When the store owner was shocked by the crowd of questions, some friends had already discovered where the game console was sold.
Half an hour later, when everyone appeared at home sweating profusely.
The expressions on everyone's faces were both excited and a little depressed.
The excitement was because some of them touched the game console with their own hands, and there was also a trial at the Panasonic store.
It’s a pity that there are too many people trying it out, so it’s not their turn.
Although you can only watch from the side, you even have to watch from the third or fourth floors of human walls.
But the sound and pictures of the game deeply attracted them.
The game itself is far more exciting than the game advertisement.
Unfortunately, they were shocked when they asked about the price. However, compared with the Yadali 2600 I had known before, the prices of the two game consoles are almost the same, and they can almost be said to be at the same price.
However, EA game console only gives away one game card, while Atari random gives away six games.
If you buy a few more EA game cartridges, the price will be instantly increased.
"Have you found the game console?" Not all the friends are lucky enough to see the game console. Some people rode home for more than half an hour and got nothing but sweat.
However, when he asked this, two of the friends who were traveling together nodded gently.
"I saw a game console in a specialty store in Panasonic. It was 27,000 days and was not discounted. A game cartridge costs 3,500 yen. This is really expensive and I can't afford it. It may take two years to save enough 27,000 yen." As a primary school student, he obviously can't afford this price.
"How much money do you have? I originally planned to buy an Atari 2,600, but I have saved up 20,000 yen. It would be better if the five of us joined forces to buy an EA game console. In this way, each of us only needs to take out 6,000 yen. If we can find a few more friends, each of us will pay less money.
In the future, a few of us will take turns to play. How about each person playing for two days?" Someone proposed the concept of partnership.
As soon as this was said, everyone's nodding and agreement was immediately received.
One person will definitely not be able to afford more than 30,000 yen, but it will be reduced to 6,000 yen. Even if everyone is a teenager, smashes the piggy bank and then asks for some from his parents. He will definitely be able to get 6,000 yen.
He did it as he said, and everyone ran home to take on his own part in an instant.
When everyone met again after more than ten minutes, 30,000 yen had been placed on the table.
After enough money, these people didn't care about the videotape.
Everyone went directly to Panasonic Electric's store.
A game console, only one Super Mary is given away.
Now everyone only has enough money to buy a game cassette.
"Huaxia Cube", "Circus", "Tank War", "Motocross", "Shadow Legend"
"Which one should we choose?" Everyone fell into hesitation when they looked at the five cardboards in front of them.
"Don't there be pictures on this card? "Huaxia Square" is not fun at first sight, and "Circus" is not interesting even if it is fun. What's the point of "Motorcycle"?" Someone looked at the cartridges in front of him and eliminated them one by one.
"If I just look at the picture of the game card, I think "Tank War" is the game I want to play the most!" After eliminating three more games, someone pointed his hand at the Tank War.
After some people made the choice, several others did not object.
Seeing that everyone had no objections, he made such a happy decision.
After returning from a bicycle sweating profusely, everyone was eager to connect to the TV.
"Let's play "Tank War" first. It says that Tank War is a game played by two people. "Super Mary" is a game played by one person." If you play by one person, it is obviously inappropriate for others to watch. After all, this is a game console that everyone has raised funds to buy.
As the cassette was installed, the partners chose a two-player game while looking at the instruction manual.
As the game screen began to appear, the extremely classic game music sounded instantly.
"Dongdongdongdong..." The two of them began to guard their hometown, one on the left and one on the right, and fought to eliminate the enemy while protecting them.
Although this game is very simple, it is still difficult for players who are exposed to the game for the first time to pass the first level with just one life.
"It's down! Oh..." The enemy did not kill his hometown, but he was destroyed in the hands of his own people.
"Substitution, those who lose will automatically end!" Seeing the two people who experienced first, the people behind were already impatient.
Although I didn't play the game as soon as possible, I gained a lot of gaming experience.
The two people who changed back were obviously more cautious.
The two of them held their respective positions and easily passed the first level.
"The instruction manual says that the colored tank will drop equipment. When hitting this tank, an icon will appear on the screen. When this icon looks like a clock, as long as the driven tank hits it, all the enemy tanks will be fixed. At this time, you can shoot freely without any danger.
When the icon on the screen presents a five-pointed star, as long as the tank is driven to hit it, the player's tank will be strengthened, and the shells shot out will be accelerated at this time.
When you eat five-pointed stars in a row, the player's tank not only fires extremely fast, but can even penetrate steel.
When it's on the screen..." The two people who had just failed read the instruction manual seriously.
If the two of them are replaced again at this time, they believe that they can definitely walk a few more levels.
