Chapter 352 It's Time to Pay
"Yamaguchi, has the sales data for half a month come out?" Hiroshi Sakaguchi asked his secretary.
"It's already out!" The secretary nodded, then looked at Hiroshi Sakaguchi with some concern and fear.
"It seems that the sales this time are not very good!" Hiroshi Sakaguchi said with a frown.
"Actually, it's still as we expected. The current total sales are 52,000 cassettes!" the secretary said in a low voice.
"It only sold 52,000 in half a month. If nothing unexpected happens, it seems that the total sales this year will be difficult to exceed 100,000!" At this time, there are still 8 months left before the end of the year, Hiroshi Sakaguchi directly asserted that the total sales will be difficult to exceed 100,000, which seems a bit too arbitrary.
But this is actually a rule that everyone in the industry is very familiar with.
If it is a normal game, then half a month's sales really cannot determine what.
But as a genuinely modified game, sales can basically be determined in the first month.
Because of such a modified game, only loyal fans of the game are interested in purchasing, and most other players are not interested in purchasing.
Therefore, the sales of the game will be concentrated in the first month. If you want to increase it a lot later, it will be extremely difficult and almost impossible.
But this time, the sales volume of less than 100,000 is a little too low.
You should know that the total sales of the Fc version of "Final Fantasy 5" reached 3.2 million copies. According to previous experience, about 5% of players are willing to buy the GB version, that is, the sales of the GB version should actually be around 160,000.
But now it is difficult for even 100,000 yuan, which makes Hiroshi Sakaguchi a little difficult to accept.
"Who can give me an explanation?" Sakaguchi Hiroshinobu asked with a dark face. He asked others to explain. After a short time, the board of directors would ask him for explanation. Sakaguchi Hiroshinobu was also in pain.
"It's probably because of the hot light recently!" The secretary immediately found the person who was trashing the blame and said, "Those light lights are also released on May 1st, and the popularity has been very high recently. People from the marketing department have already conducted market research and found that some players who originally intended to buy Final Fantasy 5 had to give up because they had to spend money to buy light."
"Baga!" Hiroshi Sakaguchi cursed, there was nothing he could do.
Hiroshi Sakaguchi has also heard of this, but in fact, there is a book called "Sword Art Online" in his family.
In fact, almost all the game industry insiders now have a copy of "Sword Art Online".
Because the creativity proposed by this book on the game is so grand that it actually designed a game that allows humans to sneak into dreams, which gave these people in the game industry an almost heavy blow, making them discover that it was impossible to imagine that future games could still be played to this level!
Of course, Hiroshi Sakaguchi was just praising these wonderful ideas, and then he had no other ideas.
After all, any game that sneaks into dreams is too sci-fi. Such an invention may be really possible in the future, but it is definitely impossible now. At least Hiroshi Sakaguchi feels that such a game will never be born before he dies.
It is worth mentioning that the original "Sword Art Online" was released in 2009, and many of them transcend the current era's game concepts, including some brand new game types, which were directly deleted by Boss Jia to avoid anyone using it to find a trace of future ideas.
Back to the point, after Hiroshi Sakaguchi knew that his game would definitely be affected, so the end result was within the acceptable range of Hiroshi Sakaguchi, so he didn't curse himself.
But after hesitating for a while, he asked, "There is a game called Pokemon. Do you know its sales?"
"Pokemon?" The secretary was stunned for a moment. He obviously had never heard of this name. So he bowed to Hiroshi Sakaguchi and said sorry. Then he began to search through the documents and search, and finally reported to Hiroshi Sakaguchi, "I found it. The total sales of Pokemon in the past two weeks is less than 1,000, so there is no specific statistics, but it must be below 1,000."
"Okay! OK!" Hiroshi Sakaguchi finally showed a satisfied smile on his face. He was still a little worried, after all, he got a game with an 89-point score from the Nintendo editorial department. Hiroshi Sakaguchi was very regretful after agreeing to the competition with the other party. If the other party really had bad luck and sold more than 100,000 copies in a year, wouldn't he be dead!
But now, Hiroshi Sakaguchi was feeling comfortable.
