However, no one expected that the legend of the Legend of the Sword and Fairy 2 would only begin after the end of the E3 or the end of the pre-sales.
In fact, the pre-sale of the Legend of the Sword and Fairy 2 was longer than the pre-sale of Pokemon Water and Fire, which was 15 days.
However, only 900,000 copies were sold in 15 days, which was less than one-fifth of the sales of Pokemon Water: Fire.
This made the fans of Pokemon feel more confident. On the Pokemon forums, many fans of Pokemon said that if the sales of the Legend of the Sword and Fairy 2 could reach one-fifth of the sales of Pokemon Water: Fire, they would lose. They would be convinced that the Legend of the Sword and Fairy would be the best-selling game in the future.
Coincidentally, Pokemon Water: Fire and the Legend of the Sword and Fairy 2 were released on the same day.
As a result, within a day, almost all the steam gaming stores in the world were flooded with players. Everyone was queuing up to buy "Pokemon Water: Fire".
Such a huge wave naturally attracted the attention of the news media, and related news appeared in various media reports.
In almost all of the TV screens, the people who came out of the steam game store would carry a large "Pokemon" gift bag in their hands, indicating that they were the players who bought "Pokemon Water: Fire".
Thanks to the development of network technology and the continuous improvement of computer performance, Bili Bili developed a set of special game management software for the steam game stores.
Therefore, from 1998 onwards, all the steam game stores were forced to install a computer and connect to the Internet. Then, all the stores would close at 8 PM, and the final data would be collected in the data center of the Daqian Games.
Therefore, the steam game stores could calculate the sales faster. Therefore, from June 1998 onwards, the steam game store's official ranking was only released once a month.
However, the steam game store's official website would update the daily ranking every day.
Although the description of the ranking indicated that there was a certain amount of error in the data, the monthly ranking was still the main one. Moreover, the monthly and daily rankings did change. After all, there were errors in the data input manually. Also, many areas didn't have access to the Internet, so the monthly ranking had to be manually calculated every month.
However, the daily ranking could still maintain basic accuracy. It displayed the sales data of various games immediately.
It was precisely because of the existence of the daily ranking that many online players liked to go to the steam game store's ranking column to look for new games that were ranked at the top. The steam game store's official website also established an exclusive forum for each game, and these forums gradually became the most popular forums for each game.
For example, in the Pokemon Water/Fire sub-page under the main page of the Pokemon forum, there was a post with an arrogant title. [From today onward, everyone in the world will know that he doesn't deserve to be in the Legend of the Sword and Fairy!]
Under this post, a large number of fans followed up and expressed their agreement with the original poster. Occasionally, one or two replies that spoke up for the Legend of the Sword and Fairy would be drowned out by the number of comments.
On the other hand, the forum of the Legend of Sword and Fairy was quite calm. It seemed like it didn't feel the provocation of Pokemon, and there weren't many posts in the forum.
Unlike the forum of Pokemon, which had dozens of new posts every minute, the forum of the Legend of the Sword and Fairy only had one or two new posts every minute.
Moreover, most of the posts were fanfiction, discussion of the plot, and discussion of Ling 'er's return. There was no discussion about Pokemon at all.
Many people who came to watch the competition complained that it was boring. It seemed that the fans of Pokemon were right. The Legend of Sword and Fairy was an ordinary game that dominated the first place because it was given away for free. It didn't deserve to be compared with Pokemon. Otherwise, why would it have so few fans?
Logically speaking, if these people looked at the number of registered fans of Pokemon and the Legend of Sword and Fairy, they would find that the number of fans of the Legend of Sword and Fairy was about 10,000 more than that of Pokemon.
At 8 AM on the second day of release, countless players stared at the official website of the steam game store. When the time passed, all the rankings were refreshed, and yesterday's sales ranking was updated.
"Wow! Pokemon Water: Fire's sales are too fierce. It's only been released for a day and it's already at the top of the monthly sales chart. It's ranked eighth on the annual sales chart with a total of 4.12 million copies sold! " After the data was refreshed, Pokemon Water: Fire's figures were shocking. 4.12 million copies were sold in a day.
Based on the net profit of 20 USD per game, Da Qian Games had earned an astonishing profit of 80 million USD in just one day!
And this was just the beginning. Based on the previous game's release experience, a popular game like Pokemon Water: Fire, which was supported by the previous game, had about 10 times the sales of the first day. In other words, Pokemon Water: Fire could achieve about 41 million sales in the entire year of 1998 and generate profits of more than 800 million USD.
Oh right, according to Da Qian's usual behavior, he would definitely release new games like Pokemon Racing, Pokemon Arena, Pokemon Jungle Labyrinth, and other related games. Anyway, even if it was an ordinary game, as long as it had the Pokemon IP, it would sell at least five million copies. Da Qian could make a terrifying profit of two billion USD a year just by selling games alone.
It was no wonder that Nintendo had offered a one billion dollar penalty for Pokemon back then. Even if Boss Jia was willing to pay the penalty, he still wanted to take back the copyright of Pokemon.
It was indeed crazy, and no wonder it was the number one game in the world.
While the players were shocked by the sales of Pokemon Water: Fire, they looked down the rankings and found that the Legend of the Sword and Fairy 2 was quietly behind Pokemon Water: Fire.
The Legend of the Sword and Fairy 2 was ranked second on the daily sales ranking.
It was ranked third on the monthly sales ranking.
The Legend of the Sword and Fairy 2 wasn't in the top 10 on the annual sales ranking. Of course, if one clicked on it, they would find that the Legend of the Sword and Fairy 2 ranked 19th on the annual sales ranking.
Under normal circumstances, this number would be enough to make the gaming circle explode. However, under the cover of the brilliance of Pokemon Water: Fire, it seemed a little inconspicuous.
[PS: Sorry, I'm addicted to the Chess Soul TV series and plan to catch up on the anime. Also, I'm thinking about my update … Ahem, I'm not going to slack off anymore. I'm going to work hard on writing.
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