Chapter 839 The scalper is here
e3 was held for a total of 3 days, and during these three days, major game companies around the world have reaped a lot of benefits.
Among them, Nintendo was stimulated by Daqian. They originally planned to release eight games, but they took out the game that was still under development and may take one or two years to launch, and they collected a total of 16 games, second only to ea.
Among these 18 games, 4 are already in pre-sale status, and then Nintendo launched the pre-sale of the game on the spot. As a result, the pre-sale results for 6 games were as high as 20,000.
You know, this is just the result of pre-sales on e3. According to Nintendo's experience, the total sales of these 6 games in the future will be 100 times that of the site. It is absolutely true that it will exceed 2 million copies, and there will be no problem.
This finally made Hiroshi Yamauchi's face look a little nicer, and on the other hand, ea's boss was also very happy because the total amount of their game's live pre-sales and sales exceeded 30,000, which was higher than Nintendo.
However, Hiroshi Yamauchi was quite disdainful because ea's score was a total of 30 games combined, and the pre-sale of 30 games was only 30,000 yuan, which was simply embarrassing.
As for Sony, the sales volume of other people's games is zero.
There is no way, Sony currently does not have any first-party games, but on the other hand, the game's PS game console sold more than 600 units on site, and there are still about 100,000 units ordered. The sales of PS game consoles are enough to make Sony Le bloom.
Well, the reason why 100,000 units of such terrible data appears is that these 100,000 units are ordered by dealers around the world. In fact, e3 is not so prepared for players, but rather for dealers around the world.
By observing the various games and console devices on e3, these dealers finally decide the order number. Even if it is Daqian, only in China, Fusang and the United States have their own distribution networks. Other regions around the world need to rely on dealers from all over the world to sell, so the number of orders for dealers is the key to e3.
As for the number of dealers ordered by Nintendo and ea all over the world, that's amazing.
Nintendo's 18 games received a total of 2 million pre-orders, while ea's 30 games received a total of 800,000 pre-orders.
From this we can also see how huge the difference between the host market and the PC market is at this time.
Sony was very happy at this time, especially when he learned through the inside that Nintendo's gb+sfc game consoles had not sold 500 units on the spot, and when the dealer booked no more than 20,000 units, he laughed even happier. The overall situation is already, the future console market will be Sony's world.
Because these three parties attach great importance to each other and have arranged commercial spies to their respective companies, all of these data quickly fell into the hands of the other boss.
The happiest thing is Sony. How the game sells has nothing to do with Sony.
It doesn't matter if it's ea. The host is fighting fiercely, so it has nothing to do with him.
The most uncomfortable thing is that Nintendo, Sony and PC are pressing step by step, and the console market is being compressed wildly. Nintendo may be in a difficult battle in the future.
The three major game companies each have their own ideas, thinking about each other's data, and then their heads lit up at a certain time. What about Daqian? How about Daqian's data?
Because the three major companies did not arrange spies in Daqian in advance, and spies in a short period of time would not be able to interfere with the company's senior management, the three major companies could only stare helplessly and then rely on imagination to guess the final data of Daqian.
"Chairman, these are all the statistics of this e3!" The secretary sent the data report to Boss Jia with a smile on his face. Judging from this smile, Daqian's data this time should not be too bad.
This is true. According to the statistics above, in the three days of the 1st e3, a total of more than 50,000 visitors came to visit, which is higher than the total number of visitors to visit the World Consumer Products Electronics Exhibition in the last session.
[ps: Here, the author continues to admit his mistake. The author said that there were 40,000 people queuing on the first day. This is a mistake. I thought that the author later discovered that the number of visitors to e3 was actually 70,000... So here I corrected it. There were 10,000 people queuing on the first morning.]
According to statistics, there are basically 50,000 visitors to Daqian booth, which is equivalent to all visitors visiting Daqian’s exhibition area.
Of course, the above data is just an estimate, but the following data is real, that is, the total number of viewers who have interacted with Daqian in various aspects exceeded 10,000.
In other words, the audience who have taken photos with Daqian’s dolls, played Daqian’s interactive games, or tried Daqian’s games, combined with more than 10,000 people, which is a very amazing data.
