E3 lasted for three days, and in these three days, all the major video game companies around the world reaped a lot of benefits.
It was unknown if Nintendo was stimulated by Da Qian. Originally, they only planned to release eight games. However, in one breath, they released the games that were still in pre-development and might only be released in one or two years. In total, they had 16 games. The number of games released was second only to EA.
Out of these 18 games, 4 of them are already in pre-sales. Nintendo started the pre-sales at E3, and the pre-sales sales of 6 games are as high as 20,000 copies.
This is only the pre-sales sales at E3. Based on Nintendo's experience, the total sales of these 6 games will be 100 times higher than the pre-sales. Exceeding 2 million copies should not be a problem.
This made Yamauchi's face look a little better. On the other side, EA's boss was also very happy because the total number of pre-sales and sales of their game had exceeded 30,000, which was even higher than Nintendo's.
But Yamauchi is not happy with this result. EA's results are based on 30 games, and only 30,000 pre-sales sales for 30 games is shameful.
As for Sony, their game sales are zero.
Sony does not have any first-party games. But on the other hand, Sony had sold more than 600 PS consoles, and there are still about 100,000 pre-orders. The sales of PS consoles are enough to make Sony Music Entertainment famous.
The reason why there were 100,000 units was because these 100,000 units were ordered by dealers all over the world. In fact, E3 was not so much for the players as it was for the dealers all over the world.
These distributors will observe the games and consoles at E3 and decide on the orders. Even the Daqian only has its own distribution network in Hua Xia, Fusang, and the United States. The rest of the world depends on distributors. That's why E3 is the key to the success of E3.
As for the orders from Nintendo and EA all over the world, that was an incredible number.
Nintendo's 18 games had a total of 2 million pre-orders, and EA's 30 games had a total of 800,000 pre-orders.
From this, it could be seen that there was a huge gap between the console market and the PC market.
At this moment, Sony was overjoyed. Especially when he found out from his insider that Nintendo had only sold less than 500 GB + SFC consoles, and the distributors had ordered less than 20,000 units. Sony was overjoyed. The console market belongs to Sony in the future.
Because all three parties value each other highly, they had planted spies in their respective companies. That's why all these figures are in the hands of their respective CEOs.
Sony is the happiest among the three parties. The sales of the games have nothing to do with Sony.
EA is the only one who doesn't care. No matter how the console sales are, it has nothing to do with them.
Nintendo is the worst. Sony and PC are closing in on them, and the console market is shrinking. Nintendo will be in a tough battle in the future.
The three major gaming companies each had their own thoughts. They pondered over each other's data. Then, at some point in time, their minds lit up at the same time. What about Daqian's figures?
Because the three major companies didn't arrange for spies to infiltrate Da Qian in advance, and it was impossible for spies to infiltrate the company's top management in a short period of time, the three major companies could only helplessly watch and speculate about the final data of Da Qian.
"Chairman, these are the figures for this year's E3!" The secretary passed the report to Boss Jia with a smile. From the secretary's smile, the Daqian's figures should not be too bad.
That was the truth. According to the statistics, there were more than 50,000 visitors to the first E3 in three days. This number was even higher than the total number of visitors to the previous World Consumer Electronics Show.
[PS: Here, the author continues to admit his mistake. The author said that there were 40,000 people in line on the first day, which was wrong. I thought that the author accidentally discovered that the record for E3 was actually 70,000 people … so I'll make a correction here. There were 10,000 people in line on the first day.]
According to the figures, more than 50,000 people visited the Daqian booth. That means all the people in the audience have visited the Daqian booth.
Of course, the data above was just an estimate. However, the data below was the real deal. The total number of people who had interacted with Da Qian in all aspects was more than 10,000.
That was to say, the number of people who had taken photos with Da Qian's dolls, played Da Qian's interactive games, or tried Da Qian's games added up to more than 10,000 people, which was an amazing number.
The games and devices that the Daqian released for pre-sale were Pokemon Ruby – Emerald, Red Alert, Legend of the Sword and Fairy, Titanic, Fated Night, and finally Diablo.
In terms of hardware, there was the GTX0000.
The number one pre-sale game was, without a doubt, Diablo.
