The end of July is the hottest time of the year, and the Final Fantasy development team has been preparing for the launch at its flagship store in Ginza in Tokyo since the early hours of the morning on the first day of release.

And Mars Entertainment is more considerate than Nintendo, and will provide free cold drinks to all players who come.

Like "Dragon Quest", "Final Fantasy" is also extremely confident in its own quality, and prepared 200 dreamboxes for players to try on the scene, in fact, dreambox because of the problem of the game, the intersection with FC players is not strict, and the games on Dreambox are a little older, and it's not that Dreambox doesn't pay attention to children, but including Jester, None of them have been as successful as Nintendo's success in the children's game market.

And many of the hardcore games on Dreambox are not supported by some parents, and they don't approve of letting their children play such games.

The melancholy painting style and plot of "Final Fantasy" are still very attractive, and the technology saved in the Mars Entertainment Technology Library is not comparable to the original Square Enix, and it was only perfected in the third generation of "Final Fantasy", and the setting of the summoned beast was also poured out when Jester talked to Hironobu Sakaguchi in detail, so the current "Final Fantasy" is not much inferior to the original historical "Final Fantasy 3".

When I tried it, I was cheered by many players, some of whom had previously purchased Dragon Quest, but they still praised Final Fantasy, which is a completely different game from Dragon Quest in style, but just as good.

With the praise of the pre-release trial, it is natural that the game will also get a lot of support from players.

However, Dreambox's share in the Japanese market is only a little more than 20%, which is far from being comparable to Nintendo's FC, so it is far from being able to sell well.

But in the case of a quarter of the FC. On the first day, Final Fantasy sold an astonishing 80,000 copies.

This is a very exciting achievement for "Hironobu Sakaguchi", you know, even "Fire Emblem", which has almost reached 6 million cumulative sales now, sold less than 80,000 copies on the first day of its release in Japan, of course, the market share of Dreambox at that time was not as high as it is now, only a dozen percent at that time.

But not yet, Hironobu Sakaguchi celebrates. Nintendo, for their part, couldn't wait to announce their sales numbers for the fifth day.

Then, Hironobu Sakaguchi gritted his teeth fiercely, clenched his fists, and slammed against the wall.

As Jester expected, on this day, "Dragon Quest" exploded in the purchasing power accumulated by word of mouth, and in one day, it sold 300,000 copies wildly!

Five days, just on the Japanese market. "Dragon Quest" sold a full 1.40 million copies.

Of course, even with the sales in North America, they are only a little more than 1.05 million copies, in the face of such a result. Jester didn't have the slightest idea, not that Final Fantasy wasn't good enough, but that he was underestimating the power of what would later be known as a national RPG, especially when he had his own Fire Emblem to teach Yuji some of the tricks and experience of developing games that he would only be able to learn years later.

In history that he knows well. Dragon Quest was released in early '86 and eventually sold nearly 1.3 million copies, which Jester originally thought. Even if their version of "Dragon Quest" did a better job, then the final sales were only 1.5 million copies.

However, I didn't expect that the RPG trend led by his own "Fire Emblem", "Heavy Loader" and Nintendo's "The Legend of Zelda" would explode with such power after more than a year of brewing.

"It's a bit like the second part of DQ when it was released."

DQ is the pioneer of Japanese RPG, and it is true that Jester has this in his mind, and it is true that they are called Japanese national RPGs from the second part of DQ.

It's useless to say this now, it's just the same as the original history, too much emphasis on the Japanese style of "Dragon Quest" is very unpopular in the market outside of Japan, and even much lower than the original historical sales, in Jester's opinion, this may be because the market share of NES is too low.

However, Jester thought about it and called the Japanese branch.

Jester said into the phone, "Let Hironobu Sakaguchi listen to the phone." ”

"Boss."

It can be heard that Hironobu Sakaguchi's tone is very dull, after all, in the face of the monster-level sales of "Dragon Quest" in the Japanese market, it is impossible for him to be excited.

