Game Development Giant

After Jester saw the two people's design ideas for the game, he was also a little hard to make a decision.

For a game, it is very easy for you to distinguish the difference between Ninja Dragon and The Legend of God Conquering Demons. It is as conspicuous as a firefly in the dark night. You can see it at a casual glance. Clearly.

However, it is very difficult for you to distinguish the gap or difference between Uncharted 2 and Uncharted 3. For a designer, without a lot of market and player testing, It is difficult to clearly distinguish the pros and cons of these two games.

Now Jester is facing such a situation.

After thinking for a long time, although Jester had a vague judgment of his own, he decided to put the matter to an end temporarily and wait for the release of Dreambox 3 before thinking about it again.

After all, tomorrow is the release date.

the next day.

This is almost the most important day for Mars Entertainment in the next five to six years. It can even be said unceremoniously that today's performance will directly determine the fate of Dreambox 3. The entire Mars Entertainment, regarding the arrival of this day, I am both looking forward to it, and also a little scared. I am looking forward to a big victory, but I am also afraid of what to do in the future if sales are not good.

But Jester seemed to be fine.

On this day, he arrived at the company headquarters as usual and did not go to the sales site. Even Jester went to the company restaurant and ordered a Chinese egg fried rice for breakfast as usual.

Because today is the day when Dreambox 3 is released, except for some development teams who are in a hurry to catch up, most of them have a day off and go to the Dreambox 3 release point in the city to cheer for their consoles.

In fact, Dreambox3 has indeed received more expectations.

Two days ago, many players started queuing up. Even in front of the largest Mars Entertainment store, more than 100 people lined up more than two hours before the release. Even the local police station. We were also worried that something might happen, so we dispatched several pairs of police officers to maintain order and security at the scene.

Jester didn't seem to care much about this.

Even when eating in the restaurant, some employees curiously asked about their boss, Jester just smiled and replied: I believe in my subordinates. They can do a good job. I am not as good as them in this aspect. Instead of caring, it is better to wait quietly for the news.

The excitement at the sale site no longer needs to be described. Several game media even conducted live broadcasts of the launch of Dreambox 3.

Jester did not pay attention to the specific sales of Dreambox 3 in the morning, but received a phone call in the middle of the day. The phone told him that Dreambox 3 was selling well and would probably break their single-day console sales record.

After hearing the news, Jester didn't have any special expression other than smiling.

He simply said to the phone that there was no need to report to him about the final sales volume today. However, after Jester hesitated for a while, he also asked about the specific sales situation of the game. However, the statistics of the game are more complicated, unlike the statistics of the console. When conducting sales training before, the most important thing was to conduct the console statistics. Sales statistics.

It can only be said that among the three most popular games, one is Jester's The Hero and the other is GT Racing which caused a huge uproar before. These two games are quite popular. As expected. After all, Jester's game took five years of hard work to complete, as it was previously promoted. The quality of the revelations is simply unparalleled, and the scores of games unlocked by major media outlets the day before were almost all perfect scores.

Even many gaming media, including FAMItsu, call the game Heroes a game that completely surpasses its generation.

GT Racing caused so much uproar before, and racing games are originally the most popular game type among European and American players. It makes sense that a game like this sells well.

Although many people, including Mars Entertainment, were not too optimistic about this too realistic racing game.

Because this kind of game is a little too difficult.

However, the third best-selling game was beyond some expectations.

It turned out to be the Made by Balotelli that many people are not very optimistic about. Indeed, the Balotelli series is a guarantee of sales in the entire gaming industry. On average, each game can sell more than 10 million copies. But that was talking about orthodox works, not the current game where individuals design levels and then play them themselves.

In the eyes of many people, this way of playing is too niche.

Although, this time on Dreambox 3, Mars Entertainment has added a networking mode for the first time. It is said that it can connect with the official Mars Entertainment player community, so as to connect with other Dreambox 3 users, and upload the levels created by itself to the server. Share it with other players. Even on some famous or outstanding levels, there will be timing statistics and rankings for completing the level.

But no one, so many people would choose to buy this game as soon as it was released.

Of course, Balotelli has a legitimate sequel on Dreambox 3.

It is a 3D action level game, but this game is still under development.

After dinner in the evening, Jester received a call from the company at home and received news that was somewhat beyond his expectation. The sales of Dresmbox3 in North America on the first day indeed exceeded everyone's expectations. , before this, even the entire Mars Entertainment did not think that their Dreambox 3 could sell so many on the first day.

Even more than they expected - and the reserves prepared for it.

On the first day, a total of 950,000 units were sold. This was only the first day of sale in the North American market, excluding sales in Japan and Europe.

Even if according to conservative estimates, the Japanese market and the European market combined are only half of the North American market, then they can sell a total of 1.5 million units. This terrifying sales volume is almost double that of Sony's PS2!

