Chapter 438：

Unconsciously, it entered a new year, and the time came to January 3, 2011.

This afternoon, the people of Shuguang Technology came to the Science and Technology Complex Building, and once again performed an optimization and upgrade of hardware for the "Naf" supercomputer. At this moment, Luo Sheng reawakened Xiaona and left the supercomputer room. The staff of Shuguang Technology He left before half an hour.

"Master, you have an unread internal email message from the Cote d'Azur company." Corona, who was reawakened, soon heard a voice.

"Simply report it." Luo Sheng said casually, came to the wine cabinet and opened a bottle of wine and poured himself a glass. Now Luo Sheng rarely goes to the office of the company. Most of the cases are carried out by internal mail. Or it's just a conference call.

Although Luo Sheng is consciously diluting his own influence in the two companies, but ... with little success, he is almost an irreplaceable absolute soul figure, and even if he really resigns, he can absolutely achieve a state of obedience.

Xiao Na immediately said: "Yao Jianhong, Executive Vice President of the French Riviera, sent an internal fiscal year email. The company's annual report last year has passed audit. The total global sales revenue for the year was 97.536 billion US dollars, or approximately 665.2 billion yuan. ; Net profit of USD 14.63 billion, or approximately RMB 99.78 billion. "

Luo Sheng was a little surprised, and said, "Didn't sales top 100 billion US dollars last year?"

After speaking, I took an iEP tablet and opened the mail information list. It was indeed correct when I saw it. The financial report has passed the audit, and the probability of error is very small.

However, this data is also quite dazzling compared to last year. Both the total sales and net profit have more than doubled compared to last year. Last year's total sales were 46.2 billion US dollars and net profit was 6.3 billion US dollars.

Luo Sheng put down the tablet and shook it aside.

Xiaona went on to report: "Among them, Azure-3 mobile phones sold 113 million units last year, generating revenue of 70.286 billion U.S. dollars; ieP tablets sold 37 million units last year, generating revenue of 17.76 billion U.S. dollars; The sales volume was 2.07 million units, generating revenue of $ 790 million. The AOS application store generated $ 7 billion in revenue last year, the total revenue of iEP tablet subscriptions was $ 1.7 billion last year, and the host platform generated $ 340 million in revenue last year. "

It is worth mentioning that the console has been released for less than half a month so far, and one week's data has entered the audit. However, in the last week since the release on December 24 last year, all the 3A-level game masterpieces on the entire platform totaled. 24.86 million units were sold, of which 17 million units were pumped at 30% of the platform to reach $ 340 million.

It can be seen that, in the mainframe business, hardware revenue and profit are secondary, the richness of ecological content has gone up, and platform revenue is the absolute head of revenue.

However, the platform for hosting business is actually in a state of net loss.

Because Luo Sheng has exclusively released several masterpieces by several game companies acquired by Blue Star Technology, according to previous commitments, the Cote d'Azur companies not only failed to earn a percentage during the monopoly period, but also subsidized a set of money for each set they sold. In the last week of last year, 7.86 million sets of several works were sold, all of which are a standard $ 60 set, which means that the azure coast needs to subsidize $ 470 million.

The larger the subsequent sales, the more subsidies.

Although losing money, don't be too happy in this situation. Follow this curve and you can count the money lying down.

After Xiaona reported the email information, Luo Sheng decisively instructed: "Return an email to President Yao, and the company's financial report can be disclosed to the outside, as usual."

Xiao Na: "OK, it has been sent."

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Ubisoft Headquarters.

Entering the new year, Ubisoft is boiling.

"Unbelievable," Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood "was launched simultaneously with the console release date, and it sold 1.92 million units of horror sales in the first week. Almost every player who bought a console sold a set of" Brotherhood ", my **** ... ... "said Chris Erli, vice president of Ubisoft Digital Distribution at the conference, in an uplifting tone.

At the same time, there was a document at the meeting, which was the annual report information released recently by the Cote d'Azur. The people of Ubisoft did not want to care about the sales volume of each other ’s Azure mobile phone or ieP tablet, nor did they want to care about this company last year. How much revenue.

