giants of the era

Chapter 187 Entering the United States!

Flamingo-1 sold so well in RB, beyond Li Zetian's expectation, it sold a total of nearly 11 million units in November alone.

When Nintendo released the FC game console that year, although it was already very popular, it was not so exaggerated. It only sold more than 130 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 FC at that time, it brought three games with it: "Popeye", "Donkey Kong" and "Donkey Kong Jr.".

When Flamingo-1 was released, it had "Super Mario", "Contra", "Tank War", "Double Dragon", "Salamander", "Galaxy Warrior", "Legend of Zelda" , "Pac-Man", "Donkey Kong", "Super Arkanoid", "Chinese Cubes" 11 games.

The difference between the two is too great!
The game itself is so classic, coupled with the large number, it exploded completely crazy!Flamingo's games were dropped on RB one after another like atomic bombs, causing an unprecedented sensation!
Currently, USD/JPY is almost 1:250.

The Flamingo-1 console is priced at 5 yen ($200).

In November, Flamingo's revenue from consoles alone was 11 billion yen ($5000 billion)
Flamingo-1 game consoles are not the most profitable, but game cassettes are the most profitable!

每张游戏卡带的售价为7500日元（30美元），总共卖出了近8000万张游戏卡带，即6000亿日元（24亿美元）。

Additionally, game novels sold 1000 million copies at 500 yen each, for a total of 50 billion yen ($2000 million). RB people like to read comics, and game comics have sold 5000 million copies at 1250 yen each, for a total of 625 billion yen ($2.5 million).

Based on the above, the statistics show that in November alone, Flamingo’s revenue in RB reached an astonishing 11 billion yen (11650 billion U.S. dollars)!

The Flamingo Company has achieved such impressive results, shocking the world!

What is amazing is that this is only the RB market, and there is a bigger US market waiting for Flamingo!In addition, there is a European game market with great development potential!
"My God, Flamingo has activated the global game market. It used to be a market of billions of dollars, but now it has become a market of tens of billions of dollars, and Flamingo will occupy more than 90% of the game market! "

Countless game development companies have lamented.

The scale of the Ant Factory is now getting bigger and bigger. At first, Li Zetian thought that the production capacity of 500 million was enough, but it was far from enough, so he had to recruit more people.There are more game markets around the world waiting for Flamingo to explore!
Soon, the much-anticipated Black Friday is here. This is the beginning of the big Christmas purchases in the United States, and it is also the time for the release of Flamingo's game consoles!
American players have long been looking forward to it. Many people shop on the floor and line up all night, just to buy the game console in the morning!Such a grand occasion is rare before!

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 there are naturally 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 250 million!
Other than shock, people can no longer 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 time only took five short days.

On the fifth day, the Flamingo Company sold a total of 700 million units in the United States, while the total sales of the Atari 2600 in the United States did not reach 700 million units.

On the sixth day, another 59 Flamingo-1 game consoles were sold.

On the seventh day, another 41 Flamingo-1 game consoles were sold.

Looking at the data sets, all the game companies were envious and jealous. Within a week, the sales volume of Flamingo-1 reached a terrifying 800 million units!The vast majority of American households are buying the Flamingo-1 game console.

The Atari 2600 has apparently been dumped a few blocks away!

In addition to the sales of the Flamingo-1 game console and game cassettes, novels, and comics, the revenue of Flamingo reached 38 billion US dollars.

The sales in North America alone reached 38 billion US dollars in one week, and Flamingo created an unprecedented myth!
However, regardless of the large sales, the Flamingo-1 game console is almost unprofitable. It is sold at cost price, first occupying the market, and then making money from game cartridges.In the future, with the improvement of the manufacturing process and the reduction of the price of spare parts, the Flamingo-1 game console will be able to bring profits.

Apple.

Vincent Gay was frowning and depressed. He didn't expect that Flamingo was so powerful and developed so many classic games, making Flamingo-1 game console quickly beat Atari 2600 and became the overlord of game consoles.

