After only 5 days, it was rare to see students talking face to face in the entire Sui Qun Yuan Academy. Half of the students would lower their heads and look at the GB in their hands as soon as class was over.
The other 14 students lowered their heads to read novels.
Under the recommendation of those two students, quite a few students went to buy Pokemon game cartridges on the same day, and they even received a light novel. In the end, all of them ended up with nothing to show for it.
As more and more people unlocked the battle function, after class, many students who were close to each other immediately used their own GB to fight against their friends' GB, controlling the Little Elves of both sides to start a battle.
A game that allows two people to fight at the same time, this is definitely the first game in the history of Pokemon.
Everyone had a herd effect. When a large number of students in a class were chasing a game at the same time, and the game could even be compared among the students, the game was destined to explode.
At this time, more than 13% of the students in Suiqun Gakuen had become loyal fans of Pokemon, and 14% of the students were fans of light novels.
It wasn't just Suiqun Hara Academy. In fact, at this time, all the schools in Fusang were developing in the same direction. Almost as soon as class was over, all the students could be seen fighting each other with GB.
[PS: This is not the author's bluff, this is the real scene after the release of the first Pokemon book]
It was May 27th, and Yamauchi once again received the bookstore's data in advance.
According to the data, 50% of the country's supply was out of stock, and the remaining supply was less than 100,000 copies. Most of them were distributed in remote cities like Tokyo. Pokemon was once again out of stock in popular cities like Tokyo.
This means that in just 8 days, 1 million copies of Pokemon were sold just like that.
According to this trend, it would be easy for the sales of Fusang to exceed 3 million copies. In the future, it would not be impossible for it to even reach 10 million copies of the Hall of Fame level.
In fact, Yamauchi felt that as long as Nintendo went all out, 10 million copies of Pokemon would definitely be sold.
That's 10 million copies, according to the price of 3999 yen, that's 40 billion yen. Nintendo's sales are as high as 25 billion yen, and the net profit is more than 18 billion yen.
Who the f * ck could resist the temptation of such pure profits?
If it was possible, Yamauchi wanted to immediately print more copies and promote them all over the world. At that time, he would be able to make a lot of money.
But here came the problem. If Yamauchi wanted to print more, he would have to get Jia Yapeng's permission. This would be akin to admitting defeat to him and giving up control over Team Rocket and Pokemon.
Of course, this would also be a slap to his old face. This made Yamauchi hesitate.
In the end, Yamauchi made up his mind because of another piece of news.
On this day, the person in charge of the sales department knocked on the door with a look of ecstasy. Then, he handed a report to Yamauchi and stood there, seemingly waiting for Yamauchi's praise.
"What?" Looking at the data in his hand, Yamauchi's little finger couldn't help but tremble.
No wonder the supervisor was so excited to give him this report.
According to the report, from May 20th to May 27th, within seven days, the sales of the Gameboy had increased by a terrifying amount of sixty thousand units.
Yes, the Gameboy was Nintendo's handheld, abbreviated as GB, and not some adult magazine.
Sixty thousand units!
Looking at this number, Yamauchi's whole body trembled.
The sales volume increased by 60,000 units in seven days.
What kind of concept was this?
Five years ago, when GB was first put on sale, the sales figures were only available.
Yamauchi must have remembered that in the first month of GB's release, the sales in Japan reached an astonishing figure of 500,000 units, and in the second month, it rushed to 1.2 million units, and this did not include the sales in the global market.
In the last four months, GB sold a total of eight million units worldwide. Compared to that time, sixty thousand units in seven days wasn't a big deal.
But now, five years had passed, and GB's sales were not as good as before. Thirty to forty thousand units in a month was already considered very lucky.
That was also the global sales.
But now, in just seven days, GB's sales had reached sixty thousand units. That was 240,000 units in a month. This was almost the same number as the year it was first released.
No wonder the supervisor was so excited to ask for a reward.
"You still have the face to ask for a reward? Get out! " But in the next second, the unlucky supervisor was scolded by Yamauchi. He didn't even know why he was scolded.
After Yamauchi scolded the supervisor, he helplessly sat back in his chair.
The reason for Yamauchi's scolding was simple. This result wasn't because of the sales department, but because of Pokemon.
From May 20th to May 27th, sixty thousand units were sold in seven days. Even an idiot could see that it was because of Pokemon.
But this result didn't bring any surprise to Yamauchi. Instead, it was like a series of slaps on Yamauchi's face.
The game Pokemon was able to single-handedly drive the growth of sixty thousand GB PCs in seven days. This meant that sixty thousand people who never played GB PCs bought a GB PC because they loved the game Pokemon.
This was very scary.
One must know that the price of a GB Pokemon is 12,500 Yen. 60,000 units would be close to 800 million in sales. He, the guy who was trying his best to suppress Pokemon, actually earned 800 million in one go because of Pokemon. This is simply the biggest joke in the world.
The weight and importance of this Pokemon was probably much more important than he had imagined. It was completely on the level of an intercontinental missile.
What made Yamauchi even more afraid was that if this news was known by SEGA, the company that had been following him closely would do everything they could to get Pokemon to join their side.
Under his continuous suppression, Jia Yapeng and Tajiri Tomoaki were very dissatisfied with him. As long as SEGA gave them enough profits, they would definitely change sides. Then, Pokemon would become his biggest enemy.
"No! Absolutely not! "Yamauchi was the person who single-handedly made Nintendo the world's biggest game company.
So, even though Yamauchi was unwilling, even though he was slapped in the face again and again, he still picked up the phone and called Shigeru Miyamoto.
"Hello, Mr. Miyamoto?"
"Don't talk. Just listen to me. Go and contact Mr. Tajiri immediately and invite him and Mr. Jia to the company. I want to talk to them personally!" Yamauchi panted as he spoke into the phone.
"President … Actually …" Shigeru Miyamoto on the other end of the phone hesitated.
"Actually what?" Yamauchi asked angrily.
"Actually, Mr. Tajiri and Mr. Jia are already here. They said that they want to visit you. I was about to call you when you called!"
"These two guys!" Yamauchi couldn't help but laugh. "Quickly invite the two guests in … No, I'll go and greet them personally!"
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