Super Tycoon

? On November 22, 1994, Sega's sixth-generation game console Saturn went on sale. Saturn is the sixth largest planet in the solar system. Some people say that Sega named it this way, which also means that it will develop at least the ninth generation of game consoles.

On the day of the launch, 170,000 units were sold in the island country, which is a good start. However, this sales data did not satisfy Sega.

As an established game console manufacturer, they have many fans. They thought that even if they didn't explode, they wouldn't be too bad. At least they should be more popular than Zhiduo, right?

It is also a 2D 32-bit console, and they also have a game called vr warrior, which fans have been waiting for for a long time. During the pre-sale one month before the launch, the order volume exceeded 150,000 units.

But who would have thought that apart from those who ordered, there were only so many people who actually came to line up to buy?

The island country is known as the top game market in the world, and it is extremely prosperous. In many cases, the sales volume even exceeds that of the United States. Sega thought that if they thrived on the island country, they would be able to thrive in the United States, but they were disappointed in the end.

Another thing that makes Sega upset is that there are actually many players who say they are waiting for game consoles from other companies.

Soon, on December 3, Sunny's ps game console was launched. This is a game console that has been promoted for more than two years, and it is also a game console independently developed and produced by Suoney. It is no longer the same as before, providing some hardware technology to other game companies.

On the day of its launch, ps1 sold 200,000 units in the Japanese market. This data satisfies Sunny Company. As a new company entering the industry, it is already very good to have such sales in a market.

How many players were waiting for their company's game consoles to go on the market, so they didn't buy 3do, Saturn or Zhiduxingg, and the sales of game console discs also made them happy.

It seems that buying game copyrights and providing players with more and more fun games is indeed the right decision.

However, simply counting the profit margin of game consoles, Sunny is not comparable to Sega's Saturn, let alone Songxia's 3do, and even Sanyo's 3do, which just went public, they can't match.

But the profit of the game is high, and the game machine does not make money. Just like Souni sells tape recorders, D players, and video recorders, their profits are also very low, but they have Souni Audio and Video Company, and the subsequent release of tapes, D players, and video tapes can make them a lot of money.

For tapes, everyone still uses the same standard. If you buy other people's machines, you can still use their tapes. But this game disc is different, their games have some protection programs, other people's game consoles cannot read their game discs.

Not long after, ne company's p-fx game console was also launched. Before that, their p-e sold well. At that time, it suppressed nintendo's f, and nintendo regained some market by relying on sf. 35xs

ne company has a large number of die-hard fans, especially in the island market, because the game companies they control and the game companies they cooperate with are good at developing love games, which cannot be played under the age. The kind of game that the region can't play.

Of course, they declared that the company is good at developing beautiful girl games.

The sales volume of p-fx on the first day was only 50,000 units. At the same time, several games sold well, and of course they were all beautiful girl games.

These game consoles, without exception, chose the island country as the first release market, because they are all companies in the island country, and they all know that the game market in the island country is prosperous enough.

When Nintendo saw these sales figures, they dismissed them. With these sales figures, how dare they challenge Nintendo? The combined sales of these companies cannot compare to one of their handheld gbs.

After such analysis,

Nintendo suddenly discovered that the sales of Zhiduxingg seemed to be unexpectedly good.

It took seven months for 3do's global sales to exceed 2 million units, which is not a big deal, because there are many companies producing 3do, covering many markets.

But it's not normal for Zhiduoxing to perform so well in Europe and America.

Their game consoles sell well because they have the foundation. Many people bought new game consoles and still play some old games.

Nintendo knew that ne would fail, because p-fx is not compatible with p-e games, but has an extra function that can be used to play d-disc videos.

Many people say that the ne function is superfluous, because few people use it to play d videos, and very few use d discs to store videos, this function is very tasteless.

Nintendo felt strange, then why the sales volume of Zhiduoxingg can exceed 2 million units worldwide, and it is still increasing slowly. Is it because the price of Zhiduoxing g is low, definitely not, that is, these new games launched by Zhiduoxing g are very attractive, and the publicity is very strong.

Multiple markets are promoted at the same time, and the cost of publicity is something that many companies are reluctant to part with. They don't have the all-or-nothing attitude like Zhiduoxing Company.

The bigger the company, the more conservative it is when making many decisions, because they cannot afford to fail.

Look at Atari, which launched a so-called 64-bit game console last year. Their Jaguar was proved to be 32-bit, and 64-bit is just a publicity stunt.

It was precisely because of Atari's failure that Nintendo delayed the development of new game consoles. Atari's jaguar caused Atari's losses to increase sharply. They still used game cartridges, but no one wanted to buy them because the price was too high.

If the mainframe cannot be sold, game manufacturers will not be willing to produce game cartridges suitable for Atari, and if they are produced, they will not be sold. Let Atari produce by themselves, they have no money, and the games they develop themselves are not very good, and the result is a vicious circle.

Now Atari has basically withdrawn from the competition of game console manufacturers, and some companies have even taken aim at Atari, and are planning to wait for Atari to go bankrupt and acquire some of its valuable assets, such as the copyrights of some old games .

Zhang Yang is also looking at the sales statistics of the island country market at this time. The sales volume of Zhiduoxing G in the island country market has fallen to the bottom. Sega, Songxia, etc. are operating normally. , the sales are getting better and better. At the same time, they are also preparing to enter the overseas market and are developing systems in other languages.

At this time, Sunny Company was still purchasing game copyrights all over the world, and at the same time launched a 3D game Sin Smasher. This game is actually not very fun, but the three-dimensional characters have attracted the attention of many players.

The game consoles of major manufacturers began to be listed overseas, and at the same time they also started a publicity war. When each company attacked each other's exclusive games, Sunny directly made a big move.

Sunny ps1 can play 3D games, but other companies cannot. Based on this, Suni suddenly emerged, and sales soared.