"This game is not difficult, but it is very fun." After the two of them who had just changed into the field successfully passed the second level, they were even proudly gloomy.
"Then after you two die, I will be the only one. Who will I form a team with? Could it be that I will fight so many tanks alone? You two can't beat..." The lonely friend was not complaining, but thinking that he would be under too much pressure.
"Don't worry, if it's the same difficulty as two people, then who dares to play this game? If it really doesn't work, you can try "Super Mary". We can let you play it twice. It's equivalent to two people too!" Others gave the solution.
"Okay, when you two die, I will play "Super Mary". After Super Mary dies, I will play a tank battle alone!" The person who is alone is obviously much longer than the two.
The four people who completed the team expressed no objection, and everyone also wanted to see what game Super Mary is!
The fifth person didn't wait for a long time. The couple in front of him didn't even pass the fifth level while forming a team, and they were bombarded by the enemy's hometown.
After death, I can only move my seat away and hand over the handle.
Soon, after changing the game card.
Everyone saw a character wearing overalls and having a big beard.
As the fifth player on the field, when his friends were still fighting the tank battle.
The Super Mary instruction manual has been quietly studied.
According to the instructions, the first two small thresholds of the first major threshold can be operated completely according to the instructions.
What content is required to be explored by players afterwards.
"Although this game is not as tense and exciting as the tank war, it is also very fun." Seeing the monsters everywhere, although it was a little embarrassed, but after successfully passing the first level, the other four people were quite envious.
Just as a few people were playing games happily, their parents finally came home from get off work.
When people saw their parents coming home, they were obviously panicked.
However, because this game console is a joint venture between multiple people, even if the parents ask, they can completely shirk their friends.
At this time, Toshiba's sales department had just gotten off work.
No one went home, everyone had to go to the Imperial Bar for a drink.
"Have you heard it? Today, major animation magazines are giving away free video tapes crazily. I heard from friends who have already watched it that there are advertisements from EA Games in this video tape." Although I did not get an order from EA, because of the negotiations for several consecutive days, everyone is still very concerned about EA companies.
"EA's gaming console price seems to be 210 US dollars, which is almost the same as the pricing strategy of Atari Games. It's just that Atari gave away six game cartridges, while Mr. Lin only gave away one. In addition, the games developed by their company are priced at 30 US dollars. With such a high price, even if the performance of the gaming console is slightly better than Atari, it cannot guarantee that they will win this game console battle.
People who buy game consoles generally have no source of income. It is obviously a delusion to expect to get 27,000 yen from their parents. Not to mention that it costs more than 3,000 yen to buy a game cartridge at will. Such pricing will obviously not be accepted by the market. Failure is a matter of time." Perhaps it was because they had been unable to win the contract for a few days or night, or they were not optimistic about it. When talking about Lin Ping, these people had no good tone and good face.
"This game company's founder is also a national Go player. I wish I could count everything.
Atari randomly comes with six game cartridges, but this smart Go player insists on selling the original free card for a high price of 150 US dollars. Look! He is destined to be smart but is mistaken for cleverness." Almost everyone expressed their discomfort that Lin Ping only gave away one game cartridge at random.
"I have bought the game console, and I think it's quite fun. Although the cassettes that should have been given for free were sold at a sky-high price, after I finished these cassettes, I felt that each of them was worth the price. I have been playing with my daughter for two days. Her favorite game is the circus. This one is the same as my wife.
I didn't expect a small gaming console to add so much joy to my family.
When my daughter is asleep, I will play a tank battle with my wife or play a game of Chinese cubes. But games like Shadow Legend and Super Mary are more suitable for passing the time when you are alone.
Although we are just sales staff and cannot make any suggestions for the company's senior management, I really think this game console is quite good, it is worth the price. It is much better than the Atari 2600.
Since I played this game console, I understood why Mr. Lin changed to place such a batch of orders at one time. Perhaps 10 million chips were just the first step before becoming a giant. "Although everyone was talking bad about Lin Ping, some people gave objective and fair evaluations.
"Hmph, since you think he will become a giant sooner or later, you might as well leave, just like Kenji Takeuchi, who has now switched to Lin Ping's company." Someone criticized in public, obviously not satisfied that someone still spoke for Lin Ping at this time.
Although Lin Ping did not sign a contract with Toshiba, Kenji Takeuchi was still under his command.
As a multinational company, Lin Ping needs to recruit people sooner or later. Although this person is just a salesperson, he at least has a good understanding of the semiconductor industry.
It is much better to have such a person than to recruit a bunch of college students from college.
However, just as Toshiba people are still venting their dissatisfaction.
However, inside Panasonic, someone is monitoring real-time feedback data.
