After Tajiri and Jia Yapeng left, Shigeru Miyamoto asked in disbelief, "President, did you really agree to let them print one million game cartridges?"
Shigeru Miyamoto had seen a lot of games with a first print run of one million game cartridges.
But the problem was that these were the sequels of well-known game IPs. When Super Mario Bros. was first printed, only 100,000 copies were printed.
Of course, in less than a week, these 100,000 copies were all sold out, so they had to print two million copies.
After that, every sequel of Super Mario Bros. had a print run of about five million copies.
But that was Super Mario Bros., the most terrifying game in history. How could Pokemon be compared to Super Mario Bros.?
"I don't know when Tajirai-kun became so arrogant!" Shigeru Miyamoto sighed. He felt that this Tajiri was not the same Tajiri he knew.
"No, they are not arrogant. I believe that in less than a year, Pokemon will be able to sell one million copies of Fusang's total sales! They have a very thorough understanding of their game. " Yamauchi shook his head. "This is a very good game. At the same time, it is also a type of game that has never appeared before. This is really a game full of genius ideas. It is a huge loss for Nintendo to not be able to get it!"
"Actually, I could have gotten this game today, but it is all that secretary's fault. He ruined my plan!" Yamauchi's face darkened, then he looked at Shigeru Miyamoto and asked, "Miyamoto-kun, you said that you are friends with Tajirai-kun. Do you know that secretary?"
"No, I don't know him!" Shigeru Miyamoto shook his head. "I have never seen this person. In fact, three months ago, I went to find Tajirai-kun and talked with him about the game production process, but I did not see this secretary in the company."
"It seems that he is new to the company. This person is not a small obstacle for us!" Yamauchi shook his head. "Miyamoto-kun, if we buy Tajiri's company directly, do you think he will be willing to sell it?"
"I think we need time!" Shigeru Miyamoto said. "I know Tajirai-kun very well. He doesn't care much about money. He only cares about his games."
"I heard that the development of Pokemon had encountered difficulties. I wanted to suggest that the company invest in Tajirai-kun's company in exchange for shares."
"But it seems that Tajirai-kun received financial support from other investors. I think that the secretary was probably sent by the investors to supervise Tajirai-kun. I asked Tajirai-kun about the company's current company's company, and how many shares he has, but Tajirai-kun he always avoided the question. He must must have an agreement, so he can't answer this question! "
"From this point of view, even if this foreign investor doesn't control the company, it at least occupies a considerable portion of the shares, which can restrict Tajhiro-kun's actions!"
"If we can't defeat the capital behind this, it will be very difficult for us to acquire Tajiri's company and obtain the rights to Pokemon!" Miyamoto Shigeru said.
"This is what I is to do!" Yamauchi Pu nodded. "That is why I agreed to their request. If they want a first print run of one million copies, we will give them one million shares. Anyway, we can make a net profit of one billion in printing fees. Why not?"
"But a month after the release, we will have the first settlement with them. Then, the one billion fee will be deducted from their share of the sales. If their total sales are not worth one billion, they will have to pay this fee! " Speaking up to here, Yamauchi revealed a trace of a smile. "No capital would like a company that doesn't make money and instead loses money. This is our chance. As long as we communicate with them at this time and propose to buy their company, I think they will not refuse! "
"Hey!" Shigeru Miyamoto replied immediately, but his heart was cold.
Such an opportunity was obviously built on the fact that Pokemon was released in the early stages. Otherwise, the other party would not have given up on Pokemon.
As the game's platform, if Nintendo wanted to suppress the sales of a game, it would be too easy.
As long as they did not promote the game and put the game cartridge in the most inconspicuous position in the store, then no matter how good the game was, it would become a tear of time.
It would be normal for the sales to be less than one thousand copies. Nintendo had a lot of games like that.
When the first print run of Pokemon reached one million, but the sales were less than one thousand copies, the investor behind it would definitely throw Pokemon and Rocket Team away like garbage. This was the opportunity that Yamauchi Pu wanted.
Poor Shigeru Miyamoto's good friend. He was afraid that he would become the victim of the competition between the two parties. That would be too sad!
Shigeru Miyamoto pitied his good friend, but Shigeru Miyamoto's loyalty to Nintendo was unquestionable. Therefore, he would only obey Yamauchi Pu's orders.
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"Fami" was one of the most famous games magazines in Fusang. It had the most comprehensive game information in Fusang. Diehard fans of Fusang would choose to order a copy of "Fami" as their reference.
"Fami" had a program that attracted a lot of attention. In the third issue of every month, "Fami" would announce the list of Nintendo's upcoming games.
Because Nintendo was invincible in the home console and handheld market, there was not a single competitor in the world. Therefore, when "Fami" released Nintendo's latest game, it basically represented most of the console games in the world next month. This was a piece of information that enthusiasts could not miss.
However, those famous works didn't need to wait until now to release the news. They had already started previewing it a few months ago. However, once the game appeared in Fami's preview for next month's work, the release date would be set in stone. Readers would habitually choose the game they wanted to buy next month based on the information in Fami's preview.
Even for many extreme Nintendo game enthusiasts, buying two or three game cartridges a month was a very extravagant thing. After all, the average price of a game cartridge was about 5,000 yen, which was equivalent to 110 yen of an ordinary person's monthly salary.
Therefore, when buying games, they had to be very careful. They had to choose the most interesting games, otherwise, they would be wasting their precious money.
In this issue of the weekly magazine, "Fami" would often use dozens of pages to introduce the newly released games.
Although there was no explicit rule, familiar readers knew that "Fami" had different expectations for these games.
The game with the highest expectations would have four full color pages and thousands of words of game information. It would introduce all the information about the game in all aspects and arouse the curiosity of the readers.
This time, the game that occupied the first place was naturally the news about the GB version of "Final Fantasy 5". It had four full color pages.
However, because the F version of "Final Fantasy 5" had been released a long time ago, everyone knew the specific gameplay and content. "Fami" did not have any new information to write. They could only guess if there would be any exciting changes in the GB version compared to the F version. Would there be an additional story ending? Or would there be new monsters, characters, weapons, and so on?
Anyway, there were four full color pages for all kinds of guesses. It didn't matter if they were wrong. The other one was just a guess.
Under the highest expectations of the four color pages were the popular games that had two color pages.
Then there were the selected games that had one color page.
Then there were the anticipated games that shared one color page with one or two works.
As for the remaining games that were not mentioned, they would be concentrated on the last page. There would be no specific content or comments on them, only a simple line of the game name and the development company.
This page was habitually called the garbage dump by the readers of "Fami", meaning that only garbage would appear on this page.
In the issue of "Fami" on April 21, 1993, the game "Pokemon" by the Rocket team appeared on this garbage dump, and it was the last position in the garbage dump.
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