Compared with Honor's excited reaction, the outside world's reaction to the electronic pet is very complicated.

The first is the media, most of the media are saying good things about electronic pets, such as the New York Times reported on electronic pets like this:

Xu Qing, a genius writer, billionaire, and author of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", presented a gift called an electronic pet to nearly 10,000 book fans at the book launch of "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" on December 22.

At that time, several reporters from the New York Times also attended the book launch and got dozens of electronic pets, and a few of our colleagues returned to the company and sent the electronic pets to their colleagues in the editorial department.

Our editorial department is a department with more women than men, and these female colleagues get electronic pets to open the box on the spot and take it out to play.

Then a shocking scene happened, the vast majority of female colleagues in the editorial department fell in love with electronic pets.

There are a total of 16 female colleagues in the editorial department, ranging from beautiful girls in their 20s who have just graduated from university to beautiful ladies in their 40s who are still charming.

Some of our male colleagues wondered what was the charm of an electronic pet that made so many female colleagues fall in love with it.

The answer given by female colleagues is that playing with electronic pets is like having a real pet, and some female colleagues even say that it is more fun than real pets.

Oh my! a virtual pet game is actually more fun than real pets.

Some of our male colleagues who have pets immediately retorted that real pets are human companions.

Our female colleagues also immediately responded that electronic pets can be sold at any time, interact with their owners at any time, and so on.

Neither side could convince anyone, and in the end, the editor-in-chief had to stop the argument by saying that he could not play games during his shift.

Well, an electronic pet almost broke our friendly editors.

Because of this controversy, we exaggerated a little bit when we wrote about the electronic pet on December 22 and 23.

There is no way, the editorial department has the right to speak in the hands of our female colleagues.

However, what we thought was a slightly exaggerated report pale in the face of the first week of sales of electronic pets.

Today is January 1, 1994, and the electronic pet went on sale on December 25, 1993, exactly one week after today.

Today we got the first week of sales of electronic pets from Honor, the production company of electronic pets.

Seeing this data, all the colleagues in the editorial department couldn't believe it, including those female colleagues who were extremely fond of electronic pets.

Although the price of the animatronic pet is only $25, compared to Nintendo, Sega's game that costs hundreds of dollars can be said to be very cheap.

But the first-week sales of electronic pets are very scary, allowing us to use the word horror to describe the first-week sales of electronic pets.

It's horrible!

6732957, the first week of sales of electronic pets was 6732957 units.

For those of you reading this report, you read that right, the first week of sales of electronic pets was in the 7 figures.

That said, the first week of sales of the electronic pet was almost $170 million, and for comparison, let's take a look at the first-week sales of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.

With more than 22 million copies, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets sold for $15 and total sales of around $330 million.

The first-week sales of electronic pets were more than half of the first-week sales of "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets".

Harry Potter is already a bestseller all over the world, and it's not surprising that it can achieve $330 million in first-week sales.

But before Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, the animatronic pet had no fame at all.

Xu Qing just gave it as a gift to book fans at the launch of "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets".

Then there are Wal-Mart, Carrefour, Aeon Group, and some well-known bookstores, which have posted promotional posters and pamphlets about electronic pets in the store.

Oh, and when we media reported on Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, we also mentioned cyber pets in passing.

Other than that, the e-pet didn't do any publicity.

If the sales of electronic pets were brought about by the fame of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, no one would believe it.

If the e-pet were a junk product, even if our Mr. President endorsed it, it would not be possible to generate $170 million in sales in the first week.

Maybe a few million dollars is fine.

So whether Cyber Pet is an excellent game, our editorial department can't be sure, because Cyber Pet is completely different from those games of Nintendo and Sega.

Arcade games, handheld games, console games, and electronic pets are all not eligible.

Maybe we should classify animatronic pets as toy games, but that doesn't seem to fit that way.

Let's stop talking about this topic and give people in the game industry a headache.

Regardless of the type of game the animatronic pet is, its $170 million in first-week sales speaks volumes about its popularity.

Cyber pets have slowly become a global trend, are you keeping up with the trend?"

It's rare for the New York Times to write such a lengthy story about a product, and only world-class brand-name products enjoy that treatment.

The influence of the New York Times is not only in the United States, but also in many countries and regions around the world.

As soon as this report came out, it immediately boosted the sales of electronic pets, and Xu Qing was very happy to give the New York Times a sponsorship fee.

There are reports praising electronic pets, and naturally there will also be reports that derogatory electronic pets.

The Miami Herald, which had previously derogated "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", was derogatory when "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" was released.

After the announcement of the first week of sales of electronic pets, the Miami Herald was even more detractor.

"In recent days, there is a game called Electronic Pets that is very popular in many places, especially among young women, the elderly, middle school students.

Today, Honor, the production company of electronic pets, announced the sales of electronic pets in the first week, 6732957 units.

The price of the electronic pet is $25, so the first-week sales are about $170 million.

That's a lot of sales, $170 million can buy six F18 fighter jets.

We first admit that the animatronic pet has its attractive advantages, but its disadvantages are even greater, it is like a dupin, once it is contaminated, it will attract you deeply, but it will hurt you in the end.

According to our understanding, many people steal, rob, and even sell* in order to buy electronic pets, what a terrible situation, these things do once, and it will ruin people's lives.

The harm of electronic pets is not only this, many people who have bought electronic pets play regardless of time, occasion, walking, going to work, going to school, and still playing at what time in the morning.

Many people fell and injured themselves while walking, were scolded by their bosses, scolded by teachers, and collapsed their bodies.

We will continue to track the harm caused by e-pets, and we call on the government to ban the sale of e-pets and not let them continue to harm people. ”