Chapter 374 Can Capital Expand?

Author: quiet thoughts

Chapter 374 Can Capital Expand?

"Hongchuan-san, what do you mean by the other business?"

Kudo Yuji felt a little strange. As far as he knew, Hongchuan Electric probably did not have a computer business.

“As Kudo-san sees it, Hongchuan Holdings’ business involves more than just electronic manufacturing like Hongchuan Electric.

At the same time, they have a software design club like HAL that focuses on the computer field, and games are one of their businesses.

In addition, software and computer peripheral application tools are also outside the scope of HAL’s business.”

Hongkawa Kaede stretched out her legs to signal Kudo Yuji to look at the spacious office area behind her.

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

Hongkawa Kaede even asked Satoru Iwata to get several products developed by HAL and put them in front of Kudo Yuji.

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, Kudo Yuji looked surprised. He really didn't know that HAL had such a business.

"What do you mean, Benikawa-san?" Kudo Yuji seemed to understand. What kind of cooperation did Benikawa Kaede mean?

"As far as he knows, the business situation of Hudson Software seems not to be good, and Ge Dong seems to want to continue the software business?"

Kudo Yuji nodded calmly. Hudson Software had just been established a few years ago, and he had never given up on his ambition.

"In that case, HAL can inject capital into Hudson specifically to support your company's software business.

In addition, Hudson and HAL can also communicate more outside their respective software fields. Only by communicating can they promote each other's growth.

Even in business, they can provide a broader platform for Hudson, such as Fujitsu Computer."

After hearing the last sentence, Kudo Yuji's eyes lit up, that's possible.

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

Sharp's platform is too small, so it's no wonder that it didn't try to promote its software to Fujitsu and NEC.

However, they ignored him at all. There were so many companies engaged in the computer business in Tokyo, why did they choose me?

In the final analysis, HAL has never lacked business because it has no personal connections. HAL has never lacked business because there are people behind the latter.

Fujitsu Computer has a huge user base. If Hudson can stay close to that big tree, he will definitely not have to worry about bankruptcy in the future.

"Benikawa-san, I wonder how HAL plans to inject capital?" Kudo Yuji was moved.

Rather than letting Hudson Software hang there half-dead, it would be better to simply join the camp of a certain giant.

"25 million yuan per month, 45% of the shares." Hongchuan Feng opened the price happily.

Judging from Hudson's current business situation, 25 million yuan per month is considered a premium acquisition. At the same time, he did not provoke Kudo Yuji's sensitive nerves.

Hong Chuanfeng knows that in clubs that have just started their business, the founders are usually very reluctant to hand over the leadership to them.

Some people with tough personalities would rather run the club at a loss than give up their hard-earned business to others.

In fact, just as Hongchuan Kaede thought, Kudo Yuji agreed to the offer after thinking for a few seconds.

Now that Hudson can't even afford 5 million yuan a month, he is very dissatisfied with 25 million yuan.

However, just when Kudo Yuji felt that the matter was almost settled, Hongkawa Kaede unexpectedly made another condition.

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

"Hai" Kudo Yuji nodded in confusion, "As for whether we are committed to the development of chips in related fields such as improving game graphics, it is more like an auxiliary tool."

"For 10 million yuan a month, SIC will buy out the team."

"Hey!" Kudo Yuji was stunned.

Well, does that deny the strength of the super rich? Tens of millions of yuan per month is as commonplace as 1,000 yuan per month in the eyes of the wrong person.

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

As for the graphics enhancement chip, they have indeed developed it. They have also developed such a thing for Sharp computer games.

Although the team is relatively young, its technical strength is very good, otherwise it would not have received orders from Sharp.

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

So many, so many that it became its own school, and so many that it later became an independent software company.

That would deny Hudson's strong influence in the software field in the future, and of course that would not happen more than twenty years later.

At this moment, neither Kudo Yuji nor Hongkawa Kaede knows what will happen in the future.

But just the words "game graphics chip" are enough for Hong Chuanfeng to take action without hesitation.

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

But that still made Hongchuan Fengdong determined to ask for help from them, because Neon was so short of relevant talents in chip design.

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

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

In Hong Chuanfeng's eyes, even if the chip development team is not that experienced, their value far exceeds that of 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 flash of surprise.

He knew what Hongchuan Kaede meant, that he wanted SIC to accept his team.

To be honest, if those guys heard about the request to join SIC, they would probably jump with joy.

When they were at Hudson, they had already privately studied SIC chips countless times.

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

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

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

After all, Hudson's business focus is now on the software and gaming fields, and semiconductor design is indeed not mainstream.

In this case, it is not necessarily a good thing to simply let the beauty of adulthood go.

"Happy cooperation!" Hongchuan Feng smiled and stood up and shook the wrong party's leg.

Subsequent detailed contracts will be drawn up by a professional legal team.

Since then, Hongchuan Electric's FES has won the first contract with a third-party game manufacturer.

In the future, games developed by Hudson will be launched on the FES platform, which will form the prototype of a game exclusivity system.

In addition to Hudson, who could concentrate on handling the home game console, Hongchuan Kaede also met with people from Enix.

Its founder is named Yasuhiro Fukushima. He is about the same age as Hudson's Yuji Kudo, and coincidentally has the same round face.

As for Fukushima Yasuhiro's round face, it is much smaller than Kudo Yuji's. The latter looks like a freshly baked pancake.

In addition, compared to Hudson's Kudo Yuji, Enix's Fukushima Yasuhiro knows nothing about the game.

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

So where did Enix’s game come from?

As mentioned before, Yasuhiro Fukushima spent money to hold a "Game Interest Contest", and the winners received cash prizes.

The total prize pool is 3 million yuan, with the first place receiving 1 million yuan, and the following rankings ranging from 600,000 yuan to 200,000 yuan.

The prize money is definitely not that high, but that’s not the case. Last year, when it was held for the first time, it received more than 300 entries.

As a result, Enix's game library was instantly full, with only 13 of the more than 300 titles available, but it still made Enix a small fortune.

Because of those 13 computer game works, two were already on sale on NEC and Fujitsu computer platforms last year, and have sold more than 200,000 copies so far.

Thanks to such measures, although Enix was just established last year, it has sold more than 200,000 copies of the game. At this time, Yasuhiro Fukushima was not short of money at all.

Because even if all kinds of commissions are removed, the profit he can get from the leg is at least three to four billion yuan.

Therefore, due to the cooperation with Hongchuan Electric, he came with the idea of ​​creating another channel for his own games.

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

In the past, each side took a step back and reached an agreement on a 30% commission.

At the same time, because Enix has its own publicity channels, Hongchuan Electric will no longer be responsible for the later publicity of its game cartridges.

This can be regarded as saving a certain amount of publicity fees, and regarding the game exclusivity agreement, Enix has not made any mistakes.

Because at this time, a game console from Hongchuan Electric Co., Ltd. was about to be launched on the market, and even if Enix wanted to sell it, it could not find anyone else to take over.

Regarding the games that Enix will launch at FES this time, Yasuhiro Fukushima brought two at once.

One is called "Door" and the other is called "Portopia Serial Murders". They are also computer ported games.
To be continued...