Chapter 44: The Rise of Star Entertainment

On December 17, the second issue of Weekly Shonen Star was released, and the first day of sales reached 56,000 copies, 3,000 more than last week.

At the same time, Yulang International's "Lingxiao Comic Weekly" was also released on the same day. However, its sales did not exceed that of "Weekly Junior Star" as Huang Yulang expected.

The first day sales were only more than 20,000 copies, not even half of "Weekly Shonen Star", so angry that Huang Yulang smashed a beloved teacup again.

In fact, this is also a matter of course, originally there were Shangguan Xiaobao's "Bruce Lee" plus Wu Ming's "Go Boy", "Speeding YOYO", "Football Player" A total of four excellent comics, although the other comics are a little worse, but everyone recognizes these four comics.

And "Lingxiao Comic Weekly" has Huang Yulang's "Dragon Tiger Gate", an excellent comic, plus the average level of other comics, which is higher than the average of ordinary comics on "Weekly Shonen Star", and it is not impossible to compete with "Weekly Shonen Star".

It's a pity that Huang Yulang is clever and announced that a few days after the release of "Lingxiao Comic Weekly", a single copy of the comics serialized on it will be released.

At this moment, except for those who are in a hurry, no one else is ready to buy "Lingxiao Comic Weekly".

These comic readers are forced to buy "Weekly Shonen Star", and people's comic book will not be released until at least two months later, and everyone can't read the comics if they don't buy "Weekly Shonen Star".

And your "Lingxiao Comic Weekly" just wait a few days to buy a single copy of the comics on it. Why should these comic readers buy your comic magazines and spend more money to read those comics they don't like, so that fewer people will naturally buy them.

A week later, the total sales of the two weekly manga magazines came out, and the total sales of "Weekly Shonen Star" were 78,000 copies, and they were only close to rushing to 80,000 copies.

And "Lingxiao Comic Weekly" only has a little more than 30,000 copies, which is too far from "Weekly Boy Star" and is not an opponent at all.

Later, a few months after it was released, Huang Yulang saw that the sales of "Lingxiao Comic Weekly" were completely crushed by "Weekly Boy Star", and the sales of the single book released later by the Phoenix Society were not affected much by the sales of "Weekly Boy Star", so he made up his mind to learn from the Phoenix Society and give up the traditional single-line book serialization model.

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After more than a month of fermentation, the Pokemon pet machine has completely swept the world, and the sales volume has reached 1.6 million in a month.

Whether it's a boy, a girl, an adult, a child, or an elderly, the daily talking point is inseparable from "Pokemon".

With the release of the remaining Pokemon, the names of the 151 Gen 1 Pokemon have spread around the world through promotional brochures, and some people have even written novels or drawn some comics featuring these Pokemon.

And "Great Wall Cube" and "Snake" are no worse, "Great Wall Block" has shipped 6,000 units, and has been hailed by the designers of the gaming industry as the greatest game of all time. And "Snake", although not as good as "Great Wall Cube", has also reached 2,000 units.

Today's Xingchen Entertainment's door is full of dealers who come to buy Pokemon pet machines and "Great Wall Cube" and "Snake" arcade machines every day. It's completely a posture that how much you Xingchen Entertainment produces, and how much my dealer buys.

Fortunately, Huo Jianning had placed an order for 20 million chips and an order for 40 million fast screens before, otherwise with Ricoh's production volume, the materials would not be enough at all.

Even so, Dole Toys Company is no longer doing it, after all, they still have to produce their own yo-yos, Rubik's cubes, roller skates and other popular products, how can they have time to give you Xingchen Entertainment OEM. Our products are more profitable than your Pokemon pet machines.

In the end, Huo Jianning had no choice, he was going to invest in the mainland to build a factory during the Chinese New Year, but he was not going to build a factory in Xiangjiang. In order to produce Pokemon pet machines, it can only acquire several electronics factories in Xiangjiang and merge to form an Aihua electronics factory.

Originally, Wu Ming still wanted Huo Jianning to find an OEM, but Huo Jianning was more opposed, thinking that the OEM was not much cheaper, and he had to bear all kinds of risks, and the electronics factory under his control was a little safer, and in the end, Wu Ming was persuaded by Huo Jianning.

Now Wu Ming and Huo Jianning are negotiating with Johnny in the conference room, this Johnny is not Johnny, Wu Ming's instructor of Golden Shield Security, but the representative of Atari Xiangjiang Branch.

"Mr. Wu Ming, although your "Great Wall Cube" and "Snake" have great potential, they can't offer a sky-high price of 60 million US dollars. Johnny said with some exasperation.

Wu Ming tilted his head, a smile on the corner of his mouth, and retorted: "Mr. Johnny, now is your Atari who wants to promote your home machine. And our company's "Great Wall Cube" and "Snake" can increase the sales of your Atari 2600 by at least one million units, and more than one million units is 200 million dollars in sales. And the sales of your other games will also increase, $60 million is not too much, and my game will not sell cheaply. ”

Johnny still tried to bargain: "Mr. Huo, do you think so too, you must know that our Atari home console has sold three million units, which is also a big market, do you just let Mr. Wu Ming be so willful and lose this market." ”

Huo Jianning could only have a helpless expression on his face and replied: "Mr. Johnny, Mr. Wu Ming is my boss, and I can't change what he decides." ”

"You guys, huh!"

Johnny walked away with an angry look on his face.

After Johnny left, Huo Jianning looked at Wu Ming with a puzzled expression and asked, "Boss, why don't you agree to Atari, you must know that it is also a big profit point." ”

Now Xingchen Entertainment can be described as wealthy, in just one month, Xingchen Entertainment's sales have reached a new height of 45 million US dollars, deducting various expenses, there are also 20 million US dollars of net profits.

The whole Xiangjiang has been frightened by Wu Ming's family, in such a short period of time, this family has already made so much money, and it is not to speculate in real estate like others, but to make money in the world by relying on technology.

Even the upper class admired the family and often invited Wu Ming's family to various banquets. Wu Ming was very annoyed by the uncles, aunts, grandfathers, grandmothers and so on at the banquet these days, and often asked him this and that.

Xingchen Entertainment is so rich now, Huo Jianning naturally won't pay attention to Atari's licensing fees, so he will let Wu Minghu come. Otherwise, Huo Jianning's temperament, even if Wu Ming was the boss, would have stopped him a long time ago.