"The road to happiness is strewn with setbacks. This time, it's finally over. We can start making money now!" Tajiri exclaimed as he followed Boss Jia out.
"It's only over temporarily! When my console is released, Nintendo will probably want to kill me! "Jia Yapeng rubbed his nose and muttered in a voice that only he could hear.
"Tajira-kun, you've done well this time!" Jia Yapeng patted Tajiri's shoulder and said, "I'm going back to Hua Xia soon. Before that, I'll give your entire team a bonus of 100 million Yen. You can distribute the money as you see fit!"
"100 million Yen!" Tajiri's eyes widened and he almost drooled.
"Not bad. This is what you and your team deserve. This product is very successful!" Boss Jia nodded. "Keep up the good work. If the total sales can exceed 5 million, I'll give your team another 100 million Yen!"
Boss Jia's words made Tajiri's heart fill with anticipation.
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On May 28th, the day after Jia Yapeng and Nintendo signed the new contract, Nintendo released an announcement to celebrate the sales of Pokemon in Fusang. At the same time, they praised Rocket Team, the company that produced Pokemon.
Almost at the same time, all the major gaming magazines in Fusang, which had not commented on Pokemon, published news about Pokemon.
It wasn't just a normal magazine, it was a super standard one. Every magazine had at least 10 colored pages to introduce everything about Pokemon to all the players.
"Faim" magazine gave Pokemon a score of 39 out of 100. One had to know that there were only two games that scored 39 points in the history of Faim, which scored 40 points out of 100.
Now, there was a third game, which was Pokemon.
As for all the newspapers in Fusang, they all published full-page promotional posters for Pokemon.
Almost overnight, all the bookstores placed Pokemon in the most prominent position in the gaming section. At the same time, all the places where Pokemon was sold were covered with posters related to Pokemon.
The Japanese players realized that the entire world seemed to have been taken over by the game "Pokemon" overnight.
Although such intensive advertising made some people dislike Pokemon, it also attracted a large number of players to be curious about Pokemon.
This was just like the brainwashing advertisement of "No gifts this year, only Brain Platinum". Although everyone hated this advertisement, the sales of Brain Platinum did indeed lead year after year. Finally, it created the miracle of an annual income of more than ten billion yuan.
All in all, only Nintendo's top games, such as "Mario Bros.," "The Legend of Zelda," "Metal Gear Solid," and "Brave Vs. Dragon," were worthy of such a huge advertising campaign. Everyone could see that Nintendo was planning to make "Pokemon" the ace game of the new generation after the previous public sentiment.
This made many players confused. Nintendo had treated Pokemon like trash before. How did it become a treasure in the blink of an eye?
But no matter what, the effect of the advertising was very significant. Moreover, the games that were promoted by Nintendo were all of high quality.
More importantly, they realized that many people around them had already started playing Pokemon. They even went around looking for others to battle with their GB, showing off the high-quality monsters that they had just subdued. If they didn't have Pokemon in their hands, their friends wouldn't want to talk to them because they didn't have anything in common with them.
Fusangpeople were the best at reading the atmosphere. At the same time, they were also the people who cared the most about their social circle in school and work. They would never allow themselves to be excluded from their social circle.
Moreover, buying a copy of Pokemon wasn't expensive. It wasn't a problem to experience it.
Therefore, more and more people began to spend money to buy a copy of the Pokemon game cartridge. They wanted to see what kind of god this game was.
"President, in just three days, the sales of Pokemon have exceeded 2.2 million units." The sales director excitedly reported the new sales figures to Yamauchi. At the same time, he was even more excited that the GB sales had increased by another 100,000 units in three days. The game cartridges that were just in stock yesterday were basically sold out the next day. All the bookstores were clamoring to restock. Even the GB cartridges were almost sold out. The GB cartridges in the inventory were finally being put to good use! “
"Good, that's great!" Yamauchi excitedly pinched his fingers. The potential of Pokemon was even greater than he had originally imagined.
Although it was due to his overwhelming publicity, 2.2 million copies sold in three days was something that only "Tetris" and "Super Mario Bros." had done before. Now there was another "Pokemon". Would it become as terrifying as the previous two?
"By the way, President, the Daqian sent us a fax. They hope to buy a batch of GB cartridges from us!" The sales director said.
“GB？ What do they want our GB cartridges for? "Yamauchi froze for a moment.
"They said that they want to create a limited edition Pokemon linked GB cartridges. They want to buy about 500,000 units. They hope that we can allow them to sell it after they buy it." The sales director said.
"500,000 GB cartridges? They are crazy. Do they think that they can eat such a large batch of GB cartridges?" Yamauchi froze for a moment, but after thinking about it, it wasn't a bad thing.
If someone was willing to help him sell his game cartridges, as long as they didn't sell them to the United States or Europe, there wouldn't be any problems.
"Tell them that they can buy the cartridges, but they can only sell it to them at the wholesale price of 10,000 yen … Forget it, 9,800 yen …" Yamauchi's words surprised the sales director. This was the first time that the sales director had seen Yamauchi take the initiative to lower the price. It was as if the sun had risen from the west.
"By the way, do you know the sales data of the Daqian?" Yamauchi asked again.
"I don't know, but they have already transferred 1.2 million game cartridges from us in the past three days. They have already paid for them!" The sales director said in a low voice.
"What!" Yamauchi raised his eyebrows. Out of the 2.2 million units sold, 1.2 million were sold by Jia Yapeng. His sales channel only sold 1 million units!
"How did this guy do it?" Yamauchi's eyes widened as he muttered to himself in disbelief.
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