Tokyo Video Game Tycoon

909

"President, the sales of the first day have been calculated. Just as you expected, the physical sales will be lower than the digital sales this time."

In Zhu Youxing's office, Zhu Youxing's assistant has already calculated the global game sales of the previous day, and then summarized the data and submitted it to Zhu Youxing for review.

"This is a matter of course, because the digital version of the game has a lot of convenience, which is not available in the physical version, but the physical version also has its own advantages, but compared to the advantages of the physical version itself, the digital version has become more and more popular. It’s just popular, and these are also reflected in the previous game sales statistics.”

Zhu Youxing picked up the data report. According to the report, the first-day sales of the digital version of Ghost of Tsushima was 2.1 million copies, while the physical version just barely broke one million.

The sales volume of Sekiro's physical version is slightly higher, 1.1 million, and the digital version is 2.3 million.

This time, the digital version has completely crushed the sales of the physical version, and it is also the first time that the digital version of the first game has more advantages.

However, Zhu Youxing had already expected this result.

Around last year, various game sales data clearly showed that the sales of the physical version were gradually declining.

What used to be a bustling brick-and-mortar store is now empty in Yemen.

It's not that the popularity of video games itself is declining, but that brick-and-mortar stores are gradually becoming less popular.

Even if someone wants to buy a physical version of the game, sometimes they will start to prioritize buying games on online shopping platforms instead of queuing up to buy games.

Unless they are diehard fans of the game, and some hope that they can get some unique small gifts first released in physical stores, otherwise not many people are willing to go out and buy physical games.

In larger physical stores, there are only about one or two thousand people who go to buy games on the spot.

But with the data of express delivery in the surrounding areas, the larger store can sell an average of 10,000 copies of the game.

And such large-scale game stores are often only two or three in big cities like Tokyo and New York.

With such statistics, the conclusion is very good.

"Digital games will become more and more popular in the future, so we need to continue to strengthen the follow-up online services."

The assistant nodded: "I understand."

Go back to the sales data of Tsushima Island and Sekiro itself.

Now it seems that the sales of the two games are relatively evenly matched.

50/50 people who like both games?

Or……

Zhu Youxing raised his head and looked at his assistant and said, "Go and count the statistics of the registered users who own Tsushima and Sekiro at the same time. I want to see this data."

"Okay, I'll go and count right away."

The assistant left immediately, while Zhu Youxing turned on the computer and began to check the official forum.

At this moment, the discussions on the two games of Sekiro and Tsushima are also the most heated.

Wolf Discussion Forum:

"Help, how should I fight the first boss, I can't beat that full-armored samurai with all my might!"

"A samurai in full body armor? The first boss? Brother, I'm afraid you didn't hit the first real boss at all. The first boss is a guy called Chigui. That guy is not human. I was killed. Many times, why is this game so difficult!"

"Red ghost? What kind of boss is that? Don't our bosses have different routes? The boss I'm facing is a samurai wearing armor and holding a long sword in his hand."

"Hehe, that's just a little elite monster."

"ah?"

"Upstairs, what are you talking about? Shouldn't the first boss be a guy named Genichiro Ashina?"

"That's a plot to kill the boss, not a real boss at all."

"Ah?! Is this just a plot-killing boss?!"

Zhu Youxing smiled after watching these people's discussion.

The familiar feeling is back.

The same feeling as when I played the wolf game for the first time came back.

Back then, I was tortured to death by Chi Gui, Madam Butterfly, Ghost Punishment Department and my father.

They have only just reached the beginning of the game, and this is only the beginning, and they will suffer later.

In the discussion area of ​​Sekiro, everyone is complaining that the game is too difficult. At the same time, some players who seem to be relatively strong have conquered several bosses, and are teaching other players how to conquer different bosses in the discussion area.

There are also some people who want to find some evil ways to pass the game.

However, Youxing Electronic Entertainment has always controlled the game bugs quite well. At least in a short period of time, it should be difficult for players to find a way to speed through the game through bugs.

They all have to obediently accept the reality of being baptized by wolf monsters over and over again.

For some reason, Zhu Youxing felt a little refreshed when he saw the crazy posts of the people in these discussion forums.

Then Zhu Youxing came back to his senses.

I'm afraid it's not the fun of the old thief Miyazaki's creation of the soul system? You created a soul game just because you wanted to watch the players go crazy?

Maybe not so superficial, but he should also be able to experience the refreshment of the player after being abused to a certain extent just like himself.

Immediately afterwards, Zhu Youxing looked at the discussion area of ​​Tsushima Island.

Compared to Wolves, where 80% of posts are complaints, the discussion forum on Tsushima Island is much more harmonious.

The content discussed in the discussion area here is different.

Some were discussing the history of Tsushima Island itself, and some took the initiative to popularize this story for other players.

There are also players who are paying attention to the details of the Tsushima game.

The game quality of Ghost of Tsushima is quite good, coupled with the unique black and white filter that comes with the game, that is, the Akira Kurosawa style filter, it has the taste of ancient Japanese swords and halberds.

This makes these players even more happy, playing games is as fun as watching traditional movies.

The discussions among the players here are really quite harmonious, and some of them have started to gradually contribute some game strategies.

Comparing the discussion area of ​​Sekiro with the discussion area of ​​Tsushima Island, both games have unique features, and it seems that they are still on par for the time being.

It didn't take long for the assistant to re-count the data requested by Zhu Youxing and submit it to Zhu Youxing.

This data counts the number of players who own Tsushima and Sekiro at the same time.

More than 1.6 million.

In other words, half of the players who sold more than 3 million copies on the first day on both sides owned the other game at the same time.

It seems that players have a high degree of trust in Youxing Electronic Entertainment. As long as Youxing Electronic Entertainment releases first-party games, they will buy them without hesitation.

And this makes it more uncertain who will win the sales of the two games.

PS: Happy New Year, readers and bosses!