178. Changes brought by the dragon game
Shortly after the release of "Blue Dragon", Dragon Ball was released immediately. Because of the blessing of the original work, Dragon Ball sold 400,000 in the first week and 930,000 in the first month. Some analysts pointed out that Zhan Long released two games almost at the same time, "Blue Dragon"
"Dragon" has affected the sales of "Dragon Ball".
All this was what Zhan Long had expected before.
For a fan-oriented game, only those who love the original work will have a strong desire to buy it. Non-original fans actually have little impact on sales, unless the game has a huge reputation.
"Blue Dragon" was first and foremost, and had an unparalleled reputation for a while. "Dragon Ball" was much bleaker in comparison.
One newspaper commented: "It was Akira Toriyama who defeated Akira Toriyama!" In fact, this was only half correct, and the other half should be: "It was Akira Toriyama's script that defeated Akira Toriyama!"
In the game "Blue Dragon", the amount of information is 300,000 words. In "Dragon Ball", the amount of information is 50,000 words. Six times the amount of information brings changes in sales.
In the FC era, 900,000 sales for a game is actually not low, but it mainly depends on who you compare with.
Compared with other Dragon Wars games, the sales volume of "Dragon Ball" is actually below average.
So when Toriyama Akira knew that his manga game sales were only one-fifth of Blue Dragon, he complained while playing Blue Dragon: "When Subbutong comes again, I will teach him a lesson!" This really sweet gesture is also
It also represents the attitude of many Dragon Ball fans. They are somewhat dissatisfied with Zhan Long's arrangements for the release of the game. In their view, if "Dragon Ball" is released first, "Dragon Ball" may be the one with the highest sales volume now. This has led to many
Fans of the original work were very angry, so they said they would not buy the Blue Dragon game to increase sales of War Dragon, but they still secretly bought a set, telling themselves - after all, this is the original painting by Akira Toriyama, and after playing it - it was really delicious.
No one can escape the law of true fragrance.
No one noticed that Enix published a new advertisement in a game magazine - "Dragon Quest" will be released in May. The entire industry's attention is focused on the first RPG created by Dragon Warrior.
In fact, the story of this game is directed by Yuji Horii, and Koichi Sugiyama is responsible for the game music composition. In Nintendo's internal evaluation, it is not inferior to "Blue Dragon". Even in terms of music, everyone feels that the music of "Blue Dragon" is better.
It's a bit weird and doesn't completely fit the theme of the game. On the other hand, the music of "Dragon Quest" is really impeccable.
But just as no one remembers who was the second person to land on the moon, the fate of this game, which was released immediately after "Blue Dragon", is actually uncertain because everyone has been spoiled by the battle dragon.
Now, can it be called a game without a weather system? - You mean the rainy and windy weather in "Hot Blooded Soccer"? Do you want to use this technology? It belongs to Zhanlong, please pay the copyright fee.
Can it be called a game without a few CG images on the screen? - The original painting of Diao Chan in "Three Kingdoms" has captured the hearts of many otakus since it came out! Want to use CG bitmap technology in the game? Nintendo doesn't have it. Please use it if you want.
Purchase from War Dragon.
Can a current game be called an interesting game without a guide book? - It is said that the guide book of "Blue Dragon" has a circulation of 6 million copies, which is 1 million more copies sold than the game! Because some players who cannot buy the game temporarily can buy it first
This guide will help you solve your cravings.
Can today's games be called games without Easter eggs? - Without adding a few Easter eggs into the game, how can players find the fun for two weeks? Easter eggs? You don't need to buy technology from Zhanlong for Easter eggs, but how many programmers have lost their hair because of the idea?
During the Easter egg segment, more drops were dropped than usual, Soul Dan Fighting Dragon!
There is a feeling of hostility towards Zhan Long in the industry right now, because the bad thing about Zhan Long as a company is that it particularly pleases players, and who has ever heard of a game that remains very popular a few months after its release?
For games made by other companies, their popularity will basically disappear within two months at most! But this does not apply to the game of War Dragon at all. "Castlevania" was released on Christmas last year. In recent months, players can still find someone else in the game.
An undiscovered easter egg made the news. How can other games get this kind of treatment?
Zhan Long has left other game companies almost out of business.
Two days after the release of "Dragon Ball", some players discovered the first Easter egg.
"The best martial arts club in the world."
"Dragon Ball" is a level-breaking game. After the sixth level, the plot of Kame Sennin will appear. After the dialogue, Little Wukong will enter the training mini-game. During the training process, if the player controls Little Wukong, all the objects falling from the sky will appear.
If all the stones are broken, you will be qualified to enter the world's best martial arts club. After obtaining the qualification, at the beginning of the seventh level, talk to Qiqi who appears at the door and choose - "I'm going to compete."
The screen will jump to the world's best martial arts club.
Then the player as Little Wukong will challenge martial arts masters from all over the world. If Little Wukong defeats everyone, a set of passwords will appear. Enter this set of passwords at the start of the game and you will directly enter the two-player fighting mode.
The best martial arts club in the world, all characters are available!
This discovery immediately caused the sales of "Dragon Ball" to buck the trend and increase by 100,000!
Damn it, how can it still be like this! A game company boss threw his cup angrily. 900,000 sales is already very high, can you order some food for us people?
The FC game market is a shrinking market. If you buy one more game from this company, you will lose one less game if you buy another company's game. What's more, the games of these companies and the games of Zhanlong are not of the same size. Zhanlong
The capacity of one game is equal to that of two other games!
That’s not how the game works! Do you know what it means to be kind to others, and know how to leave a way out for yourself? Are you looking a bit ugly?
Of course players don't care about this. Spending the same money, of course they choose the more fun and large-volume ones.
In less than two months, Zhanlong achieved 6 million game sales!
Therefore, under the private initiative of Namco, an anti-war dragon alliance was quietly established. Taking the black war dragon game as their mission and destroying the status of war dragons in the minds of players as their responsibility. They spared no effort to
On various occasions and in various places, there are fighting dragons, who want to compete with them.
"The Dragon Fighting game is not fun and is too young."
"Only those who don't use their brains like to play Dragon Wars games."
Gradually, under the deliberate leadership of the game company, the player group split. They were consciously divided into Dragon War fans and anti-fans.
.........Beyond the dividing line is Zhanlongfen......
Of course, Subudong didn't know all this. Now he is almost completely closed to the outside world.
At this time, he got into the Volga car arranged for him by the ambassador to Japan and went to the place he wanted to go - the Computer Center of the Academy of Sciences.
Originally this place was a top-secret place for foreigners. But with Subutong's policy of smooth words and gifts to open the way, the door was opened for him.
Here, he will meet Comrade Pajitnov, an unknown but famous person in the history of games.
He is unknown because he only has one game that is famous all over the world.
His famous name is that the game is called "Tetris"!
I want to get your copyright no matter what, "Tetris"!
This is the cornerstone of Zhanlong's future development and a stepping stone for Zhanlong to produce any game. As long as this game exists, Zhanlong's people will not worry about funds.
Because the sales volume of this game-425 million copies!
Chapter completed!