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Chapter 450 Historical Sales Records

Time gradually came on November 20, 1993. At this time, Boss Jia had been in the United States for more than 60 days, and he was about to prepare to go home.

In general, this trip to the United States was very successful. First of all, Pokemon was successfully released in the United States. Although there have been quite a few twists and turns, it has achieved a total sales of 8.4 million copies so far. It is estimated that there will be no problem in the final sales of more than 10 million copies, and it can even impact the sales of 15 million copies.

However, this seems incomparable to the unprecedented total sales of 40 million set by Super Mario Bros.

However, this is the total global sales. At this time, Pokemon's total sales in Fuso exceeded 6 million, and its sales in the European market reached 2 million, and the total global sales combined reached 16.4 million.

This score is enough to rank Nintendo. No, it should be the fifth place in the world's total sales of single games in history. This is already a very amazing score, because you have to see which monsters are ranked in the top 4.

The fourth place is Super Mario Bros. 3, with a total sales of 18 million.

The third place is duck hunting, with a total sales of 28.2 million.

No. 2 is Tetris, with a total sales of 38 million yuan

No. 1 is Super Mario Bros., with a total sales of 40.4 million.

However, only Tetris is a BG version of the game, and the others are FC versions, so if you only count the GB version of the game, then Pokemon can rank second.

It is worth mentioning that Tetris' sales are very fascinating. Some people have already counted that it is 150 million yuan in sales, and some are only 12 million yuan. The reason for such a big gap is that when many mobile phones were sold, in order to bring some games on their own, they paid part of the copyright fee to Nintendo, bought Tetris' mobile game transplant rights, and directly transplanted Tetris into the mobile game.

So before 2000, in the non-smart phone era, Tetris was bundled with about 80 million mobile phones, and combined with ported versions of some other platforms, Tetris' final sales exceeded 150 million.

There is also a greedy snake.

However, this kind of game sales that is almost equivalent to free gift cannot be included in sales and sales, so the data of 38 million is relatively fair, because this is the total sales that players need to pay for.

By the way, some readers may be surprised. You are not saying that this is the ranking of all single games in the world's history. Why are the top 5 Nintendo games?

Because this is the case, as of 1993, all the top 5 games in the world were Nintendo, or at least Nintendo was released, and 8 of the top 10 games belong to the Nintendo camp.

This shows how terrifying Nintendo was before 2000.

However, this is the result as of 1993. In this world, Pokemon has only been sold globally for 6 months after all, while other top 4 games are all games released 90 years ago, and sales will basically not increase again.

But Pokemon is different. Its game sales are still rising. According to estimates by some professional game editors, it is a foregone conclusion that Pokemon surpasses Super Mario Bros. 3, and there is no problem. After all, it is only 1.2 million in sales.

As for the third place to beat ducks, it depends on luck, but it is likely that it will be difficult to surpass.

As for the first two perverts, there is basically no possibility. It does not exist to surpass those two perverted games.

In fact, a large number of game editors believe that there may not be a game that can exceed 40 million sales in the next twenty years.

Not to mention, this speculation is quite accurate, because until 2013, there was no game in the world where the sales of a single work exceeded 40 million.

However, by 2020, three games have already broken this sales record.

Among them, Will Sports' sales are 68 million, and GTA5's sales are 115 million. As for who is the first place and how much sales are, you can guess and don't check the information.

Only Boss Jia knows that after six years of continuous sales, the first generation of Pokemon in history has reached an astonishing 30 million, surpassing the duck hunting and becoming the third-ranked game in history.

However, Pokemon was released in 1998 in history. In 2004, GB game consoles officially withdrew from the market. Nintendo launched a new generation of handheld consoles, and the first generation of Pokemon game cartridges were officially stopped.

But this generation of Pokemon was born in 1993, and there are still 11 years left before 2004, so Pokemon has more time to impact its sales. Boss Jia believes that the total sales of more than 40 million may be exceeded in the future.

Of course, it may not be possible to break through, because Boss Jia thinks that perhaps before 2000, Daqian’s own game console would be released. At that time, it will be the war between Nintendo and Daqian, and Nintendo will sell Pokemons and there will be ghosts!

In addition, the Pokemon animation has exceeded 25 million viewers across the United States. At this time, all TV stations, including the four most famous TV stations in the United States, took thick US dollars to buy the first round of Pokemon broadcast rights.

