"Mr. Fernández, I want to ......" Julio looked a little shy as he stood in front of Fernández, the retail clerk.

A 17-year-old boy is rebellious, he feels mature, and the decisions he makes are deliberate.

How could he admit that he had given a wrong judgment and said no to the game when Fernandez urged him to recommend Origin of Everything?

Especially when you find the previous shelf, but you don't see the game.

Why not? I don't seem to see any news about major bugs and recalling games, huh?

It's not going to be off the shelves directly due to poor sales.,So many people uploaded their own works.,It means that some are still sold.,Besides,Even if it's unsalable,,It won't be taken off the shelves so soon.,You have to clear the inventory first......

But it is true that the disc with the cover of the cube villain is no longer visible on the shelves where "The Origin of Everything" was placed before, and Julio looked for other corners and turned around the entire store but still didn't see it.

After some mental struggle, he still walked in front of Fernandez.

“…… I want to ask, why can't I see that "The Origin of Everything"? ”

"That one, it's sold out."

"What? Are you saying that there are no more? ”

"yes, if you come half an hour early, you can still buy the last one, and today all of a sudden, a lot of people directly said they wanted to buy this game."

"Why?"

"Then why did you come here to buy it?" Fernández asked Julio in a word, yes, those people should have come for the same reason as him.

"I'll show you this." Fernández opened Twitter on his computer and showed Julio the picture of "Castle in the Sky": "I just posted it today, it's beautiful, isn't it?" ”

Julio was stunned, his mouth showing an O, and compared to this picture, the works submitted to the design contest on the official website were almost like a cabin in the countryside.

"Is this the work that entered the competition? Just uploaded? ”

"You know the design competition, no, it's the game development company's official own. They want to show off their design skills, haha, but it's really amazing, I don't know how long it took, I'm playing with it myself, and I think it will probably take me more than a month to restore it like this. ”

"It's not ......" Seeing that the topic had a tendency to deviate, Julio broke back in time: "Then when will there be new goods?" ”

Fernandez shook his head: "I don't know, but we have contacted the warehouse in San Antonio, and we should ship another batch soon." ”

San Antonio is about 160 miles from Copas Cristi, more than 200 kilometers, fortunately, not too far......

"Can you get there this afternoon?" If the answer is yes, he plans to take a stroll around the city and wait.

"No, kid, it won't be today, it's next week."

"Why next week, it's only half past two in the afternoon, it should be too late, right?"

"We can't restock just one game, it's too expensive to ship, and we'll have to wait until next week to ship it along with the other games on the list."

"No...... It's only Thursday......" Julio frustrated.

"The Origin of Everything" has a total of about 100,000 units in the United States, and as the second largest state in the United States, there are only 12,000 retail stores in the entire Texas, and then they are distributed to various chain stores, and finally to the branch of the port city of Copass, there are only 10 ...... After selling 5 in the first seven days, and then this morning, the remaining 5 sold out quickly, and now it's time to contact Activision to start the follow-up restock.

Julio wasn't the first customer to come over today and ask why Origin of Everything was out of stock, but they only got the same answer.

"You can try to buy it online, maybe on Flaxun, maybe a little faster than we have here." The kind Fernandez also recommended other avenues of purchase to him.

"I don't have a credit card ......" is a really uncomfortable thing.

"If you're in a hurry, I'd suggest you go to Best Buy, or Walmart now, maybe there's more, as far as I know, they had some stock there last night, but not much."

"yes, I almost forgot!" The large supermarkets also have special audio-visual products and game CDs. "Is there still one?" Julio suddenly regained his spirits.

"I don't know, you can try your luck, as long as you hurry, because I have recommended the same plan to 7 other people before."

"Thank you, Mr. Fernandez." Julio is gone, and the mall is so close that ten minutes should be enough.

