If you are relatively poor and have no money, you can develop PC games first.
Because PC games don’t need to consider game console licensing fees and cartridge production costs.
The cost can be saved by at least half.
So in other words, as long as the profit is half of that of console games, you can make money.
Under this temptation, more and more people are developing PC games.
However, console games tend to have higher sales, generally three to five times more than PC games.
It is obvious that most players have gradually become more and more familiar with game consoles and believe that playing games should be played with game consoles rather than computers. They do not yet completely regard computers as an entertainment product.
Therefore, once a game manufacturer has a certain scale, it will still choose to release its own games on game consoles.
In the first month of 1996 alone, more than 100 game companies were established in the United States, and hot money quickly poured into this newly emerging industry.
But among these people, they know that there is still only one overlord in the gaming industry, and that is Youxing Electronic Entertainment.
So far, no one has been able to challenge its status.
Even Surui Electronics could barely grab the opponent's clothes and keep up.
When the second month of 1996 came, after nearly two years, Yuxing Electronic Entertainment finally officially released the third Metroid game that it had secretly developed for nearly half a year.
Super Metroid.
The story follows the final story of the second Metroid: The Return of Samus, where Samus takes the Metroid cubs on a spaceship to a scientific planet in the Galactic Federation.
However, not long after he settled down, space pirates came to the door and abducted the Metroid cub.
Samus had no choice but to embark on another journey to save the Metroid cubs.
It can be said that this game only appeared after long calls.
Two years.
Do you know how I got here in two years?
This is the inner thought of many loyal Metroid players.
Some people even had tears in their eyes when they saw the real promotional video of Metroid.
They have been looking forward to a new story for a long time, but Yuxing Electronic Entertainment just won't do it.
If this were compared to Surui Electronics and other game manufacturers, they would have already developed three or four generations of games.
But Youxing Electronic Entertainment is really a big business and has a huge number of IPs.
Yuxing Electronic Entertainment can continue to produce a series of games casually, and Metroid's position does not seem so important.
However, after the calls of countless players, Yuxing Electronic Entertainment seemed to have finally heard the calls of the players, promised to continue producing Metroid games, and finally produced the game at the last moment.
The players are very excited.
They have never been so excited.
However, in February, it only released a few previews of game screens, and also officially announced the price of the game.
The price is 8,900 yen in Japan and $99 in the United States.
If you plan to buy an SFC game console, you can reduce the price by one thousand yen and ten dollars respectively, which can once again boost the sales of the game console.
The price of this game is already very scary.
Mainly more costs are concentrated on specially produced game cartridges.
The mass production cost of game cartridges alone is already as high as 2,000 yen.
Including packaging and transportation, the cost of each box of cassettes reaches about 3,500 yen.
If it were an ordinary game company, I'm afraid it wouldn't be enough.
If it is a game with a brand new IP, it may be difficult to recover the cost.
But Metroid already has a certain player base, and since the game was only launched two years later, players find the price acceptable.
But for new players this can be a bit of a turn off.
With this money, you can buy two slightly outdated sfc games that are equally fun. The initial price of Metroid is really a bit too high.
But this is not a problem. As long as the quality of the game itself is outstanding enough, the subsequent sales will never be too low.
On Hayakawa Ueto's side, he finally understood that Yusei Electronic Entertainment was indeed not a fuel-saving lamp, and they were really preparing to make a bigger move.
How could it be possible to sell such a high price if it was just a game that was generally released?
When things go wrong, there will always be monsters, and this game definitely has its own uniqueness.
Youxing Electronic Entertainment is different from other game manufacturers. Any abnormal operation of Youxing Electronic Entertainment is definitely planned, and there have never been any accidents.
So this time Hayakawa Ueto did not look down on Yusei Electronic Entertainment.
He immediately decided to retreat.
Obviously Youxing Electronic Entertainment came over aggressively and was ready to show off its muscles to people in the industry.
Hayakawa Ueto, who has a little bit of Yusei Electronic Entertainment's PTSD, seems to have had a premonition of something.
Sometimes there's no shame in avoiding the edge.
If you plan to fight against Youxing Electronic Entertainment and invest huge costs to confront the other party, and then cause heavy losses to yourself, that would be the worst thing.
However, Ueto Hayakawa is very cautious, but other game companies are not so cautious.
Especially Lierda, who has been in the limelight recently.
They made a lot of money in this gaming industry craze.
Players seem to like it too.
The founder of Lierda is also a player who loves games very much, so the games he took the lead in developing are also very good.
And as Yuxing Electronic Entertainment has been silent for more than half a year, they seem to have forgotten the fear of being dominated by Yuxing Electronic Entertainment.
They want to challenge Youxing Electronic Entertainment head-on.