Tokyo Video Game Tycoon

"Dragon Quest? There are some. We just happen to be doing a promotion. You can buy them at a price of 4,500 yen with a 10% discount."

The clerk was very happy that after a long time, a customer who wanted to buy Dragon Quest finally came.

After the customer heard it, he took out five 1,000-yen coupons and handed them over. "Here, I want a box."

The person who bought it wore a pair of glasses and looked like a senior otaku, and he seemed to be holding a freshly opened manga magazine in his hand.

"I'll charge you 5,000 yen, I'll find you 500, and your Dragon Quest cassette, thank you for coming."

The clerk bowed slightly, and the man nodded slightly and prepared to leave.

Watching the customer leave, the player's soul in his heart couldn't help wanting to explode, so he said out loud: "Well, I would like to ask, why do you want to buy Dragon Quest? Because watching other people play this game Is the game fun?"

The customer turned back, then raised the comic book in his hand and said, "No, it's the comic I read. It said that by playing this, you can learn the plot of the follow-up story in advance, and you can also play the role of a hero to experience the story. I just want to play it."

"Well, let me tell you, besides the touching story of this game, the game itself is also super fun."

"Really?" The customer responded with some uncertainty.

He is also a player.

But he likes Contra more.

Because it's so refreshing to fight.

He has seen the gameplay of Dragon Quest before, but he feels that the picture is a bit monotonous and boring, and the picture effect is not as good as that of Contra.

The reason why I came here to buy today is entirely because the story of the comics came to an abrupt end.

In the comics, the brave man has come to the stone tablet deep in the cave to learn the secret of his life experience.

Then the brave man walked out of the cave and was attacked by the Dragon King's subordinates, as if they were planning to kill the less powerful brave man first.

The story stops here.

Damn it, why do you cartoonists always like to end a chapter at the most critical moment?

Can't you finish the painting? !

At that time, his mood was quite complicated. He really wanted to know the follow-up story, but he didn't know what to do.

He even started thinking about sending the blade to the author.

Then he noticed that after the end of the manga it was written: The video game of the same name is on sale, you can experience the whole story for yourself, learn the whole story of Dragon Quest in advance, welcome to buy.

After seeing the news, he immediately regained his spirits, took the comic book he just bought, and started searching the nearby blocks, and finally came here.

The customer left with the game cassette, and the clerk returned to the store manager happily.

"Look, store manager, there are still people buying Dragon Quest."

"Well, that's just a person, it doesn't mean anything at all."

The store manager still doesn't believe in the sales of this thing.

Nothing happened for the first month or two.

According to the statistics of Youxing Electronic Entertainment, it has only just reached 40,000 in three months, and the sales data of game consoles has reached 200,000. Both Contra and Tetris have exceeded 100,000 sales. Followed by.

He doesn't think Dragon Quest will suddenly become a hit.

The store manager is not a player, he doesn't understand the fun of the game, but he thinks he knows how to sell things.

If a product has no patrons for a long time, then it is basically cold.

However, just as the store manager finished speaking, another child walked in with a comic book.

"Big brother, do you have Dragon Quest game cassettes for sale here?"

The clerk immediately ran out again and happily said, "Yes, yes! Today there is an event with a 10% discount on Dragon Quest, a total of 4,500 yen!"

"Really? It will be five hundred yen cheaper! Then I want a box!"

The store manager's expression froze at that moment.

Another one?

In the past day, it may not be possible to sell a box.

This is not the end.

Several customers came in one after another, and the first one to ask was the Dragon Quest game.

And almost all of them have one thing in common, that is, they all hold the latest issue of Kasuga Manga Magazine in their hands.

The comic card of Dragon Quest stopped abruptly at the most critical moment, which made people unable to help but go crazy.

Then they also noticed a few lines of fine print at the bottom of the ending.

You can experience all the storylines, and you can also experience the whole story from the perspective of the brave, which sounds more attractive than the comics.

So they started looking for places to buy game cartridges all over the street, and they didn't even ask the price, as long as you have it, I will pay.

At the same time, this suddenly boosted the sales of game consoles.

Some senior manga readers don’t own game consoles. In order to play Dragon Quest, they will buy a game console and a game cassette without hesitation. This way, it costs more than 10,000 yen, and the consumption power has increased a lot, which is rare.

One person, two people, three people.

Until more than a dozen people came in to inquire about the Dragon Quest game in a row, the store manager couldn't calm down at all.

"Hey, take down the discount announcement!"

The previous discount was to sell the game as quickly as possible.

But now it seems that many people are interested in Dragon Quest.

He didn't know what caused these people to suddenly buy Dragon Quest en masse.

But he knew that if he continued the discount, he would lose 500 yen per box of games, so he would make almost 10,000 yen less in a while.

This made him very distressed.

In addition to this store, other authorized sales stores are also performing the same scene.

The store managers who complained about the backlog of Dragon Quest cassettes before are all smiling now.

The profit of Dragon Quest is the highest among the game cartridges, because Dragon Quest is the most expensive to buy, 5,000 yen per box, and the purchase cost is 70% of the retail price. If you sell it at the normal price, you can earn A profit of fifteen hundred yen.

They sold a lot in just a short while.

At the same time, the topic of Dragon Quest on the Internet also began to increase rapidly.

The small circle of communication at the beginning is slowly expanding.

About three days later, the new week's sales data was in front of Zhu Youxing.

The sales of game consoles are 240,000, and now they are rising at a rate of almost 10,000 a day.

As the promotion of the surrounding cities intensified, the upward momentum of this data became even stronger.

Contra sold 150,000 copies, ranking first.

Tetris comes in second with 140,000 copies.

Then there is Super Baseball, which ranks third with 120,000 copies.

And the fourth place is Dragon Quest, with 100,000 copies.

In three days, Dragon Quest almost soared rapidly with a sales figure of more than 20,000 a day.

In the end, the sales data climbed from the bottom of 40,000 to 100,000.

Other games basically hover around 50,000 to 90,000.

After seeing this data, Zhu Youxing finally couldn't help showing a smile.

Dragon Quest is finally here.

I have waited too long.

In fact, role-playing games have always been the biggest sales of game consoles. Before guns, carts and balls dominate, whoever can make a role-playing game means that whoever has an absolute advantage.

This trend did not change until about 10 years later, but role-playing games are still popular, but their status has been slightly reduced.

It seems that the promotional effect of the comic is indeed very good.

But in fact, there is a certain chance of this, otherwise, in the previous life, only a few games such as Dragon Quest would not rise because of this.

In addition to Zhu Yuxing, Ikeda Daigo is also very happy now.

Because the sales data of comic magazines has also increased a little recently. When the sales data of other peers are slowly declining, their sales suddenly increased. This is exciting news.