Chapter 608 Pre-sale
It is difficult to find out when it is released during Christmas. It is the kind of situation that you have been waiting in line for purchase two days in advance.
Because this period is not only for businesses, but also for ordinary people, it is really too busy. After all, just think about the Chinese New Year in China. For Americans, the period from Christmas to New Year's Day is equivalent to the Chinese New Year, and it has extremely special significance for them.
However, half a month ago, Jester made a special response.
A plan that was temporarily implemented in seven major cities in the United States this year has officially begun experiments when Christmas is released. That is, as long as the products purchased at the flagship store of Mars Entertainment can be pre-ordered in advance. As long as the pre-order is successful and the delivery address filled in is within the city, Mars Entertainment will be responsible and deliver it directly to the door.
Of course, this measure is free during this Christmas.
If you can get the likes and support of players, this measure will be further expanded. Of course, after the trial is over, this service will be charged. As for how much it charges, it is still under discussion, but it can be guaranteed that the price will definitely not be correct.
Even in the future, this plan will be promoted to other cities one after another.
Players are naturally very welcome to this.
Especially those within the seven cities that were listed as the first batch of implementation by Jester, of course, those players who are not within the seven cities will definitely complain a little and express their dissatisfaction.
Jester couldn't say anything about this.
Because this is not something that can convince everyone. Moreover, free delivery is carried out throughout the United States. Nowadays, Jester cannot be said to have no strength, but he cannot act as the sucker. In fact, Jester's plan for free delivery is only limited to the state capital or a particularly important big city within five years.
Of course, this free home delivery event is not only for "Exotic Soul-Supering Song", but includes all Mars entertainment products.
Naturally, there are certain amount limits. If you cannot reach a certain amount, Mars Entertainment will not carry out free delivery. It is impossible that you just bought an amiibo figure worth more than ten dollars, and I will deliver it to you to your home, right?
This is naturally impossible.
The lowest free delivery requirement is the price of a new game. For example, if you pre-order "Exotic Soul-Sheng Song", you can get this thoughtful service of free delivery to your home. Old games are not good, because old games are generally discounted on Christmas, and the discount is very strong. Generally, two or three old games can make up for the price of this free delivery.
Of course, pre-sales are not just in the flagship store of Mars Entertainment, but also some other shopping malls or retail stores provide pre-order services.
Naturally, it is not a flagship store for Mars Entertainment. Of course, it is impossible to enjoy the benefits of free delivery.
Since the pre-sale began, news about the game's pre-sale has been continuously transmitted to Mars Entertainment. Because the previous promotion was done well, media reviews, and Carnival trials were very good, so the pre-sale results were very outstanding.
Of course. Because it is a game type.
Therefore, although there is a little difference in the number of pre-sales of other games of Jester, after all, there are not many American RPG fans. Even with many of Jester's fans, many of them do not like this type of game. This is understandable. However, compared with other similar American RPGs, they are much stronger, especially when Richard Garrett's article was published in "Game", it once again triggered a batch of pre-sales**.
"Three hundred and seventy thousand!"
Two days before the official release of "Exotic Soul-Shunting Song", when major warehouses spread across the United States began to deliver goods to all parts of the United States, the supervisor of Fengxing Distribution gave Jester very good news. So far, the number of pre-sales has exceeded 370,000 sets, and the current growth rate is still acceptable. If it continues to grow at this growth rate.
On the day of its official release, it was not difficult to exceed 400,000 sets.
"good."
Faced with such achievements, Jester's mentality has long been as stable as Mount Tai. In fact, the games he made and his reputation is so good now that Richard Garrett even came to stir up trouble and add fuel to the fire. If this is not sold well, that would be abnormal.
By the phone, Jace nodded and said ok, and immediately continued to ask questions.
"The distribution must be guaranteed. Before the official release, all the sales outlets must have sufficient supply. This time we have prepared a total of three million sets of supply..."
Jester explained to the phone very seriously, and he couldn't help but refuse to explain. Ensuring the supply of goods can be said to be the most important thing for a game publisher, especially this kind of game that has attracted wide attention and is released at this time. If the player rushed to the retail store and asked the staff at the first time, he wanted to buy "Exotic Soul-Sheng Song" but was told that it had sold out, he would definitely be extremely depressed.
And at this time of Christmas, he doesn't want everyone to be depressed.
So, this time, Jester made people prepare a large amount of inventory in advance, not only dreambox2 versions, but also PC versions, which can be guaranteed to meet the supply of players.
Because, just the motherboard, Jester prepared three million sets for this release, and one million sets for the PC version.
For an extra American RPG, even the 4 million sets of game cassettes and floppy disks are enough for them to sell four generations of works according to the highest sales volume of their series. For Jester, he did not think that his "Exotic Soul-Super" could sell four million sets of sets during the Christmas and New Year's Day.
The best result is to be able to sell two million units.
These four million units actually include sales plans for the whole year next year.
"You predict how much we can sell in one week after we release the goods?" After getting the distribution, Jester asked Fengxing to release it again. The people in charge of this game "Exotic Soul-Supering Song" will predict the weekly sales of the game.
The voice on the other end of the phone was silent for a moment, as if he was thinking. After five or six seconds, he said, "I think there will be about one.2 million sets."
This number is similar to what Jester predicted himself. If the pre-sale can sell 400,000 sets, then after the sale, according to an American RPG game, it is best to sell 800,000 to 900,000 sets, because the audience circle of this type of game is so large, and the game "Exotic Soul-Supering Song" is not the kind of casual one.
It's very tiring to play this game.
You need to think while playing. Playing in this game is not so much about finding the joy of the game, but rather about having a deep soul communication with the designer.
This is not something that ordinary players like.
Nowadays, so many people are pre-sale, but in fact, many people only buy it because of their reputation. They only look at their reputation. At most, they add the praise from the media. After the release, after players play this game themselves, Jester can foresee the scene at that time. Those who like him will like it very much, and they want to add all the praises to this game.
If you don't like it, you may not say that this game is bad, but you will only say that it is a great game, but I don't like it.
Moreover, there will be many such people.
Because the "Exotic Soul-Suppressing Song" made by Jester is not essentially different from the "Exotic Soul-Suppressing Song" he knew. They are all a game that wants to discuss something with players, ask some questions to players, and then wait for players' own answers.
Such games are destined to be unpleasant in both the era you are in or in this era.
After saying a few casual words, Jester hung up the phone.
He also has a very important document to deal with, which is a fax sent to him by Capcom, the largest third-party game developer in Japan. This fax was asked by Capcom to provide them with hardware technical support, not arcades. Although Capcom's arcades are now made like fire, it is a home console of the next era.
It’s not that Capcom wants to be a home host, and Qian Benxian San is not a person with such courage at all.
But, about dreambox3.
After this year's e3, Mark Seni demonstrated that Mars Entertainment will strengthen its processing capabilities for 3D graphics in the future. Capcom also believes that 3D must be the development direction of future games, so they also want to get in touch with the specific parameters and architecture of the next generation of consoles as early as possible, and better design their first 3D game based on these parameters.
Moreover, during the discussion within Capcom, a game plan submitted by a group of several young people who had just joined the company was taken seriously by the company's senior management.
Jester looked at Capcom and hoped that he would give them three places to study within Mars Entertainment for a year. The most important thing is that they hope that these three people can participate in the development of dreambox3, so that they can have a deeper understanding of the performance of dreambox3. (To be continued, please search for astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!
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