Chapter 134: Three Birds with One Stone
Early in the morning of February 11th.
"A new record, a new king, Enix's Dragon Quest 3: The End of the Legend has sold 4.2 million cassettes for the first time! The net profit brought by this game is conservatively estimated to be $150 million!"
"The game that surpasses Super Mario Bros. was born, Dragon Quest 3 successfully slashed Super Mario down, creating a new record in history, and no one is invincible!"
"Super Mario Bros. has become a twilight sunset, the latest national masterpiece is born, Dragon Quest 3 dominates the world, and no one can beat it. β
"Who else can do the new debut sales record of 4.2 million boxes, and how many years will it take to break this record? 5 years or 10 years?"
"With the sales of 4.2 million cassette tapes, it shows the prosperity of video games!
Like a whirlwind of clouds, the media that has always supported Nintendo's camp is like a nuclear weapon, frantically bombarding everyone's eyes on the entire news channel.
If it's just more than 3 million sales, it's okay, after all, it's not unreached, but now it's a brand new 4 million!
A new ladder!
It represents not only a string of numbers, but also the huge profits of video games!
It has to be said that it is an extremely terrible thing that a game can generate such a large net profit.
As long as the media in the whole country can be slightly linked to the game, one by one the rhetoric is constantly climbing, supporting the news of Dragon Quest 3, almost as long as you follow the footsteps of Dragon Quest 3, no matter how the news is written, many people will pay attention!
As a result, the shouts of the media are getting louder and louder!
Of course, there will be toution, and there will definitely be slander.
Some media outlets that get along well with Sega on weekdays have also begun to gradually exert their strength.
"The boastful, arrogant Enix, Super Mario's brilliance is unrivaled in the history of gaming, a game with fatal bugs, and it's not a timeless classic. β
"The number of debuts doesn't mean anything, and short-lived games abound. But how many of them can be called classics? Proud and complacent, they will eventually be abandoned!"
"It's hard to imagine that a bug has a bug in the testing phase, and it's hard to imagine it being touted to this extent. Whether it's the ignorance of the players, or the concealment of the game company, no matter which one, can't cover up the shortcomings of the game itself, as for surpassing all games, it is even more nonsense, and strongly calls on players to treat the game sensibly!"
"Is it a regression in society, or a regression in video games? Not to mention the huge bugs that countless people like, including some of the key points of personality tests, why can such a game still achieve such a large sales? Personally, I think,This is even a good hype,Internal personnel broke the news themselves,With the so-called strategies and cheats,To stimulate consumption,It is conceivable that in such a situation,This game is nothing more than a wave of money and leave,There is no playability,For this,I will only give a 2-star ratingγ β
"It's unimaginable,Dragon Quest 3 has just been launched,There is a way to quickly clear the customs,On the one hand, thanks to Marvel Entertainment for exposing the shortcomings of this game,To avoid us wasting a lot of time to play a game that already knows the ending,On the other hand,It is the flaw of the game itself,The charm of RPG games,To a large extent, it is a strategic contest in all aspects,How to reasonably use limited resources to do unlimited things,And now,With the method of copying equipment and strategies,It is programmed to use unlimited resources to do limited things,In terms of playability,It has even been reduced to become a fast-food game, according to the score of Miracle Entertainment, the author gives a maximum of 2 stars. β
Negative information began to emerge, and it was justified, and began to gain status in this one-sided touting, and many players went back to play the commander-in-chief, and couldn't help but still look at the strategy, after all, the average player, feeling that there is a difficulty, and there is a clear strategy, they can't help but look at it, and even play against the strategy, and there are still very few players who have nothing to do and keep looking for abuse.
And now, with the news media coverage, the confrontation has suddenly appeared.
Especially after many players have played, there are more and more positive and bad reviews.
Countless feedbacks fell like snowflakes to the statistics department of the Age of Wonders.
"President, look at these news media, how can you say that! This is simply slander!"
At Enix's headquarters, Yoichi Wada and Yuji Horii were looking at various reports with serious faces, as well as the magazine that started the storm - Miracle Entertainment.
Seeing that both of them were silent, the assistant couldn't help but be even more anxious: "President, should we complain about the Miracle Era?"
"Complain, complain, complain, complain, this is clearly a leak of information, do we want to complain about his falsification?" He Tian Yoichi said with a little anger: "These strategies and bugs are all true! Can we sue for slander? Slander? In addition, people praise us all over, you tell me, what else can you complain about?"