Every six hours, someone will summarize the sales data of the company's specialty store.
"The data in the Tokyo metropolitan area now has sold 2,750 units since the game console was launched so far.
There were 1,120 units sold in the Osaka metropolitan area. There were 980 units sold in the Nagoya metropolitan area. There were 475 units in the remaining areas." Someone in the small conference room was thinking about the data summarized at noon.
"It is already very good to have such sales results, which can be said to be far exceeding our expectations. After all, we have only been on the shelves for a few days. At this rate of one month, we can even sell 3,000 gaming consoles nationwide every day. The monthly data will reach 90,000 to 100,000. Last year, Atari only sold more than one million in North America." Compared with Atari horizontally, everyone thinks this data is very excellent.
"The company has spent so much effort to win such big customers. Judging from the sales data, this is a very wise decision." Someone said while flattering.
"The afternoon data should be summarized soon, right?" The Masato Kiri didn't say a word, and kept watching the time on the clock reaching 6:30, and then asked the people in the conference room.
"This time..." Everyone looked at their watches for a moment.
And at this moment, the door in the conference room was opened.
A female employee walked in with a form.
“The Tokyo metropolitan urban circle has been sold out, and the warehouse asks when the headquarters will restock.
The Osaka city circle has also been sold out, and the regional supervisor plans to come to the headquarters overnight to report the situation. At this time, he is already on the way.
Although the Nagoya urban circle has not been sold out, just when the data was reported, there were only 1,100 units left in Nagoya. At this moment, while I report the situation to you, the Nagoya urban circle is likely to have been sold out.
Now our three major warehouses have been cleared, and there are still some inventory in warehouses scattered in other small cities. Have we recovered these goods and put them back into the three urban circles?" The woman who entered the room said something that made the conference room silent in an instant.
No one expected that just six hours later, the three major urban circles would actually clear the warehouses.
"At noon today, I just reported that I only sold a small part of it, why did I suddenly clear all the stock?" The people of Mushikatsu are optimistic about Lin Ping, but they have not reached the point of blind worship. They have put in a total of 80,000 sets of game consoles in three urban circles.
Eighty thousand units sold in just six hours?
This is a little scary. What exactly happened in these six hours?
"According to the analysis of reports from various places, major anime magazines are today to distribute free videotapes. It is the anime Naruto that was reported in the media. In this Naruto, there is only one advertisement throughout the whole process, that is, the game console promotion of EA Games Company.
When students got off school at 3:00 pm, when these people received free videotapes to watch, the market instantly ignited. Some people even did not buy game consoles, so they simply bought two boxes of cassettes. They experienced the game content with their friends who bought game consoles in advance.
The goods from other regions will probably be sold out before tomorrow afternoon. This means that the goods will be out of stock nationwide by tomorrow afternoon." When the woman reported, Masato Kiji looked at the report in her hand and was trembling.
"A prophecy came true, and the other party has indeed become a giant. There is no need to analyze the data. I will go to the hotel to meet Mr. Lin Ping immediately. You get off work early and have a good rest. In a few days, we will receive higher sales data." After the Masato Mushi said that, he hurried to the hotel with a sales form and urged Lin Ping to ship the goods.
Until the people of Kiji Masaki left the conference room, some people had not yet returned.
"The data is growing slowly, why did it suddenly explode? Even if you like it, it doesn't matter..." Obviously, people who have never played a game console do not understand how attractive this game console is to teenagers.
Especially, when these teenagers copy videotapes from each other.
Small groups were born from this, and the core figure of each small group was the magazine's annual user.
When this core character proposes to buy a game console, the others naturally have to cooperate with each other.
Unless they find another channel to copy the videotape.
Otherwise, once you are isolated, it will probably be difficult to watch the video tape in the future. Even if you can see the video tape, it may be several days later than other students.
Furthermore, no one refuses to raise funds to buy a gaming console.
Before this, there was no such small group and no one proposed the concept of fundraising and purchasing.
And now it is different, this small group after another will support the sales volume of gaming consoles.
At this time, the main force in the market was mainly teenagers.
Once the reputation of gaming consoles begins to spread to all age groups, the second round of sales boom is coming.
As adults with financial strength, it is obvious that grouping together to raise funds will not work in their world.
As long as the rich adults come to the scene and start buying, the snowball will become bigger and bigger.
When the Kijimatsu people appeared at the door of Lin Ping's room, Lin Ping knew the purpose of his trip without asking.
If the sales data are extremely bad now, even if he wants to say anything to him, he will probably be on the phone.
When he appears, it means that the game console sales are very good.
The purpose of his trip was obviously to urge shipments.
Chapter completed!