One month after the release of Dragon Quest 3, sales reached 700,000, making it the fastest-selling game to date.
The sales of Dragon Quest 1 also exceeded one million.
This is also the first game in the Famicom to have sales exceeding one million, and Yuxing Electronic Entertainment even celebrated it internally.
If calculated according to the conversion ratio, Dragon Quest 3 should be very good.
And in addition to the sales of video games, Dragon Quest also has a lot of other income.
Among them, Dragon Quest surroundings have gradually become popular.
Toys such as Dragon Quest's Hero's Sword, Hero's Armor, Lot's Shield, etc. have become the best-selling products at the moment.
You can see these things in the streets and alleys, but now the image of Dragon Quest in children's minds is almost equated with their Koshien Superman.
Children's first choice now is no longer just Koshien Superman dolls, but now there are also products related to Dragon Quest.
The production team that produced the Koshien Superman special photo series was very depressed.
These little brats are really a bunch of people with no loyalty. They used to like Koshien Superman so much, but because of the popularity of Dragon Quest, they switched to other camps in a blink of an eye. As a result, their sales of peripheral toys are not as good as before.
Secondly, there is the Dragon Quest game strategy book.
This is mainly the responsibility of Kasuga Society.
Because the content of Dragon Quest 3 is quite large, Kasugasha and Takeyusei finally discussed and decided to publish a single bound volume of the first and third guide books. The A4-sized book is three hundred
Multiple color pages printed, quite exquisite.
The price is a full 5,000 yen, which is not cheap, but it cannot stop those players who really love this game.
On the one hand, the strategy book can help them pass the game better. On the other hand, it is also very memorable. It is the first independently published game strategy book in the world.
In order to promote the collection value of this thing, Kasugasha also launched a book number.
The first edition has a circulation of 100,000 copies, with a total of 100,000 numbers. Among them, there is a chance of getting a signed copy by the main creative staff at random, just like a lottery.
Kasugasha's business acumen is indeed very good in this regard, so there is no need for Takeyusei to worry about it.
Then 100,000 copies of the strategy book were sold out in the first week of the game's release, and not a single bit was left.
This is exciting for Kasugasha. In the past, their sales of certain popular comics have never been so popular.
So they contacted the factory overnight to print another 200,000 copies.
These 200,000 copies were almost sold out in one month.
Kasugasha has made a lot of money just by selling books. As the main person in charge of promoting video games in the magazine, Ikeda Daigo is now glowing, and his status in the magazine is also rising rapidly.
Of course, Zhu Youxing is the one who makes the most money. He just provides an idea and can easily receive various profit dividends from the book.
The sale of just one strategy book can bring him tens of millions of yen in the end.
Zhu Youxing had already expected this.
In an era when the Internet was not yet fully popularized, strategy books were the most sacred magic weapon in the hearts of players. Anyone who had such a book could become the object of many people's pursuit.
Even if the Internet is really popular later, strategy books will still become a kind of potential collectibles, and loyal players who like certain games will buy them without hesitation.
In the previous life, Final Fantasy 7 could sell millions of copies just by selling the guide book. The reason why Dragon Quest suffered a loss was due to the insufficient player base of the game, otherwise the sales volume would have been even higher.
Of course, the Dragon Quest craze isn’t over yet.
Smart businessmen began to contact Youxing Electronic Entertainment, willing to spend money to purchase partial licenses for Dragon Quest art works and make some linked peripheral products.
The copyright operation section within the company has just been established and is now specifically responsible for any copyright derivatives related to Dragon Quest. Authorization linkages and other matters have already begun.
Immediately afterwards, Yuxing Electronic Entertainment announced that it would produce a Dragon Quest animation.
The animated plot will begin around the story of Dragon Quest 1 and continue to increase the value of this IP.
Companies like Suri Electronics, Wides and Jinping Entertainment looked on with envy.
Only then did they suddenly discover that video games can be more than just games.
Once a certain game product becomes famous, or even breaks out of the industry, the derived income it brings is also amazing.
Electronic games are beginning to form a gradually mature industrial chain, which will no longer be limited to making money through games.
Among them, Jinping Entertainment decided to concentrate on the production of game software after clearing the inventory of its own CD-modified game consoles.
They seem to understand that not everyone is qualified to make a game console.
You can also make a lot of money by playing games under someone else's command.
Jinping Entertainment is a company that holds many IPs such as animation, film and television, novels, etc. Their executives immediately thought that they could create games of the same name for these IPs. This kind of derivatives can also make another wave of money and squeeze as much as possible from their own company.
IP potential.
As for whether they will actually make games seriously, that's another story.
And Vaders is also seriously operating his own games currently on arcades, and plans to try to develop some IP series.
Surui Electronics was even more straightforward and directly announced that the second part of its best-selling game Sun Knight is in production and will also release a bundled limited edition machine to learn from some of the sales models of Youxing Electronic Entertainment.
Surui Electronics can be said to be a good student. As long as Youxing Electronics Entertainment is the most successful, they will immediately follow suit and follow Youxing Electronics Entertainment, just like crossing the river by touching Youxing Electronics Entertainment, and wait at any time.
There is an opportunity to surpass Yuxing Electronic Entertainment.
And even if they are not as good as Youxing Electronic Entertainment, they have gradually gained some market share and are beginning to develop towards profitability.
In addition to these, their overseas business is also in progress, and overseas promotional activities have begun. It is said that the feedback from abroad is pretty good, especially people in Europe and the United States, who are very interested in this emerging entertainment method.
After the release of Dragon Quest 3, the first game development team once again entered the development process of the next part.
And this time, Bamboo Games has set a new goal for them, which is to learn new technologies, because the next generation will inevitably log in to SFC, which is Super Nintendo.
This game console with better performance will inevitably make the overall game scale larger and the graphics better.
If they can't fully understand the game console, Zhuyouxing will not allow them to release the game.
At the same time, Zhuyouxing also formed a new first-party game development team again, called the Fifth Game Development Team.
This team will also be responsible for an exclusive series of games.
This series of games is also Zhuyouxing’s favorite.