Page Games.
"Mr. Bai, all the games have been ordered." Secretary Wang Xitian walked into the office to report the situation, and then complained, "You are really willing to give up, 3,000 copies of Star Card Game Console, 3,000 copies of "Mario Brothers", this Hundreds of thousands went in and out."
The two have been working together since the company was founded and continue to this day.
The relationship between them is not just that of superiors and subordinates, but more like brothers who start a business together. There are quite a lot of complaints like this in daily work.
In fact, including the cleaning aunts and canteen uncles, there are only more than 2,600 people in Page Company. Boss Bai just made up the whole number with a wave of his hand.
"This game has a lot to offer."
Uncle Page's eyes were very bright, as if he had seen a rare treasure, and seemed to have aroused the fighting spirit to meet his opponent.
"Mario's exploratory elements are worth learning from. This gives players a lot of extra fun, which is exactly what our Star Force fighter lacks."
"Indeed." Lao Wang put away his lazy attitude and became serious. "Perhaps our game focuses too much on the excitement provided by the fast pace to players, but ignores other interesting points."
Star Force Fighter Generation is a purely fast-paced game, where players compete on reaction and operation speed.
If Lu Li were to judge, it was a bit like the black and white keys in the previous life, except that the operation was more complicated.
"What do you think Mario's three-day sales will be?" Uncle Page asked with interest.
At this time, the game's promotional video was also playing on the computer screen, accompanied by the cheerful background music of "beep beep beep".
"Probably between 300,000 and 400,000." Wang Xitian adjusted his glasses.
He has always been a cautious person. Even if he was 100% sure, he would only say 90%.
Uncle Page is just the opposite. He prefers to innovate and try new things.
The two had complementary personalities and discussed development strategies with each other, leading the company to the giant status it has today.
"I think it can reach 450,000, but it's a pity..." Uncle Page sighed softly and took a sip of the hot milk on the table.
"It's a pity that their games were released too quickly?" Lao Wang said what Boss Bai wanted to say first.
"Hmm...suck it." Putting down the mug, Uncle Page nodded and said, "The quality of Carp Star Card House's games is very good, and the subsequent sales will definitely not be too bad, but the sales in the first three days, it depends. It’s not just about game quality.”
Game sales in the first three days of release will also depend on the company's reputation, publicity efforts, etc., which will further test a company's comprehensive strength from development to operation.
Three-day sales have gradually become a standard in the industry for measuring the strength of games and companies.
In this indicator, Carp Star Card House is at a complete disadvantage. Firstly, its foundation itself is very weak, and secondly, the game is released very quickly.
This is exactly the rhythm of starting sales as soon as the news is released.
"And..." Uncle Page suddenly said, "You should focus on the lord group, let them play Mario every day, and see if you can add some elements of exploration into it."
The Lord team is the project team of Page Games that is incubating a new game, and Lord is the temporary code name of this new game.
With more than 2,000 people in the company, it can be considered a giant. Naturally, it is impossible to only brew one game for a whole year. After all, doing so does not comply with the business rule of "cannot put eggs in one basket".
"My dear, the promotion of this game will start next month." Lao Wang looked a little embarrassed, "Aren't you asking us to delay the ticket?"
"Let's give it a try. The project team's overtime pay and other matters can be discussed." Bai Peiqi said with a smile, "The game itself is the most important."
"Okay, I'll send them a notice tomorrow, and I'll be your bad guy again." Wang Xitian shook his head.
In almost every game, the boss will have a sudden idea and ask the project team to try to perfect the inspiration to see if it can be perfectly integrated into the game.
In this matter, Lao Wang was responsible for notifying the project team to work overtime and assign additional tasks, while Lao Bai paid overtime pay to employees.
Ever since, the saying "Lao Wang is black, Lao Bai is white" has started to spread in the company.
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Professionals like Uncle Page feel that "Mario Bros." has great potential, and this game will naturally attract attention from all parties.
Moreover, there has never been a company that, like Carp Star Card House, would display real-time sales on the homepage of its official website for everyone to see.
Whether it is game companies in the industry or the game marketing accounts of major media websites, there is only one comment on this behavior.
That is - crazy.
The sales volume of almost every game is hidden when it is released.
Sometimes some beautification will be carried out before it will be displayed in front of players. For example, the sales volume is 119,000, but externally it is 120,000. This kind of practice can be seen everywhere.
After the game conference, sales of "Mario Bros." began to rise rapidly.
By noon the next day, sales had exceeded the 130,000 mark.
At this time, only 16 hours have passed since the game was released.
However, the sales speed of a game will definitely slowly decrease, and the increase rate of homepage numbers has begun to slow down.
At 8 p.m., the number exceeded 180,000.
In other words, the 24-hour sales of "Mario Bros." are fixed at this point.
In response to this phenomenon, major self-media have also revealed the performance of the industry benchmark "Star Force 2".
——Sales volume in 24 hours was 200,000.
"Star Force 2" narrowly won.
Seeing this data, all parties' opinions on Mario have changed again.
The most obvious one is the little bad website.
After yesterday's game conference, the game area of Xiaolan Station was full of praise.
But now, it has turned into doubt.
Almost all the short videos ask: "Can Mario Bros. really break Star Force 2's record?"
Recently, Lu Li also had some leisure time that he had not seen for a long time. Apart from the two-point and one-line campus life, all he had to do was to pay attention to the game sales.
Seeing the wallflowers at Xiaolan Station, he just smiled.
He knew that whether they were praising or questioning, the people who made the videos were probably the same people.
For them, changing perspectives is just a matter of switching accounts.
This group of people will never go against the grain, and arguing with them will accomplish nothing.
No matter what others say, it is impossible to put down the quality of the game.
Public opinion and reputation of a game are important, but the most important thing is whether players like the game.
At this point, all the personnel work has been done, and the rest is just waiting for the results.
The clock is ticking.
After 36 hours, 280,000 were sold.
After 48 hours, 340,000 were sold.
In 60 hours, the pre-sale ended, with sales of 430,000.
At this time, there is still half a day left before 72 hours.
