Super Tycoon

Before Nintendo's NGC was officially launched, Nintendo announced another major news. Nintendo signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Square Enix again.

When the news broke out, there was an uproar in the industry.

At the beginning, Nintendo almost bankrupted Square, causing Square to lose billions of yen. Thanks to Sunila, it was not annexed by others.

The helm of both sides has not changed, so can such enmity be reconciled?

When Zhang Yang heard the news, he was a little unbelievable, Nintendo is awesome, he actually wanted to reverse the defeat in this way.

The reason why Nintendo lost was because the release time of their consoles was lagging behind, and the game camp was also shrinking, so the situation has only gone from bad to worse in the past two years, and many people say that they are eating their money.

But even so, this capital is strong enough, and it still earns more than Sega Bandai. Sega Bandai's legacy has long been almost eaten away, and now it is supported by Microsoft.

Although the golden sales period of game consoles is only two or three years, and after that, they can only rely on game masterpieces or price cuts to attract consumers, but the revenue period of game consoles will be doubled or even higher.

Nintendo's Fc can still make money, even if it's not much, it's a revenue, mainly the collection of some 8-bit game cartridges, and the same is true for sFc, relying on games, consoles can also make money.

The n64 has not been on the market for a short time, but the profits it makes now still make many companies jealous. And it is foreseeable that in the next few years, the n64 series of games can also bring a lot of money to Nintendo.

Suuni’s Ps2 series in the previous life made Suuni high profits for about five or six years, and then he made Pstwo, and made a few more years. It was not the improvement of hardware performance, but the quantity and quality of games.

Nintendo also realized that a game console can sell more than five games, and this profit is the company's largest revenue. If ten copies can be sold, Nintendo's profits may double!

What Nintendo lacks now is the game camp, which was taken away by several other companies at the beginning, especially Sunny, who waved the check and snatched away the contracts of many big companies.

Now that Nintendo is going to re-develop its own game camp, the support of third-party game companies is extremely important.

It's just that Zhang Yang can understand Nintendo's purpose, but why did Square agree, the company still has Sunny's shares!

Tomo Matsutajiri failed to hear the news,

But Naoki Watanabe found out. It turned out that Nintendo gave Square an offer that was hard to refuse this time, and it could help some of Square's 32-bit 2D games regain profits.

It is said that some 2D games that have fallen behind, even if they can be sold, the price will be very cheap, less than one-fifth or even one-tenth of 3D games.

However, Nintendo's quotation to Square was based on the conditions when the game was first released. Let some of Square's old games suddenly become golden eggs.

This time, Square Enix can earn at least tens of millions of dollars in revenue, which is billions of yen in revenue, which can be regarded as making up for the losses that Nintendo brought to them!

Moreover, for 128-bit games, after Zony's exclusive period, Nintendo is also willing to buy licenses at high prices, or license sales with low royalties.

With this income, Square Enix can develop several sequels of once popular games at the same time, and develop faster, catch up with other big game manufacturers, and break free from the shackles of Souni.

Sonny has always wanted to increase his stake in Square. Fortunately, the decision-maker of Square signed an agreement when he agreed to buy the shares. The company is still managed by him, and he has the highest voting rights.

So for so long, Square Enix is ​​still his. However, the games developed by Square could only be sold to Sonny, which made the company a lot less money.

However, Sunny made a lot of money by relying on the Final Fantasy series, and sold many game consoles along with it. If Square re-licensed the game to other game console manufacturers, or obtained the development platform of the other party, and adjusted its own sales, it would definitely make more money and make the company's games more popular with players.

After Zhang Yang got the news, he was also surprised by Nintendo's generosity. This is tens of millions of dollars, maybe even hundreds of millions.

Square could hardly refuse such a big order. It also confirms the saying that there are no eternal enemies in the market, only eternal interests.

It's just that I don't know what attitude Sunny will have after knowing the news. It is definitely unrealistic to divest Square, that is to push Square to Nintendo.

It is more likely that Sunny will sign some binding contracts with the camp's game companies to ensure that those companies will no longer be poached by Nintendo.

In fact, it's not just Nintendo, the Zhiduoxing Group has also been poaching game manufacturers from the Soni camp in the past few years. At the beginning, Sunny gave those game manufacturers very high conditions on the Ps1, letting them break away from Nintendo.

But in the later stage, Sunny's conditions were also lowered, which led to a reduction in the profits of those game manufacturers.

For game makers, the more games are released on more platforms, the more money they can make. Relying on the arcade market that Zhi Duoxing seized, some companies took advantage of loopholes, and Sunny couldn't stop it.

However, most of the arcades are level-breaking and battle games. Other games that take a long time, arcade halls will not introduce them. It is not in their interest.

Many small companies have developed by relying on Suni, but large companies will not settle on Suni as a platform. They released the game and let everyone know that it was released by them, and even their games can drive up the sales of some game consoles.

Zhiduoxing did not spend less money during this period, in order to expand its own game camp, authorize the development platform to more companies, and charge very low royalties.

In this way, those game manufacturers can be slowly drawn into their own camp, preparing for the upcoming new handhelds.

Nintendo cooperates with those companies that are good at making 2D games, obviously for the gBa, and wants to regain the throne of the handheld king.

But Nintendo may not have imagined that they found IBM and Songxia to cooperate, and Zhiduoxing’s own hardware company is enough. The structure of the new handheld has been basically completed. The day before yesterday, Chaowei just gave the news that the low-power handheld 32-bit microprocessor is ready for mass production.

Zhi Duoxing's z4 has now entered the testing stage, and Zhi Duoxing may be slightly weaker than Nintendo in game development, but it is very good at game transplantation.

This time, Nintendo began to spend money to win over third-party game companies, so let you spend more and see how much you are willing to spend!