Moreover, Sega's current sales are only 6 million units of Sega Saturn, and wait a week. Once the game starts to be released in Japan and Europe, Mars Entertainment can even directly reduce the sales gap between them and Sega to one-third. This kind of terrifying player support can indeed make any opponent feel frightened.

Even more than that.

Although the specific statistics of the game will not be available until tomorrow.

but. Just a rough estimate, the single-day sales of The Hero reached at least one million copies - more than the main body of Dreambox 3 was sold.

Because the sales of Dreambox 3 in many places in the United States today exceeded Mars Entertainment's previous expectations, so they were not fully prepared and sold out all Dreambox 3 before the end of the day's sales. But it doesn't matter even if the players didn't buy the game console, they just bought the game first.

And, without exception, they all bought The Hero.

Jester was a little funny when he learned the news, because in the original history of video games, when Super Mario World was released, it was just because it was so popular that it was only available in the Japanese market within a short time. It sold 1.8 million copies within a year, and Nintendo was preparing the Super Nintendo console at that time. Only one million units.

Now this situation has appeared again in his Heroes.

However, Jester was only slightly excited and quickly suppressed his excitement. He immediately asked about the stock situation of Dreambox 3 and whether it would delay the sales in the next few days. Condition.

The answer was a very positive one.

This is because the first wave of sales of the console occurs within the first few days after its release. After these few days, the largest number is on the first day. As long as these few days pass, the subsequent sales will drop a lot. The machines they had in stock before were definitely enough.

After hearing this answer, Jester was completely relieved.

The figure of 950,000 units sold in one day quickly spread throughout Mars Entertainment. This is a figure that is more than double the original Sony PS2. The original PS2 sold 500,000 units in one day and already made everyone happy. People are pitiful. But unexpectedly, Dreambox3 actually sold 950,000 units in one day, even though many sales points were sold out.

If sufficient supply of goods can be ensured, it will be a piece of cake for Dreambox3 sales to exceed one million units on the first day.

Because the sales volume of The Hero is said to be at least one million copies.

terrible.

The gaming circle is not big to begin with. Moreover, the Internet is now basically popular in North America, and in the open game industry, basically everyone likes to browse some information on the Internet, and also likes to talk about the things they like with others on some forums.

This news was posted online as soon as possible, causing an uproar in an instant.

Among them are some people from Sony and Sega.

They came out very quickly and expressed their doubts about this figure. Although they were aware of the booming sales of Dreambox 3 today, when this statistic came out, they still couldn't believe it. Back then, PS2 The sales volume is terrible enough, with 300,000 units in half a day and 500,000 units in one day, which astonished the entire gaming industry.

As a result, Mars Entertainment directly doubled the sales this time?

And there’s a game that sells more copies than consoles? How could this be true? How could anyone buy a game without buying a game console? One or two would be enough. How could there be so many in the tens of thousands?

However, this number of Mars Entertainment is not scary yet. These internal employees of Mars Entertainment naturally cannot get official data certification when they brag to others online. It can only be said that the information they got from within is absolutely true. , will never be fake.

However, there are still many unbelievers on the forum.

Although the sales volume of game consoles is large, this is still within the expectations of many people. After all, the PS2 had previously sold 500,000 units a day, and Dreambox 3 was originally highly anticipated in the past, as well as the popularity of the previous generation. At that time, the number of fans of Mars Entertainment completely overwhelmed the other two companies. Therefore, although Ling Ran was surprised by the number of 950,000 units, it was still within the range of understanding.

But why is it that the sales volume of Heroes is higher than the sales volume of the console?

Are more games sold than consoles?

This is something that has never existed in the entire history of video games.

Even if the first part of Super Balotelli had a huge sales volume and sold more than 40 million units, it seems like a lot. Many media even said that almost every Dreambox player has a copy of this game. It’s almost used. In fact, as of the last time, the official data of Dreambox 3 was more than 60 million units, and the sales volume of “Super Balotelli” was only equivalent to one-third of the total game console sales. Just two.

Of course, since it is the first day of release for a new console and a new game, we cannot make such a simple analogy.

However, it is still difficult for people to accept that this kind of game sells more than game consoles, and there are so many more cases.

However, although there is still discussion on the forum about the fact that Heroes sells better than Dreambox 3, basically the vast majority of people have reached a consensus on one other thing, that is, this time the console Although Sony and Sega started the war a year in advance, judging from the sales on this first day, before Mars Entertainment officially entered the game.

What others are playing is just playing house.

In one year, Sega's Saturn only sold 6 million units, and its best-selling game sold less than 1.5 million units.

Sega's PS2 has less than 5.5 million units so far, and they have not even had a game that can sell more than one million units so far. The highest-selling game is only Namco's racing game Ridge Racer of more than nine hundred thousand.

But look at Mars Entertainment now. On the first day of its release, the Dreambox 3 console sold 950,000 units. This is only the North American market. And if the game is really what these people with insider information say.

The Hero literally sold at least a million copies on its first day.

That is really true. In the new era, Mars Entertainment is still sweeping. (~^~)