Tokyo: Being coveted by my wife, I just want to play games

As soon as Akiyama Makoto said this, the scene fell completely silent. Everyone raised their eyebrows and looked at Akiyama Makoto with amusement and contempt in their eyes. The staff behind Akiyama Makoto himself twitched their mouths, and Akiyama Yunpachi, who was sitting on the first seat, unconsciously tightened his hands on the dragon head sculpture and sighed in his heart.

[There are so many game companies in the world that want to do handheld game business, but why are there only NICO and Xiayou Alliance that have succeeded? The real key thing here is strength! Don't be fooled by her! ]

What Akiyama Makoto just said is logically correct, but...

This shouldn't be said now.

Everyone knows that the key to this cooperation is whether Fuyukawa Tetsu is strong enough, and Akiyama Kaori must know it, and the fact that Akiyama Kaori dared to bring this up here today means that she must have prepared some information in this regard. Moreover, the fact that Shengguangshe's "FGO" will be launched tonight is no secret to anyone.

Therefore, what Akiyama Makoto should really do at this time is to wait and see what Kaori Akiyama throws out next, and then make plans, instead of rushing out so rashly.

It's like playing cards.

The key cards must be played at the critical moment. Not to mention that they can be used to directly determine the victory, at least they should play a role in turning the situation around like [From now on, the attack and defense are reversed. The enemy can go where I go, and I can go too], so that I can take the initiative in the game. But now.

Too rash.

Akiyama Makoto is too naive and stubborn, and is definitely not fit to be the head of a family.

This thought once again emerged in everyone's mind, including Kaori Akiyama.

According to her tough and even somewhat fiery personality, she wanted to say a few words to force Akiyama Makoto into a corner, or even better, to make him angry and leave, which would be more convenient for the meeting to proceed.

But seeing Akiyama Yunpachi's old and weak face, and his old hands tightly clinging to the dragon head sculpture, she finally just sighed, ignored Akiyama Makoto's shouting, and just said: "I know everyone is worried about this problem. There is no need for me to say much in this regard. Everything depends on the performance of the new work of Shengguang Society tonight. But..."

At this point, Akiyama Kaori glanced at everyone present with a sharp gaze, "You should have all seen the financial report for the first quarter of this year. Following the fourth quarter of last year, our Akiyama family's profits fell by 6% overall. In half a year, the total decline was 12%, and this was when PH and NICO's new machines were launched last year and we received a large number of orders. And you can also see the loss-making areas from the financial report.

NICO's handheld market share has stopped growing since two years ago. Last year, the Hawaii Game Alliance was formed and Sugimu's new handheld came out, and NICO's market share was directly eaten up by one-third. And the most important thing is that NICO does not allow us to do OEM for their competitors, but Shengguangshe now has a deep cooperative relationship with SATE, and some of SATE's games may also be launched on Shengguangshe's handhelds in the future. So even if we bury our heads in the ground and pretend to be ostriches now, we will definitely face the same difficult choices in the future, and our situation will be much more passive than it is now. "

Akiyama Kaori said a lot, and the short nanny who had been standing behind her brought tea at the right time. After listening to her words, most people present frowned and started discussing.

Including the head of the family, Akiyama Yunpachi, there were a total of thirteen people present. Although not all of them were involved in the company's business management, the financial report was related to the share dividends, so they would also look at it every quarter.

The situation is just as Kaori Akiyama said. NICO's market size has not expanded for more than two years, and after the Hawaii Game Alliance was formed last year, a large part of NICO's market was eaten up again.

Things are troublesome.

This is not just a matter of shrinking order quantity. NICO is a large company with more than 7,000 employees to support. Now that the market has been lost by almost half, NICO must be short of funds, and the company's tight funds often lead to [cost reduction and efficiency improvement].

NICO started laying off employees at the beginning of this year, but NICO adopted a seniority-based system, which has caused NICO to stagnate over the years. The company promotes employees based on seniority rather than ability, but on the other hand, this is indeed a good protection for employees because the compensation for layoffs is very high.

Therefore, NICO did not dare to lay off too many employees. If internal cost reduction was not possible, the only option was to reduce the prices of order manufacturers like Akiyama.

The gaming industry is very risky, but it is also a high value-added industry. If Fuyukawa Che makes a super hit, he can make nearly $1 billion in profit in a year. However, the profits of factories that produce discs and cartridges for the gaming industry are often very thin.

The profit margin was already very thin, and now not only the number of orders has decreased, but NICO has further reduced the price. In fact, many people present were already dissatisfied and even wanted to leave. But the problem is.

nowhere to go.

Thinking of this, many people present looked at Akiyama Kaori who was calmly drinking tea with some complicated expressions. Especially the elderly Akiyama Yunpachi who was sitting on the dragon head chair, his cloudy eyes were filled with regret and annoyance.

