Rebirth of America, this is my time

First of all, thank you for reading this. My friend just told me that some readers said that there were errors in the data in my previous chapter. I looked at it carefully and found that my writing may be misleading.

First of all, the arcade industry is the most rubbish industry in the gaming field. I used a strong subjective color in my remarks. I am sorry if it has caused misunderstanding to you. However, where did this sentence come from? In fact, it was the book friend with digital ID who said, "The profit margin of arcade machines is very high, higher than that of Famicom." What he said is true, but many Money doesn't go into the developers' pockets.

Take the digital ID book friend "Space Invaders" as an example. In 1982, there was a book called "Video Games" written by Daniel Cohen, which recorded the sales of "Space Invaders". It is written on pages 15 and 16 that in 1978, 100,000 units of "Space Invaders" were sold on RB, and the revenue reached 670 million U.S. dollars. Each unit could earn close to 50 U.S. dollars a day, on average. The daily turnover is US$5 million, which is US$1.825 billion per year. But Taito, the developer of "Space Invaders", did not receive this money.

In other words, "Space Invaders" made 1.825 billion in 1978, and Taito only got 36%. This has to be deducted from the cost of making the arcade machine. The actual money received was several times more exaggerated than G Fat's commission.

It is on this basis that I say that arcades are not profitable for developers, which is the most rubbish thing to say.

Of course, I know that my words are very absolute, and I shouldn’t be. But when I wrote this paragraph, I really put myself into the thinking of a game developer. You think you will be exhausted from playing a game. If you work hard, you can only get 20%. Isn’t this special code too dark?

Then there is another point. The digital reader is right. Arcades grab money very quickly. This is what I ignored in the previous chapter. In "Game Over: A History of Nintendo's Global Conquest", the author David Sheff, this book In it, the author records the situation when "Donkey Kong" was a hit. When "Donkey Kong" became popular, RB's 100 yen coins could not be exchanged in banks, but a lot of the money was taken away by the entertainment city. , what really allowed Nintendo to experience the fame of "Donkey Kong" was actually the transplant.

Therefore, from the perspective of making money quickly, arcade machines are indeed very good. "Space Invaders" earned almost 13.92 billion U.S. dollars. However, when the game was popular, Taito's revenue from "Space Invaders" was 3 billion US dollars is not even profit.

I believe you can understand what this gap means to capitalists, right? Watching others make a lot of money on your own products is even more uncomfortable than killing yourself.

Especially when the protagonist is still a time traveler and has memories of past lives, if nothing else, the cost and income of Rockstar's "Give Him Love" project alone are much higher than those of "Space Invaders".

Therefore, it is true that arcade machines make money quickly, but it is also true that the proportion that developers or development companies can get is very low.

Maybe it's because I didn't describe it clearly, or maybe I'm too subjective, so the previous text may be a guide for you. I'm sorry if I conveyed inappropriate ideas.

Finally, what I want to say is that I read the comments, but my author account is banned, so I can only respond to you by opening a single chapter, and this method actually greatly affects the reading experience. of.

Therefore, many times, I will try to avoid opening a separate chapter. If I can say a few sentences at the end of the chapter, I will say it at the end of the chapter. The main reason for opening a separate chapter today is because I didn't finish it when I made notes for the previous chapter. I can only write five hundred words, which is not enough for me to write.

But one thing I can explain first is that in order to make the story seem real enough, most of the information actually has its source, and only a small part of it, such as the point I noted before about why Ralph Bell reconciled with Atari. Rumors, that will be explained in advance.

But even so, because it's a long time ago and the historical span is older than mine, I can't really verify whether a lot of the information has been falsified. If you find anything, I'm very welcome to point out errors. After all, , I chose this unpopular subject because I like that period of time when human stars shine, and I like the inventions made by many scientists for the benefit of mankind.

Finally, thank you all for reading my rant.

Fortunately I didn't go

At 22:00 on April 13, 2023.