Because according to the agreement between Boss Jia and NBC, NBC only signed the first 30 episodes of Pokemon, NBC was very stingy and was unwilling to pay a high price to buy the first round of Pokemon playback rights, and in the end, it only cost $30,000 per episode.

But this is already quite good. Other TV stations have no interest in talking to Boss Jia at all, so they don’t believe that a Chinese company can produce any excellent animations.

So Boss Jia, who originally planned to sell all 140 episodes in one go, finally signed a 30-episode contract with NBC, with the total cost of only 900,000 US dollars, which is equivalent to giving it for free.

At this time, the first 30 episodes were about to be broadcast, but the Pokemon plot entered a more climax stage, with the number of viewers rising every day. When the 28th episode was broadcast, the number of viewers exceeded 25 million in one fell swoop, becoming the top 5 American animation ratings rankings. It is also among the animations being broadcast, second only to the TV animations of the Simpsons.

When other TV stations learned that NBC had only signed a contract of 30 episodes, and Boss Jia had a total of 140 episodes of animation, other TV stations went crazy, especially Fox, probably to consolidate his hegemony in the animation field, Fox TV offered a price of $300,000 per episode to buy the exclusive broadcast rights of Pokemon.

This price scared Boss Jia himself. It was $300,000. If all the next 110 episodes were sold, it would be $33 million.

If the second half of the 140 episodes were sold, it would be $42 million. Fox TV really dares to offer a price!

Boss Jia also asked someone to check the information and found that this price was the highest exclusive broadcasting right price ever in the animation market.

So, Boss Jia naturally decided to reach a friendly agreement with Fox TV to sell the next 110 episodes and the next 140 episodes in the future to Fox.

Unexpectedly, NBC actually broke out. He offered $350,000 per episode to buy the next 110 episodes.

In the end, NBC purchased the exclusive Pokemon broadcasting rights from Jia Yapeng for an unprecedented price of $350,000 per episode, requiring that Pokemons must not be authorized to broadcast by other American TV stations within 10 years.

Although Fox gritted his teeth and paid $350,000 later, and even offered $380,000 in the end, considering that NBC took the initiative to accept him, Boss Jia finally refused the offer of $380,000 and still sold all the remaining 110 episodes to NBC at the price of $350,000 per episode.

No one expected that Boss Jia thought he would lose money. The Pokemon series animation that spent 50 million yuan on the first half made magically, and the profit was 4 times. This was the most profitable time in the history of Dynasty animation, which Boss Jia never expected.

Of course, Boss Jia also didn't know that NBC earned 120 million US dollars in advertising expenses just by selling Pokemon's cartoon headline advertisements and intermediate advertisements.

So I don’t know who made a lot of money!

In addition to the great achievements of Pokemon, Boss Jia's other more far-reaching acquisition plans were also very smooth. Nvidia, Blizzard, and Marvel have all become Boss Jia's personal belongings one after another. In addition, Daqian Puzzle Branch was established in the United States, and Boss Jia's career has completely blossomed in the United States.

The only thing that made Boss Jia feel a little regretful is that Qualcomm has been biting very hard. Masayoshi Son is worthy of being Masayoshi Son. It can be seen that Boss Jia’s intentions towards Qualcomm are to never cut the price. Qualcomm seems to have no chance to get Boss Jia.

In fact, Qualcomm's technology is nothing to Boss Jia. After all, there is a laboratory here now, and Boss Jia can handle Qualcomm's technology sooner or later.

But the problem is that Qualcomm has created technical barriers in advance and applied for a large number of technical patents. It is almost impossible to overcome these technical patents in the second g era. Boss Jia seems to have to wait until the 3g era to make efforts.

But sometimes things happened so coincidental. When Boss Jia was about to pack his luggage and pack it back to China, Harry Potter, who came to see him off, hurriedly told Boss Jia about a news.

"Boss, yesterday Pereman invited me to his estate for dinner. He told me something interesting. He said that Qualcomm's CDMA network is conducting trial operation experiments in the port and port. Now the equipment has begun to be installed. If the operation is successful, Qualcomm's stock will increase its price! He now wants to acquire Qualcomm's stock." Harry Potter said.

"No wonder Qualcomm is so steadily. It turns out that they have this trump card!" Boss Jia touched his nose. If this matter really happened, then Qualcomm's price would probably have soared by more than two or three times, and he really couldn't afford him for the time being.
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