The heated Wharf War finally ended with the victory of the Charter King, and Jardine Matheson Group finally chose to give up.
Li Jianhui didn't care about Wharf's subsequent development. From the moment the shares were transferred, Wharf had nothing to do with him.
This time it cost HK$6,500 to acquire 3.987 million shares and sold them to Charter King at a sky-high price of HK$358.83 million. Excluding Printing Rui, its profit reached more than HK$280 million.
This is the reason why the stock market often cuts off the leeks of retail investors, but there are still countless people rushing into it without hesitation.
Everyone hopes to be the winner. As long as you bet correctly, getting rich overnight is not a dream.
Because of Wharf, not only Bao Yugang became popular, but Li Jianhui no longer kept a low profile and seemed to have become another wealthy family in Hong Kong.
Not to mention other industries, just the Wharf transaction, the outside world estimates that its profit is at least more than 100 million Hong Kong dollars.
With one investment, you can become a billionaire in just over a month. This is a topic that Hong Kong media loves.
In this battle for Wharf, Li Jianhui was named the biggest winner by the media, while Jardine Matheson was the biggest loser.
At this time, Li Jianhui was very low-key. Apart from adding additional security personnel for himself and his family, he did not accept any interviews with the media, nor did he make any public remarks.
Even though the major media in Hong Kong praised him to the sky, he never stood up and said a word. If reporters hadn't photographed him entering and leaving the company every day, everyone would have thought that this person had left Hong Kong?
With rice in hand and no need to panic, Li Jianhui not only paid varying amounts of bonuses to each employee of Xinjian Company, but also gave more than 80 million to Li Zhengwei and others for short-term investment.
As for the other 200 million, 100 million was used by Huihong Game Company to purchase equipment, and he wanted to return it. It was already March 9th, and the machinery and equipment at Huihong Industrial Park also needed to start ordering.
As for the other 100 million Hong Kong dollars, Li Jianhui temporarily placed it in Xinjian Investment Company as a reserve fund to be used for emergencies when needed.
From the launch of Cubes on October 30, to Pac-Man on December 18, and then Little Bee on January 1, new games have been launched one after another in just a few months, and each one has been welcomed by game fans everywhere.
In the past two months, Huihong Game Company has finally calmed down and has shown no signs of launching new games. This has also made game companies including Atari, Sega, Taito, Nintendo, etc. breathe a sigh of relief.
With Huihong Game Company's previous momentum, if it continues like this, the entire arcade industry will be dominated by it.
These companies more hope that Li Jianhui and Huihong Game Company will use up their talents so that they can have enough time to develop high-quality games to suppress the momentum of Huihong Game Company.
In the Wang Haichuan Tank Battle project development team, Li Jianhui personally discussed game development with project team members.
Although he doesn't understand various programs, he can draw the screen of the tank battle game in the previous life, which can greatly speed up the development of the game project.
At present, Li Jianhui is also a little anxious. After entering March, the Xiangjiang Cube market has begun to shrink and sales have begun to decline significantly. Huihong Game Company needs a new game to replace Xiangjiang Cube.
The arcade market is already limited. Since November, Xiangjiang cubes have been selling like hotcakes. By the end of February, 46,580 Xiangjiang cubes alone had been shipped. The current market has begun to reach saturation.
Unless a new market is developed, it will be difficult for Xiangjiang cubes to have the same large number of orders as in the past few months.
For this reason, the production base has reduced the production scale of Xiangjiang cubes this month, only producing 50 units per day, and the excess production lines are used for the production of Pac-Man and Bee.
In other words, Li Jianhui is not satisfied with the sales volume of Xiangjiang Cube. If the bosses of other game companies have another such a hot-selling game, they will definitely publicize and celebrate it.
You must know that before Xiangjiang Cube, the highest-selling arcade machine was Atari's Table Tennis. Since 1972, there have been less than 30,000 units so far.
Xiangjiang Cube, on the other hand, far exceeded this record in just a few months, and is still setting new record highs.
Li Jianhui is still not satisfied with this. If word of this gets out, developers and bosses in the gaming industry will definitely beat this guy to death for taking advantage of him and acting like a good boy.
In fact, the reason why Li Jianhui has such a big gap in his heart is mainly because he was deeply influenced by his previous life. He feels that these well-known games will definitely sell well when they come out, not to mention millions, but hundreds of thousands.
As a result, less than 50,000 units were sold, which was far too far from the expected target.
Feeling disappointed, Li Jianhui adjusted it as soon as possible. Since the reality was far from what he imagined, he naturally had to adjust some of his previous plans.
The original plan was to launch the new game in September, but with the current situation, the new game must be released in advance, and it will be released in May significantly earlier.
In addition to personally watching the Tank Battle project, he also went over to discuss Super Mario with the developers from time to time.
In addition, Li Jianhui formed a third development project team, with Zhao Mingjun as the team leader, to develop a formula racing game, the F1 racing game that Li Jianhui played in his childhood.
This game, like Tank Battle and Super Mario, will use Intel's latest 16-bit processor 8086.
In 1976, Atari, Sega, Taito, Namco, etc. all developed racing games, but the results were not very good.
Li Jianhui plans to use this childhood F1 to impact the market to see if it can become a hit.
What makes him happy is that the company's research and development on the video game platform has made quite good progress, and the first prototype of the Overlord game console has been produced.
At the same time, the Xiangjiang Cube game card is being further developed and improved, and it is estimated that the game card and the game console can be combined within this month.
If all goes well, the Overlord game console will be launched in May, officially entering the video game market and ushering in the glorious era of red and white consoles.
Unfortunately, Huihong Industrial Park worked overtime and it would take until the end of August to complete the project, so he could only delay the launch of the Bawang game console.
However, he did not let him stop on some tasks, especially the game development department of the video game department, which had a very heavy workload.
The first is to transplant Xiangjiang Cubes, Pac-Man, and Little Bee so that they can be played on the Overlord console for game fans.
In addition, Li Jianhui also asked the company to develop poker, badminton, table tennis, baseball, football, basketball, chess and other leisure games.
Anyway, there are quite a lot of types. As far as those in the Game Development Department of the Video Game Affairs Department are concerned, it would be impossible to complete these projects within one or two years.
Because Li Jianhui devoted all his energy to the game company, outside media reporters could not interview this person at all, so Li Jianhui's popularity because of Wharf did not last long.
After all, talented people emerge from generation to generation, and Xiangjiang is changing all the time. Moreover, there are many big names and celebrities in Xiangjiang in this era. The media in Xiangjiang will not always revolve around him. Li Jianhui will not be able to attract the attention of the media in Xiangjiang for a long time if he does not create news selling points.