Chapter 496: The salted fish turns over and is still the salted fish
"As of 8 o'clock last night, the sales of "Rainbow Six: Siege" in the second week exceeded 3 million units, and global sales exceeded 7.5 million units,"
"Compared with the same period last year, the sales volume of "Alien: Endless Tide" was approximately 43% higher..."
Golden Wind, President's Office.
Shen Miaomiao, who was lying on the sofa nearby with a lollipop in her mouth, was listening to Chu Qingzhou's report to Gu Sheng, with a look of helplessness and decadence in her eyes.
At this point, two weeks have passed since the release of Rainbow Six.
Although Shen Miaomiao was heartbroken about the sales reported by Chu Qingzhou, she was not surprised.
After all, she already knew last night——
Two weeks ago, yesterday was the day when the documents for "Rainbow Six" were settled. She had already seen the data of this project.
No loss, no loss at all.
So damn cruel!
Shen Miaomiao sighed secretly.
If you can't find another way to invest huge amounts of money in units of hundreds of millions of dollars, it will be really difficult to earn some rebates from Lao Gu.
To know!
The total production cost of "Rainbow Six" is 202 million U.S. dollars, which is definitely not low.
If you include the 25% commission from the two platforms of Yiyou and Xunteng, just this cost alone would require a total sales of more than 270 million U.S. dollars in order to recover the capital.
On this basis, they also reached an industrial alliance and technology sharing cooperation with Aurora Games.
The two parties jointly funded the technical upgrade of the golden engine, with a total investment of more than $65 million.
Sixty-five million.
No matter how you say it, this investment is not low.
If the price of a game is $60, the cost of upgrading this engine alone would require them to sell nearly 1.1 million more games to make up for it.
In addition, the game development cost includes a 25% commission of 270 million U.S. dollars.
If "Rainbow Six" wants to make money back, it must at least reach a total sales volume of 335 million U.S. dollars within the specified two weeks, which is equivalent to nearly 5.6 million sets of the game!
Let’s not talk about others! Just look at our “old friend” Yunwei!
Overall, there’s nothing wrong with this version of “Alien: Endless Tide,” right?
It's neither as boring as "High Energy Pioneer" nor as abstract as "Lord of the Rings: Gollum"!
Whether it’s gameplay or industrial quality, they are all top-notch.
Moreover, it is also the first to be equipped with the most theoretically advanced Fantasy VI engine on the market, and is currently the only game in the world to be produced using the sixth generation of Fantasy.
Game quality, industrial quality, technical content, all aspects are far ahead!
They only sold over 4.2 million units in two weeks!
Look at our side again?
7.5 million sets in two weeks!
Is this what you do as a human being?
The investment equivalent to that 65 million was poured in, and there was no splash at all.
Mr. Gu can easily pass the line by selling casually, and he has more than recovered his capital.
Can't lose.
You can't lose anything at all.
Although she was mentally prepared, she was still more or less depressed when faced with such outrageous sales results.
Lao Gu has always been a stumbling block on her way to rebate... Oh no, it's a "stumbling block".
This product is like an insurmountable mountain, standing between her and the rebate.
Theoretically speaking, none of the works he has handled has lost money.
Even "Garden Warfare", which is slightly short among many games, did not cause losses from a sales perspective.
Four years, all victories, no defeat.
God knows what kind of monster this guy is.
and!
Nowadays, with the increasing global popularity of Golden Wind, Yiyou and Xunteng Somatosensory Cabin occupy an increasing market share globally.
It’s getting harder and harder to lose your own money.
This can be seen from their latest launch of "Rainbow Six".
You know, Cai Liu's release was very sudden, almost "streaking" on the shelves without any warning.
But even so!
There are still a large number of anchors who bought the game for the first time to live broadcast, and a large number of players rushed to tell each other on social platforms to experience it for the first time.
It can be said that their influence is now at the global T0 level, and they can compete with the top manufacturers across the Eastern and Western hemispheres like Yunwei.
This situation is naturally good news for Lao Gu and even the entire Golden Wind.
But for Shen Miaomiao...
This money is getting harder and harder to lose.
At this time, it is completely impossible to achieve losses based on pure "game production costs".
If you want to get rebates, you have to be——
"...Kill the Dreams and buy out their technology."
Gu Sheng took a sip of tea and thought deeply.
7.5 million units were sold in two weeks, beating Yunwei by 43% year-on-year.
This result can be said to be in perfect line with their previous expectations.
Now Yunwei's stock price has just improved slightly due to the early announcement of "Endless Undertow", but it has once again fallen into a downturn due to the loss of competition after the release.