The opponents that Apple will face in the future are simply too powerful!
Vincent Gay is not half sure that the game console developed by Apple can beat the Flamingo-1 game console...

It would have been nice if Apple hadn't had a console development project in the first place, but the project is already halfway through, and it would cost Apple dearly if it were abandoned halfway.However, continuing to develop may be a bigger mistake!

Vincent Gay was flustered and indecisive.

Not long after, Thomas Rockefeller arrived.

"Mr. Rockefeller, Flamingo is too powerful. Will Apple's game console development project continue?" Vincent Gay asked.

Thomas Rockefeller frowned and said: "Of course it will continue, Apple has invested so much money! What's more, the game console that Apple is currently developing uses the latest technology, so it is more advanced than Flamingo-1, and has Certain 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, "Alright! By the way, Mr. Rockefeller, I heard that Warner Bros. intends to sell Sunbird..."

"what is the price?"

"$20 billion!"

Thomas Rockefeller smiled contemptuously and said, "Sunbird Company is obviously failing. It's worth a few hundred million dollars at most! It's worth two billion dollars. I'm afraid no one is willing to buy it!"

"Yes," Vincent Gay said with a smile, "but there's no way. Warner Bros. won't be able to recover the cost if they don't sell so much. When they bought Sunbird, they spent more than 40 billion U.S. dollars."

Yes, that's right, Warner Bros. is planning to sell Sunbird. The board of directors judges that Sunbird can no longer bring profits to the company. The sooner it sells, the better.

At this time, the Sunbird Company panicked.

Wu Guangguang frowned and sat in the office, silent for a long time.

When Li Zetian founded Flamingo, when Nolan Bushnell jumped over, he didn't go.In his view, Sunbird Company is already the dominant player in the industry. With its monopoly position in the industry, Flamingo Company cannot defeat Sunbird Company.

If he stays in Sunbird Company, he will be the CEO, the helm of the company. If he wants to sleep with the secretary, he can sleep with the secretary. No one dares to gossip.But when he went to Flamingo Company, he had to look at Li Zetian's face, and he couldn't touch the secretary. Although he was the CEO in name, Li Zetian still had the final say inside the company.

Wu Guangguang is used to giving orders by himself. Although he was single-handedly selected by Li Zetian to be the CEO of Sunbird, he finally chose to betray him and work for Warner Bros.

It's just that he never imagined that in just over a year, Sunbird Company has fallen from the dominance of the game, and now it has been reduced to the end of being sold.

"If I had known today, I would have gone to seek refuge with Chronos Li..." Wu Guangguang sighed, full of regret.

As soon as December was over, Li Zetian announced a news that shocked the game industry - the royalty system!

"In the era of Atari 2600, the market was flooded with a lot of garbage games and pornographic games. In order to ensure the quality of the games, all third-party game developers who want to develop on the Flamingo-1 game console platform All merchants adopt a royalty system.

The royalty system stipulates that:
1. Flamingo Company will review each game;
2. Third-party manufacturers are required to release only 5 games per year;
3. Third-party manufacturers need to predict the sales volume of their own products, and then Flamingo will produce game cassettes. 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 their dissatisfaction.

This approach is beneficial to the Flamingo Company, and it has obtained considerable profits under such rules, and completely throws the risk to third-party manufacturers.

The Flamingo Company is simply outrageous!overbearing!Invincible!
At this moment, 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?"

"Is there any good or bad..." Li Zetian said indifferently, "Now we have the final say. If game companies want to make money, they must abide by our rules! By doing this, we are also rectifying the game environment!"

Of course, Li Zetian knew that the royalty system made the game companies angry and resentful. In his previous life, the grievances caused by the tyranny planted hidden dangers for Nintendo, which led to the rise of Sony.However, Nintendo itself is also trying to die, and has been sticking to game cassettes, while Sony uses CDs as game storage media, which is more popular among players.

Nolan Bushnell still showed a hint of worry on his face, Li Zetian patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Don't worry, they will compromise!"

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