Chapter 17: Long Sale

Unlike other game companies, Chiba Games' games often have the characteristics of long-term sales.

What is a long-term sale?

Even a few months after the game's release, sales have been steady for several years. Perhaps the sales curve of other games is off a cliff, and it will reach the bottom immediately after reaching the peak.

However, Chiba Games' games are not like this, and many of Chiba Games' games don't seem to have very high sales in the first week.

However, here in Chiba Games, it is not a violent death at all. may only sell 50,000 copies in the first week and only 200,000 copies in the first month, but, half a year has passed, and even the second- and third-tier works of such a Chiba game can easily sell millions.

There are many people who have studied Chiba Games, a phenomenon that is very different from other manufacturers. In the end, the summary of the situation is that the games of Chiba games are basically games for the whole family, or games for living room socialization.

Maybe suddenly there are guests at home, and there is nothing too good to do, so buy a game and play together. Not only is it fun, but it also enlivens the atmosphere, and I don't know how high it is compared to traditional solitaire.

And after I bought it, I can't say that I will sell it as a second-hand right away, because I don't know when I will come again.

In addition to this kind of living room social game played by multiple people together, the other game is an action game based on the "Mario" spin-off series, although these games have a cartoon graphic style, the difficulty of playing at first is not high.

However, if you play this game carefully and play the difficulty of the inner world, then this difficulty is great.

If you want to achieve full achievements, basically non-veteran players can't play, and it is very difficult for a senior player to achieve full achievements.

In this way, even if the game is cleared, are you willing to sell second-hand?

In addition, Chiba games rarely launch annual editions, or expansion packs. It can't be said that there is no fried cold rice at all, after all, those classic games in the era of red and white machines sometimes still have to be fried.

However, compared to other manufacturers, there are many more temperances. In addition, the launch pace of a game series is relatively slow, and the game is not easy to become outdated, so after a long time of launch, there are still good sales.

In addition, the game of Chiba Games is close to the people, and parents give gifts, basically giving Chiba Games machines and games. After all, in their opinion, video game consoles are all a thing. As for what kind of mystery box, the game workbench, how spicy is expensive, and there is not much difference from the host of Chiba games.

You see, isn't it all a box and a handle?

Well, sometimes the Chiba game console will give away an extra controller. You see, sure enough, the Chiba game console is better than the slightly hard mystery box, and better than the game workbench with mud locks.

All that's left is to take advantage of the online feature to ensure that the game has a long life cycle and will not be sold second-hand.

On the one hand, the audience of Chiba games does not have high requirements for the timeliness of the game, on the other hand, it avoids the proliferation of second-hand games, on the one hand, open source, on the other hand, interception, to ensure the number of players who buy a genuine game, so that Chiba games have a sales curve that is very different from the mainstream of the market.

Why do manufacturers hate second-hand games so much? Or the second-hand market in Japan?

In large part, it's because they can't get more value out of the handover. Flips will not be counted in sales.

In fact, second-hand games, for manufacturers, are basically equivalent to pirated games. It's all in the category of uselessness.

Of course, if manufacturers blatantly oppose pirated games, then the danger is very big. There are manufacturers who do this, and the high-level executives who have been sued by the players have specially developed a development conference to apologize.

Because, players feel that the game they bought is their property, and what they do with it is their freedom. And isn't this behavior of manufacturers hindering their freedom?

And the digital version of the game, there are also some reasons why players don't want to see it. They feel that the digital version of the game is not their own. They're only leased from game manufacturers.

If there is any game, it is condemned by public opinion, and it is forced to be deleted. Then if you buy a physical version of the game, there is no problem, but if you buy a digital version of the game, it will be miserable.

As a result, many people still buy physical games, even if they are a little more expensive.

Minecraft is actually an atypical game, but it can be considered a typical game produced by Chiba Games. The reason why I say this is because the games launched by Chiba Games are basically not mainstream game genres.

Although mainstream games are not nothing, these games are not bad on the Chiba game console.

However, compared to other consoles, almost all games are guns, cars, balls, and Chiba console games cover a wider range.

Basically, players of all ages can find a game that suits them. That's a big deal.

It's better to say,Chiba games once encountered the challenge of locking mud on the game console,Launched the "Brain Platinum" for adult office workers,"Brain Exercise" series of games,Although in the eyes of professional players,These games,It's nothing more than a collection of some small games.,It's not new.。 However, for office workers, this kind of ability to play casually allows them to spend their time. You can also show a game in the circle of friends. It's not too novel, okay.

As a result, the generation of handhelds of Chiba Games relied on this market to counterattack the lock mud fart that was dominant in the handheld field at that time.

Of course, there are a lot of afterthought analyses afterwards, saying that Chiba Games are **** luck, and Chiba Games are blind cats hitting dead mice.

Of course, some people boast that this is a Chiba game with advanced strategic vision, and it has been laid out in this blue ocean market in advance.

The average Chiba game person doesn't know which statement is true.

However, the top management of Chiba Games all know that this is all due to Lin Yan. Lin Yan is like a bright light in the game industry, and the direction he points in is never wrong.

Of course, such a result is also difficult for many people to accept.

After all, well-known game producers who are contemporaries of Lin Yan, or a little later, have fallen one after another.

Even if Lin Yan is young, he has held the right to speak in the game industry for decades, and he is too evergreen.

However, even if these people with different thoughts cursed Lin Yan in various ways, Lin Yan was still so violent.

At the beginning of "Minecraft", no one realized that this was another work that Lin Yan participated in the production. Because, although the logo of Chiba Games appears in front of the game, it is the logo of the publisher, and there is also the logo of a special game company.

