Chapter 115: Before Christmas

After all, this was his first successful game, and he didn't make games as successful at Atari as this one.

This time, since hearing the news that came out, he also went to ask Mark Seni, who was easier to speak, but Mark Seni just smiled mysteriously and did not deny it, so Sean Dabili was still extremely eager for this.

After all, he is the one who is most likely to qualify for this one, and he is also very confident in the "Dawn" project he is currently working on, and he can't guarantee that this game, if it is actually made, will not be inferior to "1942".

It's still a humble statement, in fact, it only needs to achieve 60% of the setting, then this game will surpass "1942" in every aspect and become the best game of its kind, after all, not all game companies are willing to use more than 20 professional artists to paint thousands of hand-drawn drawings just to complete the explosion effect.

That's why he paid so much attention to the release of "Sheriff Balotelli" this time, after all, if this game can be a big success, then it can verify whether the previous rumors are true.

The day of the release happened to be the weekend, and Sean Dabilee woke up early in the morning, and it was not surprising to see that it was covered in snow outside, after all, it was almost Christmas, and the snow fell later than in previous years in California.

He got up and freshened up, swept the snow in front of the door, had breakfast, and drove towards Los Angeles.

In the past, Fengxing Entertainment also changed the way of sales, after all, it takes other people's advance payments first, and it is too easy for buyers to be disgusted by not delivering goods for a long time.

It's still a good choice to do so when you want to recover money on a large scale and be the only one in the market, but now those Japanese manufacturers obviously see the hot arcade game market in North America that is now being brought up by Jester, and they all want to take the opportunity to enter the market to share the food, and it would be a little unwise to offend buyers by doing so.

Especially in the recent news of "1942", Capcom officially cooperated with Atari, who has returned to the game market, to jointly release their popular arcade game "1942" in Japan in the United States, and now advertising has begun to be carried out on a large scale, and even made long-term advertisements on "GAME".

I also sent a game board to the "GAME" magazine to let the editors of the magazine experience, which means that they can write an advertorial to brag about it.

And Jester acquiesced.

He wanted to make this magazine an authoritative magazine like the future "Video Game Monthly", if he always selectively ignored many excellent games, and only bragged about the games he made, then this game journal could only become a niche.

It's like Nintendo, or Sony, or even Microsoft have published their own game journals, but they haven't made much progress, because hanging a journal under a game company will inevitably give players a first impression of extreme distrust of the journal.

Not to mention that the content of these journals is necessarily very one-sided.

The most important thing is that "1942" is a very good game, even if Atari didn't take the initiative to find Adrian, then the magazine would definitely take the initiative to introduce it.

In the face of the poor arrival of Japanese manufacturers, Jester of course also has to prepare some measures to counteract, the first is the arcade hall franchise plan, the franchise store is the first to take the goods, only the franchise store has finished the goods, will be shipped to other pre-buyers.

Of course, the sales method of full reservation has also been canceled, after all, I am no longer the kind of person who lacks a lot of funds for various channels and research and development at the beginning, and the pressure of competition is not the same as in the past, and Atari's agent "1942" chose the exact same strategy when Nintendo released "Donkey Kong".

Try it for free before you pay.

Coupled with the game's success in Japan, its high reputation for quality, and its popularity as Americans' favorite World War II theme, the number of pre-orders has skyrocketed.

However, because the specific pre-order amount is Atari's internal number, the specific outside world is not very clear, but from the gossip that has been circulated, it is definitely more than 10,000 units, and the most important thing is that the price of this game substrate is just 2,000 US dollars, plus the frame will not exceed 2,300 US dollars, and there is also a discount promotion for pre-order, and the high-price strategy that Jester has been using before obviously cannot continue.

Therefore, Jester has also lowered the price of his own games, and the losses caused by the reduction caused by the buyers who have pre-ordered and not shipped before will be compensated for the same price when they buy the next game, and Jester didn't even think about the refund, and he went into my pocket and wanted me to take it out, you people are too naïve.

Moreover, the pre-order now only requires 40% of the full price, and the franchised arcade store only needs 20%, although it still can't be compared with Atari's "1942" strategy of playing for free first, but this can reflect the height of its own company's products.

Naturally, he disdained to learn from the practices of a declining Atari man.

Sean Dabilee had also inquired about the pre-order of "Sheriff Balotelli" from where the popular release was before, but it seems that the pre-order situation is not particularly good, especially with the free delivery of "1942" as a comparison, and after the restriction that only the franchised arcade hall can take the lead in getting the goods, some arcade halls that originally wanted to pre-order as soon as possible, but did not successfully apply for Mars Entertainment franchise members, are also temporarily silent, so the number of jù is not very good-looking.

Anyway, it is far inferior to "1942", which has just been announced, and more than 10,000 units have been pre-ordered in less than ten days.

So in order to confirm whether this game can really be as popular as the previous Mars Entertainment games, he decided to go to the official release site to see the players' reactions, and only from the on-site reactions can we judge what will happen to this game.

Although there are still 10 days to go before Christmas, there is still a strong Christmas atmosphere in Los Angeles, many malls are also promoting their own Christmas promotions, and many large malls will also give customers a very beautiful Christmas gift buying guide made in zuò.

It describes thousands of items in full-color coated paper.

Atari has previously announced that their return VCS7200 will be officially released at Christmas, and in this Christmas gift shopping guide, Sean Dabili also saw the introduction of this new Atari console, the current video game market is much hotter than half a year ago, some players who have grown up playing Atari games have also said that they will buy it, but more people still voted no confidence in Atari, after all, they were once too miserable by Atari pit.

And Sean Dabili is actually not optimistic about the success of Atari's game console, after all, whether a game console can be sold, the most important thing is that on the platform of this game console, there is no game that can make players excited, and according to his own big boss, there is no game console that can make players have a strong desire to buy games, it is worthless.

And Atari's game console, although it is even better than the version half a year ago, but they lack the finale of the heavyweight game, and they do not have the ability to compete with their new game console.

The only thing that is commendable about this game console may be that it is backward compatible with all the games that have been on the VCS2600, and it may be able to attract many players with nostalgic feelings, but then again, it is still the words that the boss said at the discussion meeting, generally this kind of player will have a VCS2600 console, why would they buy a console to play the game on the VCS2600?

When he parked his car and walked to the arcade hall 'Jedey's House', which had obtained the qualification of Mars Entertainment arcade game franchise, he unexpectedly found that one of his colleagues was also here, it was Seifer Daberwater, the actual designer of the game "Sheriff Balotley".

And the other party apparently discovered him.

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