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In 1985, whether it was in Japan or the United States, paperless office was more like a big pie, with a beautiful vision, but I don't know when it will be realized.

Sakura's carbon pen has a rounded feel, and the tip of the needle tube falls on the paper, slowly turning into page after page of text.

The manuscript of three or four thousand words was written in an instant, and in order to meet the layout requirements of the magazine's two thousand words or so, Takahashi checked it from scratch and deleted all the unnecessary words. What can be replaced with shorter text is replaced with shorter text.

The hands of the wall clock pointed to four o'clock, and Takahashi, rubbing his dry eyes, finally finished the planned work. As for the letters from readers, he picked out the more meaningful ones and put them in a pile, and wrote out the replies tomorrow in his free time.

With five hours to go before Hudson's time to work, he fell asleep on his desk.

It's been two weeks since he's been on this day, but fortunately, this body is relatively strong. After working for such a long time, it can still hold on.

Compared to the long hours of endless heavy physical labor, although the long hours of mental work are just as hard, at least it will not tire him anymore.

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[Unexpected? Hudson's version of "Gold Digger" sales survey!]

Reports of Hudson and the Gold Diggers continue. Compared with the initial meanness, it has been much lighter.

The new magazine, which was released at the same time as the Gold Digger cassette on Friday, only began to show its power on Saturday the following day.

"Do you want to buy Gold Diggers?"

"Takahashi's Gold Diggers?"

"Buy!"

Never underestimate your child's purchasing power.

Hundreds, thousands, and thousands of young players are coming out of their homes to the nearest cartridge sales outlet.

One copy after another of "Gold Diggers" entered the hands of children, and the owners of game stores watched the hot sales scene. While the fun blossoms, call now to order more games.

One hundred plates!

Two hundred plates!

……

Five hundred plates!

Six hundred plates!

The owners of game stores are afraid that if they run out of stock, their peers will rush to buy them, and then they will have trouble replenishing them, and the number of goods will become more and more exaggerated.

Nintendo asked them about their sales figures, and they were all exaggerating.

As a result, the market is showing nothing but a false picture of excessive exuberance.

How could Nintendo not know the virtues of these stores, and their investigators traveled around the city to investigate sales on the spot. The Gold Digger cassettes that were finally sent to the stores were generally only 50 to 70 percent of the number they submitted.

[Dark Horse?First week sales exceeded 70,000?]

Soon the following Friday, Takahashi's column continued.

At eight o'clock on Friday night, Nintendo called Hudson and told them about their first-week sales figures.

"Sixty-nine thousand eight hundred seventy-three. ”

Don't look at the number as zero and round, it seems to be very accurate. However, as long as you are in the industry, you know that counting sales is an unreliable thing.

It's not like ten or twenty years from now, games will have to be activated online. How many were activated are recorded.

The current game sales have to be reported by each store.

However, as was the case before, no store would hand over actual sales figures to Nintendo.

And Nintendo can't have its own investigator in the thousands of stores that sell cassettes across the country.

Therefore, the final sales data is still based on what the store reports. Based on the results of the sample survey conducted by the enumerators, multiplied by a coefficient, the so-called sales figure is calculated.

The first week sales of nearly 70,000 results, Hudson is the first time to get it.

After a small celebration, the heavy responsibilities of the company fell into a state of worry.

Although 70,000 sales in the first week is not a small number, it is still too small compared to the total number of cartridges of 1 million. Even if you can sell 70,000 yuan every week, you can only sell 700,000 yuan in ten weeks.

Is it possible to sell 70,000 yuan a week?

Apparently impossible.

It's no secret that after a new game is released, the popularity tends to wane over time. Often, the sales volume in the first month is almost seven or eight percent of all sales.

It sold 70,000 yuan in the first week and 280,000 yuan in the four weeks. Can the total sales of "Gold Diggers" reach 500,000?

"The sales are not bad! Let's celebrate with dinner tonight!" said Yuji Kudo in a loud voice, and the dull atmosphere instantly lifted a little.

"President!" the head of the game department interjected.

"You say. Yuji Kudo said.

"I propose to punish Takahashi!" said Kyosuke Koguchi loudly.

The staff, who were still talking about what to eat at night, all looked at Kyosuke Koguchi.

Most of them have some schadenfreude in their eyes.

Takahashi is not surprised by all this, and it is a mediocre talent not to be envied. Plus Hudson's Sapporo gang is actually unusually xenophobic.

Employees who usually look down on other places with their own status will react more violently if they are accomplished.

Yuji Kudo said noncommittally, "Tell me why?"

"Just because of "Gold Diggers"! Everyone knows how difficult it is for a game to sell a million copies, and there are a total of more than one million games on the red and white machine? He, he actually made a bet with an American company that if "Gold Diggers" sold less than one million, Hudson would pay a huge amount of money. Why? Who do you think you are?"

Kyosuke Koguchi was still talking to Kudo Hiroshi at first, but when he said the back, he walked quickly to Takahashi and pointed to Takahashi's nose and asked.

Takahashi put down his pen in disgrace, put aside the half-written readers' letters, and said indifferently, "If "Gold Diggers" doesn't sell a million, I'll resign." ”

"Resign?" said Kyosuke Koguchi with a mocking expression, "What's the use of you resigning? A guy playing games downstairs, what kind of character do you really think of? That's you, phew!"

Takahashi took a slight half step back, dodging the saliva gushing out of Kyosuke Koguchi. Just as he was about to answer, Yuji Kudo's voice rang out, "Shut up!"

Yuji Kudo stood up, walked out of his desk, walked up to Takahashi, put Kyosuke Koguchi aside and said, "Relax, don't take it to heart." What do you want to eat tonight?"

"Anything. Takahashi replied and glanced defiantly at the head of the game department.

"You!" said Kyosuke Koguchi angrily.

"Shut up!" Kudo Yuji patted Takahashi on the shoulder, looked back at Kyosuke Koguchi, looked at him for a long time, and then asked, "What have I done to you? Have I treated you badly? Hudson has treated you badly? Why did you do all that?"

Kyosuke Koguchi was speechless when he heard this.

"You were able to scream just now, and now you say it!" Kudo shouted, slapping the table.

Takahashi's Sakura carbon pen fell to the ground with a shock.