Time gradually came to November 20, 1993. At this time, Boss Jia had stayed in the United States for more than 60 days, and he began to prepare to go home.
Generally speaking, this trip to the United States was very successful. First of all, Pokemon was sold smoothly in the United States. Although there were many twists and turns in the middle, a total of 8.4 million copies has been sold so far. It is estimated that the final total sales will exceed 10 million copies without any problem, and it can even hit 15 million copies.
However, this seems to be incomparable with the unprecedented 40 million total sales set by Super Mario Brothers.
However, this is the total sales worldwide. At this time, the total sales of Pokemon in Fusang have also exceeded 6 million, and the sales in the European market have reached 2 million. Together, the total sales worldwide have reached 16.4 million.
This result was enough for Nintendo, no, it should be in history, to be ranked fifth on the world's single-game sales leaderboard. This was already a very impressive result, because you had to look at the monsters in the top four.
Among them, the fourth place is Super Mario Brothers 3, with a total sales of 18 million.
The third place is Duck Hunt, with a total sales of 28.2 million.
The second place is Tetris, with a total sales of 38 million.
The first place is Super Mario Brothers, with a total sales of 40.4 million.
However, only Tetris is the BG version of the game, and the others are the FC version of the game, so if you only count the GB version of the game, then Pokemon can be ranked in the second place.
It is worth mentioning that the sales of Tetris are very mysterious. Some people have calculated that the sales of Tetris are 150 million, and some have only sold 12 million. The reason for such a big gap is that when many mobile phones are sold, in order to let the mobile phone come with some games, they paid a part of the copyright fee to Nintendo to buy the mobile game porting rights of Tetris, and directly ported Tetris into the mobile game.
So before 2000, in the era of non-smartphones, Tetris was bundled with more than 80 million mobile phones, plus some ported versions of Tetris on other platforms, and the final sales of Tetris exceeded 150 million.
There is also Gluttonous Snake.
However, this kind of almost free game sales can't be counted in the sales volume, so the figure of 38 million is more fair because this is the total sales volume that players need to pay to buy.
By the way, some readers might be curious. Didn't you say that this is a ranking of all the games in the history of the world? Why are the top 5 Nintendo games?
Because that was the truth. Until 1993, the top five games in the world were all from Nintendo, or at least Nintendo products. Eight of the top ten games were from Nintendo.
From this, it could be seen how terrifying Nintendo was 2000 years ago.
However, this was the result until 1993. In this world, Pokemon had only been sold globally for six months. The other top four games were all released before 1990. Their sales wouldn't increase anymore.
However, Pokemon was different. Its game sales were still increasing. According to the estimates of some professional game editors, Pokemon would definitely surpass Super Mario Bros. 3. After all, it was only 1.2 million sales away. That was all. Pokemon's game sales were still increasing.
As for the third place, it would depend on luck. However, there was a high probability that it would be difficult to surpass it.
As for the first two abnormal games, it was basically impossible. It was impossible to surpass those two abnormal games.
In fact, a large number of game editors believed that there wouldn't be a game that could surpass 40 million sales in the next 20 years.
Needless to say, this guess was quite accurate. Because until 2013, there wasn't a second game in the world that could surpass 40 million sales.
However, in 2020, there were already three games that broke this sales record.
Among them, WILL sports sales were 68 million, and GTA 5 sales were 115 million. As for who was the first and how many sales, everyone can guess. There's no need to check the information.
Only Boss Jia knew that the first generation of Pokemon in history, after six years of continuous sales, the total sales reached an astonishing 30 million, surpassing Duck Fighting and becoming the third game in history.
However, in history, Pokemon was released in 1998. In 2004, the GB game console was officially withdrawn from the market, and Nintendo launched a new generation of handheld NDS. The first generation of Pokemon game cartridges were also officially stopped being sold.
However, this generation of Pokemon was born in 1993. There were still 11 years before 2004, so Pokemon had more time to increase its sales. Boss Jia felt that it might be able to surpass 40 million sales in the future.
Of course, it was also possible that it wouldn't break through, because Boss Jia felt that perhaps before 2000, the Daqian game console would be released. At that time, it would be a war between Nintendo and the Daqian. It would be strange if Nintendo would still sell Pokemon!
In addition, the Pokemon animation had exceeded 25 million viewers in the United States. At this time, including the four most famous TV stations in the United States, all the TV stations took out thick piles of US dollars to buy the rights to broadcast Pokemon.
