Chapter 61: Try [Ask for Recommendation Votes!First Update]
Any game company knows that the surrounding area makes money, but there are very few game companies that can really make the surrounding area sell big.
Because, the game image of the vast majority of enterprises is either too bad, or it is difficult to make a look of the past at a relatively low price with the current level of technology.
There is also the fact that the promotion ability of the game itself is still limited, unlike animations and movies, which can make a lot of money in a short period of time.
Nintendo, which has achieved this and even the world's No. 1 video game company, not only wants to stand out in the video game industry at this time, they are pursuing more profits, and they are seeking more profits, one is to let more people play Nintendo's games, know Nintendo's games, and the other is to try to expand the brand of game brands that are already well-known.
The word brand is not widely spoken in China a few decades later, but IP with brand meaning is talked about a lot.
What Nintendo wants to do now is to expand the brand, and the best card Nintendo has at the moment is the Mario series, which is very popular in several games.
Nintendo gradually has a dream, which is to become Disney and Oriental Disney. The Nintendo amusement park project, which had been put on hold due to the oil crisis in the seventies, has also been relaunched, and of course there will be Mario animations and Mario merchandise toys.
In short, Nintendo is penetrating into other areas based on the game market. From games as a form of entertainment, it has expanded to other forms of entertainment.
However, it is a pity that although the cartoon was produced, it was not as widely distributed as Disney animation, and it always looked a little wrong, and even some adults felt uncomfortable and scared when they watched it.
It didn't take long for these animations about Mario, as well as live-action films, to be sealed as black history.
And Wanhu's "Metroid" has achieved good results in the United States, and while it has captured a group of adult B-movie lovers, it has also made Sega popular in adult circles.
You must know that American B-grade film liars have always had the habit of making works that follow the trend, if you release a "Shark in the Angry Sea", I will release a "Snake in the Angry Sea", and if you produce a "Titanic", I will release a "Tatanic".
Inferior imitations, as well as some ingenious brains, make these low-cost and clumsy films, in addition to deceiving some people who go to the video studio to watch and rent the tapes, but also gain a specific group of fans.
And Metroid, a game with a bit of Cthulhu flavor and style, is very popular in this circle. With attention, naturally some people started to use their brains, and it didn't take long for the B-grade film of "Golden River Warriors" to appear on the big screen. Although there are only three screens in the United States that have shown this low-budget B-movie movie.
However, the blunt acting, cheap props, and bizarre plot still make many B-movie lovers addicted.
It didn't take long for this movie to have a relatively large influence in the circle.
And this has led to a new round of growth in the sales of Metroid and Sega MD consoles, which seems extremely strange to Sega North America.
Because as a rule of thumb, a game will ship fewer and lower cartridges after a few months of being released, until it approaches zero.
That's not to say that the most talk-around time for a game is when it's just released. Even if it is a lot of times, a game is slowly fermented and discovered and loved by players, but this kind of work, often when it is discovered, has either been taken off the shelves, or there are already a lot of second-hand second-hand goods on the market.
If you want to experience this game, you can borrow it from friends, buy it at a second-hand game store, or rent it.
Although the game may be very popular in the second-hand market, it has nothing to do with the game manufacturer.
The game cartridge is sold, it is the player's personal belongings, and the player wants to dispose of it, keep it for collection after playing, or sell it, it is his freedom.
And most game manufacturers, although they are eyeing this market, have no way to intervene in this market.
Although there is a huge stake in this, they can just look at it, just look at it.
Several games launched by Wanhu are very popular in the second-hand market, and players who like Wanhu games actually know far more than Wanhu.
Of course, this is true for almost all game manufacturers.
It's like being a web writer who never knows how many of them really are.
Because, there are only so many users who watch the genuine version, a pair of hands, a pair of feet and a head, how can they be counted and separated.
However, the readers who watch pirated copies do not know how many, it may be double, it may be ten, it may be a hundredfold.
Even, some webmasters who make pirated websites can rely on huge traffic to drive villas and live in Land Rover. However, as an online author, there is nothing I can do about it.
Of course, this does not mean that second-hand second-hand games are pirated games, they are still genuine, but there is no way to bring revenue to the game manufacturers.
As a leader in the industry, Nintendo has made some efforts to replace some new cartridges from those that can only be written once to those that can be erased with ultraviolet light and rewrite data.
Then, they prevent game burners in various game stores.
Players know that if they go to the game store and take the cartridge, they can change to a new game for a low price of 500 yen.
Although 500 yen is very small compared to the minimum price of 6,800 yen for the game itself.
But for game manufacturers and Nintendo, no matter how small a fly is, it is also meat, and when fly meat gathers together, it is also a great piece of meat.
However, this plan, like most of Nintendo's plans, was not implemented for a few months before slowly falling into a state of suspension.
Because of this erased game mode, although it seems to save resources. But there won't be the latest game on it, and if you erase it, the original game is gone.
And a huge part of the players, or humans, have a collecting instinct like a squirrel.
If the cassette can be erased, and you can play all the games with one cassette, what is the game you bought before?
Is it really bought, or is it just a limited-term lease.
Although some players protested against this, Nintendo made a promise to re-burn back the original game for a limited time.
However, because of the troublesome operation, the lack of game stores that can erase games, and human nature, this environmentally friendly experiment has always failed.