After a slight pause, Jester thought for a moment before he spoke: "This has nothing to do with you, "Final Fantasy" is your longest excellence, far beyond my expectations, and aren't they Wu Tian's total sales of one hundred and fifty thousand copies?" I haven't even taken it into account, but in a few hours the North American market will be officially launched, and you will know that we have more players than Nintendo. ”

Hearing Jester's gentle voice, Hiroshi Sakaguchi felt a lot better in confidence, but he also knew that Jester was comforting himself, and for Jester, the sales of a game were no longer the most important thing for him, what he valued most was the share of his game platform, and every percentage point increase in the share of the platform, then this percentage point was evenly distributed to all the games released on this platform, and the profits brought by it were far from being comparable to a game with millions of copies.

The best-selling in the North American market is no longer of much significance to the current Mars Entertainment, and now Dreambox's share in the North American market is close to monopoly, and what Jester values most is the counterattack in the Japanese market.

Unfortunately, this time, it may be difficult to do so with Final Fantasy.

For Mars Entertainment and Nintendo, the direct competition between these two giants in the field of video games has always attracted the most media attention, and Mars Entertainment, which has just offended "Famitong", they will not use any good words for Mars Entertainment and "Final Fantasy" reports, and even used them vaguely before, which will be the beginning of Mars Entertainment from prosperity to decline.

Originally, their words were still relatively vague, but when the total global sales of "Dragon Quest" in five days were 1.05 million copies compared to the results of 80,000 copies on the first day of "Final Fantasy", "Fami Tong", which had been severely humiliated by Mars Entertainment Tong at a press conference, finally found an opportunity this time, and they specially issued a special issue for the sales of "Dragon Quest" to exceed one million.

In this special issue, in addition to touting "Dragon Quest" as usual, it also makes unbridled mockery of Mars Entertainment and Final Fantasy.

Moreover, not only "FAMITSU", but also the vast majority of other human media reports.

The Japanese are also known for their conservatism and xenophobia.

The next day, "Final Fantasy" was officially released in North America and Europe, relying on Jester's unparalleled influence in it, on the first day, it was released at the same time in flagship stores in more than 30 large cities across the United States, each flagship store was overcrowded, and even many mega cities, such as Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York, also had a certain traffic jam.

However, it is already common knowledge for the release of a game with Jester's participation, and the police at the time were also very experienced, and it was not a big scene for them, and when "Fire Emblem" was released in the United States a year ago, that scene was really terrifying.

Some veteran police officers who participated in the maintenance of order at the scene of "Fire Emblem" were proud to tell the new police officers who had just entered the police force and were sent here to maintain order about the spectacular scene at that time, and the current scene is simply a small thing.

Moreover, in the United States, Jester's pen and energy are much greater than in Japan, not only in the flagship store set up a trial machine, but also in major cities, chartered a large area of exhibitions, all as a trial venue, which is full of game consoles with "Final Fantasy" cartridges, every player of this game, can enter it to experience.

And, with or without it, cold drinks are available for free.

Under such treatment, the popularity of Final Fantasy's release in the United States on the first day is not far behind the national sensation when Fire Emblem was released.

Europe is not much different, said to be on sale in Europe at the same time, in fact, it is only the first in the United Kingdom, Germany and France, the first three countries, the other countries need to slowly distribute the goods in the next time, and the promotion methods adopted in Europe are not much different from those in North America, which was originally the result of Jester and Claudia's discussions.

The reason for this is that I want to rely on the sales on the first day to redeem the depressed voice of Mars Entertainment in Japan.

And when the sales figures for the first day of release in North America and Europe came out, it shocked the whole United States.

North America plus Europe, a total of 600,000 copies!

This news came back to Japan, and even made the entire Japanese media who had collectively sung about Mars Entertainment collectively lose their voices. (To be continued......) R1292