This was because Boss Jia and NBC only signed an agreement for the first 30 episodes of Pokemon. Because NBC was very stingy, they were unwilling to pay a high price for the rights to broadcast Pokemon. In the end, they only paid 30,000 US dollars per episode.
However, this was already considered quite good. The other TV stations were not interested in negotiating with Boss Jia. They didn't believe that a Hua Xia company could produce any outstanding animation.
Therefore, Boss Jia, who originally planned to sell all 140 episodes in one go, only signed a contract with NBC for 30 episodes. The total cost was only 900,000 US dollars, which was equivalent to giving it away for free.
At this time, the first 30 episodes were about to be broadcast, and the Pokemon story had entered a climax. The number of viewers was increasing every day. When the 28th episode was broadcasted, the number of viewers exceeded 25 million. It became one of the top five animation ratings in the United States. At the same time, it was second only to The Simpsons animation among the animated series that was being broadcasted.
When the other TV stations learned that NBC only signed a contract for 30 episodes, and Boss Jia had a total of 140 episodes in his hands, the other TV stations went crazy. Especially Fox, who probably wanted to consolidate their hegemony in the animation field, offered 300,000 US dollars per episode to buy the exclusive rights to broadcast Pokemon.
This price scared Boss Jia. It was 300,000 US dollars. If the remaining 110 episodes were sold, it would be 33 million US dollars.
If the remaining 140 episodes were sold, it would be 42 million US dollars. This Fox TV station really dared to offer such a high price!
Boss Jia also asked someone to check the information and found that this price was actually the highest price in the history of the animation industry.
Therefore, Boss Jia naturally decided to reach a friendly agreement with Fox. He would sell the remaining 110 episodes, as well as the remaining 140 episodes, to Fox.
However, he didn't expect NBC to explode. He offered 350,000 US dollars per episode to buy the remaining 110 episodes.
In the end, NBC bought the exclusive rights to broadcast Pokemon from Jia Yapeng for an unprecedented 350,000 US dollars per episode. The condition was that Pokemon could not be broadcast by other United States TV stations for 10 years.
Although Fox gritted its teeth and offered 350,000 USD, and even quoted a price of 380,000 USD in the end, considering that NBC took the initiative to accept him, in the end, Boss Jia rejected the 380,000 USD offer. He still sold the remaining 110 episodes to NBC at the price of 350,000 USD per episode.
Boss Jia thought that he was destined to lose money. The first half of the Pokemon series, which cost 50 million RMB to produce, actually made a miraculous profit. Moreover, the profit was more than four times the original cost. This was also the most profitable time in the history of Dynasty Animation. This was something that Boss Jia never expected.
Of course, Boss Jia also didn't know that NBC earned 120 million US dollars in advertising fees just by selling the Pokemon cartoon's opening and middle advertisements.
Therefore, it was still unknown who would be the one earning the most!
In addition to the huge success of Pokemon, Boss Jia's other more far-reaching acquisition plans were also very successful. Nvidia, Blizzard, and Marvel had all become Boss Jia's private property. In addition, he had also established a Daqian Puzzle branch in the United States. Boss Jia's business could be considered to have completely blossomed in the United States.
The only thing that Boss Jia regretted was that Qualcomm had been very stubborn. Sun Zhengyi was indeed Sun Zhengyi. He could see that Boss Jia was thinking about Qualcomm and refused to lower the price no matter what. Qualcomm seemed to have no fate with Boss Jia.
In fact, Qualcomm's technology was nothing to Boss Jia. After all, with the laboratory, Boss Jia would be able to solve Qualcomm's technology sooner or later.
But the problem was that Qualcomm had already created technical barriers in advance and applied for a lot of technology patents. It was almost impossible to bypass these technology patents in the 2G era. Boss Jia seemed to have to wait until the 3G era to make his move.
But sometimes things were so coincidental. When Boss Jia was preparing to pack up and return to Hua Xia, Harry Potter, who came to see Boss Jia off, hurriedly told Boss Jia a piece of news.
"Boss, Pereman invited me to his manor for dinner yesterday. He told me something interesting. He said that Qualcomm's CDMA network is in a trial operation experiment in Hong Kong. Now the equipment has begun to be installed. If the operation is successful, then Qualcomm's stock will rise! He wants to buy Qualcomm's stock now. "Harry Potter said.
"No wonder Qualcomm is so stable. It turns out that they still have this trump card!" Boss Jia touched his nose. If this thing really happened, then Qualcomm's price would soar by more than two or three times. He really couldn't afford it for the time being.
"But why didn't you choose a place? Why did you choose to do the experiment in Hong Kong? "Boss Jia's mouth showed a sinister smile.
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