Chapter 486: Pokemon's Second Spring
After being made 5 million copies of the profit by Boss Jia for the first time, Nintendo learned to be obedient, not only printing 20 million cassettes at one time, but also distributing full goods all over the world.
The results were not bad, and then 20 million copies of the cassette were printed, more than 15 million copies were sold out, and there were more than 5 million copies left, and Nintendo felt that it would be able to sell for another three or four months or so.
As a result, by mid-January, dealers around the world suddenly burst Nintendo phones, because Pokemon cartridges began to run out of stock en masse.
Not only is the world market out of stock, but also the local Fuso has begun to run out of stock, and all kinds of orders have been smashed frantically, and there are 2 million orders in three days.
Nintendo was a little silly at first, but quickly reacted, and while re-letting the cassette burning factory continue to burn Pokemon's game cartridges, while taking out all the 2 million cassettes in the factory's inventory.
It was not loaded on the ship, and directly chartered two cargo planes, and sent 2 million cassettes to the United States and the European market in two days, replenishing the goods to the sellers as soon as possible.
As a result, the 2 million cassettes were out of stock again before they were sold for three days, and then there were two special planes, this time loaded with 3 million cassettes that were urgently burned.
It took a total of 8 special flights to send 8 million copies of the game cartridge to the world before and after, and finally filled this shortage tide, and according to later statistics, throughout January, Pokemon sold 78 million copies.
directly pushed the total sales of Pokemon from the original 21.2 million to 29 million, and at the same time estimated that there would be no problem with breaking through 30 million in February, and Nintendo even had to think about what kind of situation would happen if Pokemon sales exceeded 40 million.
That's really scary, now the total sales of Pokemon have surpassed the 28 million of Duck Hunt, and it is only one step away from Tetris's 32 million.
Anyway, the second-highest sales performance in history is ironclad, and as for whether it can surpass the historical record of 41 million Super Mario Bros., only God knows.
But this also makes Nintendo very confused, the growth of sales is completely illogical, obviously the sales of Pokemon have entered a downward curve, according to Nintendo's more than 20 years of sales experience, the average sales per month in the first half of 94 should be about 200,000, and in the second half of the year, the average sales per month should be around 100,000.
After 94 years, there were basically only tens of thousands of sales per month, and finally until the new version of the game was released, the old version was completely withdrawn from the market.
So Nintendo's final estimate of Pokemon sales is around 25 million, and it is still a sales rate that can only be reached around 96 years.
But now it's only January of 94, why did it suddenly skyrocket by 7.8 million? This is even crazier than when Pokemon first went on sale!
So, Nintendo began to investigate the reason, and was finally surprised to find that it was actually the work of just one elf.
Naturally, Nintendo already knows about fantasy.
And when Nintendo saw the announcement released by Team Rocket for the first time, he still had some disdain in his heart, thinking that Team Rocket was really an unprofessional small company, and there would be such a huge BUG hidden in the game.
What's more, they actually admitted in the announcement that it was their company's mistake, which is incorrect and damages the company's reputation, and they should not admit it!
That's what Nintendo has always done itself anyway.
But as a result, Team Rocket actually admitted that Nintendo was ready to watch the plot of Team Rocket being scolded by players, but who would have thought that the final plot was that Pokemon sales suddenly skyrocketed!
The specific reason is actually very simple, that is, fantasy at this time has become the pursuit of all Pokemon players.
The combination of characteristics such as high appearance, full race value, and all skills to learn makes Fantasy the first mythical beast of the current version of Pokemon, and there is no other pokemon that can match Fantasy.
This directly leads to the fact that all players want to get a fantasy, and without a fantasy player, they will feel as uncomfortable as a poker player who is missing a king, and they have to get this fantasy.
Although the official directly announced the way to obtain the fantasy, and the fantasy is obtained through a BUG, there is basically no difficulty, as long as the player follows the strategy to do it.
But the problem is that this BUG must use an NPC trainer in Hualan City, only after defeating this NPC trainer, immediately rush to the secret passage of Ghost Town, and then perform a series of operations to get the dream, if you do something else in the middle, then this BUG can't be triggered.
And Hualan City is the map in the early game, as long as you play for a day or two, basically all the plots of Hualan City are cleared, and then all the trainer NPCs are killed.
As a result, while all players already know how to obtain Fantasy, they are no longer able to take advantage of this bug to obtain Fantasy.
Unlike the previous Pokemon card itself, which can be reset and re-enter the initial state, Boss Jia's game cartridge does not have this function.
Although the same can be saved, there is only one save location for the game, and the content of the first save will be directly overwritten when the second save is saved, and players have basically developed a good habit of saving once a day, so no one will keep the previous save of Hualan City.
At this time, there is no network era, everyone can change all this with a patch, GB has no function to connect to the computer at all.
All of this shows that if you want to get a fantasy, you have to buy a new cartridge and start from scratch.
So, under the temptation of fantasy, a large number of gamers can only curse and curse while shelling money to buy new Pokemon cartridges.
Because at this time, the number of Pokemon players has reached the horror base of 20 million, and the fantasy is too tempting, as a result, a large number of players who have already bought Pokemon will re-pay for new Pokemon cartridges for the second or even third time, which directly leads to the horror performance of skyrocketing 7.8 million sales in a month.
"Oh my God, a game cartridge directly makes players spend three times, which is too awesome!" Nintendo, who learned all this, could only sigh like this, and then on February 12, he remitted another $160 million in dividends to Boss Jia.
8 million game cartridges were sold throughout January, and a game cartridge is $50 on average worldwide, of which $10 cartridge costs Nintendo, and the next $40 is divided equally between the two sides, and a cartridge can earn $20, and 8 million copies are naturally $160 million.
This shocked Boss Jia, who received the money in February, this is an income that you have not calculated at all compared to Boss Jia!