80_80813 "Oh, Chen Dong, in fact, you don't have to be presumptuous. ”

Yang Huan saw Chen Dong's expression of shame, and he knew what was going on.

At the end of the day, every otaku values their dignity more than anything else.

The same goes for Chen Dong

"We have so many and huge resources, and you are just sitting at home and thinking about it, we are only half a year ahead of you, you should be proud and proud of this"

Yang Huan's words are not exaggerated at all.

With the status and influence of WeChat, the news channels and the resources at its disposal, it is completely beyond the imagination of an ordinary person, nor is it comparable to an ordinary person at all.

Chen Dong was able to do this with the strength of one person, which was already quite not easy.

"Yes, Chen Dong, Brother Huan is right, don't be presumptuous."

Zhuang Zicheng also opened his mouth to persuade, and he also felt that this guy was a talent.

The two big leaders both spoke, and the others also followed suit to persuade them.

Chen Dong also knows that in today's society, no matter how powerful and outstanding a person is, it is impossible to challenge a large company, especially a large consortium like WeChat, which has so many resources.

It's just that he is still a little ashamed in his heart.

I knew that I shouldn't have been so bombastic just now.

At the very least, it's good to be humble

"Young Master Huan, I want to know, who first proposed this plan half a year ago?"

Chen Dong still has a bit of a gambler's personality, and if he loses, he must know who he loses to.

When everyone heard this, they all immediately looked at Yang Huan.

At this time, Chen Dong admired it even more in his heart.

It turned out to be Young Master Huan himself

"Eh, I'm actually a layman, but I'm a person who is more prone to being prepared for danger in times of peace, so I put forward some ideas, and everyone present brainstormed to have a detailed plan, so it has nothing to do with me"

But that's what I said, but everyone still worshipped each other.

If there was no such thing as Young Master Huan at the beginning, everyone didn't know when they would have noticed this link.

Maybe it was really said by Chen Dong by now.

"Young Master Huan, can you reveal specific information? For example, which company are you planning to acquire? ”

When it comes to this, Chen Dong is fanatical.

Yang Huan smiled slightly, "What do you think?" ”

Chen Dong smiled with something called YY on his face.

"That's Microsoft...... of course"

The crowd burst into laughter.

Acquisition of Microsoft, you're not kidding, are you?

Being acquired by Microsoft is pretty much the same

Chen Dong is also aware of the problem, "I mean, the acquisition of Microsoft's game console business"

Everyone is still laughing, everyone knows that Microsoft will not give up this market.

That's one of Microsoft's most important strategic businesses

"Or Sony's console business, and Nintendo." Chen Dongti said.

If one of them can be acquired, it will make domestic game lovers a big fanatic.

Yang Huan smiled and shook his head silently.

On the contrary, it was Zhuang Zicheng who asked with a smile: "Haven't you heard the news that Vivendi is in debt?" ”

When Chen Dong heard this, his eyes lit up, "Yes, the company was going to acquire ...... at that time."

"Oh my God" Chen Dong was directly shocked, "Could it be that you are going to acquire Activision Blizzard?" ”

This guy was directly stunned by the name

Activision Blizzard

That's Activision Blizzard

You know, in the eyes of game lovers all over the world, Blizzard is the supreme being.

Diablo, StarCraft, Warcraft, World of Warcraft, ......

These games are all super classic and excellent works, and they directly pushed Blizzard to the altar

WeChat's status in the field of mobile games is also known as Blizzard in the field of mobile games, which shows how lofty Blizzard's status is in the minds of gamers.

"Vivendi has $15.5 billion in debt, the stock price has fallen by more than 20 percent, and it has to sell its high-quality asset Activision Blizzard to alleviate the huge debt pressure, and their current price tag for Activision Blizzard has been adjusted from the previous $8.2 billion to about $7 billion, which is within our acceptable range

"The only thing that is more troublesome is that Vivendi put forward the condition of a cash acquisition"

Zhuang Zicheng was also quite embarrassed when he said it.

The negotiations were also protracted, and since the end of June, when Vivendi came out of the news, WeChat began to contact Vivendi, and the two sides hit it off, but first there was some stalemate on the purchase price, and then they could not reach a consensus on the cash acquisition.

Honestly, how many companies in the world have been able to raise that much cash in a short period of time?

Besides, although Activision Blizzard has a respected position in the gaming industry, the problem is just as prominent.

That is, Blizzard's golden sign is based on the bounce ticket.

Blizzard is notoriously slow in terms of game development speed, which puts a lot of cost pressure.

If you work slowly, that's fine, but if it fails, won't all the investment be wasted?

Blizzard in the game industry and Wang Jiawei at the film festival are all grandmasters that people love and hate

In addition, in recent years, with the rapid development of mobile games, even if Blizzard has launched StarCraft II and Diablo III in the past two years, coupled with the old and strong World of Warcraft, Activision Blizzard's overall revenue is still on a downward trend.

This has discouraged game manufacturers, including Microsoft and Sony.

A $7 or 8 billion acquisition is too risky

In the end, WeChat had almost no other competitors, and it was only after talking to Vivendi slowly and methodically that the price was negotiated.

If you look at it purely from the game business, the $7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard is certainly a very risky thing.

But from other perspectives, this deal can fill one of WeChat's biggest weaknesses.

