a month after the release of dragon quest 3, sales reached 700,000, making it the fastest-selling game to date.
and the sales of dragon quest 1 also exceeded one million.
this is also the first game in the red and white machine to break through millions of sales, and youxing electronic entertainment company also celebrated it internally.
if you count it according to the conversion ratio, dragon quest 3 should be very good.
and in addition to video game sales, dragon quest has a lot of other aspects of revenue.
among them, the area around the dragon quest has begun to heat up gradually.
toys such as the hero's sword of the dragon, the hero's armor, the lot's shield, etc., have become the best-selling products of the moment.
not to mention that these things can be seen in the streets and alleys, but now the image of the dragon fighting in the hearts of the children has almost been equated with their koshien superman.
the children's first choice is no longer just koshien superman dolls, but now there are more dragon quest related products.
the production team that produced the koshien superman special drama was very depressed.
these little farts are really a bunch of guys with no loyalty, and they like koshien superman so much before, but because the dragon fight is hot, they turn to other camps in the blink of an eye, making them sell peripheral toys that are not as good as before.
secondly, it is the game guide book of dragon quest.
this is mainly the responsibility of the kasuga society.
BECAUSE THE CONTENT OF DRAGON QUEST 3 IS QUITE LARGE, KASUGASHA FINALLY DISCUSSED WITH TAKEYUKI AND DECIDED TO SIMPLY PRODUCE A SEPARATE BOUND EDITION OF THE FIRST AND THIRD RAIDERS BOOK, AND THE A4 PAPER SIZE BOOK HAS MORE THAN THREE HUNDRED PAGES OF COLOR PAGES, WHICH IS QUITE EXQUISITE.
it costs five thousand yen, and it's not a bargain, but it can't stop the players who really love the game.
on the one hand, the raiders book can help them better complete the game, and on the other hand, it is also very memorable, and it is the first game guide book in the world to be published separately.
in order to publicize the collection value of this thing, kasuga also introduced a book number.
the first edition has a circulation of 100,000 copies, a total of 100,000 numbers, of which there is also a random possibility of obtaining the signature of the main creators, just like a lottery.
kasuga society's management brains in this regard are really strong, and they don't need to worry about any heart.
then 100,000 copies of the guide book sold out on the first monday of the game's release, and there was no half left.
this excites kasuga, who has never sold some popular manga in the past.
so they contacted the factory overnight to print another 200,000 copies.
just 200,000 copies a month are about to sell out.
kasuga has made a lot of money just by selling books, and as the main person in charge of video games promoted in the magazine, daigo ikeda is now full of red light, and his status in the magazine is also rapidly improving.
of course, the more profitable is still bamboo youxing, who just provides an idea and can easily collect all kinds of profits from books.
just the sale of a guide book can eventually bring him tens of millions of yen in income.
in this regard, takeyuki had long expected it.
in the era when the internet has not yet been fully popularized, the raiders book is the most holy magic weapon in the hearts of players, and whoever has such a book can become the object of many people's pursuit.
even if the internet did become popular later, raider books would become a potential collectible, and loyal players who like certain games would not hesitate to buy them.
in the past life, final fantasy 7 could sell millions of copies just by selling raiders, and this dragon quest lost money in the game's player base, otherwise sales would have been higher.
of course, the dragon fighting craze is not over.
at the beginning, shrewd businessmen contacted youxing electronic entertainment, willing to spend money to buy part of the authorization of the dragon quest art works and do some linkage peripheral products.
the copyright operation division within the company has just been established, and now it is specifically responsible for any copyright derivatives related to dragon quest, and the authorization linkage has begun to be carried out.
immediately after, youxing electronic entertainment announced that it would produce an animation of dragon quest.
THE ANIMATION PLOT WILL START AROUND THE STORY OF DRAGON QUEST 1 AND CONTINUE TO INCREASE THE VALUE OF THIS IP.
for example, suri electronics, vaders and jinping entertainment were hungry as they watched from the sidelines.
it was then that they suddenly discovered that video games were not just games.
once a game product becomes famous, or even out of the circle, the derivative income it brings is also very amazing.
video games are beginning to form a maturing industrial chain that is no longer 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 MACHINE MAGIC GAME CONSOLE.
they seem to understand that not everyone is qualified to make game consoles.
playing games with other people can also make a lot of money.
AND JINPING ENTERTAINMENT IS A COMPANY THAT HOLDS A LOT OF ANIMATION, FILM AND TELEVISION, NOVELS AND OTHER IP, AND THEIR SENIOR MANAGEMENT IMMEDIATELY THOUGHT THAT THEY COULD MAKE THE GAME OF THE SAME NAME THROUGH THESE IP, AND THIS DERIVATIVE CAN ALSO CIRCLE A WAVE OF MONEY TO SQUEEZE THE POTENTIAL OF THEIR OWN IP AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE.
as for whether they will really seriously do the game, that is another story.
And Vaders will also seriously operate his own arcade games, plans to try to get some IP series.
suri electronics is even more straightforward, directly announcing that the second part of its best-selling game, sun knight, is in production, and will also sell the same bundle of limited machines to learn some sales models of youxing electronic entertainment.
su rui electronics can be said to be a good student, as long as you star electronic entertainment to do the most successful, they will immediately follow the example, follow the star electronic entertainment behind, just like touching the star electronic entertainment across the river, and waiting for the opportunity to surpass the star electronic entertainment at any time.
and now even if they are not as good as youxing electronic entertainment, but now they have gradually had a little market, and they are also beginning to develop towards profitability.
in addition to these, their overseas business is also underway, overseas publicity activities have begun, it is said that the feedback from abroad is not bad, especially people in europe and the united states, who are interested in this emerging way of entertainment.
after releasing dragon quest 3, the first game development team once again entered the development process of the next game.
THIS TIME, ZHU YOUXING SET THEM A NEW GOAL, THAT IS, TO LEARN NEW TECHNOLOGIES, BECAUSE THE NEXT GENERATION WILL INEVITABLY LOG ON TO SFC, THAT IS, SUPER REN.
this game console with better performance will inevitably make the game as a whole larger and the picture better.
if they can't eat the game function thoroughly, then takeyuki will not allow them to sell the game.
at the same time, takeyuki also formed a new game first-party game development team again, called the fifth game development group.
and this group will also be in charge of an exclusive series of games.
this series of games is also a favorite of takeyuki.
that's final fantasy.