Super Game Empire

On January 1, 1992, Sega's unchanging carnival event was held as scheduled.

In addition to those familiar faces in previous years, there were two special guests - President Fukushima Yasuhiro of Enix, as well as the famous comic book artist and DQ series character designer Akira Toriyama.

DQ5 was launched in one month, with 1.3 million copies sold in Japan and 300,000 copies sold in North America, totaling 1.6 million copies.

In comparison, Legend of Heroes 2, Japan sold 1.14 million copies and North America sold 1.29 million copies, totaling 2.43 million copies.

Final Fantasy 4, 1.58 million copies sold in Japan and 1.92 million copies sold in North America, totaling 3.5 million copies.

Light and Power, Japan sold 770,000 copies and North America sold 890,000 copies, totaling 1.66 million copies.

As for the four previous versions of the two games, and Yisu 123, the cumulative number has exceeded 30 million copies under Longteng's low-priced trial-play bundled promotion.

These old versions of the past, buy 3 boxes for $20 and 7 boxes for $40. The more you buy, the more you get, the more you get. This crazy promotion has led to a surge in sales. China's Longteng Factory worked in three shifts in December 24 hours in December

Axis production earns hundreds of millions of dollars for the country. Although it does not make money, everyone is full of motivation!

The consequences of doing so are obvious. Sega has made Nintendo's overseas sales system messy and riddled with holes.

Take the Final Fantasy series as an example. If the SNES platform releases FF4, the same price as DQ5, is $19.9 per box, excluding the hardware and development costs, Nintendo's profit is $5, and dealers and channel logistics and other profits are $5. The rest

$4 belongs to Square.

On the MD platform, the same box of $19.9 is reduced to $5 because of the production in China, and the profits of dealers and channel logistics are $5. The profits are half the same as Longteng, and Square has $5.

Miyamoto Masashi calculated very clearly that the new game only needs to control the cost. Their single profit can be higher.

What's more, the original FF4 plot was cut by 3/4. Because of Long Teng's participation, Yang Yun sent a team of hundreds of people to add all the plots that were cut.

Longteng used China's latest pirated technology to break through the upper limit of 10M for the general cassette, and directly made the cassette capacity of FF4 to 30M. He left the DQ5 far behind, and the price was only $5 higher.

In contrast, European and American players certainly prefer the cost-effective FF4, so they sold 3.5 million copies of terrifying sales, and Square's total profit will be more than in the Nintendo camp!

After the new game is finished, then calculate the FF123 series.

These models were sold once on the FC platform before, and their profits have been put into pocket. Now let’s take a look at the performance after being transplanted to the MD platform.

The sales price is about US$6.5 per box, because it is produced in China, and the R&D cost is almost 0. The hardware cost of the old version of the cartridge is reduced to US$3.5, and the cost of channel logistics and other expenses is 1 USD. The profits are half the price, and 1 USD is paid.

Square All.

This $1 dollar is a free thing for Squarers. She made some money at Nintendo's house and could also get three versions of the total profit of more than $10 million in Sega. Squarers dreamed of

They will wake up with laughter.

After calculating the bill clearly, fools know whether their choice is right or wrong!

With the appearance of Square and Pharaoh Kill, Yang Yun took a statistical list before the post-Christmas Carnival and came to Enix again alone, without much saliva, and won over Yasuhiro Fukushima.

In later generations, people often called Ka bitches, and they scolded Capcom for turning against each other faster than taking off his pants.

In fact, many Japanese companies have this urinary nature. Among the companies that betray Nintendo, there are not many more Enixes, and there are not many less Enixes. Fukushima Yasuhiro has no guilt at all.

He happily received Nintendo's $10 million subsidy fee, and the profits of DQ5 came so much. Then he happily accepted Longteng's recruitment and participated in the carnival as a Sega game supplier.

"My God! This is the president of Enix! And Toriyama!"

"Where is there? Is Akira Toriyama coming? I like his Dragon Ball and Alale very much!!!"

"Why do they appear here? Could it be that Dragon Quest has also joined the Sega MD platform?"

"Yes! It must be like this! Great! I have another RPG game to play!"

Wherever the two went, they aroused a lot of exclamations from the onlookers, and finally turned into cheers and applause. There were countless practitioners from the Sega Original camp who came over to shake hands and congratulate them.

"Congratulations! Welcome to Sega camp!"

"Aha! I've been waiting for you for a year! Finally here!"

"Great! Sega's camp is a little stronger!"

Every time I heard these contents, Yasuhiro Fukushima smiled bitterly. If I had known this, why would he have persisted so much at the beginning?

If you surrender early, you can still gain the status of a founding veteran, rather than the status of a general who was surrendered today!

