Chapter 319 Nintendo
In the blink of an eye, half a month had passed as Andre inspected various parts of the island.
The first place he inspected was the most important military-industrial enterprise. Andre stayed in Mitsubishi Heavy Industries for five days and visited all departments. The results made him very satisfied. After a series of actions, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries was almost equivalent to half of the Soviet military factory, and various advanced technologies would enable the Soviet military industry to advance by at least ten years!
Afterwards, Andrei began to inspect various high-tech companies, especially those with advanced electronic technology such as Toshiba, Sony, etc. After seeing that these companies had resumed normal production and some of their products even began to flow into the Soviet market, Andrei praised them.
Especially at Toshiba, in the Mechanical Casting Department, after Andre visited their processing equipment, he reached a package agreement with the company's senior management, including ordering a batch of multi-axis linkage CNC machine tools at market prices. Toshiba will be responsible for the transportation and assembly of the machine tools, as well as the training of qualified technical workers.
Think about how much Moscow spent to get back several multi-axis CNC machine tools from Toshiba, and finally the truth was revealed, which made the United States extremely depressed. Now, there is no need to sneak around Batumi anymore, and the island country no longer needs to accept the various restrictions of Batumi!
The advanced propellers produced by these high-precision multi-axis linkage CNC machine tools will make Soviet submarines invisible to the United States, and the underwater noise will be reduced by several levels! In the ocean confrontation, the Soviet submarine force will be more confident!
As the war dividends continued to emerge, Moscow was quite satisfied. This time it was determined to snatch the island country from the Americans even at the risk of nuclear war. Facts have proved that this was very correct!
These companies in the island countries are also grateful to the Soviet Union from the bottom of their hearts. When the West imposed high tariffs on them and almost bankrupted them due to product sales problems, the Soviet Union opened up the market and let these companies escape the difficulties. For example, these CNC machine tools have made the entire machine tool department no longer have to worry about the business volume for this year! Moreover, there will be a large number of orders in the future. Within five years, the machine tool department will be a profitable unit!
The last stop was Nintendo Co., Ltd.
In later generations, with the continuous emergence of computer games and the development of online games, professional electronic game consoles have almost disappeared. A small mobile phone can have endless games to download. These are the results of the advancement of electronic technology.
And now, video games are just in their infancy!
As the generation born in the 1970s and 1980s, they all have a fascination with large-scale video game arcades, which carry their childhood.
Nintendo is a leader in the production of electronic game consoles.
This company was founded at the end of the last century and originally produced card games. In 1948 of this century, Nintendo was officially established and Hiroshi Yamauchi became the chairman. He worked silently in this position for decades. He retired in 2002 and had been in charge of Nintendo for more than fifty years!
During the war a few months ago, many islanders fled. Out of fear of the Soviets and obedience to the United States, they ran to the West. However, Yamauchi Hiroshi did not leave, and only a few people left his company.
No matter who holds power in the island country, it will always be an island country. This is Yamauchi Hiroshi's hometown, where he has the career he loves, and he doesn't want to leave.
Moreover, Yamauchi Hiroshi was also very disgusted by the arrogance of the Americans. Last year, when American soldiers raped Japanese students, although Yamauchi Hiroshi did not participate in the parade, he gave the company's employees three days off so that they could participate in the parade.
Nintendo has a small staff, only 5,000 at its peak, but its profitability is the strongest, exceeding Toyota Motor Corporation's per capita profitability by twenty times!
However, Nintendo's wholly-owned subsidiary in North America was confiscated by the United States, and the company's total assets were reduced by 30% at once! This kind of overbearing behavior of the Americans made Yamauchi very disgusted.
Now, when Soviet General Andrei came to visit, Yamauchi Hiroshi did not have too many emotions, no disgust, nor welcome. In short, he treated it calmly and just did what he was supposed to do.
Nintendo does not have any Soviet employees at the moment. As it is a company that only focuses on games, there is not much that would attract the attention of the Soviet Union.
"You're very welcome, General Andre." Seeing that many security forces had appeared in the company and almost completely controlled the company, Yamauchi Hiroshi said to Andre calmly.
"President Yamauchi Hiroshi, your staying in the island country is the greatest support for the island country! We very much welcome a company leader like you to continue to stay in the island country." Andre said: "You are a very far-sighted president."
"General Andrei, you are too kind." Yamauchi Hiroshi said. He did not stay here because he firmly supported the current government. He just did not want to leave. What was General Andrei doing here? The company's shares were all his own. If the Soviets wanted to buy shares, he would not agree.
"I came to your company this time to inspect and see if your company's products can be sold to our Soviet families." Andrei said: "People can't just work, they also need entertainment, and video games are also a kind of entertainment."
Nintendo's game consoles have a very high market share throughout the West. Now that the West has increased tariffs, it will only make those Nintendo game fans spend more money. However, the game consoles produced by the North American branch confiscated by the Americans have already monopolized the North American market. From this perspective, Nintendo's sales have also begun to decline.
Nintendo can still maintain its profitability by losing the North American market and gaining the Soviet market. Yamauchi Hiroshi thought so, and was full of gratitude to the people in front of him. The Soviets were easy to talk to and took the initiative to open up the market to save the island country's economy. Compared with the rough methods of the United States, it is easier for the current enterprises of the island country to integrate into the Soviet side!
"My second purpose is to contact you to see if we can set up a branch company in the Soviet Union, with the Soviet Union and you each holding half of the shares." Andre said: "If we produce it in our country, the cost will be lower, and our citizens can use more affordable video game consoles. Moreover, I have many new ideas."