Reborn in Hong Kong as a Tycoon

Chapter 457 Sales in a Week

A few days passed quickly.

As Lin Baicheng guessed, during these days, the sales of Xingyue consoles and game cartridges have decreased.

On Sunday, a total of 8380 Xingyue consoles of the regular version, 8 units of the high-end deluxe version, and 36460 game cartridges were sold in Hong Kong, the United States and Japan.

This time, the United States still has the highest sales volume, followed by Japan, and Xiangjiang is still a fraction.

The sales volume on Sunday was only about [-]% of yesterday's. Not only was Lin Baicheng not disappointed, but rather satisfied.

Over the past two days, the Xingyue mainframe has sold about 2 units. After deducting the pre-sale of nearly [-] units, the actual sales volume in these two days is also about [-] units. An average of [-] units per day is not too small.

After the weekend, although the promotion about Xingyue Console and various games continued, sales still dropped a lot from Monday to Friday.

On Monday, the United States, Japan and Xiangjiang combined sold a total of 2480 regular Xingyue consoles, one high-end deluxe version, and 1 game cartridges.

On Tuesday, the United States, Japan, and Hong Kong combined sold 2510 Xingyue consoles of the regular version, one high-end deluxe version, and 1 game cartridges.

On Wednesday, the United States, Japan, and Hong Kong combined sold 2585 regular Xingyue hosts, 3 high-end deluxe versions, and 12450 game cartridges.

On Thursday, the United States, Japan, and Hong Kong combined sold 2710 Xingyue hosts of the regular version, 2 units of the high-end deluxe version, and 13380 copies of game cassettes.

On Friday, the United States, Japan and Hong Kong combined sold a total of 2930 regular Xingyue hosts, 5 high-end deluxe versions, and 15500 game cartridges.

Compared with the previous two holidays, the sales of Xingyue consoles and game cassettes in these five days were much lower. The sales of the five days combined were not as much as the two weekends.

However, the good news is that the sales of consoles and game cassettes are gradually increasing every day, which is good news.

Calculated in this way for seven days a week, a total of more than 500 Xingyue hosts of the ordinary version were sold, with sales of a little over 600 million US dollars; 120 units of high-end luxury version hosts, with sales of 47880 US dollars, less than [-] .

Game cartridges sold a total of 15.2 copies, priced at $40 each, for a total sales of $608 million.

The sales of regular Xingyue consoles are similar to those of game cassettes, but the former loses money while the latter makes money.

However, with the same sales, game cartridges earn more, and Xingyue hosts lose less, so they are making money overall.

But if the cost of research and development, publicity, employee salaries and other costs are also included, I am afraid that only when the sales of game cassettes reach 5 million U.S. dollars and the profit reaches 2.5 million U.S. dollars, can Lin Baicheng's investment in the console be truly recouped.

Of course, if the sales of the normal version of Xingyue console after the price increase are not bad, then the loss of the console can be reduced a lot, and the sales of game cartridges don’t need to reach as much as 5 million US dollars to make up for it.

Game cassettes need to sell almost [-] million copies to pay back. Such sales not only need to increase the number of games, but also need time to save.

If the investment in Xingyue Electronic Game Company can pay back within one or two years, Lin Baicheng will be satisfied, and he will make a net profit from then on.

Based on the current sales volume, it is not easy to achieve the goal of paying back the capital in one or two years, so Xingyue Electronic Game Company has to continue to work hard.

From the current point of view, the sales of Xingyue consoles and game cassettes can be said to have entered the normal stage, and Lin Baicheng no longer has to stare at them in Los Angeles every day.

However, the United States and Japan are the most important markets, so it is necessary to find a manager for the branch offices in the two places.

The branch has a manager and an assistant at the location, so I believe there will be no mistakes.

From the perspective of the current world economy, the markets of the United States, Japan, and European countries are the most important. The Xingyue console must also enter the European market, but the markets of the United States and Japan have not yet stabilized, so naturally there is no reason to open up more international markets , distraction.

On Friday night, Los Angeles time, Webb Wilson from Tokyo called.

"Chairman, Taito Co., Ltd. is still unwilling to release their company's games on the Xingyue console. They say they have to think about it."

"However, Taidong may not want to offend the chairman. The other party later said that as long as the company's Xingyue console sales reach 50 units, then as long as the conditions are right, they are willing to release some old games on the Xingyue console platform first. .”

The Xingyue console is inseparable from games, and the more games the better, Lin Baicheng’s own game company will definitely not be able to develop them, and the number of games will be less than Atari, which may lead more people to choose to buy Yada To benefit VCS, Lin Baicheng decided to find a third-party game company in order to expand the number of games on the Xingyue console.

As long as conditions are reached with Taidong and other third-party game companies, Xingyue Console will not lack games in the future, and it must be of high quality and quantity, and it will be more sure to beat Atari's console.

What's more, after cooperating with third-party game companies, Xingyue Electronic Game Company not only costs nothing for the games they release, but can make a fortune through the platform of Xingyue console.

The more cartridges sold by the third-party game company, the more Xingyue Electronic Game Company will earn.

"We asked Taidong to sign an exclusive agreement. After the game is released on our Xingyue console, it cannot be released on other consoles. Taidong must consider it carefully for its own benefit."

"If it weren't for Taidong's deep cooperation with me, I'm afraid we wouldn't even have the conditions we have today."

"I still mean the same thing, you find a manager for the Japanese branch first, and then contact various game companies to let them release the game on our platform, just leave it to the branch manager."

"Remember, if possible, it is best to sign long-term cooperation contracts with a few small companies or studios. We can contribute a certain amount of funds to buy shares, and then support them, set an example, and attract more game companies to cooperate with us. "

"Yes, Chairman, I will do the relevant work well."

Webb Wilson responded aloud.

Lin Baicheng reminded: "One thing you must remember is that all games released on the Xingyue console platform must go through an audit. Only qualified games can be launched. Only excellent and excellent games can get the company's resources."

The lock code system of the Xingyue console is prepared for reviewing games. The Xingyue console is not capable of publishing any bad games, and cannot follow the old path of Atari's collapse in the previous life.

Today's Atari is still on the road to collapse. There are no restrictions on third-party games. Any game can be released on Atari's platform, which has already laid hidden dangers for future collapse.

"Chairman, don't worry, I will remember all these."

Wobb Wilson replied, Lin Baicheng told him about the development route of the Xingyue mainframe, of course he will not forget it, and dare not forget it.

(End of this chapter)