Game Development Giant

Among her classmates, there were many people who started playing the game earlier than her, but she was the first one to leave her name on the game console.

This also made her proud for a long time, knowing that her record was broken by a classmate she didn't know from the same school, but she could only sigh at the record left by the classmate she didn't know.

Although Mars Entertainment has released many other games since then, Azshara's favorite is still "American Cube". Her biggest dream before was to be able to play this game in her dormitory or at home, but the arcade machine was too It was expensive and not cost-effective to buy home, so she never put this idea into reality.

Just recently, when she was watching the news, she learned that Mars Entertainment had developed a home game console, and that her favorite "American Cube" would be released as the first game at the same time as the console.

The moment she heard the news, Azshara was ecstatic.

Originally, she wanted to take leave and fly to Las Vegas to participate in the CES exhibition. She wanted to experience for the first time whether playing "American Cube" on Dreambox was as enjoyable as playing it in the arcade. However, she had one thing at the time. It was a very important exam, so this plan did not come to pass. However, right after the CES exhibition, Mars Entertainment also broke the news that it would start trial sales on February 15th, and it could only be purchased on February 7th. Only those who have received the trial sale invitation letter are eligible to participate in the purchase. And this invitation letter is the qualification to purchase.

Therefore, Azshara drove over from Georgia overnight. It was still dark when she arrived in New York. She followed the map she had prepared and went directly to the flagship store of Mars Entertainment. She thought she had arrived early at the time, but she didn't expect to see it when she arrived. A queue of at least hundreds of people had already been lined up at the scene. After asking, I found out that those at the front of the queue who had even set up tents had arrived two days in advance.

Without exception, these people are all fans of Mars Entertainment games. Many of them have very similar experiences to her. They all accidentally played a Mars Entertainment game and were attracted to this game. Completely became their fan.

Azshara also made some unexpected discoveries, which can be regarded as a small surprise.

In this launch of the game, what most people are looking forward to most is the same as her, which is the "American Cube" that was once popular all over the United States. Many people even came here just for this game, and some even had no interest in it before. Those who disdain video games all fell in love with video games because of the game "American Cube". After the invitation was officially launched, Azshara followed the flow of people and moved towards the store.

A Fengxing Distribution staff member who was in charge of this sales event also showed them the appearance of the invitation. It was as exquisite as the TV commercial, like a work of art, at least for Azshara. She said that she might not have seen it clearly on TV before, but now after seeing the appearance of the invitation up close and personal, this kind of invitation has a very medieval palace style. It actually gave her a very strong sense of history.

To her, the invitation was not shoddy. This kind of seriousness in details also endeared herself to many players present, including her. At least those around her were cheering very much when they saw the exquisite invitation displayed just now, and some people even kept screaming, "It's so beautiful!"

Mars Entertainment and Fengxing Publishing have done a lot of preparation work. With the experience of holding player trial sessions in the past few times, they are becoming more and more skilled in organizing such large-scale events. At least they are facing a huge number of people waiting to purchase invitations. Among the many players, the employees of Mars Entertainment and Fengxing Publishing did not panic at all and have been proceeding in an orderly manner.

Jester was drinking coffee alone in a cafe not far away and watching the sale. He was quietly waiting for the return of specific data. However, looking at this situation, the number of sales was obvious. Not ugly.

"Boss!"

More than an hour later, an employee from Fengxing Publishing hurriedly walked into the coffee shop. He first looked up, confirmed the location of the person he was looking for, and then walked quickly to Jester. In front of him, this employee had a look of surprise on his face, and there was even a hint of excitement that couldn't be concealed in his tone.

The moment Jester saw this employee's face, he knew just from his excited expression that within the first hour, his invitation would definitely be a big seller, and it would be far more popular than Nintendo's. big sale.

As Jester expected, the employee said in an extremely excited tone: "Twenty-three thousand copies in the first hour!"

Hearing this number, Jester stood up involuntarily. His face turned a little flushed, and he clenched his fists together hard. He had this feeling of his own when he saw the number of people in line. He had a hunch that this invitation event might sell well, but 23,000 copies were sold in one hour, which was still too much beyond his expectations.

This number is too unreal.

