Although the sales of all the original games combined were only slightly higher than the total sales of Crazyracing Kartrider, and even the games that Boss Jia supervised and created were much lower, there was no doubt that Daqian Games already had the ability to create new games. In the future, after Boss Jia used up all the games from his previous life, he would not have to worry about Daqian Games not being able to continue.
All in all, in terms of games, Daqian Games had reached a new high today, reaching a shocking result of 108 million copies. That was because Pokemon Kim Silver, StarCraft, and Crazyracing Kartrider, these three games were working together today. Among them, Pokemon Kim Silver sold a total of 28 million copies on handheld platforms, followed by Crazyracing Kartrider, which sold 24 million copies on all platforms, and lastly StarCraft, which sold 12 million copies on PC.
Then, with the addition of other games, Daqian Games finally achieved the shocking achievement of breaking the 100 million mark in 1996. According to the average profit of 20 USD per game, that was a terrifying profit of 2.16 billion USD.
But this was not all the profit of Daqian Games, because Daqian Games also sold 20 million Qian Ji handheld games. Each handheld game was worth 6 billion USD, so that was a profit of 1.2 billion USD.
Oh, you ask why only 20 million Qian Ji handheld games were sold, but 28 million copies of Pokemon Kim Silver, which only supported the Qian Ji platform, were sold.
Yes, don't forget that Pokemon Kim Silver was actually a gold version and a silver version. Although the actual content of the game was similar, the direction of the story and some of the pets were different. Therefore, many loyal players bought both the gold and silver versions of the game at the same time. In the end, there was a miracle that Pokemon Kim Silver's sales were higher than the handheld game itself.
Logically speaking, it was only because the Thousand Machine Transformation had been released for half a year that the sales of "Pokemon Kim Silver" were limited. Otherwise, based on the 60 million sales of "Pokemon Red and Green" on the GB platform, the difference would be too big.
The profits from the games and handheld consoles add up to 3.3 billion USD. But this is still not the final result for Daqian Games. Don't forget that Daqian Games still owns Qian Ji Bian gaming platform.
Although most of the games on the Thousand Machine Shop were developed by the Daqian, this was because the Thousand Machine Shop had kept it a secret from all the companies and did not provide development contracts to the game companies.
As a result, the third-party game company had to start developing the game from the day Thousand Machines Transformation was released. Therefore, the speed of the game being released was greatly delayed.
However, starting from the third month after the release of the game, more and more third-party games began to enter the Thousand Machines Transformation and the steam game store. Then, the Daqian took 30% of the profits.
In just a few months, the Daqian took 30 million USD from the achievements alone. This was because there were not many third-party games on the Thousand Machine Shop.
According to Zhong Yu's estimation, in 1997, the number of third-party games on the Thousand Machine Shop would exceed 100. If the average sales of each game was 200,000, then everyone would be able to take 200 million USD of profits. This was the so-called "lying down to make money".
Yes, the low-level game companies sucked the players' blood while the high-level game companies sucked the game companies' blood. The ancients did not lie.
Moreover, the steam game store did not only sell games on the Thousand Machine Shop. Games from all platforms could be sold. However, the Daqian could not take 30% of the profits. They only took a 3% management fee.
Finally, according to Zhong Yu's report, in 1996, the Daqian Games had a total of 11.5 billion USD of sales and 3.5 billion USD of profits. The Daqian Games had become the most powerful Daqian cash machine.
However, this was only the beginning. After all, the online game had not been released yet.
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Then there was the Daqian Entertainment. The Daqian Entertainment also showed very poor results this year, and it looked very powerful with a turnover of 5 billion USD.
However, half of it was brought by the Titanic. Although "Titanic" was released in 1995, the box office was finally settled in 1996, so all the results were counted in 1996.
Similarly, the results of "Pokemon: The Counterattack of Transcendent" were also counted in 1996, but the box office of "Pokemon: The Explosion of Rogia" was counted in 1997.
The box office of these two movies added together brought a total of about 3 billion USD to the Daqian Entertainment. Of course, after excluding the production cost of the movie and the shares given to the theaters and distributors, the final profit of these two movies was about 1 billion USD.
It didn't sound much compared to 3 billion USD, but this number was enough to make countless people in the film industry envious.
This also strengthened the direction of the Daqian Entertainment in the film industry. In 1997, the Daqian Entertainment planned to release three movies. They were the third Pokemon movie version, "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone", and "Fantastic Four".
Among them, "Fantastic Four" was actually produced by Marvel. Marvel had already invested in and registered a company called Marvel Pictures, which was responsible for producing Marvel movies.
Therefore, this time, Marvel provided the script for the shooting of "Fantastic Four". Marvel appointed the director and actors, and Daqian Entertainment was only responsible for organizing a complete crew.
Therefore, the actual production of the movie was Marvel Pictures, and Daqian Entertainment was only responsible for the overall distribution!
Seeing the name Marvel Pictures in the report, Boss Jia's expression changed a little.
As for the planned "Lord of the Rings", because it was to shoot three movies in one go and use the best special effects in the world, it was afraid that it would be released two or three years later.
The remaining 2 billion USD was mainly divided into three parts. One part was the income from various domestic TV series and other film and television works. This part wasn't too much, only about tens of millions of yuan in total, because the Daqian invested in the TV series not to make money, but to cultivate their own movie stars.
Therefore, the stars of the Daqian Entertainment in 1996 were in a very good state. Under the various investments of the Daqian Entertainment, the popular TV series in 1996 were basically Daqian, and the actors in them were basically signed actors of the Daqian Entertainment.
After all, in Hua Xia, no matter what era, TV series were the most powerful star-making machines. Compared with TV series, the ability to produce stars was greatly inferior.
Daqian Entertainment had signed thousands of people, of course, most of them were trainees.
Daqian Entertainment divided all the signed artists into five levels, which were trainees, debuts, B-list stars, A-list stars, and finally, the top stars.
Well, to be called a top star, one must be as popular as Andy Lau.
Daqian Entertainment had signed three top stars, more than 10 A-list stars, more than 50 B-list stars, and the rest were all trainees who weren't very famous.
Although the three top stars were basically film and television stars, half of the A-list stars were music stars. Among them, Jay Chou had the most momentum. This newcomer had just debuted this year, but his album had already taken the first place of the Asian Music Chart. After more than 30 weeks, it was still at the top of the Asian Music Chart. His momentum was really terrifying.
His WCG theme song had also become his famous song, which was currently the most popular song in Asia.
As the management company of these stars, Daqian Entertainment had to take 70% of all the profits according to the contract. Therefore, Daqian Entertainment had a total of 1 billion USD from these stars, of which 700 million was the income of Daqian Entertainment.
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