Chapter 346: 1,000,000 copies
"This old guy has finally seen the dagger!" Hearing Yamauchi Pu's last words, the corners of Boss Jia's mouth involuntarily showed a sneer, he thought that although Yamauchi Pu was a tyrant, he was an upright tyrant.
I can't imagine that this tyrant will still play yin.
I believe everyone has already seen that what quality is unqualified and what needs to be improved is nonsense, and it is just Yamauchi Pu's statement in order to deliberately suppress Tajiri.
To put it bluntly, Yamauchi Pu just fell in love with Pokemon, saw the potential of this game, and wanted to spend money to get Pokemon into his own hands.
Although Tajiri now takes the initiative to release Pokemon on the Nintendo platform, this game is someone else's after all, and the profits will have to be shared with Tajiri Zhizhi at that time, so it is more comfortable to directly grasp all the income of the game in his own hands.
"Mr. Jia......" Of course, Tajiri couldn't make a decision, so he could only turn around and ask in an inquiring tone.
"President, I think it......" Jia Yapeng lowered his head and said a few words in Tajiri's ear, Tajiri nodded, and then said to Yamauchi Pu, "President Yamauchi, I am very grateful for your company's help to us, but this is the hard work of our group of people, and we hope to improve them ourselves." If your company is not satisfied, we can change it until we are satisfied! ”
"You are my most admired elder, and you will definitely help our juniors, right?" Tajiri looked at Yamauchi with adoring eyes, which made Yamauchi very helpless.
"This little fox!" Yamauchi Pu muttered, Tajiri Zhi blocked his words to death, so that Yamauchi Pu didn't even have a way to lose his temper, Yamauchi Pu is also the king of the game world, how can he lose his temper with such a weak junior with such a good attitude?
At the same time, Yamauchi Pu also understands that this Tajiri is not stupid, at least the secretary who follows Tajiri is not stupid. Originally, Yamauchi Pu wanted to take advantage of Tajiri's young and simple weakness to fool the control of Pokemon into his hands, just like Yamauchi Pu did in his previous life.
In his previous life, Yamauchi only spent 30 million yen to acquire 49% of the shares of Tajiri Tomo, which was really a bargain.
Now that he has been blocked by that secretary, Yamauchi Pu no longer wants to take advantage of it, let alone use the GB platform to threaten Tajiri Zhi.
Although Yamauchi Pu can be said to cover the sky in the game industry, there are some bottom lines that cannot be touched, such as the third-party IP of those games.
If Pu Yamauchi takes a fancy to a game IP and uses the platform in his hand to get it by skill, then Nintendo will completely ignite the anger of all third-party game companies.
Yamauchi himself knows that these game companies have long been full of resentment towards Nintendo because of Yamauchi's tyrannical style. If Yamauchi uses this method to seize the game of a third-party game company, even if it is still an unsold game that has not been verified by the market, it will bring a huge sense of crisis to other third-party game companies.
If you don't get it, it will blow up.
Yamauchi Pu has already received some information, I heard that these damn guys from Sony are actually secretly developing consoles, and they want to enter their own market, and if all the third-party game manufacturers explode at that time, it won't be fun.
This is the bottom line of all game companies, even Yamauchi Pu, who does not dare to destroy this bottom line.
If Tajiri willingly agreed, then other game manufacturers naturally have nothing to say, but if Yamauchi Pu takes it by skill, it will really cause a huge crisis.
Yamauchi Pu still knows the weight.
"That's it, since you say so, then I won't be nosy, although your game score is only 85 points, it still meets the review criteria and can pass the final review!" Yamauchi Pu said lightly, "Then if you don't want to modify it again, then you can set it today, start burning it immediately, and prepare it for sale next month!" ”
"Really!!" Tian Jijiri suddenly showed infinite joy on his face, and the whole person jumped up excitedly, and immediately hugged Jia Yapeng behind him, excited like a child.
"Then there's the question of the price!" Yamauchi coughed, "I don't know how much Mr. Tajiri plans to price?" ”
"Well, we're going to release two versions, green and red, and each version will cost 3,999 yen!" Tajiri and Jia Yapeng had already negotiated the price, so they said very quickly, "As for the overseas version, we think $39 is more appropriate." ”
"Yes!" Yamauchi nodded, he thought the same in his heart.
Nintendo's game cards are generally priced between 1,999 yen and 5,999 yen, or between $19 and $59, depending on the content of the game.
This content does not refer to the capacity of the game, but the playtime of the game itself, and the richness of the content.
Generally speaking, the average player can play a weekly game in a day, and the price will be under 2,999 yen.
If you can play for a week in three days, it will be 3999 yen.
Three months is almost the limit of a game's content, and as for the 4999 yen and 5999 yen above, it is the brand blessing on the game field.
For example, if your game is called Mario, the original price of 3999 can be sold for 5999.
Although Pokemon is a brand new game, it doesn't have any brand value at all, and it stands to reason that this price is expensive, after all, Final Fantasy 5 will sell for 4999.
However, Pokemon is extremely playable, although the main story can be pushed in a few hours as long as it is fast enough. But the elements of the monster cultivation contained in it are probably possible to play for hundreds of days, so the price of 3999 is reasonable.
After discussing pricing, the next step is to divide the issue.
Yamauchi Pu glanced at Jia Yapeng, and then said, "According to our Nintendo's consistent agreement, after deducting the burning fee, we will split fifty-fifty!" ”
As soon as Yamauchi opened his mouth, more than half of his profits were gone.
Nintendo is more ruthless than Apple, Apple just wants you 30%, but Nintendo directly asks for 50%, and you have to obediently treat him as a grandson, this is the domineering platform advantage.
And it's not just 50% of the profit, generally burning a cassette, counting the cost of the cassette, is about 800 yen, and Nintendo directly charges 1000 yen.
Although it only earns 200 yen, these are all Nintendo's own, and if the game manufacturer dares to propose to burn it itself, then Nintendo will refuse to burn the cassette burned by a third party, cannot trust the quality assurance, and will damage the reputation of the platform.
All in all, if you don't give this money, you don't want to put it on the shelves.
"No problem!" These sharing rules are the same for all game companies, so Tajiri didn't hesitate and agreed directly.
"And one last question, how many cassettes are you going to print in the first batch?" Yamauchi Pu looked at Tajiri and Boss Jia, and asked with squinted eyes.
"This ......" Tajiri Zhi was stunned, he and Boss Jia had not discussed this issue, and naturally they didn't know how many cassettes should be burned this time.
"Then let's burn 50,000 copies in Fusang first, and be safe!" Yamauchi said that for a brand-new game, the first batch of 50,000 copies is already a not low number.
"Okay......" Tajiri was about to agree, but Boss Jia hurriedly lowered his head and whispered a few words.
Tajiri's expression suddenly became surprised, and after glancing at Boss Jia, and making sure that he was not crazy, he said stubbornly, "Mr. Yamauchi, we think that 50,000 copies may be a bit less, the first batch of 1 million copies will be burned first, and then it will be increased later, how about it?" ”
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