Ubisoft only pays attention to the sales of consoles on the Cote d'Azur, because it is related to its own revenue. Generally, a game is sold, and the developer accounts for about 28% of the share. The platform takes about 30%, and the publisher and channel distributor. You have to pay accordingly.

It seems that the game company as a developer has less profit, but publishers, channel providers, and platform providers will also pour corresponding resources on promotion. Generally speaking, all cakes are eaten when they are large, and most cakes are not made. Drink northwest wind.

The data of the world ’s first week ’s sales of 2.07 million units shocked the global game industry. Everyone knows that this new next-generation console will definitely be sold, but it was not expected to be so popular. It will not take a year or two to follow this trend. In time, a super first party with 100 million host user platforms will be born.

All third-party game developers around the world are keenly aware that a first party on the same echelon as Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft has become a reality.

"On the first week of sales data from December 24th last year," Brotherhood "accounted for over 56% of the sales of the version, which directly suppressed the Sony PS3 version. This was based on the fact that there were only 2 million consoles. Achievement, if the host user has more than 40 million, do you know what this means? "Uber's then president Ifus Gillham looked around and said.

Everyone knows the meaning of BOSS, which means that the sales ratio of the version will be as high as 80%.

Yves Gilliam immediately looked to the vice president of distribution and said decisively: "I have decided, Chris, you should go to Huaguo as soon as possible and talk to the French Riviera. The successful popular action game under Ubisoft's success The "Assassin's Creed" series will be exclusive for its subsequent models and will no longer be compatible with Xbox series consoles and PS series consoles. "

None of the senior executives at the meeting came out to object, because the actual sales data has proved that the "Assassin's Creed" series can be maximized by Ubisoft.

Moreover, Ubisoft is now very concerned about peers such as R-Star, CDPR, and 2KGame. When it sells a set of Cote d'Azur companies, it subsidizes a set of money, which is equivalent to making double money, and the profit is more than 300% because of the subsidized money. Those who don't get into the platform, don't get into the pockets of publishers and channel dealers, all go into the pockets of developers.

After the meeting, Chris Erli was ready for the trip and took a flight to China.

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Two days later, the executive vice president's office of the Galaxy City of the Cote d'Azur headquarters.

Chris actually wanted to meet and talk with Luo Sheng, but he couldn't see it, even if the Ubisoft president came over, he might not see it.

Luo Sheng is too busy now, how can there be so much free time to deal with such small things, it is really a small thing for him.

The person who met him and talked to him this time was Yao Jianhong. As the No. 2 person on the French Riviera, he is second only to Luo Sheng's existence.

At this moment, Yao Jianhong looked at the Ubisoft executive sitting opposite him in wonder: "Mr. Chris, do you want to make the" Assassin's Creed "series a long-term exclusive game?"

Kerry Erli nodded very simply: "Yes, Mr. Yao, this is my purpose here. Mr. Luo rescued Ubisoft. He already owns 19% of Ubisoft, which is our boss ~ www .novelhall.com ~ Yao Jianhong couldn't help laughing, this foreigner was a bit interesting, first came up to say a feeling card, then it seems that this trip also did a lot of homework.

However, for a moment, Yao Jianhong said with a smile: "OK, there is no reason for the platform to reject such a popular title as Assassin's Creed, and we are very welcome, then Mr. Chris, what are the conditions for your company?"

Chris secretly shook his spirit and said, "We hope to obtain the same qualifications as R-Star and 2KGame, and the sales of games sold in the first half of the year will receive equal subsidies."

The third-party developers do n’t know how envious and jealous they are about these companies. This is the advantage of getting into the pit early. The risk period has passed. Here is the time to make money.

With this subsidy, within half a year, it is equal to selling one copy of their game to obtain actual profits. Other developers can only sell four copies to make up for it. Who can not help?

Yao Jianhong shook his head calmly: "If it's just the" Assassin's Creed "series, sorry, our company can't accept it."

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