As a game that changed the entire world and set the foundation for 80% of online games in the future, Diablo was destined for glory from the moment it was created.
Not to mention that the Daqian used a large amount of money to perfect the design of Diablo. In his previous life, the development of Diablo cost a total of 1.5 million USD, and there were only thirty people in total.
This time, Da Qian directly gave five million USD to Blizzard Studios, and there were more than 150 people in the development team for Diablo. This meant that Diablo's quality was much better than in his previous life. Not to mention, Boss Jia also spent a million USD on special effects to promote Diablo.
If the previous promotions were just advertisements, then when the two hundred computers installed with the GTX0000 were set up for Diablo, all the players were completely immersed in the game.
According to the rules, a player could only play on a computer for a maximum of 10 minutes. For a demo hall with 200 computers, this time was considered relatively short.
There were more than twenty players queuing behind every computer, which meant that the last player would have to wait at least three hours before they could play Diablo.
That wasn't all. When a player's 10 minutes of trial time was up and the computer automatically locked the screen, more than 50% of the players actually didn't leave. Instead, they quickly jumped to the end of the line and continued queuing. Their eyes were filled with madness. They had been completely conquered by this magical real-time combat game.
So when Diablo was released for pre-sales, it received an unbelievable number.
"Eighty thousand copies! There are eighty thousand copies pre-sold! How is that possible! " Boss Jia couldn't help but gasp when he saw this number. There were only fifty thousand players in the entire E3, but there were eighty thousand copies pre-sold, which was more than the total number of players who came to watch the game. No matter how you looked at it, this number couldn't be real.
"We didn't believe it at first, but according to our statistics, this number is real!" The secretary explained, "We've analyzed the data in detail. On the first day, there were five thousand copies pre-sold. Basically, each player would order one to three copies, which was pretty much the norm."
"But from the second day onwards, there was a large amount of abnormal data. Some players started to order more than three digits. The highest number of players ordered five thousand copies of Diablo!"
"Five thousand copies? That's a joke, right? That's a hundred and fifty thousand USD in advance!" Boss Jia said in shock.
Da Qian's pre-sale policy was somewhat different from other companies' pre-sale policies. Other companies' pre-sale policies basically required one to register a name and pay a fee of a few dollars.
But all Daqian's pre-sales had to be paid half the price. For example, Diablo was priced at fifty-nine USD, and pre-sales required a thirty USD deposit.
There was a reason why Daqian set the price so high. Players who pre-sold would be able to purchase the game five days in advance with a pre-sale voucher and a unique pre-sale code.
If they were willing to pay an extra ten USD in postage, they could even register their address and have the game shipped directly to them.
Yep, that was how expensive the postage in the United States was back then.
That wasn't all. All the pre-orders of Diablo came with an exchange code that could be exchanged for 1000 in-game gold coins. 1000 gold coins was a lot for players who had spent less than 1 gold coin after ten minutes of play.
< PS: The Daqian version of Diablo uses the same economic system as World of Warcraft. One hundred bronze coins for one silver coin, and one hundred silver coins for one gold coin. So it's normal for players to earn less than one gold coin in ten minutes. >
At the same time, pre-sales also gave players the right to purchase the limited edition of ten thousand copies of Diablo. According to the promotional materials, the deluxe edition of Diablo came with five different exchange codes and ten different real-life accessories. Although it cost a whopping 199 USD, there were only ten thousand copies sold worldwide.
"Due to the extra benefits we provide for the pre-sale version of Diablo, it has attracted a lot of people's attention. According to our understanding, the players who have placed orders in the three digits have discovered the value of the pre-sale version of Diablo. They are planning to increase the price of the pre-sale code when the game is officially released to make money!" explained the secretary.
"So there are already scalpers in this era!" Boss Jia couldn't help but sigh.
"Chairman, do you need us to come up with a plan to deal with these … scalpers?" asked the secretary when he saw that Boss Jia wasn't too happy with the scalpers.
"No need, scalpers aren't a bad thing for us businessmen!" Boss Jia shook his head. As the saying goes, one's status determines one's position. After Boss Jia became a boss, he realized that scalpers were actually quite good!
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