He was already very satisfied with getting the Animal and Forest Committee and Daqian Kartrider games. However, he didn't expect Boss Jia to announce the third console game.
It was a game called Heroes of Might and Magic. According to Boss Jia's introduction, it should be a board game.
Battle flag games weren't new to console games. In fact, they had been around for more than ten years. Therefore, when Yamauchi first saw that it was a battle flag game, he was quite dismissive. He felt that there were already countless famous battle flag games and there was no chance for a Daqian Heroes of Might and Magic to rise.
However, when Jia Yapeng began to introduce and show some of the gameplay of Heroes of Might and Magic, Yamauchi's disdain was completely wiped away.
Although this was indeed a war flag game, the gameplay of Heroes of Might and Magic was absolutely unique in the board game genre, especially the unique setting of occupying resource mines, producing troops, and being able to defeat random monsters. This was a setting that had never been seen before in the board game genre.
Moreover, the main storyline of Heroes of Might and Magic was very interesting. In a place called the Hero's Continent, because heroes from ancient times to the present were unwilling to admit defeat, their heroic spirits descended on the Hero's Continent. These heroic spirits were divided according to their nationality and formed different countries to fight.
The players played the role of the leaders of these countries. They led their own heroes to defeat the heroic spirits of the rival countries and finally became the leaders of the continent.
25 years later, this would be a popular game idea. There were at least 2000 mobile games in Hua Xia, and heroes from ancient times to the present were gathered together to fight.
However, in 1995, this was the most advanced game concept in the world. Because before then, no game had thought of gathering heroes from all races and civilizations to create a battle flag game. This was a game idea that defied the heavens!
Of course, Heroes of Might and Magic was also a game that Boss Jia had magically modified.
In fact, Heroes of Might and Magic was somewhat similar. Red Alert was a game that belonged to the Command and Conquer series, while Heroes of Might and Magic series.
On the other hand, Magic's Gate was known as one of the top three RPG games in the world. Its history started in 1983, before Boss Jia's time travel. Boss Jia had no way of getting his hands on the IP of this game.
Therefore, Boss Jia settled for the next best thing and took out one of the most famous games in the Magic Door, Invincible Heroes.
The heroes in Heroes of Might and Magic were actually heroes from the storyline of the World of Magic. Boss Jia didn't have the copyright of the World of Magic, so he couldn't create these heroes.
In fact, Boss Jia could also create a magic continent, but that didn't suit Boss Jia's interest. After a few minutes of hard thinking, Boss Jia decided to turn this into a game that integrated all the heroes in the history of the earth, which was more in line with the meaning of the name Invincible Heroes.
Imagine, players from all over the world could play heroes from their own history and civilization in Heroes of Might and Magic. How satisfying would that be?
In the future, when Heroes of Might and Magic's downloadable content was released, as long as it included heroes from a few countries, the downloadable content would explode in that country.
That was the trick!
"This game will sell at least two million copies!" Yamauchi muttered softly. As the most successful game businessman, in Yamauchi's eyes, the value of a game was actually based on its sales volume. Therefore, in his eyes, every different game would eventually become a sales number.
Previously, the Animal Forest Committee sold two million copies, the Daqian Kart sold three million copies, and this game sold two million copies. These three games combined would sell seven million copies, which was comparable to the sales of a godly game.
Yamauchi had another characteristic, which was that his estimates were generally more conservative. If he estimated two million copies, then the actual sales volume would definitely exceed two million. Yamauchi estimated that he had really picked up a treasure this time.
"The Daqian is really a treasure … Damn it, why don't I have a granddaughter?" Yamauchi muttered unwillingly. "Why don't I just buy the Daqian game? But Jia Yapeng, that rascal, would never be willing to sell it to me!"
Just as Yamauchi's inner thoughts were playing out, the Daqian began to release its fourth console game.
"This is a game that is linked to the movie 'Titanic'. Players will be able to experience the sad story of the Titanic in the game, as well as the life and death adventure of escaping from the Titanic. The ending of the story will be decided by the players themselves!"
"This game will be released worldwide half a month after the movie 'Titanic' is released. For now, I can't reveal too much about the plot of this game, because it will reveal the plot of the movie!" Boss Jia laughed.
Boss Jia didn't say much about the console game, and Yamauchi didn't give too many comments about the sales volume of the game.
Games that were linked to movies had actually been around since the beginning of the gaming industry. However, it turned out that the movie's influence on the game wasn't that great, and it could even have side effects.
The most obvious example was the link between the Alien Ruins and the Arida game.
In fact, before Nintendo, Arida was the world's overlord in the gaming industry. At its peak, it occupied almost 70% of the world's gaming market. It was even more powerful than Nintendo now.
However, Arida died in the hands of a movie while playing games. This was an outcome that no one could have imagined.
Back then, Spielberg's movie 'Alien ET' was released worldwide and achieved impressive box office results. Hence, Arida spent tens of millions of dollars to obtain the rights to 'Alien ET' and obtained the rights to develop a game with the same name. Then, Arida spent millions of dollars to promote their game throughout the United States, raising the expectations of the game to the maximum.
However, the problem was that in order to achieve the highest market sales, Arida insisted on selling the game during Christmas. However, the problem was that when they obtained the rights to the game, there was less than a month before Christmas. Hence, Arida had to develop the game within a month.
This was an impossible task, but Arida managed to complete it. They had successfully created one of the world's trashiest games.
It was said that after the game was released, it received unprecedented bad reviews and a huge number of refunds. Arida thought that the game they developed would be a hit, so they prepared 10 million game cartridges in advance.
In the end, less than 300,000 game cartridges were sold. The rest of the game cartridges were unsold. Even when they were reduced to below the cost price, no one bought them. In the end, Arida Games could only throw the rest of the game cartridges into the landfill in a hurry.
Due to the failure of 'Alien ET', Arida Games lost a lot of money. At the same time, it was difficult for Arida Games to recover. "Alien ET" was their last battle to make a comeback. However, this battle failed, and Arida Games directly declared bankruptcy.
A few years later, countless loyal fans of the game gathered at a landfill in California. They dug more than ten meters into the landfill in order to verify the urban legend that Arida Games had buried a large number of 'Alien ET' game cartridges in the landfill.
The results did not disappoint the players. When they dug nearly 20 meters into the landfill, these hardcore players successfully found millions of 'Alien ET' game cartridges that Arida Games had buried. These game cartridges were all unopened game cartridges. If you went to Amazon now, you might be able to buy a copy of 'Alien ET' that was dug out from the landfill for a few hundred dollars.
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