That's console game development

According to WeChat's plan, after WeChat Games acquires Activision Blizzard, it will begin to increase its efforts to develop new games on the virtual reality technology platform, including Blizzard's new games.

And Activision Blizzard is sitting on too many high-quality copyrights.

For example, World of Warcraft, StarCraft, Call of Duty, and many more are all great resources that can be adapted into movies.

The key is to see how the company operates

And the Yang Group now has the world's largest cinema chain, as long as the quality of the movies is passed, are you afraid that you won't be able to make money?

The so-called human poison may become my wine

In this way, the acquisition of Activision Blizzard is not only not risky, but may become another beautiful and value-added acquisition for Yang Huan

It's so cool to be rich

A rich person like Young Master Huan is even cooler

Chen Dong is not as long-term and wide as Yang Huan thinks, he focuses more on the field of games.

So he soon realized a problem.

"Master Huan, although Activision Blizzard has the best game production and distribution capabilities in the world, they are not in line with the business we just proposed, replacing PCs and occupying the center of home entertainment."

Could it be that Young Master Huan wants to develop again?

That's too slow, right?

By the time your Activision Blizzard is ready, the daylilies will be cold

After Yang Huan heard this, he still smiled silently.

Zhuang Zicheng glanced at his brother-in-law, behind the people, he and Yang Huan are good buddies, and they have no scruples, but in front of people, he has always positioned himself as a relationship between superiors and subordinates.

"Chen Dong, have you heard of the Villefort Company?"

"Villefort?" When Chen Dong heard this, he was taken aback again, and the whole person was stunned again.

He swore that in his life, from childhood to adulthood, he had never been scared so many times and so miserable as he was today.

Villefort is another big name in the gaming industry, and its most famous games are Half-Life and Counter-Strike

Oh yes, and Dota

But soon, Chen Dong had a flash of inspiration in his mind, and realized that he had grasped the most important vein.

The most important business of the company is no longer games, but their game platform M, which now has 4.5 million unique users per day and at least 2.5 million online users, accounting for 75% of the global game market, and the potential value is quite amazing.

First acquired Activision Blizzard, followed by Villefort, and now the entire strategic layout was clearly presented in front of Chen Dong, which made Chinese tech otaku feel an unprecedented inexplicable excitement.

He felt that this was a great opportunity

Half a year in advance, the layout began to strengthen its own strength through continuous acquisitions, as long as the integration is good, the entire ecosystem of virtual reality technology will be formed.

By that time, even if companies such as Microsoft and Sony have launched their own virtual reality technology, it will be difficult to shake the position of WeChat.

"Young Master Huan, I'm afraid the market value of this Villefort company is not cheap, at least about a billion dollars, plus Activision Blizzard, how can you ......?"

Chen Dong couldn't ask this question anymore after asking it halfway.

Because what he saw was Young Master Huan who was smiling and silent, and Zhuang Zicheng who was also very inscrutable opposite.

Yes, I am a master of game development and software technology, but in terms of capital operation, I am a complete layman, or even worse than a layman.

But who is Young Master Huan?

There is a well-known investment expert Mr. Zhao Yuanfang under his hands, and WeChat Company and Yang's Group also have excellent capital operation teams, these people must have a way to help Young Master Huan achieve his goals, otherwise, how dare Young Master Huan bring it up?

Thinking of this, Chen Dong's heart was put down.

The more Yang Huan looked, the more he felt that this guy was a smart person, but he might have stayed at home for too long and lacked the skills to communicate with the outside world.

But he's definitely a smart guy, and a very smart kind

"Chen Dong" Yang Huan said with a smile, "Are you interested in doing things at the WeChat Research Institute?" ”

Chen Dong received an invitation from Zhuang Zicheng last night, and he was already moved.

At this time, Young Master Huan personally invited, and he almost didn't hesitate at all, so he nodded directly and agreed.

Yang Huan saw him agree, and he was in a pretty good mood.

"With you on board, I am more confident in the future"

Chen Dong is also grateful to the boss for his attention, and he is also actively contributing.

Not to mention, although this kid stays at home, he knows the domestic game circle well, and he is a treasure for large and small companies, and has put forward several plans for the promotion of virtual reality helmets, which have been affirmed by everyone present.

This undoubtedly further deepened Yang Huan and Zhuang Zicheng's recognition of Chen Dong.

In the next few days, Yang Huan stayed in China and sat in Pengcheng.

With the success of the exhibition, the promotion of major media around the world, and the high praise of virtual reality headsets in the game industry, the sales of the developer version of virtual reality headsets are rising.

After surpassing 10,000 orders in less than 24 hours, it soon exceeded 20,000 orders on the fourth day.

By the fifteenth day, it had successfully exceeded 30,000 copies.

Since then, many orders have been delivered one after another every day.

The WeChat Research Institute promised that it would start construction immediately, and strive to make the first-generation developer version officially launch on the market in two months.

This immediately sparked a heated discussion in the industry, and countless people were full of expectations for it.

In the eyes of the Chinese people, this is undoubtedly a strong counterattack made in China.

In the past, I always felt that the United States and Europe were very high-end and high-tech in terms of high-tech, but this time, we also have high-tech companies in China leading the world, which is too shocking

Awesome

WeChat's influence in China has also been further enhanced.

And just when Yang Huan booked a ticket and was about to return to Europe, he suddenly received a call from Long Hai's family