Before the Hawaii Game Alliance was established last year, Fuyukawa Tetsu was still in Hawaii and fighting with the people of Giant Silver, and he didn't know Akiyama Kaori at all. Akiyama Kaori had actually proposed to the Akiyama family that she would leave NICO and join the Hawaii Game Alliance. At the very least, she would take advantage of the rise of the Hawaii Game Alliance to negotiate better contract terms with NICO.

That was indeed a good opportunity, and Akiyama Kumoya was well aware of it. But at that time, Akiyama Kaori was too powerful and almost took over all the power within the Akiyama Group, which made many other people at the time feel timid. After all, although Akiyama Kaori only held 3% of the shares, similar dramas of a snake swallowing an elephant are not uncommon in the business world.

Especially his eldest son, Makoto Akiyama, was almost completely excluded from the core circle of the group's senior management during that period.

As his own son, Akiyama Yunpachi knew best what kind of character Akiyama Makoto was, and also knew Akiyama Makoto's ability. His initial idea was to let Akiyama Makoto hold shares and get dividends, and be an idle prince who would have no worries about food, clothing, housing, women and wine for the rest of his life, and leave the company's business to the capable Akiyama Kaori. But.

"One wrong step, all wrong."

I remembered that a few years ago, because of Makoto Akiyama's pleading, I presided over a meeting to take back some of Akiyama Kaori's rights and suppressed her development; I also remembered that although Akiyama Kaori has become more worried and her temperament has become more fierce and arrogant in the past few years, she is still working hard for the Akiyama family, and even comes to eat and chat with me in the evening every day, just like in the past 20 years. I also thought of the beating of Makoto Akiyama by Fuyukawa Che some time ago.

Thinking of this, Akiyama Yunpachi's old face was full of helplessness and regret.

He is the lord of the Akiyama family's revival. When he was young, his personality was as tough and aggressive as his wild face. Since he was in his twenties, he has been called the "Lion of the Akiyama Family" by the black and white business people in Kyoto.

With his personality, even if he knew that Dongchuan Che was not easy to deal with, even if he knew that the Akiyama family was in trouble now, he would not swallow his anger and would definitely seek revenge. However, this time, when faced with the beating of his own son, he rarely said a word.

There was no other reason, because he knew what Akiyama Makoto had done to Akiyama Kaori. And he also knew that the reason why Akiyama Makoto dared to do this was because he felt that he, his father, was backing him up.

Thinking of this, Akiyama Yunhachi glanced at Akiyama Makoto in the audience. He saw that the latter was staring at Akiyama Kaori with hatred on his face, and he had never greeted him since he entered the hall.

Grudge.

A fifty-year-old man has developed this habit.

When he was young, he personally laid a solid foundation for the Akiyama family's transformation after 2000. But now he has to rely on a tube to maintain his life and needs a nanny to help him with urination and defecation. Looking at all this, Akiyama Yunpachi's heart is full of sadness. His old hands once again tightly grasped the dragon head sculpture armrest of the chair.

After a long time, his rapid breathing gradually subsided, and the sadness and regret in his eyes completely disappeared, replaced by a brightness and sharpness like a last ray of light.

"Forget it, forget it. I will apologize to the child's mother after I die, but the Akiyama family cannot decline in my generation!"

With this in mind, Akiyama Yunpachi made a decision in his heart as he watched the discussion in the audience become more and more heated. However, he did not rush to speak, but instead restrained the sharpness in his eyes and continued to slump in his seat, but his cloudy eyes were carefully observing the performance of everyone present.

Yes, observe.

The Akiyama family is no longer a monolithic entity, and getting rid of its reliance on NICO seems to be a more promising option, but it also comes with huge risks.

Where there are risks, there will definitely be disagreements. Now that he wants to hand over the baton of the Akiyama family to Akiyama Kaori again, he naturally wants to help Akiyama Kaori cut off the barbs on the baton and help her get on the horse and send her off. However,

"The final key still depends on how far Kaori's man can go."

The information about Dongchuan Che that he had seen during this period flashed through his mind, and a hint of anger flashed in Akiyama Yunba's eyes, but in this anger, there was also some curiosity and even appreciation.

Although he was also very angry that Fuyukawa Tetsu beat Akiyama Makoto, on the one hand, he had been in the society since he was a child, and he was able to lead the Akiyama family, which focused on manufacturing, to survive the economic crisis caused by the bursting of the Japanese bubble. He himself was also a broad-minded and heroic leader, and did not think that fighting between men was a big deal.

On the other hand, Dongchuan Che had his reasons for doing this, and he had experienced this kind of thing when he was young. He had beaten up many men of his generation from other families in Kyoto for fighting over women, but he had never seen anyone's father jump out and yell for a fight.

It's very embarrassing.

