"Yamaguchi, is the sales data for half a month out?" Sakaguchi Hironobu asked his secretary.
"It's out!" The secretary nodded, then looked at Sakaguchi Hironobu with some worry and fear.
"It seems that the sales this time aren't that good!" Sakaguchi Hironobu frowned.
"Actually, it's still within our expectations. The current total sales are 52,000 cartridges!" The secretary whispered.
"Only 52,000 in half a month. If nothing unexpected happens, it seems that the total sales this year won't exceed 100,000!" At this time, there were still eight months before the end of the year. Sakaguchi Hironobu's direct assertion that the total sales would not exceed 100,000 seemed a little too arbitrary.
However, this was actually a rule that everyone in the industry was very familiar with.
If it was a normal game, half a month's sales would not determine anything.
However, as a modified original game, the sales volume would basically be set in the first month.
This was because such a modified game would only be interested in buying the game's die-hard fans. Most of the other players would not be interested in buying it.
Therefore, the sales of the game would also be concentrated in the first month. It would be extremely difficult and almost impossible to increase the sales by a lot after that.
However, the sales volume of less than 100,000 this time was a little too low.
After all, the total sales volume of Final Fantasy 5 reached 3.2 million copies. Therefore, according to previous experience, about 5% of players would be willing to buy the GB version, which meant that the sales volume of the GB version should be about 160,000.
However, it was difficult to even reach 100,000 now. This made Sakaguchi Hironobu somewhat unacceptable.
"Can anyone give me an explanation?" Sakaguchi Hironobu asked with a dark face. If he asked others for an explanation, it would not be long before the board of directors asked him for an explanation. Sakaguchi Hironobu was also very painful.
"It's probably because of the recent popular light novels!" The secretary immediately found someone to blame and said, "Those light novels were also released on May 1st and have been quite popular recently. The marketing department has already done market research and found that there are indeed a number of players who originally wanted to buy Final Fantasy 5, but had to give up because they had to spend money to buy the light novels."
"Baka!" Sakaguchi Hironobu cursed. There was nothing he could do.
Sakaguchi Hironobu had also heard of this before. In fact, he had a copy of "The Sword and Saber Divine Realm" in his house.
In fact, almost everyone in the gaming industry had a copy of the Sword and Saber Divine Realm.
This was because the creativity of the game in this book was too great. It actually designed a game that allowed humans to enter dreams. This was a heavy blow to the gaming industry. It made them realize that future games could be played to such an extent. It was really unimaginable!
Of course, Sakaguchi Hironobu was just admiring these wonderful ideas, and he had no other thoughts.
After all, a game that allowed one to enter dreams was too sci-fi. There might be such an invention in the future, but it was definitely impossible now. At least, Sakaguchi Hironobu felt that such a game would not be born before he died.
It was worth mentioning that in the original version of "The Sword and Saber Divine Realm", because it was only released in 2009, there were many game concepts that were beyond the current era, including some new game genres. These were directly deleted by Boss Jia to prevent people from finding a trace of future ideas.
Back to the topic, after Sakaguchi Hironobu knew that light novels would definitely be affected, so the final result was within the scope of Sakaguchi Hironobu's acceptance. Therefore, he did not hold back his cursing.
Instead, he hesitated for a while and asked, "There is a game called Pokemon. Do you know its sales?"
"Pokemon?" The secretary was stunned for a moment. He had obviously never heard of this name. Therefore, he first bowed to Sakaguchi Hironobu and apologized. Then, he began to flip through the documents and finally reported to Sakaguchi Hironobu, "I found it. The total sales of Pokemon in two weeks is less than 1,000, so there are no specific statistics, but it must be less than 1,000."
"Good! Good! " Sakaguchi Hironobu's face finally showed a satisfied smile. He was still a little worried. After all, it was a game that had received an 89 rating from Nintendo's editorial department. Sakaguchi Hironobu regretted agreeing to the competition. If the other party was really lucky and sold more than 100,000 copies in a year, wouldn't he be dead?!
But now, Sakaguchi Hironobu was relieved.
Less than 1,000 copies were sold in half a month. Even if they could sell 1,000 copies every month, they would only sell 12,000 copies in a year. It was impossible to compete with Final Fantasy.
