Chapter 450 Historical Sales Records
Time gradually came to November 20, 1993, when Boss Jia had been in the United States for more than 60 days, and he began to prepare to go home.
In general, this trip to the United States is still very successful, first of all, Pokemon was successfully sold in the United States, although it has experienced a lot of twists and turns in the middle, but so far it has achieved a total sales of 8.4 million copies, and it is estimated that there is no problem with the final total sales exceeding 10 million copies, and it can even impact the sales of 15 million copies.
However, this still seems to be incomparable to the unprecedented total sales of 40 million set by Super Mario Bros.
However, this is the total global sales, and at this time, the total sales of Pokemon in Fuso also exceeded 6 million, and the sales in the European market reached 2 million, and the total global sales together reached 16.4 million.
That's enough to rank Nintendo, no, it should be the 5th place in the world's total sales of a single game in history, which is already a very remarkable achievement, because you have to look at which monsters are in the top 4.
Number 4 of them is Super Mario Bros. 3 with a total sales of 18 million.
In third place is duck hunting, with a total sales of 28.2 million.
In second place is Tetris with a total sales volume of 38 million
In first place is Super Mario Bros. with a total sales of 40.4 million.
However, only Tetris is a BG version of the game, and the others are FC versions of the game, so if you count the GB version of the game alone, then Pokemon will be able to rank second.
It is worth mentioning that the sales of Tetris are very fascinating, and some people have calculated that it is 150 million sales, and some are only 12 million. The reason why there is such a big gap is that when many mobile phones were sold later, in order to let the mobile phone come with some games, they paid a part of the copyright fee to Nintendo, bought the mobile game porting rights of Tetris, and directly transplanted Tetris to the mobile game.
So before 2000, in the era of non-smart phones, Tetris was bundled with more than 80 million mobile phones, plus some ported versions of other platforms, and the final sales of Tetris exceeded 150 million.
The same goes for snakes.
However, this kind of game sales, which is almost equal to free giveaway, cannot be counted in sales sales, so the data of 38 million is more fair, because this is the total sales that players need to pay to buy.
By the way, some readers may wonder, didn't you say that this is the ranking of all the single games in the history of the world, why are the top 5 games all Nintendo?
Because as of 1993, the top 5 games in the world were all Nintendo, or at least Nintendo's products, and 8 of the top 10 games belonged to the Nintendo camp.
This shows how terrifying Nintendo was before 2000.
But this is the result up to 93 years, in this world, after all, Pokemon has only been sold worldwide for 6 months after all, and the other top 4 games are all games released before 90 years, and sales will basically not rise anymore.
But Pokemon is different, its game sales are still rising, according to the estimates of some professional editors of the game, Pokemon surpassing Super Mario Bros. 3 is a certainty, there is no problem, after all, it is only 1.2 million sales short.
As for the duck in third place, it depends on luck, but it is likely to be difficult to surpass.
As for the first two perverts, there is basically no possibility, and there is no game that wants to surpass those two perverts.
In fact, a large percentage of game editors believe that there will probably not be a game that will exceed 40 million sales in the next two decades.
Not to mention, this guess is quite accurate, because until 2013, there was indeed no second game in the world that could exceed 40 million sales of a single work.
However, in 2020, three games have broken this sales record.
Among them, the sales of will sports are 68 million, and the sales of GTA5 are 115 million.
Only Boss Jia knows that the first generation of Pokemon in history, after 6 years of continuous sales, has a total sales volume of an astonishing 30 million, surpassing Duck Hunt and becoming the third game in history.
However, historically, Pokemon was released in 1998, and in 2004, the GB game console was officially withdrawn from the market, Nintendo launched a new generation of handheld NDS, and the original Pokemon game cartridge was officially discontinued.
But this generation of Pokemon was born in 1993, and there are still 11 years to go before 2004, so Pokemon has more time to impact its own sales, and Boss Jia feels that the total sales of 40 million in the future may not be possible.
Of course, it may not be possible to break through, because Boss Jia thinks that maybe before 2000, Daqian's own game handheld will be able to come out, and at that time, it will be the war between Nintendo and Daqian, and Nintendo will sell Pokemon before there are ghosts!
In addition, the Pokemon animation has exceeded 25 million viewers in the United States, and at this time, including the four most famous TV stations in the United States, all TV stations are holding thick dollars to buy the first round of Pokemon broadcast rights.
Because according to the original Boss Jia and NBC only signed an agreement for the first 30 episodes of Pokemon, because NBC was very stingy and unwilling to pay a high price to buy the first round of Pokemon broadcast rights, in the end only the price of $30,000 per episode was only offered.