This is only the number sold by the flagship experience store in New York, and does not include the one in Los Angeles. Moreover, Los Angeles is its home base, so the sales number should not be less than that in New York.

You know, there are only 3,600 seconds in an hour. Previously, Nintendo was able to sell 1,500 units in one hour, which was already a very amazing number. This means that they can sell them in less than four seconds. It's a nes game console, so Jester was so depressed when he heard this number.

But twenty-three thousand copies, this number. It's inevitable...

After the excitement, Jester also frowned. This number gave him a sense of unreality. This means that he has to sell seven or eight invitations in one second? And even if there are two dozen people lining up at the scene, there are not more than 20,000 people, right?

How is this possible!

It seems that he understands his boss's doubts. The employee immediately explained: "Boss! There are many players who bought hundreds of copies, and one of them bought more than a thousand copies at once! It's incredible!"

Hearing this reply from his subordinate, Jester seemed to have thought of something and blurted it out almost immediately.

"Are these people planning to resell invitations?"

After hearing this, the employee nodded in agreement and chatted with him.

"We think so too, but we didn't limit the amount that one person can buy before, and now suddenly it's not very good to limit it anymore, so..."

Jester waved his hand after hearing this. He smiled and said: "It doesn't matter, let them resell it. It's best to resell it at a higher price. Think about it, if something that originally cost more than a hundred dollars was directly sold to a thousand dollars, And there are still people rushing to buy it, so doesn’t this become a social hot spot? We can also take the opportunity to create a hype, but this method can only be used once. If used too much, it will cause resentment among players. Later, we will introduce it to The players apologize. Our previous negligence gave these people an opportunity, which will also deepen the players’ goodwill towards us.”…

The employee thought Jester was joking. He smiled and replied: "Boss, you are too whimsical. Players are not fools. How can something worth more than a hundred dollars be sold for more than a thousand dollars? According to my previous experience of buying concert tickets, double or triple the price." It’s very good, and even so, there will still be a lot of votes that will fall into the hands of these people..."

Jester just smiled. He didn't say anything clearly, but simply asked: "What if someone is doing this deliberately?"

Hearing these words from Jester. The employee's eyes lit up, as if he had thought of something. Then his eyebrows wrinkled again and he muttered softly: "Isn't it a good idea to do this?"

"Haha." Jester said haha. He did not continue talking to the employee and issued his eviction order, "I'm just making an analogy. By the way, go help me and ask the Los Angeles side for the number counted in the first hour, and then tell me I."

In Nintendo's flagship store, Minoru Arakawa looked at the constant flow of customers in the store and saw one NES being sold one after another, but he couldn't be happy no matter what.

Originally, he was extremely excited after getting the news an hour ago that he had sold 1,500 NES units in the first hour. After all, this was a very astonishing number, and it also represented his own efforts to save the company after the CES exhibition. The efforts he made to improve the product image were not in vain, but just now, he also received a report from his employees.

Just like the shit that Mars Entertainment did, the invitation letter purely to disgust him actually sold more than 20,000 copies in one hour. When he just heard his subordinates report this number to him, he even directly He cursed his subordinates with their classic Japanese curse, because this number was absolutely impossible in his eyes.

But after his subordinates swore that the figures were accurate after repeated confirmation, Arakawa Minoru couldn't sit still at all.

If this number is true, then in this confrontation, their Nintendo was completely defeated once again.

Therefore, after much consideration, Arakawa dialed his father-in-law's phone number. An hour ago, he called this number to tell his father-in-law the good news, saying that our trial sale event was very successful. Within the first hour, An astonishing 1,500 units were sold, and almost everyone who bought them praised our light gun.

Hiroshi Yamauchi was extremely happy after hearing this news, because it was his idea to add peripherals to FC and change it to nes before selling it in the United States. Now that nes has benefited from his previous proposal, he will naturally be happy.

But now, Minoru Arakawa dialed the phone again to report such depressing and despairing news to his father-in-law. For him, it was really hard to say.

Heaven and earth were completely reversed almost instantly.

The gap between 1,500 units an hour and more than 20,000 copies an hour is really huge. What's more, they sell real game consoles, while Mars Entertainment is doing it purely because the supply of goods is not in place. That bullshit trial sale invitation that I made out of disgust for myself.

For Minoru Arakawa, losing was too cowardly.