Tokyo Video Game Tycoon

  Chapter 110 Dragon Quest, a multi-faceted blooming hero

   One month after the release of Dragon Quest 3, the sales reached 700,000, making it the fastest-selling game to date.

   And the sales of Dragon Quest 1 also exceeded one million.

   This is also the first game in the red and white machine to exceed one million sales, and Yuxing Electronic Entertainment also specially celebrated it once.

   If it is calculated according to the conversion ratio, Dragon Quest 3 should be very good.

   And in addition to the sales of video games, Dragon Quest has a lot of other income.

   Among them, the surrounding area of ​​Dragon Quest has begun to gradually become hot.

   Toys such as Dragon Quest's Hero Sword, Hero Armor, Lot's Shield, etc., have become the best-selling products at the moment.

   Not to mention that you can see these things in the streets, but now the image of Dragon Quest in children's hearts has almost equated with their Koshien Superman.

   Children's first choice is no longer just Koshien Superman dolls, and now there are more products related to Dragon Quest.

   The production team that produced the Koshien Superman special film was very depressed.

  These little brats are really a bunch of unloyal guys. They used to like Koshien Superman so much, but because of the popularity of Dragon Quest, they switched to other camps in a blink of an eye, making their sales of peripheral toys not as good as before.

   Secondly, it is the game guide book of Dragon Quest.

   This is mainly the responsibility of Kasuga Club.

Because the content of Dragon Quest 3 is quite large, Kasuga Club finally discussed with Take Yusei and decided to publish a separate bound version of the first and third guide books. There are three hundred books in A4 size. Multi-page color page printing, quite beautiful.

The price of    is a full 5,000 yen, which is not cheap, but it can't stop those players who really love this game.

   On the one hand, the strategy book can help them better clear the game, and on the other hand, it is also very memorable. It is the first game strategy book in the world to be published alone.

   Kasuga Club also launched a book number in order to promote the collection value of this thing.

The first edition of    has a circulation of 100,000 copies, with a total of 100,000 numbers. Among them, it is also possible to obtain a signed copy of the main creator at random, just like a lottery.

   Kasuga Club has a really good management mind in this regard, and there is no need to worry about Zhu Yuxing.

   Then the 100,000 copies of the strategy book were sold out on the first week of the game's release, and there was nothing left.

   This is exciting for Kasuga, they have never been so popular in selling some popular manga in the past.

   So they contacted the factory overnight to print another 200,000 copies.

   The 200,000 copies are almost sold out in just one month.

   Kasuga has made a lot of money just by selling books. Among them, as the main person in charge of the promotion of video games in the magazine, Ikeda Dawu is now full of red, and his status in the magazine is also rapidly improving.

   Of course, Zhu Yuxing is more profitable. He just provides a creative idea and can easily receive various profit dividends from books.

   The sales of just a guide book can bring him tens of millions of yen in the end.

   Zhu Yuxing had already expected this.

  In the age when the Internet was not yet fully popularized, the strategy book was the most sacred magic weapon in the hearts of players. Anyone who has such a book can become the object of many people’s pursuit.

   Even if the Internet is really popular later, the strategy book will also become a kind of potential collectible, and loyal players who like certain games will buy it without hesitation.

   In the previous life, Final Fantasy 7 could sell millions of copies just by selling strategy books. This Dragon Quest loss is due to the lack of game player base, otherwise the sales will definitely be higher.

   Of course, the Dragon Quest craze is not over yet.

   A shrewd businessman began to contact Yuxing Electronic Entertainment, willing to spend money to buy part of the authorization of Dragon Quest artwork, and to make some linked peripheral products.

   The copyright operation class in the company has just been established, and now it is in charge of any copyright derivatives related to Dragon Quest, and authorization and linkage has already begun.

   Immediately afterwards, Yuxing Electronic Entertainment announced that it will produce an animation of Dragon Quest.

  The animation plot will start around the story of Dragon Quest 1 and continue to increase the value of this IP.

   It's like Suri Electronics, Vaders and Jinping Entertainment are watching with greedy eyes.

   They suddenly realized that video games are not just for games.

  Once a game product becomes famous, or even out of the circle, the derivative income it brings is also very amazing.

   Video games are beginning to form a gradually mature industry chain, and will no longer be limited to making money through games.

   Among them, Jinping Entertainment decided to concentrate on the production of game software after clearing the inventory of its own CD player magic modified game console.

   They seem to understand that not everyone is qualified to be a game console.

   You can also make a lot of money by playing games with others.

And Jinping Entertainment is a company that holds a lot of IPs such as animation, film and television, novels, etc. Their executives immediately thought that through the production of games with the same name of these IPs, this derivative can make another round of money and squeeze themselves as much as possible. IP potential.

   As for whether they will really make games seriously, that's another story.

   And Vaders is also seriously operating his arcade games, and plans to try to get some IP series or something.

  Suri Electronics is even more straightforward, directly announcing that the second part of its best-selling game Sun Knight is in production, and will also release a bundled limited-edition machine to learn some sales models of Yuxing Electronic Entertainment.

Suri Electronics can be said to be a good student. As long as the company is the most successful, they will immediately follow the example and follow the company behind it, just like crossing the river by touching the company and waiting at any time. With the opportunity to surpass Yuxing Electronic Entertainment.

   And even if they are not as good as Yuxing Electronic Entertainment, they have gradually gained a market and are beginning to develop towards profitability.

  In addition to these, their overseas business is also underway, overseas publicity activities have begun, and it is said that the feedback from abroad is not bad, especially people in Europe and the United States, who are very interested in this emerging entertainment method.

  After the release of Dragon Quest 3, the first game development team once again entered the development process of the next game.

   And this time, Zhu Yuxing set a new goal for them, that is, to learn new technology, because the next generation will definitely log in to SFC, that is, super duty.

  This game console with better performance will inevitably make the overall scale of the game larger and the picture better.

   If they can't fully understand the game machine, then Zhu Yuxing will not allow them to release the game.

   At the same time, Zhu Yuxing also set up a new game first-party game development team called the fifth game development team.

   And this team will also be in charge of an exclusive series of games.

   This series of games is also the favorite of Take Yusei.

   That's Final Fantasy.

   (end of this chapter)