Hit the jackpot!

A week after the release of Dreambox 3, the latest version of "GAME" used such a conspicuous title on the cover to make a conclusion about the release of Dreambox 3 this time.

This conclusion is also recognized by the industry.

In a week, not only in North America, but also in Europe, it has been on sale for three days, and in Japan, the latest release, the Dreambox 3 release event began yesterday.

In the three major markets, in one week, a total of 2.7 million units of Dreambox3 were sold!

The editors of GAME even made a prediction, concluding that they would even be able to sell at least four million units a month after the release of the Dreambox 3, narrowing the sales gap between them and the PS2 and the Sega Saturn to between one million and two million.

It doesn't take half a year that Jester said before, maybe it only takes three months.

The sales of the Dreambox3 will be able to surpass the six million of the Sega Saturn and regain the first place in the sales of consoles of this generation.

Of course, this is all when Sony or Sega has no countermeasures - but these two companies have been dormant for so long, and there really are no countermeasures?

No one can say this well.

Not only that, but the sales of Dreambox3's first game are also extremely regrettable, and in just one week, there are three games that have sold more than 1.5 million units, and the sales of the most "Hero" are even about to reach 3 million units, which is more than 100,000 copies more than Dreambox3's 2.7 million console sales.

However, that's not the most surprising thing, this time the game is on sale. The most surprising thing is the appeal of the game "Made in Balotelli" in Japan.

If it weren't for the blessing of "Heroes" with many halos, it might not even be able to suppress "Gran Turismo", a game that makes players who really love racing games crazy, although "Heroes" completed millions of sales on the first day of its debut, even more than the Dreambox3 sold at that time.

But the audience for this game, after all, is not as wide as that of racing games.

"Gran Turismo" didn't sell as much as "Heroes" in the beginning. According to the sales of "Heroes" on the first day, according to Mars Entertainment, it did exceed one million sets, reaching the figure of 1.12 million sets, which is a very terrible sales, which is more than 100,000 sets more than the console sales on the first day of release.

And although the sales of "Gran Turismo" on the first day were also good, they were only more than 500 units.

This is already the second most popular game in the first game.

After all, on the first day of its debut in North America, the Dreambox 3 sold only 950,000 units. And the figure of more than 500,000 sets means that one out of every two players who buy Dreambox3 buys Gran Turismo!

Since then, the sales of "Gran Turismo" have been extremely stable, with a total of 1.6 million units sold in a week, a figure that many people did not expect even in Mars Entertainment before, and there are even many people who have resented Kazunori Yamauchi, a game that has invested so much manpower, material and financial resources in development. Because they feel that this is too difficult for players to buy such a realistic racing game.

But here's the thing. Players are really going to buy it.

And I didn't hesitate to buy it.

In particular, the perfect score given by several major media at the same time, coupled with the review of the greatest racing game of all time in "FAMITSU", has made countless players feel crazy.

Whether it's in North America, Europe, or Japan, the quality of the game is outstanding. Coupled with the extremely attractive GT Academy program and the ability to play online against all players in the same region, although Mars Entertainment boasts that it can fight all over the world, it is really not difficult to do this, but not all players are difficult. All of them have the speed to meet the needs of the world.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, network communication is still carried out within the Tong area.

For example, North America, Europe, Asia -- of course, the current Asia, basically Japan, in 10 years, this situation will not fundamentally change, even in 20 years, the change will not be too ideal.

Originally, the sales of "Made in Balotelli" were behind "Gran Turis", after all, before eating, this game was not like "Gran Turis", with the assistance of Jester himself, and carried out a large-scale publicity and marketing, but the name Balotelli itself does not need to be marketed, which is almost Mars Entertainment, or in other words, this is almost the hallmark of video games.

Before the release in the Japanese market.

That is, at the end of the sixth day of the Dreambox3 release, six days in North America, and three days in Europe, the sales of "Made in Balotelli" are still a lot behind "Gran Turis", with 200,000 units, of course, the number of 1.4 million sales in six days of a game is already remarkable, especially a relatively niche game that makes its own levels to play.

This game, even when it is discussed within Mars Entertainment, for a small number of players, this game will have unparalleled appeal, but for the vast majority of players, the attraction of this game is not so sufficient, and even, in the eyes of these people, they will feel that it is too troublesome and unpleasant to use their own brains to make levels and then play games for others.

Even if you want to experience the fun of this game from this game, you need to rely on others to make better levels.

In any case, in their opinion, such a game will not have too high sales.

However, they underestimate the power of online communities.

This game, which they were not optimistic about before, was ranked third in the first game again, and you must know that the lineup of the first game this time is extremely strong. Although there is no latest game in the Final Fantasy series, there is still a remastered version of Final Fantasy 3, the highest-rated of all time, not just a simple reset in the original Dreambox era, but a reset that started with modeling.

Some 3D modeling was even used.

