Tokyo Video Game Tycoon

One month after its release, Dragon Quest 3 sold 700,000 copies, the fastest-selling game to date.

The sales volume of Dragon Quest 1 also exceeded one million.

This is also the first game in the red and white machine to break through one million sales. Youxing Electronic Entertainment even specially celebrated it once.

If calculated according to the conversion ratio, Dragon Quest 3 should be very good.

And in addition to the sales of video games, Dragon Quest has a lot of other income.

Among them, the surrounding area of ​​Dragon Quest has gradually become hot.

Toys such as Dragon Quest's Hero's Sword, Hero's Armor, and Lot's Shield have become the best-selling products at the moment.

Not to mention that these things can be seen in the streets and alleys, but now the image of Dragon Quest in children's minds is almost equated with their Koshien Superman.

Children's first choice is no longer just Koshien Superman dolls, but now there are more products related to Dragon Quest.

The production team that produced the Koshien Superman drama was very depressed.

These brats are really a group of guys with no loyalty. They used to like Koshien Superman so much, but because of the popularity of Dragon Quest, they switched to other camps in a blink of an eye, making their peripheral toys not as easy to sell as before.

Secondly, it is the game strategy book of Dragon Quest.

This is mainly the responsibility of Kasuga Club.

Because the content of Dragon Quest 3 is quite large, Kasugasha finally discussed with Takeyusei and decided to simply publish a separate bound volume of the first and third strategy books. There are three hundred books in A4 size. Multi-page color page printing, quite exquisite.

The price is 5,000 yen, which is not cheap, but it can't stop those players who really love this game.

On the one hand, the strategy book can help them better pass the game. On the other hand, it is also very commemorative. It is the first game strategy book published alone in the world.

In order to promote the collection value of this thing, Kasuga Club also launched a book number.

The circulation of the first edition is 100,000 copies, and there are a total of 100,000 serial numbers. Among them, there is a random chance to get the signature of the main creator, just like a lottery.

Kasuga Club is really very smart in this area, and they don't need Zhu Youxing to worry about it.

Then the 100,000 copies of the strategy book were sold out on the first week of the game's release, and there was not even a single bit left.

This is exciting for Kasugasha, as they have never been so hot selling some popular manga in the past.

So they contacted the factory overnight to print another 200,000 copies.

Even these 200,000 volumes are almost sold out in one month.

Just by selling books, Kasuga Club has made a lot of money. Among them, as the main person in charge of the promotion of video games in the magazine, Ikeda Daigo is now full of red, and his status in the magazine is also rapidly improving.

Of course, Zhu Youxing is the one who makes the most money. He just provides an idea, and he can easily collect all kinds of profit dividends from the book.

Just the sale of a strategy book can bring him tens of millions of yen in income in the end.

Zhu Youxing had already expected this.

In the era when the Internet was not fully popularized, strategy books were the most holy treasure in the hearts of players. Whoever had such a book could become the object of many people's pursuit.

Even if the Internet is really popularized later, the strategy book will also become a potential collectible, and loyal players who like certain games will buy it without hesitation.

In the previous life, Final Fantasy 7 could sell millions of copies just by selling strategy books. The loss of Dragon Quest is due to the lack of game player base, otherwise the sales will definitely be even higher.

Of course, the Dragon Quest craze isn't over yet.

At the beginning, shrewd businessmen contacted Youxing Electronic Entertainment, willing to spend money to buy part of the authorization of Dragon Quest art works and make some linked peripheral products.

The copyright operation department in the company has just been established, and now it is responsible for any copyright derivatives related to Dragon Quest, and the authorization linkage has already begun.

Immediately afterwards, Yuxing Electronic Entertainment announced that it will produce Dragon Quest animation works.

The animation plot will start around the story of Dragon Quest 1 and continue to increase the value of this IP.

For example, Su Rui Electronics, Wilders and Jinping Entertainment watched with greedy eyes.

They suddenly discovered that video games are not just games.

Once a game product is famous, or even out of the circle, the derivative income it brings is also amazing.

Electronic games are beginning to form a gradually mature industrial chain, and will no longer be limited to making money through games.

Among them, Jinping Entertainment decided to concentrate on the production of game software after clearing the inventory of its own CD player magic game console.

They seem to understand that not everyone is qualified to be a game console.

Playing games with other people's subordinates can also make a lot of money.

Jinping Entertainment is a company that holds a lot of IPs such as animation, film and television, and novels. Their executives immediately thought that by making games of the same name with these IPs, this kind of derivative products can make another wave of money and squeeze their own as much as possible. The potential of IP.

As for whether they will really make games seriously, that's another matter.

And Wilders is also seriously operating his own games on the arcade, and plans to try to get some IP series or something.

Su Rui Electronics is even more straightforward, directly announcing to the public that the second part of its best-selling game, Sun Knight, is in production, and will release a bundled limited machine at the same time, learning from some of the sales models of Youxing Electronics Entertainment.

Su Rui Electronics can be said to be a good student. As long as You Xing Electronics is the most successful, they will immediately follow suit and follow You Xing Electronics, just like crossing the river by touching You Xing Electronics, and waiting for them at any time Opportunity to surpass Yuxing Electronic Entertainment.

And even if they are not as good as Youxing Electronic Entertainment, they have gradually gained some market and are starting to make profits.

In addition to these, their overseas business is also in progress. Overseas promotional activities have already started. It is said that the feedback from abroad is not bad, especially people in Europe and the United States are very interested in this emerging entertainment method.

After the release of Dragon Quest 3, the first game development team once again entered the development process of the next game.

And this time Zhuyouxing set a new goal for them, which is to learn new technologies, because the next generation will inevitably log in to SFC, that is, Super Nintendo.

This game console with better performance will inevitably make the overall scale of the game larger and the picture better.

If they can't fully understand the game machine, then Zhuyouxing will not allow them to release the game.

At the same time, Zhuyouxing also set up a new first-party game development team, called the fifth game development team.

And this group will also be responsible for an exclusive series of games.

This series of games is also Zhu Youxing's favorite.

That's Final Fantasy.