"Dragon Quest? There are some. We happen to be having a promotion. You can buy them at a 10% discount of 4,500 yen."
The clerk was very happy that after such a long time, a customer who wanted to buy Dragon Quest finally came.
After the customer heard this, he took out five thousand yen bills and handed them over. "Here, I want a box."
The person who bought it was wearing a pair of glasses and looked like a senior otaku. He also seemed to be holding a freshly opened comic magazine in his hand.
"I'll charge you five thousand yen, I'll give you five hundred, and your Dragon Quest cassette. Thank you for coming."
The clerk bowed slightly, and the man nodded slightly and prepared to leave.
Watching the customers leave, the gamer soul in him couldn't help but want to burst out, so he said aloud: "Well, I want to take the liberty to ask, why do you want to buy Dragon Quest? Because you watch other people play this
Is the game fun?"
The customer turned back, then raised the comic book in his hand and said: "No, it's a comic I read. It said that by playing it, you can know the plot of the subsequent story in advance, and you can also play the role of a hero and experience the story. I just want to play it and have a look."
"Well, let me tell you, in addition to the touching story of this game, the game itself is also super fun."
"Really?" the customer responded with some uncertainty.
He is also a player.
But he likes Contra more.
Because it's so refreshing to fight.
He had seen the gameplay of Dragon Quest before, but felt that the graphics were a bit monotonous and boring, and not as good as those of Contra.
The reason why I came here to buy it today is entirely because the story of the comic ended suddenly.
In the comics, the brave man has come to the stone tablet deep in the cave to learn the secret of his life experience.
Then the brave man walked out of the cave and was attacked by the Dragon King's men, who seemed to be planning to kill the less powerful brave man first.
The story stops here.
Damn it, why do you cartoonists always like to end an episode at the most critical moment?
Can’t you just finish what you need to draw?!
At that time, his mood was quite complicated. He wanted to know the follow-up story but didn't know what to do.
He has even begun to consider sending razors to the author.
Then he noticed the following text at the end of the comic: The video game of the same name is now on sale. You can experience the whole story personally and learn the entire story of Dragon Quest in advance. You are welcome to buy it.
After seeing this news, he immediately became energetic. He took the comic book he just bought and started searching in the nearby neighborhoods, and finally came here.
The customer left with the game cartridge, and the clerk returned to the store manager with some joy.
"Look, store manager, there are still people buying Dragon Quest."
"Well, that's just one person, it doesn't mean anything at all."
The store manager still doesn't believe the sales volume of this product.
There was no improvement in the past month or two.
According to the statistics of Youxing Electronic Entertainment, it has just reached 40,000 in three months, while the sales data of game consoles has reached 200,000. Both Contra and Tetris have exceeded 100,000 sales, and other games have also reached 100,000.
Followed by.
He doesn't think Dragon Quest will suddenly be a hit.
The store manager is not a player, he does not understand the fun of the game, but he thinks he knows how to sell things.
If no one visits a product for a long time, it is basically out of date.
However, as soon as the store manager finished speaking, another child walked in with a comic book.
"Brother, do you sell Dragon Quest game cartridges here?"
The clerk immediately ran out and said happily: "Yes, yes! Today there is a Dragon Quest event with a 10% discount, a total of 4,500 yen!"
"Really? It's actually 500 yen cheaper! Then big brother, I want a box!"
The store manager's expression was stunned at that time.
Another one?
In the past, I might not have been able to sell even one box a day.
This is not the end.
Several more customers came in one after another, and the first one they asked about was the game Dragon Quest.
And almost all of them have one thing in common, that is, they all hold the latest issue of Kasuga Comics magazine in their hands.
The comic of Dragon Quest stops abruptly at the most critical moment, which makes people crazy.
Then they also noticed a few lines of small print at the end.
You can experience all the storylines, and you can also experience the entire story from the perspective of a brave man, which sounds more attractive than comics.
So they began to search the streets for places to buy game cartridges, without even asking about the price. As long as you have it, I will pay.
At the same time, this suddenly boosted the sales of game consoles.
Some senior manga readers do not own game consoles. In order to play Dragon Quest, they will not hesitate to buy a game console and a game cartridge. This way, the total cost is more than 10,000 yen, which is a rare increase in spending power.
One person, two people, three people.
Until more than a dozen people came in and asked about the Dragon Quest game, the store manager couldn't calm down at all.
"Hey, take down the discount announcement!"
The previous discount was to sell the game as quickly as possible.
But now it seems that many people are becoming interested in Dragon Quest.
He didn't know what caused these people to suddenly buy Dragon Quest en masse.
But he knew that if he continued the discount, each box of games would be sold for 500 yen less, and he would make almost 10,000 yen less in a short time.
This made him very distressed.
In addition to this store, other authorized sales stores are also performing the same scene.
The store managers who previously complained about the backlog of Dragon Quest cartridges are now all smiling.
The profit of Dragon Quest is the highest among game cartridges, because Dragon Quest is the most expensive to buy, 5,000 yen per box, and the purchase cost is 70% of the retail price. If you sell it at the normal price, you can earn
Profit of one thousand five hundred yen.
In just a short time they sold a lot.
At the same time, topics about Dragon Quest also began to increase rapidly on the Internet.
The small circle of communication at the beginning is slowly expanding.
About three days later, new weekly sales data were placed in front of Zhu Youxing.
The sales volume of game consoles is 240,000, and now it is rising rapidly at a rate of almost 10,000 per day.
As the promotion of surrounding cities increases, the upward momentum of this data becomes even stronger.
Contra sales reached 150,000 copies, ranking first.
Tetris followed with 140,000 copies, ranking second.
Then there was the Super Baseball Series with 120,000 copies, ranking third.
And the fourth place is Dragon Quest, 100,000 copies.
In three days, Dragon Quest almost soared with sales figures of more than 20,000 a day.
In the end, the sales figure climbed from the bottom of 40,000 to 100,000.
Other games basically hover around 50,000 to 90,000.
After seeing this data, Zhu Youxing finally couldn't help but smile.
Dragon Quest is finally here.
I have waited too long.
In fact, role-playing games have always been the majority of game console sales. Before the dominance of guns, cars, and ball games, whoever can make a good role-playing game will have an absolute advantage.
It was about ten years later that this trend changed, but role-playing games are still popular, but their status has been slightly reduced.
It seems that the promotional effect of the comic is indeed very good.
But this is actually a matter of chance, otherwise only a few games such as Dragon Quest would not have risen in previous lives.
In addition to Takeyusei, Daigo Ikeda is also very happy now.
Because the sales data of comic magazines have also suddenly increased a bit recently. When the sales data of other peers are slowly declining, their sales suddenly increased. This is exciting news.