Phantasm VI, which had high hopes at the beginning, under the banner of "redefining the next-generation somatosensory gaming experience", was also seriously affected. Not only did its market value not increase with the early release of the sixth-generation engine, but it actually dropped from the previous level.
It's faster.
It's not that I can't understand it.
After all, before it was released, Fantasy had hyped up this new engine, which was both "redefining" and "innovating the era".
Investors are all looking forward to the release of Fantasy VI to kill everyone. Yunwei, who is in early access, can kill everyone and create a new myth of somatosensory cabin games.
result!
In two weeks, Cai Liu was beaten like a roasted sweet potato that had fallen to the ground and been run over by a dump truck.
You should know that although Fantasy is a company in the field of game technology, not all investors have a deep understanding of this industry.
Even many investors' understanding of this industry is not as profound as fishing and making nests.
Most of the time, investors judge investment prospects through profit and loss.
This new technology of yours is killing everyone. If you are awesome, I will increase investment and seize the opportunity.
If this new technology fails to make a splash, then you are rubbish. I will reduce investment or even withdraw immediately.
Investors were originally expecting you to turn around.
But it turned out that the salted fish turned over and was still a salted fish.
The growth rate of the decline in market value is naturally expected.
Perhaps given time and waiting for the public opinion to further ferment, more investors will give up hope while hesitating, and sooner or later the market value of Fantasy will fall below the bottom and be pocketed by them.
But for Gu Sheng.
time is money.
He couldn't wait that long.
Because there are four more months.
Dongjin Neon Game Festival is about to open.
Although theoretically he has experienced all four major exhibitions in the world, he can now be regarded as a frequent visitor to the four major exhibitions. It is not surprising to participate in the Neon Game Festival.
But this time, it is different from before——
Yiyu x3 is expected to be officially released at the Dongjin Game Festival.
And their Golden Wind is naturally the number one supplier of escort masterpieces.
After all, Yiyou is an old loyal minister.
From the beginning of the Small Game Festival to now, more than four years have passed. The cooperation between Golden Wind and Yiyou has always been extremely pleasant, and the relationship between Gu Sheng and Yan Sheng has always been very good.
Therefore, both publicly and privately, at the Neon Game Festival in November, their golden style must join hands with the entertainment industry to set foot in Dongjin.
If the time comes, they can use Fantasy's "reality augmented" technology in the escort game.
Coupled with Shangyiyou’s new generation “Full Sense Assist Pro” technology.
Second life in the virtual world will no longer be an imagination.
"We need to speed up Huan Meng..."
Gu Sheng murmured.
Hasten death.
The current situation is obvious.
Under the blow of "Rainbow Six", Fantasy's poor performance in the market has put them in a deep quagmire.
But it is undeniable that many investors are still hesitant at this time. After all, Fantasy VI has not yet been officially launched, and some people have hopes for Fantasy's final comeback.
And this is also the reason why Huanmeng’s stock price has not plummeted.
So it seems so!
The situation is very clear.
Although Gu Sheng knew very well that if he continued to wait and waited for Huanmeng's market value to fall all the way, the winner would be them sooner or later.
But he doesn't have that much time to waste with fantasy.
Now, one more work is needed to take over the spear from Rainbow Six and give Fantasy the final fatal blow.
And this work!
"...We might as well try our old tricks again and teach a forehand and backhand lesson again."
Shen Miaomiao took out the lollipop from her mouth, with a cunning look on her little face.
OK!
There is a new project!
After hearing Gu Sheng's analysis and plan, Shen Miaomiao, who was originally lacking in interest, couldn't help but perked up.
Nothing else matters.
To her, the two most valuable pieces of information Gu Sheng said were "Kill Huan Meng and buy their reality augmentation technology" and "Exchange money for time to accelerate Huan Meng's downfall."
It’s all about throwing money!
And if it succeeds, in three to four months, the 2.7 billion in her hand will be put to use!
Not to be missed!
So, Shen Miao Miao had an idea and prepared to teach Yun Wei and Huan Meng a forehand and backhand lesson again!
Didn't your "Endless Undertide" fail in sales?
So watch it, I will only demonstrate it once.
The same type, the same form, let me teach you how to play this kind of game!
Only this most intuitive comparison can kill the game most effectively!
Hear the words!
Gu Sheng couldn't help but his eyes lit up.
indeed.
If at this time, they can launch a game that is not much different from "Alien: Infinite Tide" in genre, but completely crushes this rigid copy of the game in terms of gameplay creativity, and with the guidance of public opinion, it will definitely be possible Completely shatter the illusions of those investors who still have a wait-and-see attitude towards Fantasy, and then completely kill the game and knock Fantasy to the bottom.
"and!"
Speaking of this, Shen Miaomiao had another clever plan:
"In addition, there is another point we need to pay special attention to..."