The so-called amiibo is actually a figure similar to a kind of Disney Infinity game character.

However, there is a fundamental difference between him and Disney's infinite figures.

That is, the amiibo can interact with the 3DS handheld online through a specific built-in chip, so as to unlock some game-limited content, which Disney can compare to without its own hardware.

Moreover, the price of thirteen dollars is really not cheap.

You know, this is the price of an amiibo, not to mention the rest, but in "Pokemon", there are more than 700 images that can be made into an amiibo.

Think about what an investment this is for someone with OCD.

And, most importantly, Nintendo's fans are not bad for money, isn't it just thirteen dollars a piece, and a hundred first.

And the later sales of amiibo are really perfect confirmation of this.

Moreover, Nintendo is not the first thing to do this kind of thing, before Nintendo, Activision has done similar things, maybe when Activision is mentioned, many people's minds will instantly reflect that this is not the company that came out of "Call of Duty", and their games can also produce this kind of figure that looks like a fraud of girls and children?

In fact, as the world's largest game publisher, Activision is not that simple.

You know, Activision is the size of EA plus Ubisoft.

It is only necessary to know this to understand how many games Activision has released.

Among Activision's major ace games, in addition to "Call of Duty", there is also a series in the children's market, which can be compared to Disney Wireless and Nintendo's games.

That's "Sparrow the Dragon".

In the case of Sparrow the Dragon: Power Swap, for example, the game is released with the option to purchase a starter pack, which contains a game and 3 NFC toys. The 3 types of toys and skills are different, and a certain character can complete some tasks better, of course. This thing has little impact on the game flow, but is only related to the perfect collection of tasks and props. In order to be able to do the other tasks perfectly, you have to buy or exchange other kinds of NFC toys.

It can be said that NFC figurines are a very suitable toy for children, it blends the exchange and fighting of the virtual world with the real world, and NFC figurines are very popular with children in Europe and the United States.

Do you know how terrible Call of Duty's revenue is?

Since 6 years, none of the works have sold less than 20 million units, which is equivalent to at least a billion dollars in sales. And it's once a year.

The first thing he did when he returned to Los Angeles was that Jester met with the hardware developers again.

Of course, this time I didn't meet with the console development department, but the handheld development department.

In fact, the previous proposal to develop a successor to the Gameboy is on the desk, but there is no internal consensus on how to improve this handheld.

Jester summoned the handheld developers to ask about this, but apparently, the handheld development team has not yet come up with a suitable plan. But Jester didn't care about this, the purpose of his visit this time was to give these people a plan.

The construction of a figurine of a game character that can be connected to communication is not complicated to describe. It's not complicated to implement technically.

After all, Mars Entertainment's handheld development team only has experience in the development of handheld pets, and boy's online communication is also the most important selling point, so, technically, this is no problem at all.

Still, some people have raised their own questions.

"Is anyone really willing to buy this?" Many people are very skeptical of this idea.

After all, just unlocking something that doesn't affect the game's playthrough, which will entice fans to buy in large quantities? And also as a big selling point? There must be people selling this thing, but the thing that is used as a selling point is to attract many people to buy it. Is this thing really up to the task?

"Huh."

Jester just chuckled softly.

"You may not have seen the sales of our company's game figures, and I haven't paid attention to this matter. I stumbled upon it while I was in New York. ”

As he spoke, Jester took out a few pieces of text and handed it to the few people present.

"This is the figure sales account of the game company I just got it. Our game figurines were only on sale at the end of last year, and they were originally just used as a peripheral supplement, but I didn't expect them to be so popular, basically, as soon as the product comes out, especially those limited editions, they will be sold out. ”

It could be seen from the expressions of these people that they were extremely surprised when they looked at the report in their hands.

The reports were circulated in turn.

Jester is not in a hurry, and has been quietly watching these hardware development engineers look at the sales of game figures.

Until the last person finished reading it.

Jester asked, "What do you think?" ”

"No problem."

After receiving a positive reply from the handheld development team, Jester was naturally satisfied.

