Chapter 187 Entering the United States!
The Flamingo-1 sold so well in RB that it was beyond Li Zetian's expectations. In November alone, nearly 10 million units were sold.
When Nintendo released the FC game console, although it was already very popular, it was not so exaggerated. It only sold more than 1.3 million units that month.
However, if you think about it carefully, there is a reason why Flamingo-1 is so popular. The reputation of Li Zetian and Flamingo Company is already well-known in RB, and the sales channels are much stronger than Nintendo. In addition, when Nintendo released the FC, it included three games: "Popeye", "Donkey Kong" and "Donkey Kong Jr.".
When the Flamingo-1 was released, it had "Super Mario", "Contra", "Tank Battle", "Double Dragon", "Saraman Snake", "Metroid", and "The Legend of Zelda" , "Pac-Man", "Donkey Kong", "Super Arkanoid" and "Chinese Cube" 11 games.
The disparity between the two is huge!
The game itself is so classic, and there are so many of them, so it went completely crazy! Flamingo Company's game hesitation dropped RB like atomic bombs one after another, causing an unprecedented sensation!
Currently, USD/JPY is almost 1:250.
The Flamingo-1 console is priced at 50,000 yen ($200).
In November, Flamingo's console revenue alone was 500 billion yen ($2 billion)
The Flamingo-1 game console is not the most profitable, the game cartridge is the most profitable!
Each game cartridge sold for 7,500 yen ($30), and a total of nearly 80 million game cartridges were sold, or 600 billion yen ($2.4 billion).
In addition, the game novel sold 10 million copies at 500 yen each, for a total of 5 billion yen ($20 million). RB people like to read comics, and the game comics sold 50 million copies at 1,250 yen each, for a total of 62.5 billion yen ($250 million).
Based on the above, statistics show that in November alone, Flamingo's revenue in RB reached an astonishing 1.165 billion yen (4.67 billion U.S. dollars)!
Flamingo Company has achieved such impressive results, which shocked the whole world!
What's amazing is that this is just the RB market, there is a larger US market waiting for Flamingo Company! In addition, there is a European game market with huge development potential!
“Oh my god, Flamingo has activated the global game market. It used to be a market of several billion dollars, but now it has become a market worth tens of billions of dollars, and Flamingo will occupy more than 90% of the game market share! "
Countless game development companies have lamented.
The scale of Ant Factory is getting bigger and bigger. Li Zetian initially thought that 5 million production capacity was enough, but it was far from enough and had to recruit more people. There are more game markets around the world waiting for Flamingo Company to explore!
Soon, the much-anticipated Black Friday arrives, which is the beginning of Christmas shopping in the United States and the launch of Flamingo's game console!
American players have been looking forward to it for a long time. Many people set up shop on the floor and queued up all night just to buy the game console as soon as possible in the morning! Such a grand occasion is unprecedented!
The price of the Flamingo-1 game console is not expensive, and the population of the United States is two or three times that of RB, so naturally there are many users who buy it.
From 8 o'clock in the morning to 24 o'clock in the evening, the Flamingo-1 game console hit a sales volume of 2.5 million!
People were beyond shocked and could not describe it in words.
The Flamingo-1 game console is so popular that it is bound to counterattack the Atari 2600 in the US market.
In fact, this took just five days.
On the fifth day, Flamingo sold a total of 7 million units in the United States, while the total sales of Atari 2600 in the United States had not yet reached 7 million units.
On the sixth day, another 590,000 Flamingo-1 game consoles were sold.
On the seventh day, another 41 Flamingo-1 game consoles were sold.
Looking at the sets of data, all game companies were envious. Within a week, the sales of Flamingo-1 reached a terrifying 8 million units! The vast majority of American households are buying Flamingo-1 game consoles.
Atari 2600 has obviously been left behind by several streets!
The Flamingo-1 game console plus the sales of game cartridges, novels, and comics, the Flamingo company's revenue reached 3.8 billion U.S. dollars.
Sales in North America alone reached US$3.8 billion in one week, and Flamingo Company created an unprecedented myth!
However, despite the huge sales volume, the Flamingo-1 game console is almost unprofitable. It is sold at cost price, first captures the market, and then makes money from game cartridges. In the future, with the improvement of manufacturing technology and the reduction of spare parts prices, the Flamingo-1 game console will be able to bring profits.
Apple Inc.
Vincent Gay was frowning and feeling depressed. He did not expect that the Flamingo company was so powerful and developed so many classic games. The Flamingo-1 game console quickly defeated the Atari 2600 and became the dominant game console.