Seeing what Dongchuan Che did, he was angry, but also felt nostalgic for his youth, and lamented his old age, as well as the helplessness of Akiyama Makoto who was in a hopeless situation. Moreover, Dongchuan Che's history of making a fortune was too exaggerated.

In just two years, he has grown from a grassroots to a leader in the gaming industry. Not only is he extremely talented in game production, but his mentality and methods of doing things are also extremely sharp and sophisticated!

Borrowing chickens to lay eggs, forming alliances, and taking advantage of opportunities, and finally at the recent SATE dinner, they used the power of others to their advantage and overwhelmed others with the overwhelming force!

Every step that Dongchuan Che has taken along the way is extremely exciting, but also extremely dangerous. If he had misjudged the other party's mind at any step, Dongchuan Che would not have achieved what he has today. And all of this reveals Dongchuan Che's character and means!

To be honest, before Akiyama Makoto was beaten, he had actually heard of Dongchuan Che's name, but at that time he did not think much about it, thinking that he was just a junior who was doing pretty well.

But as Akiyama Makoto was beaten, and as he read the information on Dongchuan Che collected by his subordinates late at night, even though he claimed that "I am the most handsome guy in Kyoto in the past fifty years", he couldn't help but be amazed.

"Although that little guy has many women around him, his style of doing things is quite similar to what I did back then. I am relieved that Kaori has found such a man. It's a pity that Kaori is not a boy. Well, it seems that I still have to cheer up the second brother."

Thinking of this, Akiyama Yunpachi glanced at Akiyama Ryunosuke, the chief seat on his left, who was also Akiyama Kaori's uncle.

Although he has decided to hand over the baton of the Akiyama family to Akiyama Kaori, on the one hand, Akiyama Kaori is a girl after all, and a concubine's daughter. When he was still alive, he was confident that Akiyama Kaori would assist the Akiyama family wholeheartedly, and he was also confident that he could suppress other objections, but Akiyama Yunya is already 80 years old this year, and his time is running out.

On the other hand, he was not sure what Dongchuan Che would think. Dongchuan Che was capable and ambitious, and was a good partner, but if one of the parties was too strong, the other party would be kicked out or even be swallowed up.

He would not gamble the future of the Akiyama family on Toru Fuyukawa's whim, and if he suppressed his emotional thinking and analyzed purely from a rational perspective, he would find it difficult to be sure that after he passed away, Akiyama Kaori, who did not have much attachment to the Akiyama family, would not be abducted away by love, or by her own small family.

Therefore, he not only needs to support Akiyama Kaori to take the position, but also needs to support Akiyama Ryunosuke and make him the second-in-command of the Akiyama family again.

Although he knew that this was a heavy burden for Ryunosuke Akiyama, who suffered from lung disease and was also having a hard time every day, there was no other way. The Akiyama family was now facing internal and external troubles, and someone had to support the family until the next generation of young people grew up.

As for Akiyama Makoto.

Finally, he took a complicated look at his eldest son and shook his head secretly, "Protecting Cheng to a life of wealth and glory is the last thing I can do for him as a father. The child's mother will definitely understand me."

Akiyama Yunpachi was deeply saddened.

Of course, the other people present were unaware of his change of thinking, and since "FGO" was not released for another half an hour, the two factions were still arguing, and there were many directions for the argument.

Some people advocated staying under NICO. They felt that although NICO was in a difficult situation now, a NICO in a difficult situation would be beneficial for them to negotiate terms. Some people advocated breaking away from the dependence on NICO and relying on Dongchuan Che, a potential stock. Some people were also discussing whether they could move closer to the Sugimu handheld game console of the Hawaii Game Alliance.

Everyone was thinking about their own interests, only Akiyama Makoto was blinded by anger, and he was always sarcastic to Akiyama Kaori during the conversation. However, Akiyama Kaori was not the type who liked to talk nonsense, and in the face of his shouting, she just calmly drank tea and chatted quietly with Akiyama Ryunosuke next to her.

But what’s interesting is that this calm reaction actually irritated Akiyama Makoto even more. He was so angry that he said directly, “I want to see how badly that Tokyo bastard falls!”

He originally wanted to call him a bastard, but when he remembered the scene of being blocked in the alley and beaten up a few days ago, and remembered that his father didn't show any reaction, Akiyama Makoto shuddered again. He glanced at his father with resentful eyes, and then changed his words.

No one noticed this subtle change in his expression, but when he said this, the eyes of the others present became more amused.

For the others present, they were actually happy to see Makoto Akiyama provoke Akiyama Kaori, after all, only in this way, Akiyama Kaori needed the support of others, but Makoto Akiyama, who only knew how to drive luxury cars and play with women every day, did not understand this. In this noisy atmosphere, as the clock on the wall reached six o'clock in the evening, as a giant projection screen was lowered on the side of the room, everyone fell silent.

There is no other reason, "FGO" is about to be launched.