In terms of media reports, of course, it is impossible to disclose the internal competition of Tian Kun's best-selling games.

The industry magazines of the 80s were not as gossip as the so-called "industry secrets" public accounts of later generations.

So after reading the so-called "Pokemon" is selling well, or will be supported by Tiankun to comics", Yamauchi Pu directly asked Masayuki Uemura to provide him with further dry goods.

Fortunately, Masayuki Uemura was obviously prepared for the possibility of such a consultation: "President, turn that stack of materials to the penultimate copy." ”

Yamauchi Pu was stunned for a moment, then scrolled down, and sure enough, he saw a nèi mù survey done by the research department itself.

It turned out that according to the preliminary competition results so far, "Pokemon" sold 450,000 cassettes in the market in the first month, winning the championship in the category. Final Fantasy sold 420,000 copies in its first month, ranking second.

However, in the global market, Final Fantasy is more than twice as strong as Pokemon.

Mainly because the characters of Pokemon are mainly Asian, and the Japanese cute Q version of the style is not enough at the moment, and Americans don't appreciate it very much.

So globally, Final Fantasy sold a staggering 1.9 million units in its first month, while Pokemon only had 800,000 units.

You must know that Ps game consoles only sold 4.7 million units in the first month, which is equivalent to 40% of Ps game console buyers, almost at the same time as buying the machine, they bought "Final Fantasy".

It is conceivable that as a completely new series, it is not uncommon to win this result and double the proportion of subsequent sales.

Of course, Tian Kun's "Three Kingdoms 2" and "Nobunaga Nobunaga Nobune 3" also sold 1.1 million and 950,000 in the first month of the world, respectively, surpassing "Pokemon", but these games are all based on historical backgrounds and classical public version of the famous book, and they do not create their own virtual world structure, so they can't participate in the competition for the official reward manga investment.

In the same way, "Robot Wars" has higher sales than those historical ones, but it can't be changed because it uses a bunch of hot iP, which is a hodgepodge of iP.

As for the more popular fighting games, there is no grand story at all for the time being, so there is no competition. For example, "Street Fighter" sold more than 3 million units in the first month, and it has almost become a must-have for Ps game consoles, which is more than half of "Final Fantasy". But the official dismissed those action games as "no plot" and only allowed RPG games to participate.

And through those participating independent studios that are more or less invested by Tiankun [different from the first-party pro-son studio that is fully controlled], some "qingren" people secretly revealed that Tiankun held this event at the beginning, which was to give a standard clause:

In the future, if the anime has an advertising share or directly sells the exhibition rights, the game iP holder will be given a 2% adaptation fee. The rest should be regarded as what Tiankun deserves for investing money in making animation and taking risks.

After all, the banner played by Tian Kun is "In order to promote your game, I will make a comic change for you." It's not because your game is already popular, and you want to take advantage of the popularity of the game to make money on anime."

What's more, the experience of later generations has also proved that most of those who use games as first-party iP reverse adaptations of film and television animations do not have much sales, even signboards like "World of Warcraft", that is, thunder and rain. Gu Biao's condition, although it seems to be an overlord clause, is actually as it should be. Extreme darkness

As for those small studios, it's too late for people to ask Tian Kun's father to reward the recommended position, Tian Kun said that the sales Pk won the comic change, and those studios accepted it, and they didn't think about whether they were exploited at all.

To take an apt example, those studios were as moved as the writers on later websites who were told that "your work is limited to two days", and felt that the two-day manuscript fee in exchange for such a big promotion was simply a huge profit.

"The rule-making power of this industry, including the supply and demand relationship of the entire content ecology and the contract model, is monopolized by Tiankun, and they are what they say. ”

After understanding all this, a deep sense of powerlessness rose in Yamauchi's heart.

The layman looks at the bustle, and the insider looks at the doorway. As Nintendo's boss, Yamauchi Pu saw from the strength of the other party not only how much money Tiankun could make through these petty operations.

The key is that "when new things like games are adapted to other traditional cultural content types in the future, how to calculate the money for adaptation rights, how to sign contracts, and how to operate the model", Tiankun's family has the final say.

In the future, if you want to operate, you will take the rules of Tiankun as a reference.

This is a step further than the previous generation of consoles, when each manufacturer went its own way.

Yamauchi asked Masayuki Uemura to step back first, he wanted to be alone.

Subsequently, he instructed the whole company to speed up the research and development progress of sFc, and to ensure that the new cPu is put on the market as soon as possible.

However, this is not something he can control, and the development work and the construction of the game lineup will take a year. By the time mass production was shipped, it was probably in the early 1990s.

At most, it's three or five months earlier than sFc in another time and space, after all, the progress of cPu is not something that Nintendo can decide.