……

After some twists and turns, Julio finally bought "The Origin of Everything" in the game section of Wal-Mart, and when he was holding the game disc in his hand to pay, he saw a boy who seemed to be a college student, and asked the shopping guide in the same tone as he just now: "Why can't I find the game called "The Origin of Everything"? ”

He clutched the game disc out of his grip and was ready to wait for the college student to leave before taking it out to pay...... It's like taking out $1 million in cash from the bank......

……

Today, in many parts of the world, there are players like Julio, more often than not, when he was in Gamestop.

Many of them had a glimpse of the game on the shelves before, and perhaps hesitated for a while, but in the end they didn't have a choice, and now they come back here to find that it is out of stock.

On this day, the product sales department of Activision's U.S. headquarters, Japan branch, and French branch all received calls from several to more than a dozen retailers, responding that the discs were out of stock and requesting to replenish the supply.

The 250,000 units that premiered in the world have been sold out in less than 8 days.

Activision initially suppressed a total of 500,000 discs, and the first shipment was 250,000, which is already full of pride, if it is some small publishers, it will be 500,000 copies directly, and if the shipments and sales are not satisfactory, it will rot directly in the warehouse, and the warehouse rental will also cost money.

And now Activision has begun to contact the disc suppression manufacturers to place a new batch of orders.

Soon, Activision shipped the remaining 250,000 copies from warehouses in these three regions to various cities, and the FG platform reacted more sharply than the physical sales market.

There is an area on the FG platform called "Hot Selling Ranking", which counts the best-selling games on a weekly basis, and the ranking is updated in real time, but does not show specific sales data, which is also a reference for players to select games.

As its own product, this week, "The Origin of All Things" is naturally in the "Featured Recommendation" column, with the largest promotional picture display, scrolling in turns, and other games will not change it, which can also be called "Home Page Closure Push". And in the previous advertisements placed by the Qingyu network, there were also specially made for the promotion of the FG platform. Therefore, unlike most other games, the digital version of "The Origin of Everything" actually sells more than the physical version.

At present, the general situation of the game is that if the digital version sells well, it may have 35% of the physical sales, and "The Origin of Everything" is now 193%!

There may be reasons such as more convenient, cheaper, better publicity, and more expansion content including the official launch of the Flying Car MOD by the Blue Fish Network.

Since the day it was launched, the sales of "The Origin of Everything" have been steadily increasing every day, and since this Monday, it has directly entered the top three of the platform's best-selling list.

Four days have passed this week, and in these four days, "The Origin of Everything" has sold a total of 343,000 units worldwide on the FG platform, 140,000 from Monday to Wednesday, and then by Thursday, it suddenly soared to 200,000!

And at 3:40 this afternoon, it climbed directly to the first place, surpassing the original top of the list "Grand Theft Auto 4", and some people who saw this change even suspected that the blue fish network was cheating and had manual operations in the background.

It's not that "The Origin of Everything" sells better than "Grand Theft Auto 4", it's just on the list of FG platforms, the former is the exclusive digital version of the herring FG platform, while the latter is not, and even on another steem platform, it sells better than FG. Although relying on a somewhat arrogant discount strategy, the gap between the sales of the game on the two platforms began to narrow.

In these four days, Grand Theft Auto 4 sold another 750,000 units, which is a real monster.

But the results of "The Origin of Everything", Qingyu Network and Activision have not yet been announced, which already belongs to the mode of making a fortune in a muffled voice.

8 days after its launch, the whole platform, the physical version and the digital version combined, the cumulative sales volume was 734,600! There are not many games that can do this number.

Or there are some games that do it or even far exceed, but those are classic IPs with a deep player base, or triple-A masterpieces with tens of millions of publicity budgets, even so, counting them, so on the eighth day, suddenly a violent upward curve, which is really not much seen.

The next day, when the data of the Gamesales website was updated, many people were dumbfounded, and in fact, the site's own editors were also reviewing.

Dawson Smith was in his office and opened a bottle of champagne with Donald.