Although Sony and Daqian did not get along well in the past, it was all in the past. Sony had also given up on the VCD business, and both parties did not have any conflict of interest. The hatred between them had died down.
After all, both Sony and Daqian were enterprises. To enterprises, the most important thing was profits. As long as they can get profits, they can forget about their hatred. Of course, they can also discard their friendship. As long as they can make money, it's fine.
But Daqian's games can really make money. Since the launch of N64, Sony's PS console had its worst off-season. Every month, they only sold about 100,000 units. It was a far cry from their previous high of over 1 million units.
After all, Sony had only sold 8 million units for 1 and a half years, and N64 only sold 8 million units in 3 months. The difference was too big.
Sony's top executives analyzed the reasons for this. After analyzing, they concluded that one of the reasons was the games under Daqian Games.
In the past two days, Daqian Games had made a comeback. They had not only dominated the PC market, but they had also become the second best-selling console game. According to Sony's top executives, if all the games under Daqian Games could be ported to the PS console, then the PS console sales would exceed 10 million units in a short time.
Also, with the popularity of WCG, Daqian Games had started to sell their games at a crazy rate. The sales were shocking!
If they could port PC games like Diablo to the PS console, then … … Sony's top executives were drooling.
But this was just a thought. Although Sony could forget about their hatred, Daqian Games might not. Furthermore, with the good cooperation between Nintendo and Da Qian, as well as the huge impact of changing platforms, Sony could only dream about it.
But now, with Nintendo and Da Qie turning against each other for no reason, Sony suddenly felt that their chance had come. They immediately looked for Da Qian and expressed their willingness to work hand in hand with Da Qian to create a better future.
Sony's arrival was welcomed by Daqian Games. Sony's representative even met with our Boss Jia. Both sides negotiated for two days. When Sony's representative left Daqian Games, he had a weird expression on his face. But Nintendo did not know about this.
This was because Nintendo was currently in a very bad situation.
Nintendo had stopped selling all their Daqian games. It was obvious that they wanted to cut ties with Daqian Games. In the future, Nintendo's N64 might not be able to run Daqian games. Nintendo's N64.
Nintendo's N64, which had over 8 million pre-orders, in one night, lost almost 1 million pre-orders, and in the next week, another 3 million pre-orders.
In the end, 8 million N64's pre-orders became 4 million N64's pre-orders.
The reason was very simple. These 4 million people were all here for Da Qian's games. To these players, if the N64 didn't support games like Pokemon, then what was the point of buying the N64?
What made the N64 even more embarrassed was that after the N64 was released for 4 months, other than the 3 games under Daqian Games, there were only 5 games on the N64. This made many players ask, "Why would I buy a 200 USD N64 just to play 5 games?"
Moreover, among these 5 games, more than half of them were extremely boring. The only games that were fun to play were all gone. Why did you ask me to buy an N64?
Luckily, most of the players had pre-ordered the N64, so they did not even need to return the N64. They just need to tell the merchants that they gave up their pre-orders. When the merchants saw the situation, their confidence collapsed. They went back to Nintendo and reduced their pre-orders. That was how the N64 was cut in half within a week.
And the number of pre-orders was still decreasing. Unless the N64 released some exciting new game, it would be difficult for the N64's pre-orders to continue increasing.
Of course, this was not without benefits. The benefit was that the N64 could be stocked immediately. After the 5 million Daqian N64's were sold, they could save about 2 million units. They could continue to sell the N64 for a few more months without any production problems.
It was said that Yamauchi's grandfather did not come to the company for two weeks. When he appeared again, his hair was all white.
Sigh, after all, he was an old man in his seventies. His hair should be white by now.
After he came back, Yamauchi called all the core members of Nintendo for a meeting. In the meeting, the old man said that these problems were temporary. They were just temporary pains, and the pains would pass.
The Daqian was a parasite on Nintendo. Now that the parasite was removed, Nintendo might feel pain for a while, but Nintendo would have a bright future ahead.
Hearing the old man's words, all the senior members of Nintendo who attended the meeting applauded. Their president was right. He pointed them in the right direction and eliminated the uneasiness in their hearts.
They would definitely unite tightly with Yamauchi's old man as the core of the leadership. They would unswervingly follow Yamauchi's old man's policies, get through the pain, and welcome a new future.
"Okay, go and prepare for E3!" Yamauchi's old man sighed. Then, he asked his subordinates to prepare for E3. This time, Nintendo was also full of expectations for E3.
In order to save the N64's plummeting sales, Nintendo had prepared their trump card. They were going to release it at E3. Yamauchi believed that with the release of their trump card, the Daqian's shadow would be removed. Nintendo's N64 would return to its peak!
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On August 1st, 1996, the E3 gaming exhibition was held at the International Exhibition Hall in Los Angeles, United States. Compared to the first E3, the second E3 had amazing growth.
Although the first E3 had two exhibition halls, the entire B hall belonged to the Daqian. The other game manufacturers were all concentrated in the A hall. But this time, although there were still two exhibition halls, the Daqian only occupied a part of the B hall. The rest were all new game manufacturers that joined the E3.
The number of visitors to E3 continued to increase. On the opening day, there were 30,000 visitors, almost bursting the entrance. With the live broadcast of WCG, the game's development in the world became faster. The number of players also increased, so the popularity of the game increased.
But this time, when the players entered the E3 exhibition hall, they didn't know where to put their hands. Because the entire exhibition hall was full of cosplay beauties wearing all kinds of costumes.
These beauties all had devilish figures, angelic faces, elegant postures, and auras. They were all wearing skimpy clothes. Obviously, they were all professional models.
These were the bad effects of the Daqian. Boss Jia was really a bastard!
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