Tokyo Video Game Tycoon

   Chapter 298 Turning Bad Things into Good Things

   Looking for countermeasures? What can be done now? Is it possible to bypass the US rules and avoid the disclosure of source code and patents through some sidelines?

   However, it is almost impossible for such a thing to happen, and these two law enforcement agencies will not give you the opportunity to take advantage of the loopholes.

  Even if there is a chance, they will immediately make up for the loophole, and then let you spit out more with the profit, which can be said to be quite overbearing.

   However, Matsuhashi still honestly explained all the sanctions imposed on Youxing Electronic Entertainment by the two agencies.

First of all, it is convenient for the tax bureau to decide to increase the tariffs on video games and game consoles by 20%. Unless you are going to build a factory in the United States and sell it, you can turn a blind eye. said.

   means that the tax bureau hopes to bring a large factory to the United States to increase the employment rate, so that the tax bureau’s tax can still be drawn from the employed people, and by the way, the dissatisfaction of the people can be reduced, which is a win-win situation.

   However, the cost of building a factory in the United States is very high, and labor costs are the bulk of it. The current hourly wages of industrial workers are less than twenty dollars.

   If it is skilled workers, wages must be increased, and the average daily wage per worker will be more than two hundred dollars.

   This kind of daily salary can scare people to death, it is better to accept the 20% tariff increase.

   Zhu Yuxing said nothing about this request.

  The tax bureau is nothing more than ordering more money. These are trivial matters. It is normal for the tax rate to fluctuate.

   The real nuisance is the Department of Justice.

   Their Antitrust Bureau has used various reasons to compel Yusong Electronic Entertainment to disclose multiple patents, and must also disclose the source code of their game consoles.

  This is fatal.

  Public patents aside, once the game console publishes the source code, the most serious problem is cracking.

   And it is still the lowest level of cracking. These four game consoles will have no ability to fight back in the face of piracy in the future.

   was made public, almost proclaiming surrender to piracy.

   So Matsuhashi was unwilling to accept it anyway.

   In addition to disclosing the source code of the host, the compulsory authorization of patents includes the ray gun, the cross key, the shoulder key, and some patents that were preempted in advance but have not yet been used for the time being.

   However, the Ministry of Justice may also be afraid of jumping over the wall and abandoning the US market, and then the patent will not be disclosed.

   So they just ask that Youxing Electronic Entertainment can authorize it for a fee, but it must not lock up the patents and prevent anyone from using these patents.

   And the patent licensing fee will be limited to a certain extent, and it should not be too expensive.

   They call this Boosting the Industry.

   After listening to all the detailed introductions, Matsuhashi also talked about the hard work of the people on their side, which delayed the implementation of these rules for a while.

   This is the last thing they can do.

"By the way, President, in addition to the people on our side who are doing their best to delay the development of the situation, there is also a company that you may not have expected to help us. That company used its own influence to also affect the rules. There were a lot more patents that we had to compulsorily disclose, but that company’s involvement was immediately reduced a lot.”

   "Huh? Sounds like a big company, who is it?"

   "The Morgan Group."

   Take Yusei was very surprised.

   Is this company helping you?

   For what? Just because their own release of Doom boosted the popularity of their system?

   That's an amazing reward.

   The reason why he let Doom log on to the PC is mainly because the PC performance is really stronger, and it can also make the picture better. Zhu Yuxing just wants to experience the game with better picture, and do a high-performance game test at the same time.

   But he seems to have added a friend to himself invisibly.

  The Morgan Group is very similar to Microsoft in his previous life, a super giant in the electronics field in the United States, whose status is almost unshakable, and the money is too much to spend.

Zhu Yuxing said: "I really did not expect the help of the Morgan Group, but I will definitely remember this favor. I will consider cooperation with the Morgan Group in the future, but now, we should carry out our response strategy. ."

  Matsuhashi asked suspiciously: "President, have you already thought of a countermeasure? So fast?"

   Zhu Yuxing shook his head: "No, it's actually not what I thought of now, but I thought about it a long time ago."

   "What's the strategy? Is there any way to avoid the source code disclosure of our consoles?"

   "No, this can't be stopped. Let's make it public. In fact, it's still a good thing."

   "Good thing?" Songqiao almost thought he heard it wrong.

   If the source code is made public, then the revenue of Yuxing Electronic Entertainment on these game consoles may fall off a cliff.

   There were legal protections to a certain extent to ensure that these game consoles remained popular.

  But now the U.S. officials have all come to forcibly promote the source code disclosure of the four game consoles, which is equivalent to telling people that you can pirate these four game consoles, and we will turn a blind eye and ignore it.

  Youxing Electronic Entertainment can of course use legal authorization to protect its own rights and interests, but the cost of suing one by one is incalculable, and the biggest cash cow has also been toppled, and the successor is weak, but it may be dragged down.

Zhu Yuxing explained patiently: "I think so, since the source code will inevitably be made public, then we can use it in reverse, just to make the four game consoles completely open source, we also simply put the four game consoles into the open source. The development kits of the game consoles are also made public, to squeeze the last value: the value of talents.”

   "How to squeeze this?" Matsudahashi has become more and more incomprehensible.

"You can prepare now, put on a new advertisement, release the game development kit, hold an event, and reward the people who develop games on our consoles, from individuals to groups, as long as the games they make meet our requirements. , just give a bonus, give a long-term contract, I will wipe out the game developers in the United States and pull them all into my camp.”

  Zhu Youxing paused, then said, "As for the name of the event, it's called Game Stars. It's planned to discover future game stars."

   This world will never lack talented people, so far Zhuyouxing has not found a few, but it is just the opportunity to take advantage of this opportunity to make the game console completely open source to recruit such talents.

Come on, geniuses, our game consoles do not require you to pay any licensing fees, as long as you have interesting ideas, you can develop games on our game consoles at will, and all sales revenue will be 100% only You, we will not take a penny, and at the same time we will give you a new contract, a contract that binds genius to death.

"Other than that, now I feel like it's finally time to release the ultimate move that we've been hiding for a long time, the GBA, and the GS1 game console, these two consoles that have been in development for a long time, and now is the most The right launch opportunity isn't it?"

   (end of this chapter)