When it goes on sale during the Christmas season, it's hard to find out if you wait in line two days in advance to buy it.

Because this period of time, not only for businesses, but also for ordinary people, it is too busy, after all, think of the Chinese New Year, you can understand, for Americans, the period from Christmas to New Year's Day, is equivalent to the year of domestic people, for them, is of extremely special significance.

However, half a month ago, Jester made a special strain.

This year, a plan that was only temporarily implemented in seven major cities in the United States, officially began to experiment at the Christmas sale, that is, as long as the goods purchased in the flagship store of Mars Entertainment can be pre-ordered in advance, as long as the pre-order is successful, and the delivery address filled in is within the city, then Mars Entertainment will be responsible for sending it directly to the door.

Of course, this one measure is free of charge during this year's Christmas season.

If it can get the love and support of players, this measure will be further expanded, of course, after the end of the trial, this service will need to be charged, as for how much to charge, it is still being discussed, but it can be guaranteed that the price will never be right.

Even, in the future, this plan will be extended to other cities one after another.

Naturally, players are very welcome to this.

% Especially the people in the seven cities that were listed as the first batch of implementation by Jester, of course, those players who are not in the seven cities will definitely complain a little and express their dissatisfaction.

Jester couldn't say anything about it.

Because this is not something that can convince everyone, besides, with free delivery throughout the United States, the current Jester can't say that he doesn't have this strength, but it is impossible for him to act as the leader of this wrong. In fact, Jester's plan for free delivery is only for five years, and the scale will be limited to the state capital or a particularly important large city.

Of course, this free home delivery event is not just for "Exotic Requiem", but includes all Mars Entertainment products.

Naturally, there is also a certain amount limit, and if it does not reach a certain amount, Mars Entertainment will not carry out free delivery. You can't just buy an amiibo figure for more than a dozen dollars, and I'm going to have it delivered to your door, right?

This is naturally impossible.

The minimum free delivery requirement is the price of a new game, for example, if you pre-order "Exotic Requiem", then you can get this intimate service of free delivery to your home, the old game is not good, because the old game is generally discounted at Christmas, and the discount is very large. Generally, it takes two or three old games to make up for the price of this free delivery.

Of course, pre-orders are not only in Mars Entertainment's flagship stores, but also in some other shopping malls or retail stores.

Naturally, not the flagship store of Mars Entertainment. Of course, it is not possible to enjoy the benefits of free delivery.

Since the pre-sale began, the news about the pre-sale of the game has been constantly transmitted back to Mars Entertainment, because the previous publicity has been done enough, and the media has commented. As well as the carnival demo, the reputation is very good, so the pre-sale results are very good.

Of course. Because it's a relationship between the game type.

So, although there is a little gap with the number of pre-sales of Jester's other games, after all, there are not many fans of American RPGs, even if there are many fans of Jester, there are many who don't like this type of game, which is understandable, but, compared to other similar American RPGs, it is much stronger, especially when Richard. After Garrett's article was published in "Game", it once again triggered a small climax of pre-sales.

"Three hundred and seventy thousand!"

Two days before the official release of "Outlander Requiem", when the major warehouses throughout the United States began to distribute goods to all parts of the United States, the director of popular distribution gave Jester a very good news, so far, the number of pre-orders has exceeded 370,000 units, and the current growth rate is still acceptable, if it continues to grow at this growth rate.

On the day of the official release, there was no difficulty in surpassing 400,000 sets.

"Okay."

In the face of such results, Jester's mentality has long been as stable as Mount Tai, in fact, the games he makes, and now the reputation is so good, even Richard. Garrett personally fanned the flames and added fuel to the fire, and if it didn't sell well, it would be abnormal.

On the phone, Jester nodded and said yes, and then immediately continued to ask.

"The distribution must be guaranteed, and before the official sale, all the sales points must prepare sufficient supplies, and this time we have prepared a total of three million sets of supplies......

Jester explained very seriously to the phone, and he couldn't help but not explain, ensuring the supply can be said to be the most important thing for a game publisher, especially this kind of widely watched game, and it is a game released at this time, if the player rushes to the retail store at the first time and asks the staff, he wants to buy "Outlander Requiem", only to be told that it has been sold out, then the mood must be extremely frustrating.

And at this time of Christmas, he doesn't want everyone to be downset.

Therefore, this time, Jester has prepared a large amount of inventory in advance, not only for the Dreambox2 version, but also for the PC version, which can be guaranteed to meet the supply of players.

Because, just the motherboard, Jester has prepared three million sets for this release, and the PC version has also prepared one million sets.

For an extra American RPG, even if it is a flagship American RPG like Genesis, four million game cartridges and floppy disks are enough for them to sell four generations of their series according to the highest sales in their series, and for Jester, he doesn't think his Outlander Requiem will sell four million copies in the week of Christmas and New Year's Day.

Selling two million units is the best result.

These 4 million units actually include the sales plan for the whole year next year.

"Do you predict how much we will be able to sell within a week after we go on sale?" After getting absolutely no problem with the distribution, Jester asked the people in charge of the game of Outlander Requiem to predict the weekly sales of the game.

The voice on the other end of the line was silent for a while, as if thinking, and after five or six seconds, he said, "I think there will be about 1.2 million sets." ”

This number is similar to Jester's own prediction, if the pre-sale can sell 400,000 units, then after the release, according to an American RPG game, it will be the best sales to sell 800,000 to 900,000 units, because the audience circle of this type of game is so large, and the game "Exotic Requiem" is not the kind of casual thing.

Playing this game is tiring.

You need to think while playing, and playing in this game is not so much to find the joy of the game, but to have a deep soul communication with the designer.

This is not something that the average player likes.

Now so many people pre-sell, in fact, many people are just because of where their reputation is, they buy, but only for their own reputation, at most plus those praise words from the media, after the release, players play this game by themselves, Jester can foresee the picture at that time, like him will like it very much, and can't wait to add all the praise to this game.

If you don't like it, you may not say that the game is bad, but you will only say that it is a great game, but I don't like it.

Moreover, there will be very many such people.

Because Jester's "Exotic Requiem" is not fundamentally different from the "Exotic Requiem" he knows, both are a game that wants to discuss something with players, ask players something, and then wait for the player's own answer.

Such a game, whether in one's own era or in this era, is destined to be unpleasant.

After a few casual words, Jester hung up.

He also has a very important document to deal with, which is a fax sent to him by Capcom, the largest third-party game developer in Japan, this fax is Capcom's desire to ask him to provide them with technical support on the hardware, not in the arcade, although Capcom's arcade is now in full swing, but a next-generation home console.

It's not that Capcom himself wants to be a home host, and Kenzo is not a person with such courage at all.

Rather, about Dreambox3.

After this year's E3, after the Mark. After Saini demonstrated that in the future on Dreambox3, Mars Entertainment will strengthen the processing ability of 3D graphics, Capcom also believes that 3D must be the development direction of future games, so they also want to get in touch with the specific parameters and architecture of the next generation console as soon as possible, and better design their first 3D game according to these parameters.

Moreover, in the internal discussion of Capcom, a group composed of several young people who had just joined the company submitted a game plan, which was valued by the company's top management.

And Jester looked at Capcom and hoped that he would give them three places to be able to study within Mars Entertainment for a year, and most importantly, they hoped that these three people could participate in the development of Dreambox3, which would allow them to have a deeper understanding of the performance of Dreambox3. (To be continued......) R1292