"Xiao Zhi, how's the sales of our game?" Boss Jia looked at Tajiri.
"President, can you not call me that?" Tajiri Tomoaki was embarrassed.
Jia Yapeng was such a bad person. How dare he call our poor Tajiri that way?
Originally, Tajiri had planned to name the male lead in the game Xiao Chi, which was also the name of the original male lead of the first generation of Pokemon. However, Boss Jia insisted on changing the name of the male lead to Xiao Chi, which made Tajiri very uncomfortable.
Boss Jia wanted to make the entire version of the protagonist Xiao Zhi because he wanted to remember his childhood. However, Tajiri thought that Boss Jia was tormenting him and changed his name to Xiao Zhi.
Well, in fact, Xiaozhi was named Xiaozhi because of the name Tajiri. When the producers of Pokemon decided on the name of the main character, they didn't know whether to choose the name of the main character or the main character, so they changed the name to Xiaozhi.
Of course, Tajiri was very grateful for this decision. This name would obviously become a symbol of Pokemon in the future and he would be remembered by countless players along with this name.
However, the problem was that when Boss Jia called him Xiao Zhi, it was f * cking embarrassing.
"Reporting to the president, the total sales of Pokemon has reached 3.42 million copies so far. Pokemon – Red has sold 2.92 million copies while Pokemon – Green has sold 500,000 copies!" Tajiri Tomoshi replied.
"Why is there such a huge difference between the two versions?" Boss Jia frowned and asked.
"This is Nintendo's fault!" Tajiri smiled bitterly. "When we first burned the copies, I asked for 500,000 copies of both the red and green versions. However, due to our conflict with Nintendo, I did not have time to ask for the same number of copies for both the red and green versions. In the end, when Nintendo assembled the copies, they only burned the red version and did not burn the green version. Therefore, all the versions sold on the market are the red version. The green version has already been sold out! "
"I've already asked Nintendo to burn a large batch of green versions as soon as possible!" Tajiri said.
"How about this …" Boss Jia touched his nose, then smiled and said, "How about this, you can burn a batch of green versions for us first. As for Nintendo, you don't have to worry about them. Let Nintendo sell the red version first."
"Ah?" Tajiri stared blankly at Boss Jia. He did not understand what Boss Jia was trying to do.
However, it didn't take long for Tajiri to understand.
After a month, Pokemon had completely taken over the entire Fusang. There were more and more guides about Pokemon, and all sorts of information and settings about Pokemon were discovered by the powerful players.
At this time, the goal of the game had changed from passing the National League to collecting all the Pokemon pets. However, the players soon realized that, except for a few lucky ones, very few players were able to collect all the Pokemon pets. This was very shocking.
Therefore, the players began to investigate the truth. They discovered that there were some Pokemon in the game that had extremely low spawn rates. The Fossilized Pterosaur was an extremely rare Pokemon. It could only be encountered once in ten thousand battles.
If that was the case, the players could only work hard.
However, some players soon announced that they would encounter a few Fossilized Pterosaurs in a day. The ones with the lowest spawn rates were actually the Carapace Helmet and Dragonite.
This was not scientific!
These players gathered together to discuss, but they could not come to a conclusion. Everyone was playing the same game, but the spawn rates of the maps were different.
Just as everyone was puzzled, someone realized that the suffixes on both sides of the cartridges were different.
One person's cartridge was red, while the other's was green.
In the beginning, no one paid attention to this. However, many people were curious as to why there was an additional color behind the Pokemon name. Now they understood that there were two different versions of the story.
"Only by collecting two different versions can we collect all the Pokemon pets!"
Soon, this news was published in related guide magazines. This time, all the children in Fusang knew why they were unable to collect all the Pokemon pets. It was because they had bought one less set.
These players were enlightened, and in an instant, the entire market began to explode.
Those players who had Pokemon green immediately went to buy a box of Pokemon red.
However, the players who had Pokemon Red in their hands were having a headache. This was because they couldn't find Pokemon Green in the market. This made many players extremely anxious.
However, a magazine soon announced a shocking piece of news. Pokemon green could not be bought through the regular channels. Only light novels or game cartridges that came with Crispy Noodle Snacks, the legendary Pokemon green could be found.
The rest of the story did not need to be said. Anyway, by the time Nintendo reacted and began to mass print Pokemon green, the total sales of Boss Jia's light novels had exceeded ten million copies. Even Crispy Noodle Snacks had reached the peak of sales.
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Back to the main topic, Tajiri finally began to report the final sales results of Pokemon.
"Because Nintendo will only give us a share of the profits for May on June 15th, the only income that Pokemon has brought us is the one million Pokemon cartridges that we sold ourselves!"
"Selling all one million Pokemon cartridges brought us a net income of four billion yen. However, 1.7 billion has been paid to Nintendo in advance, so the real profit that belongs to us is only 2.3 billion yen. If we exclude the various advertising and marketing expenses that we paid, as well as the channel fees that we paid to Ito Yoshinori, Pokemon has brought us a total income of 1.5 billion yen! "Tajiri concluded.
"Very good!" Boss Jia nodded and then looked at Honda Ichiro. Obviously, it was time for him to make the final appearance.
"I will only say one number!" Honda Ichiro stood up and looked at Boss Jia and the others with a slightly proud expression. "Since February 1993, our Daqian Fusang Corporation's total income has been 50 billion yen!"
"What! 50 billion yen? That's a lot! "Hearing this number, everyone was shocked. Honda Ichiro continued," First of all, our flagship product, Elfin Crispy Noodle Snacks. "
"In this quarter, the sales of Elfin Crispy Noodle Snacks continued to shrink. From February to May, the sales of Elfin Crispy Noodle Snacks in all of Fusang was only 5 billion yen, which is less than a fraction of what it used to be!" Honda Ichiro said lightly.
Any trend came and went quickly. After experiencing a huge profit of nearly 50 billion yen in the second half of 1992, Elfin Crispy Noodle Snacks gradually returned to its original state and became an extremely ordinary product. There was no longer a crazy rush to buy it. The sales figures for the first half of 1993 dropped to 110%.
Of course, even if it was only 110 billion yen, a total sales figure of 5 billion yen was enough to make many traditional snack companies drool.
"However," Honda Ichiro began to change the topic, "from May 1st to June 1st of this year, the sales of Elfin Crispy Noodle Snacks reached a new high. The total sales for this month exceeded 11.2 billion yen!"
"F * ck!" Everyone present, especially the people from Yuangu, almost jumped up. They didn't have much contact with Daqian before. They only knew that the parent company sold crispy noodle snacks and then seemed to have started selling games.
But they really didn't expect that crispy noodle snacks could sell for 11.2 billion yen a month. This was almost 100 million US dollars in revenue!
"Tsk, this isn't our credit …" Tajiri muttered. But he wasn't wrong to complain, because this was indeed the credit of Pokemon.
This time, Elfin Crispy Noodle Snacks launched a new linkage. It relied entirely on the Pokemon card series. There was also an activity where you could get a free flash card if you bought a Pokemon, or if you drew a special card, you could get a free copy of the Pokemon game.
All in all, driven by this linkage, the sales of Elfin Crispy Noodle Snacks achieved a heaven-defying turnaround. From 5 billion in the previous five months, they had become a terrifying 11.2 billion in monthly sales.
And judging from the current momentum, sales in June would probably soar and break the 11.2 billion mark, because the craze for Pokemon was not over yet.
In fact, the wave of Pokemon had just begun and was about to enter its most popular period.
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