……

Yamauchi Pu thought that Nintendo's retreat must have made Gu Ao's heart bloom.

Maybe at this moment, Gu Biao is complacent about the game console industry becoming more stable.

However, Yamauchi's prediction was very wrong.

4.7 million units in the first month, and 3 million units shipped in August, such an amazing result only made Gu Biao happy for less than a week, and then he became a sage as if he was used to it.

In Nintendo's view, the enemies that are surging like the tide of the sea are nothing more than a wave of feints from the enemy's own perspective.

Tiankun's PS game console has achieved sales results that far exceeded the initial market expectations, and the proportion of shipment multiples with competitors has been increased several times again. All this is just that in order to make Schulhoff more confident in his excuses, Gu Biao asked Zhang Zhongmou's Xiangji to produce the latest version of Motorola's 68000 cPu production capacity in the next half a year.

As for how miserable Nintendo's miserable situation is looking for teeth all over the ground, Gu Biao doesn't have time to take a second look in person.

Monday, August 15th. At the same time that Yamauchi Pu was depressed, Shulhoff, the president of Tiankun, had a showdown with Zhang Zhongmou of Xiangji in a conference call: Wizard's Gate

"Zhang, the sales of PS game consoles have greatly exceeded our expectations, and we estimate that there will be two or three million units shipped in the first month, and the result is 4.7 million. It will also be 3 million so far in August.

The cPu that you mass-produced in the first two months, we sold out of game consoles in one month. I now ask you to guarantee the supply contract, give priority to monopolizing the follow-up production capacity, and pull all the inventory away as soon as it leaves the factory in advance, I don't believe in your expansion speed. ”

Schulhoff opted for a business-to-business conference call rather than a private two-person phone call.

The difference is that the conference room is equipped with a multi-channel speaker for conference calls, and both parties have a person at the level of a board secretary to make formal meeting minutes.

In such a meeting, everything that has been said in the course of the course has been confirmed by the clerk like the court debate, and he is not afraid to turn over old accounts in the future. Even if there are questions from the public and third parties, as long as some meeting minutes stamped with the company's seal are leaked out, they can be blocked.

Of course, Tiankun and Xiangji are both companies with a sense of social responsibility and a sense of confidentiality of trade secrets, and it is certainly impossible for them to deliberately leak them.

Faced with the customer's request, Zhang Zhongmou personally refuted on the phone:

"Mr. Schulhoff, your worries are unfounded, we switched to the production of Motorola 68000 cPu with a frequency of 10mhZ in the first year, and the estimated production capacity is 40 million pieces! The production capacity in the first two months is only enough for more than 5 million, and that is because the trial period has not yet entered full speed.

After the run-in, 3.5 million pieces per month is definitely available, which can definitely guarantee all the needs of your Tiankun Ps game console business! Even if you can have more business, we can continue to expand production! I'm afraid that no matter how much it is, it won't be able to sell at all.

Because of the exclusive license requirement signed with Motorola, which is to ensure an annual output of 40 million to 50 million, Motorola agreed to outsource all production process links to Xiangji, including their own first-party factories to give up construction, how can we not do it?"

Schulhoff is obviously not satisfied with such an official tone: "We say that the sales in the remaining months of the third quarter are only estimates, you have to know the sales in July, we only estimated 3 million at the beginning, but what is the result? We have to fully consider the explosion of consumer enthusiasm in a short period of time!"

Whether it sells 10 million units a year or 15 million units, it is not equivalent to spreading it evenly in the second half of the six months. What we want is the guarantee to deal with the step peak! In this way, our requirements are not high, change it, please immediately set up a three-party monitoring of the finished product warehouse in the Xiangjiang Free Trade Zone, which will be electronically supervised by Hanle, the foundry of Tiankun.

Anyway, at present, customers who use your company's OEM Motorola 68000 cPu to manufacture electronic consumer products are basically produced by Hanle Electronics, right? If we really can't use so many cPu, Hanle Electronics doesn't want to see its raw material warehouse piled up, and other customers' orders are stopped because there is no cPu, right?"

The Xiangjiang Free Trade Zone mentioned by Schulhoff did not exist in history, but now it is located in the Shajiao Industrial Zone of Xiangjiang and the Shajiao Development Zone in Shenxian County on the other side, which solves the problem of the import and export of high-precision bonded materials for cross-border processing. After all, Xiangji and Hanle Electronics are one in the south of Zhongbu Street and the other in the north of the street, and if there is no barrier-free circulation area for materials, it is not convenient to do things.

This compromise can be considered...... However, Hanle Electronics only provides bonded warehouses, and all three of us must have representatives present to supervise. After Zhang Zhongmou thought about it, he still took a step back and agreed.

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