But this is already quite good, other TV stations are not interested in talking to Boss Jia at all, they don't believe that a Huaxia company can produce any excellent animation.
So Boss Jia, who originally planned to sell all 140 episodes in one go, only signed a contract with NBC for 30 episodes in the end, and the total cost was only 900,000 US dollars, which is equivalent to giving it away for nothing.
At this time, seeing that the first 30 episodes are about to be broadcast, and the plot of Pokemon has entered a more climactic stage, the number of viewers is rising every day, and when the 28th episode is broadcast, the number of viewers has exceeded 25 million in one fell swoop, becoming the top 5 positions in the animation ratings list of the United States, and it is also the animation that is on the air, second only to the TV animation of the Simpsons.
When other TV stations learned that NBC only signed a contract for 30 episodes, and Boss Jia had a total of 140 episodes of animation, other TV stations went crazy, especially Fox, probably in order to consolidate its hegemony in the animation field, Fox TV offered a price of $300,000 a episode to buy the exclusive broadcast rights of Pokemon.
This price made Boss Jia himself frightened, this is $300,000, and if the next 110 episodes are sold, it will be $33 million.
If the 140 episodes of the second half are also sold, it will be 42 million US dollars, and this Fox TV station really dares to make a bid!
Boss Jia also asked someone to check the information and found that this price was actually the highest price of exclusive broadcasting rights in the history of the animation market.
So, as a matter of course, Boss Jia decided to reach a friendly agreement with Fox TV to sell the next 110 episodes and the second half of the 140 episodes to Fox.
As a result, NBC actually broke out, and he offered a price of $350,000 a episode to buy the next 110 episodes.
In the end, NBC bought the exclusive broadcast rights of Pokemon from Jia Yapeng at an unprecedented price of $350,000 per episode, and the requirement was that within 10 years, Pokemon would not be authorized to broadcast on other Mi country TV stations.
Although Fox gritted his teeth and came out with $350,000, and even finally quoted a price of $380,000, considering that NBC took the initiative to accept him, Boss Jia finally rejected the offer of $380,000 and still sold the remaining 110 episodes of the first half to NBC at the price of $350,000 per episode.
No one expected that Boss Jia thought that he was destined to lose money, and the first half of the Pokemon series of animations that cost a full 50 million yuan was magically earned, and the profit was still 4 times as much, which is also the most profitable in the history of Dynasty Animation, which Boss Jia never expected.
Of course, Boss Jia also didn't know that NBC made $120 million in advertising costs just by selling Pokemon's cartoon pre-roll ads and middle ads.
So who earns more, I don't know yet!
In addition to the great achievements of Pokemon, Boss Jia's other more far-reaching acquisition plans are also very smooth, Nvidia, Blizzard, and Marvel have successively become Boss Jia's personal belongings, and in addition, a branch of Daqian Puzzle has been established in the United States, and Boss Jia's career can be regarded as completely blossoming in the United States.
The only thing that makes Boss Jia a little regretful is that Qualcomm has been biting to death, Son Zhengyi is worthy of being Son Zhengyi, and it can be seen that Boss Jia's thoughts about Qualcomm are not to reduce the price, and Qualcomm seems to be going to lose his relationship with Boss Jia.
In fact, Qualcomm's technology is nothing to Boss Jia, after all, there is a laboratory now, and Boss Jia will be able to handle Qualcomm's technology sooner or later.
But the problem is that Qualcomm has created technical barriers in advance and applied for a large number of technical patents, and it is almost impossible to bypass these technical patents in the second G era.
But sometimes things are so coincidental, when Boss Jia was about to pack up and go back to Huaxia, Harry Potter, who came to see him off, hurriedly told Boss Jia a message.
"Boss, yesterday Pereman invited me to his estate for dinner, and he told me an interesting thing, he said that Qualcomm's CDMA network is conducting trial operation experiments in Hong Kong, and now the installation of equipment has begun, and if the operation is successful, then Qualcomm's stock will go up in price! He now wants to buy Qualcomm stock. Harry Potter said.
"No wonder Qualcomm sits so steadily, it turns out that they still have this hole card!" Boss Jia touched his nose, if this matter really happens, then the price of Qualcomm will soar more than two or three times, and he really can't afford him for the time being.
"But what's wrong with you? Why do you have to do the experiment in Hong Kong? A sinister smile appeared on the corner of Boss Jia's mouth.