And looking at the production list, Lin Yan's name is not at the beginning, but at the end. Although "Minecraft" is not a large-scale game, the production staff of this game is also hundreds of people. Of course, this number includes some temporary workers.

It's throwing people like sound engineers and the like into it.

The subtitles of the entire production staff also have to be scrolled for more than a minute.

It's like a movie maker's list, it's not a professional, it's just an ordinary movie watching and playing games, who will watch this kind of thing specifically.

So, things get interesting, Ryosuke Fujiwara and Masaki Kimura have enjoyed a lot of praise for being the best game producers in Japan in the new century. And Lin Yan's name, not many people have seen it.

Knowing that a month after the release of the game, Lin Yan's identity on this game was officially exposed. It's a bit embarrassing.

Those media almost don't know how to get round. Of course, don't worry about journalist friends, their cheeks are breaking through the sky.

Therefore, it didn't take long for one article after another boasting about Lin Yan to be concocted.

Due to research in recent years, the origin of video games can be traced back to the United States in the sixties of the twentieth century. Therefore, Lin Yan is not the creator of video games.

However, his identity as the founder of Japanese video games and commercial games is unquestionable.

Now these people who make games in Japan, no matter how old they are, can basically be said to be Lin Yan's apprentices. Although it is now a modern society, it is not popular to have the same set as the ancestor before, and Lin Yan is not dead and cannot set up a tablet, but most Japanese game people are still in awe of Lin Yan.

In a later interview, Lin Yan was asked questions about Minecraft and why it was at the end of the list.

Lin Yan said with a smile, in fact, I didn't participate in the specific production of the game, I just provided the script of the whole game, I just did some small work, I can't put me in the front because I am famous, this is unfair, I hope that any talent, have the opportunity to show themselves, compared with others, I just have a little more life experience, and game experience, is not worthy of everyone's praise, thank you.

Maybe it's because there is something funny in Lin Yan's words. Anyway, later Lin Yan's words were taken as a joke. There's always something to say, I'm just doing a little bit of work, thank you guys and stuff like that.

Lin Yan was also a little puzzled at first, knowing that he looked back at his speech, and realized that he had unconsciously used someone's famous words.

Lin Yan looked at himself in the mirror, his nostrils were not big, and he didn't wear black-framed glasses, well, okay, okay.

In fact, there are few people who care about Lin Yan's age, because because of his achievements, people can already ignore his age.

Besides, even if it is the scientific research industry, it does not mean that the older you are, the more powerful you are. In fact, the peak of a person's creation is generally before the age of fifty. After the age of 50, people's energy will become less sufficient.

This would explain why many people are actually at a young age. As for why they were only known to the public in their later years.

On the one hand, because of the fragrance of peaches and plums, there are many disciples and grandchildren, and everyone gathers firewood, and his fire is more prosperous. On the other hand, the Nobel Prize is usually awarded after a few decades. At this level, the age is not too old, and it is not too late to become famous.

This is also why almost old professors, even if they preside over a scientific research project, do not struggle on the front line, but are engaged in management positions.

Because, although they lack energy, they have a lot of life experience. It is a very scientific thing for them to be in charge of management.

Of course, there are too many people who have been engaged in scientific research all their lives, and the end is not good, because there are so many management positions, and they cannot become managers. And to carry out the test operation, the energy is not enough.

Therefore, there is such a saying in the market, you see that he is not as good as a dog.

Well, young scientific researchers are scientific research dogs, and an old scientific researcher, it would be good not to be unloaded and killed as a donkey, so naturally he would not live as well as a young scientific research dog.

It is precisely because of this situation that more and more people will not choose to enter scientific research units.

Instead, I will be some middle school teacher or something, after all, for middle and high-level people in society. They care more about the secondary education of the next generation than about scientific research.

Therefore, unless there is a place in the scientific research community, most people engaged in scientific research are better than teachers.

Of course, no one wants to go to a remote area to be a teacher, let alone a remote mountainous area, even if it is an eighteenth-tier county, no one wants to go.

So, this has another consequence. That is, the more developed the place, the more concentrated the educational resources, and the higher the quality of education.

Then, the easier it is for students to learn and the better their grades will be.

Although the unified university examination ensures the fairness of the candidates to a certain extent. However, in fact, from the moment they are born, they are destined to enjoy unfair educational resources.

A child born in a remote mountain village and a child living in the capital, even if they are of the same level of intelligence, their life experiences are very different.

Not only in terms of study, but also in the work after graduation, there is a world of difference.

Perhaps, children in remote mountainous areas will not work hard in mountain villages, and they will be called stupid and lazy by people in the city. Even if they enter the city, what can they do, if not the migrant workers who disgust the city people, they are the lowest service workers. Because, they don't have any other skills.

Of course, people in the city may say that it's not all their own problem, and they don't blame anyone. However, a person who works more than twelve hours a day, lives in a hut of less than two square meters, and when he arrives at home after work, he can't wait to fall asleep on the bed, how can he give them the space and time to study.

And a capital kid with the same intelligence, even if he doesn't go to college very well, he can be a product manager.

Then, the capital kid who is engaged in mental work and becomes a product manager will take his children and point to the migrant workers and the children of the migrant workers and say, if you don't study hard and are lazy, it will be the same in the future. You have to know Dad, but he has worked hard since he was a child, and all this we have now is all made by my father's hard work.

(There is no meaning of blackmail, and there is no meaning of anti-intellectual, no matter who it is, they have their own difficulties.) People in big cities, please be more tolerant to people in remote mountainous areas. Yuebai is a child in a small county town on the eighteenth line, who is poor and short-minded, and has a low education. (To be continued.) )