Chapter 486: The Second Spring of Pokemon
After the first profit of Boss Jia was made by 5 million copies, Nintendo learned his lesson. Not only did he print 20 million copies of cardboard at one time, but he also laid a lot of goods all over the world.
The result was pretty good. Later, 20 million cartridges were printed, more than 15 million of them had been sold out, and more than 5 million were left. Nintendo felt that he could sell them for about three or four months no matter what.
As a result, by mid-January, dealers around the world suddenly called Nintendo because Pokemon cassettes began to be out of stock again.
Not only is there a shortage of stock in the world market, but also the local Fuso also begins to be out of stock. Various orders were smashed crazily, and the orders were 2 million in three days.
Nintendo was a little stupid at first, but soon realized that he let the cassette recorder re-burn the Pokemon game cartridges, and at the same time took out all the 2 million cassettes in stock in the factory.
He stopped loading the ship and directly booked two cargo planes. He sent 2 million cassettes to the US and European markets in two days, replenishing the goods to the sellers as quickly as possible.
As a result, the 2 million cassettes were out of stock before they were sold for three days, and then there were two special planes, which were loaded with 3 million cassettes that were urgently burned.
A total of 8 special planes were used to deliver 8 million game cassettes to all over the world, and finally filled the out of stock. According to subsequent statistics, Pokemon sold a total of 780,000 copies in January.
It directly pushed Pokemon's total sales from the original 21.2 million to 29 million. At the same time, it is estimated that there is no problem in breaking 30 million in February. Nintendo even needs to consider what would happen if Pokemon's sales exceeded 40 million.
That's really terrible. Now the total sales of Pokemon have exceeded the 28 million duck kills, and it's only one step away from Tetris' 32 million.
Anyway, the second-largest sales result in history is definitely not going to be able to pass. As for whether it can surpass the Super Mario Bros.'s historical record of 41 million, only God knows.
But this also confused Nintendo. The sales growth is completely illogical. Pokemon's sales have clearly entered a downward curve. According to Nintendo's more than 20 years of sales experience, the average monthly sales in the first half of 1994 should be around 200,000. By the second half of the year, the average monthly sales should be around 100,000.
After 1994, there will be basically only sales of tens of thousands per month. Finally, until the new version of the game is released, the old version will completely withdraw from the market.
So Nintendo's final estimate of Pokemon's sales figure was about 25 million, and it was a sales speed that could only be achieved in about 1996.
But now it's just January 1994, why did it suddenly soar by 7.8 million? This is much more crazy than when Pokemon was released!
So, Nintendo began to investigate the reasons, and finally found out that it was actually the credit of just a elves.
Nintendo naturally knows about dreams.
When Nintendo first saw the announcement released by the Rockets, he felt a little contemptuous, thinking that the Rockets were indeed an unprofessional small company, and there were such a huge bug hidden in the game.
More importantly, they actually admitted in the announcement that it was their company's mistake. This is incorrect and it damages the company's reputation. They should be beaten to death and refuse to admit it!
Anyway, Nintendo has always done this.
But the Rockets actually admitted that Nintendo was ready to watch the plot of the Rockets being scolded by players, but who would have thought that the final plot would be that Pokemon's sales suddenly surged!
The specific reason is actually very simple, that is, the dream at this time has become the pursuit of all Pokemon players.
The combination of high appearance, full race value, full skills and other features make Dreamy the number one divine beast of Pokemon in the current version, and no other elves can match Dreamy.
This directly leads to all players who want to get a dream. If there is no dream, they will feel uncomfortable in their hearts as if they lack a big king in a poker, and they must get this dream.
Although the official has directly announced the way to obtain Fantasy, and Fantasy is obtained through bugs, it is basically not difficult, as long as the player follows the strategy.
But the problem is that this bug must be used with a Hualan City NPC trainer. Only after defeating this NPC trainer, immediately rushed to the secret passage of Ghost Town and then performed a series of operations to obtain the dream. If you do something else in the middle, the bug will not be triggered.
Hualan City is an early map of the game. After playing for a day or two, all the plots of Hualan City were basically passed, and then all the trainers NPCs were killed.
The result is that although all players already know how to obtain dreams, they can no longer use this bug to obtain dreams.
Unlike the Pokemon stuck in the previous life that can be reset and re-entered to the initial state, Boss Jia’s game cartridge does not have this function.
Although it can also be archived, there is only one save location in the game. The content of the first save will be directly covered when the second save is saved. Players have basically developed the good habit of saving once a day, so no one will keep the previous saves in Hualan City.
At this time, there was no Internet age. Everyone could change all this with a patch, and GB had no function to connect to the computer at all.
All of this shows that if the player wants to get dreams, he can only buy a new game cartridge and start from scratch.
So, under the temptation of dreams, a large number of gamers could only pay for new Pokemon cassettes while cursing.
Because the number of Pokemon players at this time had reached the horror base of 20 million, and Fantasy was too tempting, which led to a large number of players who had already bought Pokemon, and the second or even the third time they paid for the new Pokemon cartridges, which directly led to a terrifying performance of 7.8 million sales surged within a month.
"Oh my god, a game cartridge is used to directly make players consume three times, which is so awesome!" After learning about this, Nintendo could only sigh like this, and on February 12, he transferred another $160 million in share to Boss Jia.
In January, 8 million game cartridges were sold. The average global number of one game cartridge was $50. The cost of the $10 cassette was Nintendo. The next $40 was shared equally between the two parties. A card was a big 100 million player. The 8 million was naturally $160 million.
Chapter completed!