The opponents Apple will face in the future are simply too powerful!
Vincent Gay is not even remotely sure that the game console developed by Apple will beat the Flamingo-1 game console...
It would be great if Apple didn't have a game console development project from the beginning, but if the project is halfway through and abandoned halfway, Apple will suffer heavy losses. However, continuing to develop may be an even bigger mistake!
Vincent Gay was flustered and undecided.
Not long after, Thomas Rockefeller arrived.
"Mr. Rockefeller, the Flamingo Company is too powerful. Should Apple's game console development project continue?" Vincent Gay asked.
Thomas Rockefeller frowned and said: "Of course, continue, Apple has invested so much money! What's more, the game console currently being developed by Apple uses the latest technology, so it is more advanced than the Flamingo-1, and has A certain level of competitiveness!”
In Thomas Rockefeller's view, if the game console is powerful, players and third-party game developers will buy it.
Vincent Gay nodded and said: "Okay! By the way, Mr. Rockefeller, I heard that Warner Bros. plans to sell Sunbird..."
"what is the price?"
"$2 billion!"
Thomas Rockefeller smiled contemptuously and said: "Sunbird Company is obviously in trouble. It is worth a few hundred million US dollars at most! At US$2 billion, I'm afraid no one is willing to buy it!"
"Yes," Vincent Gay laughed, "but there's no way, Warner Bros. won't be able to recoup the cost if they don't sell so much. When they originally acquired Sunbird, they spent more than 4 billion U.S. dollars."
Yes, that's right, Warner Bros. is planning to sell Sunbird. The board of directors has judged that Sunbird can no longer bring profits to the company, and the sooner it is sold, the better.
At this time, Sunbird Company was in panic.
Wu Guangguang frowned and sat in the office, silent for a long time.
When Li Zetian founded Flamingo Company, he did not go when Nolan Bushnell jumped ship. In his opinion, Sunbird Company is already the industry leader. With its monopoly position in the industry, Flamingo Company cannot defeat Sunbird Company.
If he stayed at Sunbird Company, he would be the CEO, the helmsman of the company. He could sleep with the secretary if he wanted to, and no one would dare to gossip. But when he went to Flamingo Company, he had to look at Li Zetian's face, and he couldn't attack the secretary. Although he was nominally the CEO, Li Zetian still had the final say within the company.
Wu Guangguang was used to giving orders by himself. Although he was single-handedly promoted by Li Zetian to serve as CEO of Sunbird, he ultimately chose to betray him and work for Warner Bros.
But he never expected that in just over a year, Sunbird Company would fall from its dominant position in the game industry and now be sold out.
"If I had known today, I would have gone to Chronos Li..." Wu Guangguang sighed, regretting it endlessly.
As soon as December passed, Li Zetian announced a news that shocked the gaming industry - the royalty system!
"In the Atari 2600 era, the market was flooded with a large number of junk games and pornographic games. In order to ensure the quality of the games, all third-party game developers who wanted to develop on the Flamingo-1 console platform All businesses adopt a royalty system.
The royalty system stipulates:
1. Flamingo Company must review each game;
2. Require third-party manufacturers to only release 5 games per year;
3. Third-party manufacturers need to predict the sales volume of their products, and then Flamingo Company will produce game cartridges. The third-party manufacturers not only have to pay production fees but also bear different amounts of royalties. "
As soon as the news came out, the industry was in an uproar, and game companies expressed dissatisfaction.
This approach has done absolutely no harm to Flamingo. Under such rules, it has made considerable profits and completely passed the risk to third-party manufacturers.
The Flamingo Company is simply outrageous! overbearing! Insolent!
At this time, in Nolan Bushnell's office, he frowned slightly and said to Li Zetian, who was sitting leisurely drinking juice, "Mr. Li, can we do this?"
"What's wrong..." Li Zetian said nonchalantly, "We have the final say now. If game companies want to make money, they must abide by our rules! By doing this, we are also rectifying the game environment!"
Li Zetian certainly knew that the royalty system made game companies angry and resentful. In the previous life, it was the resentment caused by tyranny that laid hidden dangers for Nintendo, which led to the rise of Sony. However, Nintendo itself is desperate and has always stuck to game cartridges, while Sony uses CDs as game storage media, which is more popular among players.
There was still a hint of worry on Nolan Bushnell's face. Li Zetian patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Don't worry, they will compromise!"
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