Tokyo Video Game Tycoon: Chapter 224 Hyakuman Kitami
Chapter 224 North America Millions
SFC is the most valuable high-tech product for American people to experience. ’
This is a slogan.
Originally said by Alvin, a reporter who attended the Consumer Electronics Show, on an online blog.
Later on, every player who experienced the Youxing Electronic Entertainment Game Console also began to spread the word about it.
This thing is really magical and makes people addicted to it inadvertently.
And as time goes by, more and more department stores sell Youxing electronic entertainment products.
˜Small and medium-sized department stores and supermarkets that were not very popular before have begun to favor Youxing Electronic Entertainment more.
In the past, they would sign contracts with Youxing Electronic Entertainment cautiously, for fear of losing money. Even the initial payment was paid by Youxing Electronic Entertainment first, and the products were sold first, and then the income was paid. Leave it to Yuxing Electronic Entertainment.
This is the contract signed by the first few cooperative department stores, and it is also the best contract.
The later department stores naturally did not have this kind of treatment, and even had to make certain compromises and concessions in terms of sharing.
The previous contract allowed the seller to make about 35% profit, while the later contract only allowed 30%.
Department stores and supermarkets that are even more anxious to buy more game consoles will take the initiative to reduce their profit margins just to win more purchases.
Because this thing is really hot.
Since the release of a number of games targeting Europe and the United States such as Street Fighter, SFC and GB have been selling particularly hotly.
The introduction of the ray gun later triggered a wave of buying craze again.
You should know that this is not a festival worth celebrating, but just an ordinary period.
No department store or supermarket will give up selling this product.
Of course, this does not include large department stores.
Because they are allies. On the contrary, they are still clamoring for PN game consoles, Lierda 2600 game consoles, etc., and claim that these two game consoles have more fun games. At the same time, the PN2 game console has also entered a preheating state. , can be officially released at any time. The PN2 game console will allow players to experience 3D video games for the first time. This is a big step forward in an era.
Relying on their desperate efforts, these large department stores can barely achieve about half of the sales performance of Youxing Electronic Entertainment.
The department stores that Youxing Electronic Entertainment cooperates with don't even need any publicity. They only need to tell customers that we sell SFC game consoles and even ray guns, and there will be a lot of people throwing money at them. If you come here to buy a game console, you don’t have to worry about selling it.
At the same time, Yuxing Electronic Entertainment will also add English options to some games sold in Japan, and then sell them at relatively low prices.
Sometimes kids may cringe when looking at Street Fighter, which originally costs $69.
But if games such as Super Mario 3 only cost 40 to 50 dollars, that would be very popular with them.
Don’t look at the difference of more than ten dollars. If you buy three or four games that cost 40 or 50 dollars, it means that you can save another 40 or 50 dollars and then buy another game.
At any rate, that’s what American children think, and it arouses their desire to buy.
Especially games such as Contra 3 and Tetris are also quite popular.
However, it can only be said that the market has just opened. Compared with the North American electronic game market in later generations, this is just its beginning.
At the end of March 1995, the second month of SFC's sales in the United States, SFC's sales exceeded one million.
A million consoles were sold in just two months, which was so amazing that Zhu Youxing even came over to celebrate with the employees of the US branch.
Even Suri Electronics and several other newly established game companies are a little surprised.
Obviously before, their expansion of the player market was only tens of thousands or tens of thousands a month, but as soon as Youxing Electronic Entertainment came here, it doubled? This is really outrageous.
However, this also allowed them to see the potential of the American video game market.
After Ueto Hayakawa learned about it, he immediately asked Aiden to increase the recruitment of video game talents. This good opportunity must not be missed. Once missed, Yuxing Electronic Entertainment will completely become a phenomenon, and it will fall behind others.
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On April 1st, in the Harvard dormitory, Bob was thinking about the next plan for social networking sites and the direction in which they should develop.
His friend Jeff ran in excitedly at this time: "Bob, I just received a call from Youxing Electronic Entertainment. They want to invite us to meet and have a meal."
Bob's eyes were always fixed on the screen, and he replied nonchalantly: "You can just go ahead and do this. I don't have time to eat with them now."
“No, you must go this time. This time is different from the past.”
“Is it different from the past?”
Bob raised his head and looked at his friend Jeff.
"Didn't you always say that you wanted to meet the boss of Youxing Electronic Entertainment? This time he came. I heard that he was originally here to celebrate their record of selling one million game consoles, but at the same time he also wanted to meet us. Do you think you’re going or not?”
Bob immediately stood up from his seat and asked seriously: "You mean, the boss named Zhu Youxing is here too?"
“Of course, this is our sponsor. If you don’t go to this kind of invitation, then you really don’t want to get involved.”
Bob's surprised expression pleased him.
“Go, definitely go.”
Bob didn’t really care about the so-called funder, but was really just curious.
He was curious about what kind of person could start from scratch and then create a miracle of hundreds of millions of dollars in a short period of time relying on a completely new industry.
This is simply unimaginable.
Moreover, he also knew that this was a person of similar age to himself, which made him want to find a chance to see the other person in person.
“Bob, pack it up quickly. I have a suit that I haven’t worn yet, just for you.”
“No, your suit is too uncomfortable to wear. I really don’t understand why humans would invent such a boring thing as a suit. I wouldn’t wear it even if you beat me to death.”
“You guys, we must not neglect this when we are facing a big sponsor!”
“I don’t care about that.”
The two argued for a while, and finally ended with Bob's victory.
He was wearing clothes that were no different from his usual ones and was going to meet the big benefactor, while Jeff was really serious about dressing himself meticulously. The suits he wore were all expensive items that he had just bought at a high price recently, just for Can support the company's appearance.
The meeting place was a Chinese restaurant in Boston's Chinatown, which slightly surprised the two of them.
This Chinese restaurant is also a hot pot restaurant.
(End of this chapter)