup of "Pac-Man" has long been given to Nintendo.

At this time, if the real face is torn apart, it will hurt both sides.

The two parties will enter into endless lawsuits, and during this process, if Hiroshi Yamauchi finds inspiration, he will directly modify the backup and make a similar game.

Until then……

Even if their destiny game finds another partner, it will lose money.

This is indeed a question of money, but it is not just a question of money.

"But if we continue to work together, we have to seriously watch out for Nintendo."

Evelyn said: "If they dare to attack us once, they dare to attack us a second time."

"They have already shown their ambitions. Once they find that they have a counterattack opportunity in the future, they will definitely betray without hesitation."

"It's like..."

"Pearl Harbor?"

"Yeah~Yeah~Yeah~" Ethan nodded in agreement.

But he didn't care, "But it's a good thing, right?"

"The enemy in the dark is more terrifying than the stalking in the open."

"What's more, business is business, where can we find any real partners?"

"Have we seen too few things in the past two years?"

"Mi Luohua and Rudolph fell out, Philips stabbed MCA with a knife, MCA disgusted Philips in the name of helping us, and Warner was besieged by all the Hollywood giants after a preemptive run in the video game field, allowing us to occupy a large Cheap, Nintendo backstabbing Mirov and us at the same time... In this case, if we are not on guard, we are idiots."

"But you don't have to worry too much. Benefits are distributed with fists."

"As long as we can keep hammering Nintendo to the ground..."

"They don't dare to move around!"

Ethan knew exactly what trick Nintendo was playing with this kneeling.

It is nothing more than the world-wide saying that if you are poor, you will put aside the controversy, and if you are big, you will cough and cough.

And this kind of universal law is easy to deal with, right?
Breakthrough all methods!

As long as they fight, they will continue to be poor...

That's it!
After the parties concerned had already told the truth of the matter and kneeled down to pray for continued cooperation, Ethan Jones first left Arakawa out for a few days, and then summoned him on August 1977, 8.

In this conversation, Ethan Jones warned Minoru Arakawa with a serious face, saying that he was very dissatisfied with Nintendo's handling of things, but considering that the two parties have cooperated for many years, he decided to give Nintendo another chance, hoping that they can do well in the future Performance.

At the same time, Ethan Jones also made a simple modification to the treaty proposed by Nintendo——

"I think it shouldn't be a problem for the "Pac-Man" arcade to sell 20 units in your country."

"Star Wars guarantees 30 units."

"If I draw 34 points, you can still get 25 to [-] points of net income. If you have money, everyone can earn it together. Half and half, I want [-] points. I think your company Mr. Yamauchi shouldn't mind, after all, you have a game room yourself..."

Now that everyone has taken off their pants, Ethan no longer pretends.

If you have money but don't make money, you're a bastard, not to mention that it's Nintendo's own fault now.

For these requests made by Ethan, Arakawa obviously did not have the right to agree. He asked Ethan to wait patiently, and immediately got in touch with the agency after returning. After a while of communication...

"Mr. Jones, our president has expressed dissatisfaction with your greed."

Arakawa said: "But considering that we still want to go hand in hand even though there is a misunderstanding between the two parties, our president decided to make a profit in order to make up for our relationship."

"but--"

"The split of 25 points is only once."

Arakawa spoke seriously, while Ethan Jones smiled happily.He didn't take Yamauchi Hiroshi's words to heart, because he knew that things like bottom lines were meant to be broken.

As for future cooperation?

Then there is still a word!

Now that the two parties had reached a consensus, Ethan invited the Stanford law professor to review the contract.

The confirmation was correct, and the two parties formally signed the contract on the afternoon of August 1977, 8.

When Ethan Jones signed his name on the contract, Arakawa was relieved by the fact that the dust had settled. He stretched out his right hand towards Ethan with a smile on his face, and said with some emotion——

"Pleasant cooperation, Mr. Jones."

"I'm very happy, Mr. Arakawa." Ethan showed his joy unabashedly.

Such a fact made Arakawa shake his head helplessly, "From now on, the two of us will work according to the new contract, so please take care of the directors and supervisors of the chip company."

"Okay, I will, after all, this is to protect my own interests..."

Although Ethan answered very happily, this matter really made him difficult.

Because there is no one available for him now.

There are many people close to him, but they all have their own lives, for example, Aunt Linda and Uncle Thomas who can be trusted unconditionally, they have orchards to see, it is impossible to go to the notebook to help him keep an eye on Nintendo; Needless to say, Flynn, as a real developer, Destiny Game would not be able to get going without her; father's comrades-in-arms are the best in the factory, they finally stabilized, so don't destroy those new families ...

Except for them, no matter whether it's Joe Watts Jr. or Slug Lou, they all have successful careers, but when they think of them, they all show the beauty of the missing brainstem.

As such...

'Grass! '

'Why am I scolding myself? '

'Bah bah bah—'

Ethan felt that he might be too tired recently, and the life of 007 made him a little delirious.

He wanted to give himself a simple vacation, as for where to go——

"Why don't you go north on such a hot day?"

"Go to the North Pole to see polar bears?"

"Hiss—I've never seen a polar bear in the North Pole—"

The more Ethan thought about it, the more he felt that this kind of thing was very tricky.

Although they were stared at by wolves and tigers before the game of fate, they had to combine work and rest in everything they did, right?Since he was busy working on "Star Wars" at the beginning of the year, he didn't take a break at all in the past eight months. Countless messes made his nerves a little tense. After finally dealing with it...

No matter what, you have to give your nerves a SPA.

However, just as Ethan was about to get up and go to Evelyn's office, and asked her if the design work at hand could be temporarily put aside, someone knocked on the door of the office from outside.

The rapid sound made Ethan choke his breath.

A bad premonition suddenly soared from the bottom of my heart.

"Come in." He pretended to be calm and said.

Before the words finished, the girl Julis Noble pushed the door in from the outside.

"Boss..."

As soon as she opened her mouth, Ethan felt his blood pressure skyrocket, and his eyes went dark.

'God! '

'O earth! '

'Why is it her again! '

Ethan roared in his heart!
"Wait!" he shouted, "Julis! I have nothing against you, do I?"

"Is that all you want to kill me?"

'? ? ? 'Such words made Julis Noble stunned.

She blinked her innocent eyes, and instantly understood what the boss meant.

Then, she smiled and said, "Boss, this time it's good news."

'...'

"Really?" Ethan breathed a sigh of relief, and was even more satisfied with the girl's understanding.

"Really." Julis Noble nodded and said, "If you have time, I'll connect the call..." She pointed to the landline on Ethan's desk.

"Okay." Ethan, who survived the catastrophe, nodded in agreement.

Not long after, the bell rang.

pick it up...

"Oh George, long time no see, it really makes me so happy to hear your voice..."

(End of this chapter)