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Carnival has similar content every year, and the biggest hit point this year is the release of DownHill data.

This year's North American Christmas promotion was quite tragic. Nintendo and Sega killed blood in North America, especially the Chinese-style promotion method of $20, 3 boxes, 40, 7 boxes, which shocked the global gaming industry.

Around December 29, quite a lot of statistics appeared in the media.

Many enthusiasts have given their own guesses, some speculated that Sega failed, and some speculated that Sega overwhelmed Nintendo for the first time in history.

However, most people speculate that Sega has an absolute strong position in both arcade and handheld consoles, while Nintendo still occupies the majority of the TV game consoles, and Sega cannot exceed 50%.

In the latest episode of NHK TV's "Most Popular", Matsumoto Emi and Chidaro joked with the guests.

The program invited Nobu Hashiguchi, the head of the statistics section of CESA, the Japan Computer Entertainment Supplier Association, and the famous talk show guest Aso Jun.

Beautiful host Emi Matsumoto asked Hashiguchi Nobuki: "As the head of the CESA statistics class of Japan's most authoritative organization, who do you think is better in the TV game console? "

Before Hashiguchi's message could answer, Aso Jun teased Chidaro and the others.

Aso Jun laughed: "There is no doubt that it must be Mercurto's friends who won, because any guy who belittles Sega and advocates Nintendo will face the dilemma of being acquired. No one dares to speak for Hiro Yamauchi now!"

The audience burst into laughter. In addition to "The XXX I hate the most is XXX1234", Yang Yun also released a classic quote "I am a friend of Mercurto". It has spread throughout Japan, even those who are far away in the United States.

After hearing this, Merckard expressed his kindness through the media.

Chidaro had to become a villain for the atmosphere of the show: "The result of the Christmas promotion has not yet come out, and Nintendo may not lose! Aso, Mercury also has to celebrate the Christmas holiday, he is not that busy. Don't worry!

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Aso Jun responded quickly and immediately showed a sudden enlightenment and replied: "I know Mercury is here for vacation in Tokyo. I just saw him just last season and was talking to your master!"

Ha ha ha ha……

Everyone was laughing crazy. Even NHK TV station's home court would be teased. The host just said something to support it. The director immediately became the target of being teased. NHK was attracted by Merkdo and was preparing to acquire...

There are many similar scenes in Japan.

Ordinary fans who have bets will smash the game console they support into pieces and eat them if they lose.

If you have a peer who is unwilling to accept each other, whoever loses will jump from your own camp to the other camp.

The media were paying attention to this matter. Until the carnival celebration on January 1, everyone saw the figure of DownHill, a global authoritative statistics company.

When everyone entered the data release stage, everyone stopped breathing, hundreds of people in the audience looked at the representatives of the American company on the stage, each with excitement and nervousness on their faces.

"Although the most complete data in the fourth quarter of 1991 is still under tight statistics, the data in the first 11 months showed that in the global TV game market, Sega Company accounted for 50.2% of the console market share and 75.3% of the handheld market share.

82% of arcade market share. In this Christmas sale, the real-time data sent back by the investigator showed that Sega also had the advantage. There is no doubt that Sega has created a miracle, you replaced Nintendo and became the largest global market share.

The game company!”

As soon as the commissioner finished speaking, the audience burst into warm cheers!

Applause thundered, whistles and screams rang wildly.

Everyone tried to come to the rostrum's Sega executives, hug them, send congratulations and express gratitude.

Sega's own internal staff rushed over and hugged each other and cried bitterly.

Those were tears of happiness. All the employees of Sega and Longteng saw it with their own eyes, and no one was more excited than them.

This is a myth of struggling in adversity, striving to grow, and ultimately reversing the opponent!

This is a miracle of never giving up, fighting repeatedly, and finally proudly promoting your success to others!

At this moment, Sega's spirit was highly recognized by the world!

You can defeat me temporarily, but you can't defeat me!

"Yang..." Shiroozuo Nakayama hugged Yang Yun tightly, excitedly unable to speak. He was filled with endless gratitude. He had been struggling for ten years and thought that he would never be able to do in his life.

Yang Yun did it.

"President Zhongshan, today is just the first step, and he is just a draw with Nintendo. Tomorrow, it will officially enter 1992. Do you still remember our plan?" Yang Yun pushed away Shikao Nakayama and said with a smile: "In 1992, it was Sega who blasted him.

In the first year of the horn of counterattack, we will definitely step on Nintendo and make them surrender!”

Nakayama Hayao was crying and didn't know what to say. He hugged Yang Yun, his face full of tears, was recorded truthfully by the reporters using a camera.

The photos of the two hugging each other and crying excitedly became the front page headlines of various news media.

Japan needs this tenacious and unyielding fighting spirit!