Chapter 50: Gift (Seeking Recommendation Tickets!!)

  After the dinner party, Jester sent Carly back to her residence in Los Angeles and then rushed back to Costa Mesa overnight. He still had a more detailed negotiation with Li Jianxi about the memory order today.

  After all, this is a contract worth tens of millions of dollars.

  At this level of negotiation, it's not surprising that both sides have been talking for several days in a row. It's clear that both parties are very interested in this deal, especially Samsung, which has made the biggest concession on price.

  So in Gest's view, this round of negotiations may not last too long.

  Actually, he didn't plan to use 32KB of memory on his home console either. He remembered that the FES had only 8KB of memory, but because his hardware R&D department was developing a brand new 8-bit mainframe using a dual PPU architecture, this small amount of RAM that served as both memory and video memory would definitely not be enough.

  Originally, B's memory was barely enough, but Jester thought about it and also associated with Mark Cerny's saying that making a game with low memory is the biggest enemy, so he directly gave 32KB of huge memory.

  As for 64KB, it's really too expensive, and an 8-bit machine doesn't need that much anyway.

  In later years, Mark Cerny, when serving as the lead architect of the PS4, visited game companies all over the world. The biggest complaint these game companies had about making games for the PS3 was that it didn't have enough memory. At the time, there was an internal debate at Sony about whether to use 2GB or 4GB of memory. Mark Cerny made the final decision: 8GB.

  After sleeping in his own office, he got a good news as soon as he woke up early in the morning.

  Just as he was about to leave the company for Los Angeles, the team that his father had arranged earlier to develop a Pokémon version of Tamagotchi based on the GW architecture brought out their prototype. As for the pet-raising program inside, he had already written it beforehand, and he had also made several prototypes of the shell in advance.

  This time there are three samples, and the three pets inside are also different from each other.

  Jester's first three are for his own amusement, namely the three starter pokémon from the first generation of Pokémon.

  Charmander, Squirtle and Bulbasaur.

  Only half the size of GW's shell, with their adorable images drawn on it, Jest drew a rough sketch and then found the company's painter to redesign according to his rough sketch.

  He doesn't care about other characteristics, just one, which is being cute.

  Makes people can't help but want to play with it as soon as they see it.

  In fact, it's just a Pokémon, but it's actually just Tamagotchi with a different exterior. However, Game Freak still added battle functionality to it, and two machines can battle each other through a special communication cable.

  While raising pets, players also have a certain probability of evolving options, and they will also randomly learn combat skills as the number of battles or time increases.

  The initial design was a bit rough and primitive, but Jester didn't mind. The electronic pet thing is all about creativity, and more perfect versions can be developed later.

  When an employee from the hardware R&D department brought three small, palm-sized electronic pets with cute exteriors to Jester's face, Jester was still quite satisfied - at least the appearance looked good, white, yellow and pink exteriors were also suitable for the target audience of this handheld game console, girls.

  Yes, Pokémon is indeed unisex, but the problem is that this isn't Pokémon, it's just a Tamagotchi-like pet machine made to resemble Pokémon, with only nurturing functions and no collecting functions. In Jester's eyes, ordinary boys wouldn't really like playing with this thing.

  Of course, it's just ordinary, after all, the combat function added by Jester is prepared for these boys.

  He fiddled with it for a while, then suddenly remembered Lee Jianxi's visit later. According to Korean customs, he must bring some gifts to himself, and he also needs to return a gift to avoid being too rude.

  Gifts don't have to be expensive, but they should have some commemorative significance.

  After some thought, Jester set his sights on the three Pokémon handhelds that he had just finished making, which didn't even have names yet.

  "Let's just call it Game-Pokémon then, simple and easy to understand." Too lazy to bother, Jester directly used the English name Pokémon and added a word "Game" in front of it. Thus, the name of the first handheld console developed by Mars Entertainment was decided.

  Then Jester picked up the phone.

  "Come over here and pick up the three new game consoles I've developed, then go ahead and package them, make it as exquisite as possible, in a while I might want to give them away as gifts." Jester instructed over the phone.

  Lee Jianxi didn't quite believe the one billion piece memory order in Jester's mouth, but he still arrived in Costa Mesa very early and brought his entire legal and signing team for this trip to the US. He had already called his father last night, and his father fully supported him. If the other party's words about this order were true, then he would spare no expense to take it down comprehensively.

  This is an opportunity that Lee Jae-hyun and Samsung Electronics cannot afford to miss.

  When Lee Jae-hui arrived, Jester led his employees in welcoming him outside the company.

  Specific details of the negotiations do not require two people to discuss, Jeter also has his own legal and negotiation team. He spent $1 million to establish an exclusive legal department earlier and poached a top lawyer from a large law firm in Los Angeles with high salary.

  This big lawyer is called Howard Garfield, a graduate of Harvard Law School, with nearly twenty years of experience and extensive connections. Jester offered him an annual salary of $800,000 to come over.