Moreover, the sales of this Pokemon were so poor. According to Nintendo's usual behavior, all products that failed to meet the sales standards would be removed from the market as soon as possible. They would then disappear without a trace, so as not to embarrass Nintendo.
Therefore, Sakaguchi Hironobu estimated that by next month, there would be no more Pokemon game cartridges on the market.
"Hahaha …" Thinking of this, Sakaguchi Hironobu began to laugh wildly in his heart.
"No, I have to do something. Otherwise, it's too uncomfortable to hold it in!" Although Sakaguchi Hironobu was very happy, only he, Tajiri Tomo, and Tajiri Tomo's secretary knew about this matter.
Even if he won, it was only him. How could it be? He had to let a lot of people know about a certain bastard's rudeness and his victory.
Not returning home after riches was like walking in the night in brocade clothes!
Therefore, Sakaguchi Hironobu pondered for a while and asked someone to find the people from Fami Magazine, saying that he wanted to reveal some news.
When Fami Magazine heard this, they, who were worried about not having any news, immediately sent a reporter over.
Of course, after seeing the reporter from Fami Magazine, Sakaguchi Hironobu could not directly talk about the competition. Wouldn't that make him seem very narrow-minded?
Anyway, now that Final Fantasy 6 had entered the development stage, it was just the right time to release a little news and do some pre-hype so that players would begin to look forward to Final Fantasy 6.
When they were about to do this, Sakaguchi Hironobu decided to get together and start talking about Final Fantasy 6.
This made Fami Magazine feel like they had obtained a treasure. The two sides talked for a while and only got some vague news. Sakaguchi Hironobu stopped talking about Final Fantasy 6.
Although this made the magazine reporter feel a little regretful, this was something that he was prepared for. After all, Final Fantasy 6 might not be released until next year or even the year after. It was obviously impossible to expect the game's producers to release too much news at this time.
Sakaguchi Hironobu only needed to reveal a little bit of information. The rest of the article depended on the reporter to make wild guesses. Anyway, it was not illegal to guess wrongly.
Just when the reporter thought that the interview was over and he could leave, Sakaguchi Hironobu suddenly smiled and said, "Speaking of sales, I suddenly remembered that an interesting thing happened when I went to participate in the review of the GB version of Final Fantasy 5 a month ago. At that time, there was a young company that had a bad temper and was very aggressive. Their tone was even more arrogant … "
In the reporter's expression, Sakaguchi Hironobu talked about the competition between himself and Jia Yapeng.
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"Tajari-kun, I asked you to come today. You should know …" Facing Tajari-Kun, Miyamoto Shigeru hid great uneasiness deep in his heart. He did not even dare to look directly at his former good friend.
"I know, I came to the platform to settle the bill today. It's already the 15th!" Tajari-Kun nodded.
The 15th of every month was the day that Nintendo and the official game platform settled the accounts.
On this day, Nintendo would transfer all the game sales of the previous month to a third party company. At the same time, the third party company would also have to pay the corresponding game cartridge burning fees for the previous month.
Because the game was released on May 1st, it was naturally impossible to give any share to Tajari-Kun on May 15th. However, Tajari-Kun would have to pay a total of one billion yen to Nintendo for the one million game cartridges burning fees.
This was why Miyamoto Shigeru did not dare to look at Tajari-Kun. Everyone knew that the sales of Pokemon had not exceeded 1,000 copies until now. When the time came, the share would not exceed 1.5 million yen.
This one billion yen burning fee would completely destroy Tajari-Kun's company.
"Then, according to the rules, you only need to pay us … 1 … 1 billion yen burning fee!" Miyamoto Shigeru gritted his teeth and finished the sentence.
Miyamoto Shigeru knew that once he started to ask for payment, Tajari-Kun would definitely not be able to pay this huge amount of money.
If Tajari-Kun was unable to pay this huge amount of money, he would definitely do everything he could to beg for less or delay the payment.
At this time, Miyamoto Shigeru would take the opportunity to announce that due to the poor sales, all Pokemon would be removed from the shelves. This would be the final blow to Tajari-Kun.
Thinking about the desperate situation that Tajari-Kun would face later, Miyamoto Shigeru wanted to kneel down and apologize to his good friend.
But he could not, but …
"Okay! Here is a check for one billion yen. Miyamoto-kun, please check it! "Tajari-Kun said with a relaxed expression.
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