The games and equipment that Daqian opened on the spot for pre-sale were "Pokemon Ruby Emerald", "Red Alert", "Sword and Fairy", "Titanic", as well as "Night of Fate" and the last Diablo
In terms of hardware, there is gtx0000
As a result, the number one in pre-sales ranking is undoubtedly "Diablo".
As a game that has changed the entire world in history and laid the foundation for almost 80% of the future online games, Diablo has been destined to have a brilliant destiny from the moment he was born.
Not to mention that Daqian has used a lot of money to improve Diablo's design in this life. Diablo's R&D work in the previous life consumed a total of 1.5 million US dollars, and the total number of R&D personnel was only 30.
This time, Daqian directly gave 5 million US dollars to Blizzard Studios, and the total R&D personnel of "Diablo" combined exceeded 150 people, which led to "Diablo" having a quality that far exceeds its previous life. Not to mention that Boss Jia also spent one million US dollars on special effects promotional videos to promote him.
If the promotion on the stage before was just an advertisement, when 200 computers installed on the scene provided trial plays for Diablo, all players completely fell into it.
According to the rules, a player can try it for up to 10 minutes on a computer, which is just a trial hall with 200 computers. This time is relatively short.
As a result, there are almost 20 players queuing behind each computer, which means that the last player has to cry and wait for more than three hours before he can play Diablo.
That's not all. When a player's 10-minute trial time has come and the computer automatically locks the screen, more than 50% of the players did not leave, but jumped to the end of the team and continued to line up. His eyes were full of madness. He was completely conquered by such a magical real-time combat game.
So when Diablo started pre-sale, it was incredible.
"80,000 copies! There are 80,000 copies pre-sales! How is this possible!" When seeing this number, Boss Jia himself couldn't help but exclaim. You should know that the entire e3 was only more than 50,000 players, but the pre-sales actually reached 80,000 copies, which actually exceeded the total number of players who came to visit. No matter how you look at this number, it is fake.
"We didn't believe it at first, but according to our statistics, this number is real!" The secretary explained. "We have carefully analyzed the data. On the first day, the total pre-sale volume was 5,000 copies, basically one player ordered about one to three copies, which basically conformed to the rules."
"But from the second day, a large number of abnormal data appeared. Some players began to order games with more than three-digit numbers. The most of them were ordered by one player 5,000 copies of Diablo!"
"5,000 copies, this is not a joke, it requires a full $150,000 in advance!" Boss Jia said in surprise.
Daqian’s pre-sale policy is somewhat different from that of other companies. The pre-sale policy of other companies basically only needs to register a name and pay a few dollars in fees.
However, all game pre-sales in Daqian must pay half of the payment. For example, Diablo is priced at $59, while pre-sales require a deposit of $30.
There is no reason why Daqian sets the price so expensive. First of all, players who participate in the pre-sale can obtain the qualification to purchase the game five days in advance with their pre-sale vouchers and unique pre-sale codes.
If you are willing to pay an additional $10 postage, you can also register the address directly and the official will send the game to you directly.
Well, the US postage was so expensive at that time.
That's not counting. All the pre-sale versions of Diablo are equipped with a redemption code. This redemption code can redeem 1,000 gold coins in the game. This is too many for many players who have played for 10 minutes and have won less than 1 gold coins.
[ps: The Daqian version of "Diablo" adopts the same economic system as World of Warcraft. 100 copper coins are exchanged for 1 silver coins, and 100 silver coins can only be exchanged for 1 gold coins, so it is very normal to earn less than 1 gold coins in 10 minutes]
At the same time, players on pre-sale can also be qualified to purchase the luxury version of Diablo, which is limited to 10,000 copies. According to promotional materials, the luxury version of Diablo, has five different redemption codes and ten real-life peripherals. Although the total price is as high as US$199, only 10,000 copies are sold worldwide.
"Because our pre-sale version of Diablo provides a lot of extra benefits, it has caused many people to think badly. According to our understanding, players who ordered the pre-sale version of Diablo have discovered the value of the pre-sale version of Diablo. They plan to make money by selling pre-codes at the official release of the game!" The secretary explained.
"So there are already scalpers in this era!" Boss Jia couldn't help but sigh.
"Chairman, do we need to introduce some means and methods to deal with these...scalpers?" Seeing that Boss Jia was a little unhappy with the scalpers, the secretary immediately asked wisely.
Chapter completed!