"That'...... These media ......" assistants looked at the slammed news, obviously still unwilling.
"Horii-kun, what do you think? Yoichi Wada clearly had a feeling of not knowing where to start.
"First of all, the problem of bugs, I admit that it was our mistake, and it is not an ordinary small bug, which is very fatal. To be honest, I can't help it unless ......," Yuji Horii said with hesitation.
"You mean, recall?" Hiroshi Wada guessed Yuji Horii's thoughts at once.
"Yes. Yuji Horii nodded.
"Impossible! If it is recalled, we have recorded more than 10 million cassettes so far, and the loss is incalculable!" He Tian refused without thinking about it.
If it had been a few days in advance, or even the meeting that had just been released, it would not have been the situation it is now.
The sales of the first day, 4.2 million copies, greatly stimulated Yoichi Wada.
I almost sold out the first batch of 5 million boxes of cartridges, and I was already rushing to make them that night, until now, at least the factory has made more than 10 million boxes, if it is recalled and destroyed, not to mention the profit, the loss is doomed!
The profit of a cassette is only a fraction of the cost price!
What a terrible statistic!
With the current assets of Enix, once all of them are recalled, they will definitely go out of business!
"So let's leave it at that?" asked the assistant cautiously.
"There is no point in doing a press conference, every comment in the magazine is true, and, most importantly, no third party has ever done such a thing as holding a press conference alone, once we do it, Nintendo's side will ......" Yoichi Wada shook his head.
"I didn't think it before, but now I find that this era of miracles is really a good means!" Yuji Horii suddenly sighed.
"Horii-kun, what do you mean by that?" asked Yoichi Wada, puzzled.
"First of all, the time when this magazine was released, and our Dragon Quest 3 was released on the same day, and secondly, look at these reviews, on the surface, they are all praise, but at the same time of praise, they indirectly point out the shortcomings of the game, and even these words, you see, surpass Super Mario, surpass Nintendo, such remarks, on the surface, are not what they meant, but in fact, they are just using the player's tongue to say what they think. Yuji Horii said helplessly.
"Touting, give Nintendo a stick when it's over, give us a hammer, and finally, guide the bombardment of the news media, this is simply a killing!" Yuji Horii shook his head: "Three birds with one stone, so powerful!"
"This, Horii-kun, isn't it? What good is it for them to do this?" Yoichi Wada felt a little alarmist, spending so much energy, if there is not enough benefit, why offend Enix.
"I can't figure this out, their genre is not the same as ours at all, there is hardly any intersection, and I can't figure it out. Yuji Horii was also puzzled.
"Okay, let's not think about it for now, maybe we're thinking too much, people don't mean to target us at all, then, Horii-kun, develop the fourth generation as soon as possible, since it's irretrievable, then at least make up for it on the fourth generation. Yoshi Wada thought about it, but he still felt helpless about the current third generation.
"Hey, okay......" Yuji Horii could only sigh helplessly, this is a dead end, even if you know, it's already too late, Enix is not Nintendo, and Yoichi Wada is not Pu Yamauchi.
"Don't be so pessimistic, at least for now, we are still the ones who set new records, and although some people don't think we are good, but overall, there are still many praises. So don't worry too much, I'm sure players will still enjoy our games. Yoichi Wada said with a smile that in any case, the sales of 4.2 million cassettes are enough to explain too many problems.
"Yes, President. Although Yuji Horii still felt as if he had missed something, he couldn't say why, and in the end he had to do it.
The flowers bloom in two, one on each branch.
In the era of miracles at this moment, Li Fangcheng is holding the phone,
"Mr. Li, the general situation is what I told you, in just a few days, the sales of Miracle Entertainment have broken 900,000 copies, if it weren't for what you said, hurry up and reprint, and now even be approached by major bookstores. The tone of the person on the phone was excited, emotional, and afraid.
"Okay, it's only 900,000 copies, and I'll talk about when it's over a million. Li Fangcheng was very calm.
"I believe it's going to be soon, it's just these two days, hehe. Tang Zekaiyan was on the other end of the phone, and he could hear the feeling of pride in the spring breeze.
"Did Enix react?" Li Fangcheng was now worried about Enix's next move.
"We've been keeping an eye out, but so far, nothing has happened. Tang Zekaiyan replied.
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