After the first time Boss Jia made a profit of 5 million copies, Nintendo learned their lesson. Not only did they print 20 million copies of the game cartridges at once, but they also distributed them all over the world.
The result was not bad. After printing 20 million copies of the game cartridges, more than 15 million copies were sold out. There were still more than 5 million copies left. Nintendo felt that they could sell them for another three to four months.
However, in the middle of January, Nintendo's phone suddenly exploded with calls from distributors all over the world. Pokemon cartridges were out of stock again.
Not only was there a shortage in the world market, but there was also a shortage in Fusang. All kinds of orders came in crazily. In three days, there were two million orders.
Nintendo was a little dumbfounded at first, but they quickly reacted. They asked the cartridge burning factory to continue burning Pokemon game cartridges. At the same time, they took out all the 2 million copies of the game cartridges stored in the factory.
They did not ship them. They directly booked two cargo planes. In two days, the 2 million copies of the game cartridges were sent to the United States and European markets. They replenished the stock as quickly as possible.
As a result, the 2 million copies of the game cartridges were sold out for less than three days. Then, there were two more private planes. This time, they were loaded with 3 million copies of the game cartridges.
A total of eight private planes were used to send eight million copies of the game cartridges to various parts of the world. Only then were they able to make up for the shortage. According to the post-event statistics, Pokemon had sold a total of 7.8 million copies in the entire month of January.
This directly pushed the total sales of Pokemon from the original 21.2 million to 29 million. At the same time, it was estimated that there would be no problem breaking 30 million copies in February. Nintendo even had to consider what would happen if the sales of Pokemon exceeded 40 million copies.
That would be really scary. Now, the total sales of Pokemon had exceeded 28 million copies of Duck Hunt and was only one step away from 32 million copies of Tetris.
Anyway, it was definitely going to be the second sales record in history. As for whether it could surpass the record of 41 million copies of Super Mario Bros, only God knew.
However, this also made Nintendo very confused. This increase in sales was completely illogical. The sales of Pokemon had obviously entered a downward curve. According to Nintendo's 20 years of sales experience, the average monthly sales in the first half of 1994 should be around 200,000. In the second half of 1994, the average monthly sales should be around 100,000.
After 1994, there were only tens of thousands of sales every month. In the end, when the new version of the game was released, the old version was completely removed from the market.
Therefore, Nintendo's final estimate of Pokemon sales was around 25 million, and this was a sales rate that could only be reached in 1996.
But it was only January of 1994. How did it suddenly increase by 7.8 million? This was even crazier than when Pokemon was first released!
Therefore, Nintendo began to investigate the reason. In the end, they were surprised to find that it was the work of a single elf.
Naturally, Nintendo already knew about Dreamscape.
When Nintendo first saw the announcement made by Team Rocket, they had some disdain in their heart. They felt that Team Rocket was really an unprofessional small company. They actually had such a huge bug hidden in the game.
More importantly, they actually directly admitted that it was their company's mistake in the announcement. This was not right and would damage the company's reputation. They should not admit it!
Anyway, Nintendo had always done this.
But Team Rocket actually admitted it. Nintendo was prepared to see Team Rocket being scolded by players, but who would have thought that the final plot was that the sales of Pokemon suddenly skyrocketed!
The specific reason was actually very simple. At this time, Dreamscape had become the pursuit of all Pokemon players.
High appearance, full race value, all skills could be learned, and other characteristics added together made Dreamscape the number one Mythical Beast in the current version of Pokemon. No other elf could compete with Dreamscape.
This directly led to all players wanting to obtain a Dreamscape. Players who did not have a Dreamscape would feel uncomfortable in their hearts. It was as if a deck of cards had lost a king. They had to obtain this Dreamscape no matter what.
Although the official directly announced the method to obtain Dreamscape, and Dreamscape was obtained through a bug, there was basically no difficulty. Players only needed to follow the guide.
However, the problem was that this bug required the use of an NPC tamer in Hualan City. Only after defeating this NPC tamer and immediately rushing to the secret passage in Ghost Town and performing a series of actions could he obtain Fantasy. If he did something else in the middle of the process, this bug would not trigger.
Hualan City was a map in the early stages of the game. As long as they played for one or two days, they would have basically cleared all the plots in Hualan City. Then, they would have to kill all the trainer NPCs.
As a result, although all players already knew the method to obtain Dreamscape, they were no longer able to use this bug to obtain Dreamscape.
Unlike the previous life where Pokemon cards could be reset and returned to the original state, Boss Jia's game cartridge did not have this function.
Although it could be saved, there was only one save location in the game. The second save would directly overwrite the first save content. Players had basically developed a good habit of saving once a day, so no one would keep the previous save in Hualan City.
At this time, it had not entered the Internet era. Everyone could change all of this with a patch. The GB did not have the function of connecting to the computer at all.
All of this meant that if players wanted to obtain Dreamscape, they would have to buy a new game cartridge and start from scratch.
Therefore, under the temptation of Dreamscape, a large number of players could only curse as they took out money to buy a new Pokemon cartridge.
At this time, the number of Pokemon players had reached a terrifying base number of 20 million, and Dreamscape was too tempting. As a result, a large number of players who had already bought a Pokemon cartridge paid for a new Pokemon cartridge for the second or even the third time. This directly caused the sales to skyrocket by 7.8 million within a month.
"Oh my god, a single game cartridge made the players spend three times. This is too awesome!" After knowing all of this, Nintendo could only sigh. Then, on the 12th of February, they sent another 160 million USD to Boss Jia.
In the entire month of January, eight million game cartridges were sold. A game cartridge's global average price was 50 USD. Of which, 10 USD of the cartridge's cost was from Nintendo. The remaining 40 USD was split equally between the two parties. A single cartridge could earn 20 USD, so eight million copies would naturally be 160 million USD.
This made Boss Jia, who received this amount of money in February, shocked. This was an income that even Boss Jia did not calculate at all!
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