I only sold less than 1,000 copies in half a month, so even if I could sell 1,000 copies every month, I only had 12,000 copies in a year, and it would never be possible to compete with Final Fantasy.
Moreover, the sales of this Pokemon are so poor that according to Nintendo's consistent nature, all products with unqualified sales will be carried down as fast as possible, and will disappear without a trace from then on, so as not to lose Nintendo's people.
So Hiroshi Sakaguchi guessed that next month, there might be no more Pokemon game cartridges on the market.
"Hahaha..." Thinking of this, Hiroshi Sakaguchi began to laugh wildly inside.
"No, I have to do something, otherwise it will be too uncomfortable to hold it in!" Although Hiroshi Sakaguchi was very happy, only he, Tomoto Tajiri, and Tomo Tajiri's secretary knew about this.
Even if you win, you are the only one. How can you do it? Many people must know that some bastard is rude and his own victory.
If you don’t return home without wealth, it’s like walking in a night clothes with brocade!
So Hiroshi Sakaguchi thought about it for a while and then found someone from "Famitsu" magazine, saying that he wanted to reveal some information.
When they heard "Famitong", they were worried that there was no news and immediately sent reporters.
Of course, after meeting the reporter of "Famitong", Hiroshi Sakaguchi could not talk about the competition directly. Wouldn't that seem very stingy?
Anyway, Final Fantasy 6 has entered development, and now we can release a little news and do some preheating, so that players can start to have expectations for Final Fantasy 6.
These were all things when they were about to do, Hiroshi Sakaguchi simply got together and first talked about some things about "Final Fantasy 6".
This made "Famitong" look like a treasure. The two sides talked for a while and only got a little news of being confused. Hiroshi Sakaguchi stopped talking about "Final Fantasy 6".
Although this makes magazine reporters a little regretful, these are all things to be prepared. After all, Final Fantasy 6 may have to wait until next year or even the year after, and you expect that the game producers will reveal too much news at this time, which is obviously impossible.
Hiroshi Sakaguchi just revealed a little bit of it. The next article is entirely up to the reporter to guess nonsense. Anyway, it is not illegal to guess wrongly.
Just when the reporter thought the interview had ended and he could leave, Hiroshi Sakaguchi suddenly laughed and said, "When it comes to sales, I suddenly remembered that something interesting happened when I participated in the review of the GB version of "Final Fantasy 5" a month ago. At that time, there was a young company with a very big temper, a strong motivation, and a crazy tone..."
In the expression of the reporter's expression of the reporter's face, Hiroshi Sakaguchi told him about the game between him and Jia Yapeng.
"Tajiri, you should know that you are here today..." Facing Tajiri Tomoto, Miyamoto was extremely uneasy hidden deep in his heart, and he didn't even dare to look directly at his former good friend.
"I know, I'm here to check out the bill today. It's already the 15th!" Tajiri Tomo nodded.
The 15th of each month is the day when Nintendo and the official gaming platform below check in.
On this day, Nintendo will hand over all game sales share payments to a third-party company, and the third-party company will also pay the corresponding fee for last month's game cartridge burning.
Because the game was launched on May 1, it is naturally impossible to share any share of Tajiri Tomoto on May 15, but Tajiri Tomoto needs to hand over the total cost of 1 million cassettes to Nintendo.
This is why Shigeru Miyamoto dared not look at Tomota Tajiri. Everyone knows that Pokemon's sales have not exceeded 1,000 copies so far, and the share will not exceed 1.5 million yen.
This 1 billion yuan burn fee will completely destroy Tomo Tajiri's company.
"So, according to the regulations, we only need to pay 10...1 billion yen to burn the bill!" Miyamoto said this sentence with gritted his teeth.
Miyamoto Shigeru knew that once he started collecting accounts, Tajiri Tomo would definitely not be able to pay the huge fee.
Tomoto Tajiri, who was unable to pay this huge fee, would definitely try his best to beg for less or delay payment.
At this time, Miyamoto Shigeru would take the opportunity to announce that because the sales volume was too bad, Pokemon would be removed from the shelves and gave Tajiri a last blow.
Thinking of the desperate situation that Tajiri Tomoto would face later, Miyamoto Shigeru wanted to kneel down to apologize to his good friend.
But not, but...
Chapter completed!