It can be regarded as an attempt or an exploration for Final Fantasy 7, which is now under full development by Hironobu Sakaguchi.

In addition, there is an arcade version of "Tekken" transplanted with Itagaki Companion Nobu, and new characters and plots have been added. This is the most popular 3D fighting game in North America, Europe or Japan, and even the most popular competition at this year's carnival, of course, the second highest prize money, after the Street Fighter competition, which has been held for nine years.

Of course, this time inside the starter. Naturally, the transplant of "Street Fighter" is indispensable.

There are also works by Yuji Naka, and so on.

In addition to these first-party games from Mars Entertainment, Capcom's Resident Evil has also caused a stir.

This biochemical-themed horror puzzle game has been released and was immediately loved by players, although it did not sell well in the first few days, after all, Capcom has a high status on arcade machines, on home consoles. They have always ported their own arcade titles, and rarely took the initiative to develop games for home consoles. This time "Resident Evil" is not the first time they have developed a game specifically for home consoles.

But it's definitely the biggest investment.

They did an excellent job as well.

In the first three days, the sales of "Resident Evil" were less than 200,000, and this number is not bad, after all, how many units of Dreambox3 have been sold?

But after three days, the game's reputation quickly spread among the player base.

On countless game forums. Players called this game the biggest surprise of the year! It's not that "Heroes" didn't surprise them enough, but "Heroes" was already a game they knew about five years ago, and "Resident Evil" was a game that didn't appear in front of them until a few months ago, when Dreambox 3 was announced.

Moreover, because it is a third-party game.

At the time when Mars Entertainment carried out a wide range of publicity and promotion for Dreambox3 and the first game. Naturally, it is impossible to take "Resident Evil" as the core, they have their own first party, which Jester cannot interfere with.

Capcom didn't carry out its own promotion activities, but after all, the power they have, the promotion funds they have and the promotion channels they have cannot be compared with Mars Entertainment, which has invested a full 300 million US dollars in this next-generation console war.

Therefore, before that, "Resident Evil" was still not well-known in the entire Dreambox3 launch game camp.

If it weren't for the only third-party exclusive in this game's first game, and Jester had said several times in a direct interview that it would be a game-changing game, then "Resident Evil" wouldn't even have the attention it has now, of course, Jester promoted this game before for a reason, not only that his film company has the film rights to "Resident Evil".

What's more, the first three installments of "Resident Evil" will be exclusive to Dreambox3.

This is also the commitment that Mars Entertainment received from Capcom for the technical support of Capcom's 3D game production.

Three days later, sales of this game suddenly exploded, selling more than 1.3 million units in seven days, which is second only to the three games of "Gran Turismo" among the first games in this time.

And it is under such a strong debut game that "Made in Balotelli" is also beyond the expectations of Mars Entertainment, especially in the Japanese market, before the opening of the Japanese market, the sales of "Made in Balotelli" lagged behind "Gran Turis" by more than 200,000 units, but on the day of the opening of the Japanese market, Dreambox3 only sold 500,000 units in Japan.

"Made in Balotelli" sold 600,000 copies!

Another case where more games are sold than consoles has appeared in front of everyone's eyes.

For a while, even many game media were a little silent, they originally thought that only "Haoxia" could complete this miracle for five years and one year, but they never imagined that it was such a miracle in sales that many people were not optimistic about before.

A month after the release of the Dreambox 3.

Mars Entertainment announced their first-month sales figures of 4.4 million units.

This is 400,000 units more than the previous "GAME" prediction of 4 million units a month, and the total sales of "Heroes" have also reached 4 million units, but the sales have been extremely weak ~ soft, after all, in the case of only 4.4 million consoles sold, 4 million games can be sold, which is already a near-mythical achievement.

It can be said that this is the biggest contributor to the reason why Dreambox3 was able to sell so well this time.

A game that completely crushes an era, it has an unparalleled appeal for players!

However, Sega and Sony are a little blind to the sales performance of Mars Entertainment.

They didn't announce their sales as they had done before.

In fact, according to the previous practice, the previous month should be the time when the two companies announced their sales every three months, as they did in the previous year.

But this time, they didn't do that in the last month that just ended.

Although they don't publish official figures, but like the sales of hosts, it can still be counted, although there are some discrepancies with the official figures, but it still has a certain reference role.

In the last official figures, the Sega Saturn sold 6 million units, while Sony's PS2 sold 5.4 million units.

According to this unofficial statistics, the Sega Saturn sold a total of 900,000 units in the previous three months - this figure is not bad, while the PS2 is not very good, only 650,000 units, so that the total sales of the Sega Saturn have reached 7 million units, while the PS2 has more than 6 million units.

The Dreambox 3 is 4.4 million units.

However, the previous two consoles have only been on sale for a year, and the Dreambox 3 has only been on sale for a month! (To be continued......)