The first day in Akihabara, Tokyo, shook the whole of Japan.

That night, at nine o'clock on TV Asahi, the news host reported the news that Shigemitsu iPod was selling on Valentine's Day and that the shipments exceeded that of Sony MD.

The female host Emi Mizushima commented after the male host Watanabe Toshiro reported: "Awesome! I really didn't expect such a situation, this is an electronic product made in China, ah, I don't know how long it will last to buy it back." ”

Watanabe said with a smile, "It's a bit rude for you to say that." ”

Emi Mizushima smiled perfunctorily and nodded, "That's right, I'm sorry." ”

Toshiro Watanabe said with a smile: "In short, China Shigemitsu is a very powerful company, as the first company to sell electronic products to Japan, and to achieve such good sales results, it is really admirable." ”

Emi Mizushima nodded: "That's right, we will continue to follow up in the future, pay attention to the follow-up sales of iPod in Japan, and bring you updated reports." ”

That night, Shigemitsu held a thank-you banquet at a Brazilian barbecue restaurant on the third floor of a shopping mall near Akihabara to thank all the staff who participated in today's iPod launch event.

A large number of employees from Yamada Electric, Takeuchi Advertising, and Shigemitsu Japan came, as well as Kobayashi Yoshiichi, the memory business manager of Toshiba's computer division, and one of his subordinates, with as many as 33 people, but fortunately, this store has an all-you-can-eat option of 5,999 yen, that is, a buffet, so this expenditure is not a waste of money for Shigemitsu.

Hu Yiting ate a few pieces of barbecue, and then chatted with his colleagues with a beer glass.

At this time, the manager of Yamada Electric raised his glass excitedly and said: "I am so happy today, after our statistics, a total of 1,388 units have been sold today!

After saying that, he raised his glass with one hand and stretched the other upward, and excitedly shouted, "Hooray!

The Japanese in the audience are also accustomed to smiling and echoing, raising their glasses and hands, and shouting three times with the beat, and then clinking glasses with the people around them, happily drinking.

Hu Yiting looked at it freshly and smiled at President Takeuchi: "The Japanese people are very optimistic, which is very good. ”

On the side, Xie Miaomiao's face was red, and when she heard the words, she hurriedly translated it to Takeuchi.

Takeuchi smiled, "Thank you, we are like this in Japan, we celebrate when we drink, and I am very happy." Yao San, you are our partner, that is, our own people, Sony is not our partner, not our own people, we Japanese only help our own people, regardless of nationality. ”

These words were said intermittently, probably to facilitate Xie Miaomiao's translation, and Hu Yiting nodded again and again when he heard it.

"President Takeuchi said well, in the future, we will continue to unite and make a lot of money together, and there will be a lot of votes!"

Xie Miaomiao held back a smile, and quickly translated it to Takeuchi, Takeuchi's face was full of wine red, he laughed when he heard the words, pulled Hu Yiting to toast with him, and then called a subordinate to let him sing to cheer up, and the guy under him did not shirk, smiled and tied his tie on his forehead, took off his suit, even took off his shirt, clapped his hands bare-chested, and sang a traditional Japanese song, which made the atmosphere crazy.

As a result, the Brazilian barbecue restaurant was noisy and laughing for a while, and everyone was enjoying the relaxation and happiness after success.

At this time, the luxurious conference room of Sony's MD division in the NS Building, which is only across the street from the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building, the Tokyo City Hall, in the headquarters building in Shinjukuku, Tokyo, had a solemn and gloomy atmosphere.

The data for the Valentine's Day sales campaign has come out, and MD sales have reached 495 units, which is only 5 units short of the pre-set sales target of 500 units, but there is no joy on everyone's faces.

It was already three o'clock in the afternoon when Ushio Michiji rushed back to the headquarters, and he immediately decided to hold another countermeasure analysis meeting, and the time was set after work, just waiting for the data statistics on both sides to be easy to compare.

At this moment, in the conference room, everyone ate the high-end Japanese-style bento delivered from the nearby five-star hotel restaurant, listened to the report of Ushio's unoptimistic, and waited anxiously for the delivery of statistics on both sides.

When Shigemitsu iPod ended its sales campaign at 7 p.m., less than an hour later, Yamada Electric's sales data was obtained by Sony through internal channels.

"1,388 units!"

Sony executives fell silent when they heard the data read out by Ushio in anger.

It's just a Valentine's Day sale, do you want to be so tough?" everyone asked in fear.

Matsumae Kiyoto, manager of Sony's Information Center, took a step forward, reached out and snatched the still hot fax paper from Ushio, confirmed the number, and sat back in his seat.

"How is that possible?"

Chief Engineer Hiroshi Sato of Sony Design Center was stunned and said, "Is that right? Really sold 1,388 units?"

Ushio closed his eyes and said softly, "The old enemy is born." ”

Sato Haofeng's face turned white all of a sudden, and he finally solemnly took the product in front of him that he had laughed at himself and said was made by nouveau riche.

The small shape of the four corners is rounded, the bright LCD screen is embedded in it, the four buttons on the circular operation panel are distributed up and down, and the left and right are distributed, and the eyes are closed.

"If you look closely...... It's a pretty good design......" Sato retracted his judgment at the last countermeasure analysis meeting with difficulty.

Matsumae Kiyoto recovered from the impact of the collapsed data, and said in panic: "One point of sale can create such powerful data, if today's iPod is released at the same time in Japan like the PlayStation console, wouldn't it be easy to break 10,000?"

Ushio regained his composure and said expressionlessly: "According to the past practice, as long as the new product with a single-day data of more than 1,000 is released in Akihabara, the monthly sales of the whole Japan will definitely exceed 20,000." But ipod this data ...... There is no moisture whatsoever. ”

Hirotaka Sato exclaimed, "You mean, the iPod has only one point of sale in Akihabara?"

Matsumae Kiyotobu glared and raised his eyebrows: "How is it possible? Could it be that this data is just a ?!!! of Yamada Denki Akihabara store?"

Ushio nodded bitterly: "Today, in the entire Akihabara, only Yamada Electric is selling." ”

After saying that, he suddenly frowned, opened his eyes and said, "Gentlemen, MD's sworn enemy is here!"

There was silence in the conference room for a moment, and everyone stopped talking, and everyone realized how critical the situation was.

Ushio Tiger said with a face: "I estimate that if the ipod adopts a full sales model today and opens a sales point in Akihabara, the daily sales will definitely exceed 2,000, such a result, when MD first debuted, it has never reached this height!"