"That's good, but the other functions of the new handheld should also be enhanced, we can't let players say that our new model is the old model and casually add some money fraud function to cheat them out of money......"

Finally, Jester said this humorously.

And then the room burst into laughter.

However, just as Jester was about to leave, someone asked curiously.

"Boss, I think this building of yours should be more selling point than using it on a handheld machine when used on a home machine, right?" This may have been a joke when he said this, but it reminded Jester that he remembered that Nintendo didn't just use the amiibo for 3DS, but also for Wiiu.

"That's true."

Jester said in agreement.

In the end, Jester asked the handheld development team to come up with something similar that could be used for a demo before the carnival, and the demo game was Pokemon.

It's a gimmick for carnivals, and it just needs to be able to demonstrate.

After all, it will be a while before the new handheld comes out.

Of course, it is not very difficult to develop a new model when the architecture remains the same, but only some functions are enhanced.

In the period close to the opening of the carnival, in addition to dealing with some things about the carnival, Jester is to improve the RPG game that he knows, the background of spring and autumn, and the development of the world, and at the same time, he also sent an invitation to Sega, inviting Hayao Nakayama and Yu Suzuki to participate in this year's Mars Entertainment Carnival.

You know, in previous years' carnivals, although Jester also invited a lot of people.

But most of these people have nothing to do with the game industry, and even if there are people from the game industry who participate, they only come in an individual capacity.

After all, the definition of the Mars Entertainment Carnival is a grand gathering between pure Mars Entertainment and fans.

Therefore, we will not invite other game companies.

However, this time, Jester made an exception, and Hayao Nakayama, who received Jester's call, was also extremely surprised, he really didn't expect that Jester would call him because of this matter.

At that time, Hayao Nakayama, who was still a little suspicious, just subconsciously asked: "Are Sony and Mr. Kutaragi also invited?" ”

"Nope."

Jester replied very crisply.

However, this made Hayakuo Nakayama even more uncertain.

In the end, Hayao Nakayama did not immediately agree to Jester's invitation, saying that he still needed to think about it, and Jester did not have the slightest dissatisfaction, but just said that he was waiting for good news.

After hanging up the phone, the more he thought about it, the more wrong he became.

Originally, he wanted to contact Kutaragi Ken and discuss it, but then he thought that Jester had said that he didn't invite Sony, so this idea was quickly abandoned by Hayabusa Nakayama, but after thinking about it for three days, Hayao Nakayama didn't come up with a result.

He thought again that in the phone call Jester gave him, in addition to inviting him, he also said that he would invite Yu Suzuki.

"Could it be that it has something to do with Yu Suzuki?"

Thinking so, Hayao Nakayama brought Yu Suzuki over, and after asking, Yu Suzuki also looked puzzled: "I've already talked to Jester. Mr. Li hasn't been in touch for a long time, and he hasn't contacted me during this time. ”

Hayao Nakayama believes in Hiroshi Suzuki, and he is not worried that Jester will poach Hiroshi Suzuki.

Although Jester poached Shigeru Miyamoto and directly let Yamauchi Pu go to the hospital, however, Sega is different from Nintendo, at least for now, Jester did not dig up this kind of soil from Yu Suzuki.

"I think maybe it's a co-development game again?"

Yu Suzuki guessed and said this, hearing Yu Suzuki say this, Hayao Nakayama was also a little groaning, and he also thought that this was the biggest possibility.

However, although it is said that they have formed the World Video Game Association, it seems to be peaceful.

In fact, under this piece of peace, there has long been an undercurrent, and there is no undercurrent yet, just because it's not time yet, in this case, you still have to jointly develop the game? Isn't that a bit whimsical?

"And ......"

In addition to the "VR Warrior" series, Hayao Nakayama really can't think of any other games that Mars Entertainment or Jester can't do by themselves, so they have to cooperate with Sega or Yu Suzuki.

"Let's go check it out."

In the end, after some thought, Hayakuo Nakayama made the decision to go to this Mars Entertainment Carnival. (To be continued) R580