"Shit."

scolded in the bottom of his heart, Richard. Garrett also went to find a towel and wiped his palms.

Then he remembered what he had been thinking about before.

Of course, Richard. Garrett also knows that game sales can't be calculated so simply, and generally speaking, sales in the first few days are explosive, accounting for almost half of a game's total sales.

But he also knows that such figures.

Even his most successful game was absolutely impossible.

As soon as he thought of this, he couldn't help but feel a violent sense of frustration, and he felt that he might really have to fail in this sales comparison.

Of course, it is not without hope.

Once again, the sales volume will be raised to the level of one million.

Million.

This is a game that is out of reach for most PC games.

Even Jester's so-called minesweeper-style RPG, Richard . Garrett doesn't dare to absolutely guarantee that he will definitely sell a million, of course, looking at the current situation, it is very likely to exceed a million.

After all, less than ten hours have passed on the first day, and 200,000 copies may have been sold.

One million is not a big number.

At this time, Richard. Garrett remembered the sales of Jester's previous two PC games, "Quake" because it had been several years, and he couldn't remember the sales clearly, but "Age of Empires" was only released last Christmas.

He remembered the sales figures clearly.

Five hundred and ninety thousand on the first day!

This time, "Rune Guardian" won't be able to sell 590,000 units, right?

Faced with this thought that popped into his mind, even Richard. Garrett almost startled himself, and then he quickly shoved the thought out of his mind.

Are you kidding.

"Age of Empires" can have this kind of sales, because of how much publicity Mars Entertainment has put in. You must know that even the most important annual carnival of Mars Entertainment has taken the most important position to promote him, and now all kinds of media, whenever they come to Mars Entertainment's carnival.

But they are all proud to be able to report the news of the Mars Entertainment Carnival.

There's no way around it, after all, at that time, players aren't interested in anything else, and if you report something else, no player will pay for it. They only love the news of the Mars Entertainment Carnival, and certainly not all players.

After all, no matter how influential Mars Entertainment is in the industry, it is impossible to occupy a white share.

However, a share of more than seventy percent is sufficient.

How many media magazines will choose the 30% market instead of the 70% market? There must be such a thing, but as you can imagine, there must be only a handful.

This time Richard. There was a knock on Garrett's door.

A young man walked in.

"Boss. We inquired about the statistical results of the first two batches of "Rune Guardian" in Mars Entertainment. As one of the world's largest PC game publishers, Weizhen naturally has its own news channels in Mars Entertainment, and of course, this news channel will not be too advanced.

It's not like a commercial espionage.

At most, I can know a little bit of news in advance that is no longer a secret within Mars Entertainment. Of course, it is better to spread it outside than in an ordinary way, or to announce it by Mars Entertainment itself.

Let's say these before and after three hours each. The sales volume will be counted, and a handful will not be announced to the public.

At most, Mars Entertainment will announce the sales of the first day on the second day.

And Mars Entertainment has indeed done this before.

Hear reports from your subordinates. Richard. Although Garrett tried his best to suppress his almost uncontrollable mood, he still showed a hint of eagerness, and he said in a quick voice: "More...... How much! ”

"As of nine o'clock, the number they just counted is 400,000!"

"Smack!"

As soon as the young man finished speaking, Richard. Garrett slammed the table.

He stood up directly, let the queen fall to the ground, shattered into a casual cup and kicked out a long way, his face was full of disbelief, maybe because he stood up too suddenly, his brain was suddenly congested, making him a little dizzy, and he also reached out to help the table.

"What did you say!"

Richard. Garrett asked again in a loud voice of disbelief.

And although his young subordinate's answer stumbled and looked a little flustered, the number he said was the same as before.

This young man, who is also an employee of Weizhen, will naturally know what a remarkable number a PC game can sell 400,000 copies in nine hours. The best Genesis series that Garryt sold sold in the first three days combined, and it was only 400,000 copies.

And this game broke through to one million copies, which took a month and three days.

Of course, this sales number, whether it is now or back then, if you exclude Jester's two games that caused an uproar in the industry, it is indeed a standout.

But.

Richard. Garrett was really dead this time, and he asked again and again, as if in disbelief: "How can they sell 400,000 copies?" How is this possible! According to his understanding, and analyzing the sales curve of game sales over the years, if Mars Entertainment sold 400,000 copies a day this time, he might only be shocked, not so gaffe.

In his mind, how could an obviously niche RPG game sell so much?

If this is a console game, after all, Mars Entertainment's console game sales have set a more terrifying number, but this is a PC game, and this is a market that will be considered a best-selling PC game as long as it can sell 100,000 copies.

Originally it was just Richard. Garrett himself muttered a question.

The young man who had just come in and reported to his boss stopped, which should be his boss asking him a question, so he told his boss everything he had heard to his boss.

"Actually, originally, after the first few hours of hot sales, the sales trend declined for a while, but at eight o'clock, they suddenly announced an hour, that is, because of the lack of inventory, there is a limit on the number of games per person can buy, and no one can only buy three game floppy disks...... This did not slow down the growth trend of sales, but made many people who only wanted to buy one chapter also went to buy two chapters, and many of them were worried that their friends would not be able to buy ......"

After such a while, in fact, Richard. Garrett had pretty much digested the news.

Although there was still some horror on his face, his face was visibly better than when he had just heard the desperate number, and he sat back in his chair, and then quietly listened to what the young man had to say, and was silent for a few minutes, and finally sighed.

"You go out first, I want to be quiet."

The young man also knows why his boss is like this, because this is too far from his boss's prediction before, if his opponent can be ten percent higher than himself, it can also make the chase to mention the heart of chasing harder, then only a fraction of the opponent's time, there will be no slightest desire to catch up, but will only be a failure.

Jester also didn't expect that after his purchase restriction was announced, not only did it not slow down the growth trend of sales, but it made the growth trend of sales soar again.

After all, Jester said it.

Not enough inventory.

But only those who have purchased it in the first three days will be eligible for the Battle.net test qualification lottery, and if all the stock is sold out this time, then who knows when the next batch will come? Can you replenish the supply in the first three days? Anyone who has an in-depth understanding of Mars entertainment, they also know that this is impossible.

You know, Mars Entertainment's game cartridges, floppy disks or game consoles are all produced in Asia.

Asia, on the other hand, has a whole Pacific Ocean away from the United States.

Therefore, by the time the difference between ten minutes and twelve o'clock in the morning, the inventory of "Rune Guardian" in North America was all sold out, with a total of 660,000 copies of the game, from twelve o'clock in the morning to less than twelve o'clock in the afternoon, a total of twelve hours, and it was not yet fully released in North America.

It will only be sold in cities above Tier 2.

This kind of result is enough to make everyone smack their tongues - of course, there are even more annoyed players, there are many people who are late, there are no players who come to line up early to buy an extra copy for themselves, of course, they are extremely angry, they ask Mars Entertainment, why the stock is not enough, and send out the news of the people who bought in the first three days.

However, Mars Entertainment has nothing to say about it.

Because at the end of this statement, it will follow the previous sentence, and the final interpretation right of this statement belongs to Mars Entertainment, that is to say, Mars Entertainment can explain it however it wants, and these players are just complaining about the dissatisfaction that they can't buy, and they are just complaining.

Of course, many people really want to come with the floppy disk of the game, and the card that comes with the lottery test qualification. (To be continued......) R1071