  It's not actually a negotiation, but rather a discussion of how to negotiate some details, because it involves contracts worth tens of millions of dollars, and the legal personnel on both sides are also racking their brains to think of various ways to avoid taxes, and then write them into the contract to make them clear.

  Lee Jae-hyung was invited by Jest to his private office for a casual chat, waiting for the hardware R&D department of Jest to test the memory chip samples brought by Samsung this time. Only if the test is passed, will the contract they are discussing this time make sense.

  As soon as they met, Li Jianxi presented a gift he had prepared according to Korean custom.

  "This is the first 64KB memory chip produced by Samsung Electronics." As he spoke, Lee Byung-chul handed a beautifully crafted box to Jest.

  Jester hastily stood up and took it with both hands.

  Such a gift is not about being expensive or inexpensive, but about whether it has meaning. Obviously, the gift that Lee Jae-hyun gave to Jester has great commemorative significance. This seemingly ordinary memory chip is the starting point for Samsung's rise.

  Then Jester picked up a wooden box with strong Chinese characteristics from his own desk, which was just collected by someone in Chinatown. It seemed to be made of Huanghuali wood and felt quite heavy in hand. Just one box cost more than $200, but the craftsmanship was indeed excellent, according to the shop owner's words, it seemed to be a masterpiece.

  The box is lined with velvet and contains three game consoles that look extremely cute.

  "This is the first handheld game console that Mars Entertainment has just successfully developed, because time was too hasty and there was no time to prepare a gift for Director Li, so I can only use this to make up for it. I heard that Director Li has three daughters, and our Mars Entertainment's Game-Poke Mon handheld game console is designed for girls as the target group. These three consoles are also considered gifts from me to them."

  Jester apologized awkwardly.

  His words were quite unexpected to Li Jianxi, he indeed had three daughters, but he wasn't a big shot, how could the information about his three daughters travel across the ocean to America?

  This made him involuntarily admire Jester's intelligence gathering ability.

  "Mr. Li, you're too polite." Although he thought so, Lee Jun-hee quietly accepted the gift.

  Then both sides talked about some views on the future, but at first Li Jianxi just thought that Jester was a young man who was quite good at making games and had strong abilities in this aspect, but he didn't know much about his other aspects.

  Actually, there's nothing much to understand. A person's ability may have nothing to do with age, but a person's insight is definitely closely related to age. After all, Jest is just a 19-year-old young man.

  But when Jester could talk to Gorbachev about the impact on the Soviet Union after he came to power, and the possible changes in the global market pattern after China's reform and opening up, and the hidden crisis in the blind enthusiasm of American Reaganomics, he was very reasonable and logical.

  These are the hottest topics of this era, with countless people commenting on them every day. Although most of them are conclusions drawn out of thin air, there are also wise men who can pinpoint the core of the problem with a single remark.

  Jester understands the general trend of the future, so he can make reasonable inferences based on some current situations, of course, with reservations - and in other people's eyes, it is just speculation.

  It was just his reasonable conjecture.

  At first, Li Jianxi was still able to chat with him for a few sentences, but gradually the entire conversation topic completely entered Jester's rhythm, almost like he was talking and Li Jianxi was listening.

  And Li Jianxi also nodded from time to time, apparently quite in agreement.

  Although these were just some casual and superficial topics, Li Jianxi still felt that Jester, this young man, had a grasp of the world situation that was not something that someone of his age should possess.

  "This person will be boundless in the future." This was the evaluation that Lee Jeong-hee made deep down.

  "I have the same view as Chairman Lee, I also think that Samsung's future lies in consumer electronics, and vigorously developing the electronics industry is feasible. However, the current rulers of this field are Japan and the United States, and you want to catch up with and surpass them, which is not easy."

  Let Samsung Electronics surpass Sony, Panasonic and other consumer electronics giants to become the world's first.

  Perhaps if I told you, nobody would believe it. This is the ambition of a second-rate electronics company that could barely produce 64K DRAMs and had only just manufactured its first colour TV set a few years ago.

  Isn't it somewhat far-fetched?

  But Jester clearly saw what kind of aura and ability this middle-aged man in front of him had.

  He knew what kind of determination a person who could summarize that only 'the first can survive' such cruel law of competition had.

  Li Jianxi's somewhat rigid face didn't show any expression, he didn't deny Jester's words, but only sighed and said: "This is too difficult."

  The gap in technology with Japan is really too big, if there isn't some extremely special situation happening, then they basically won't have the opportunity to complete this concept, the technical blockade is like a tight seal that is firmly locked on Samsung's head.

  If it weren't for Japan's technical blockade, they wouldn't have taken so long to manufacture their first color TV.

  "Yes, it's too difficult." Jester didn't know that if it wasn't for the financial storm in the 90s, which made Japanese companies suffer heavy losses, Samsung directly poached many Japanese companies' technical teams. If not, Samsung wouldn't have risen like a rocket in the new century.

  Time is life.

  At this time, Jester glanced at Li Jianxi, and the middle-aged man's eyes did not show any signs of frustration, but were as determined as ever.