Thinking that his company's world No. 1 game record would be broken by the games of other companies, Yamauchi was a little upset, and then came up with some small ideas.
"Mr. Iwata, you asked the people in the marketing planning department to prepare a marketing plan for me. The requirement is to make the sales of Super Mario exceed 48 million within three months, and we must keep the position of the world's first game!" Pu Dao in Yamauchi.
"President, this... This..." even the resourceful Iwata Cong is a little speechless. Although the sales record of Super Mario's 42 million is still growing, it was a game launched in 1985. With the launch of Super Mario Brothers 3, the first game cassette is still on sale, but the sales growth has been quite slow, The maximum increase is only 10000 or 20000 a month.
Now shannei Pu will grow to 48 million in three months. Isn't it difficult for people? Even if you threaten those people in the planning department by committing suicide, they can't do this!
"Cough, I know it's very difficult, so you can use your brains. In fact, the sales volume of Pokemon is not as good as that of our Super Mario Brothers, but because they have red and green versions, many players buy them again."
"You see what I mean!"
"Yes! President" Yamauchi's meaning was immediately understood by Iwata Cong. Yamauchi Pu wants the company to launch a new version of Super Mario Brothers green, so that many Super Mario Brothers' loyal powder can be consumed again and buy another Super Mario Brothers.
"But President, we've got Super Mario Brothers 3 now. If we want to make it, we should also make a revision of Super Mario Brothers 3. How can we make his first generation!" Iwata said with a bitter smile.
"But the sales volume of the third generation is very bad, right? Now it's only 12 million copies, which proves that compared with the first generation, the Super Mario Brothers 3 can't hold up the wall!" Yamauchi said faintly.
In fact, Super Mario Brothers 3 was launched in 1988. It is precisely because the sales volume of Super Mario Brothers 3 is very tragic, so Nintendo has basically given up launching the following orthodox horizontal version of Super Mario Brothers to pass online games, and replaced them with games such as Mario World.
"So, I suddenly came up with an idea, can we restart the first generation Super Mario?" Yamauchi patted his thigh "I think it's a good idea. You ask the development department to make the first generation of Super Mario Brothers for me with the latest technology. Basically, all the original contents and colored eggs are retained, but the display effect should be better. At the same time, an additional hidden level should be designed as the new content of this version!"
"Well, I've figured out the name. It's called Super Mario Brothers plus, which means better content and quality than the first film before!"
"Ah..." Iwata's mouth was wide open. For the first time, he found that Pu's creative ability in the mountain was also very terrible!
"Don't open your mouth here, I'll ask you, can you do this?" Shan Neipu scolded.
"No problem! Absolutely!" Iwata immediately replied that on reflection, the president's idea is actually quite good. Take out the most popular Super Mario Brothers and make them again. Then those caring customers will be eager to buy these games immediately. Maybe there will be tens of millions of sales. Nintendo's financial report this year will be good, Isn't he expected to get a promotion and a raise?
However, there is another problem.
"President, if we make Super Mario Brothers plus, it should not be the same game. Their sales should not be superimposed together!"
"Asshole, who said it couldn't be superimposed? What you said or what I said?" Yamauchi wanted to kick Iwata Cong. This guy usually looks very smart. Why is he so stupid at this time?
"As like as two peas of the two games, but how can the picture change? How can we not make a game? As long as we have decided this is a game, which media dare to fart there, believe it or not, let him never report the news and information of any game of Nintendo!" Iwata So see light suddenly.
Then Iwata Cong began to work hard, because he knew very well that Yamauchi Pu would never want to see the sales of Pokemon surpass the sales of Super Mario Brothers, even for a minute.
Therefore, Iwata immediately convened all the elite of the company's three development teams and asked them to immediately put down everything in their hands and fully develop the Super Mario Brothers plus version.
Although the major development teams complained about this, after Yamauchi publicly praised Iwata Cong, no one dared to put forward opinions.
In addition, because the original game is reproduced, all data and level materials are ready-made, and even the development platform has not changed, so most of the code can be used, but some art materials need to be updated to create a small new level.
Therefore, the development department acted quickly. In less than half a month, it did not make this Super Mario Brothers plus, and then put it on sale.
Not to mention, once the Super Mario Brothers plus was on the shelves, it quickly aroused the feelings of the majority of people. This reset game reminds many children of the scenes when they used to play the Super Mario Brothers.
As a result, the sales volume of Super Mario Brothers plus exceeded 3 million in one week. In one month, the sales volume exceeded 8 million. It is estimated that it will sell more than 20 million in the end.
Nintendo said publicly that because the contents of the two games are the same, but the name has changed a little, the sales of the two games should be counted together. Therefore, the Super Mario Brothers, whose sales record was stable at 42 million, became 45 million after a star period, A month later, it became the first game with a sales volume of more than 50 million in the world.
Many Nintendo and Super Mario Brothers die hard fans began to cheer wildly.
"Shit! Nintendo is so unscrupulous. It's only 94 years. They've tossed the reprint and plus!" and when boss Jia received the news that the Super Mario Brothers plus was on sale, the whole people were shocked.
I feel that the whole game history has been distorted by our boss Jia.
Nintendo also found that the reset version or plus is a good business. You can reset some old games in the future!
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"By the way, Mr. Iwata, I have another question!" in fact, there was such a small clip during the conversation that day.
"Excuse me, President?"
"How much money can Jia Yapeng make for such a small thing with a price of only $9 and a real cost of about $7 after deducting the profits and taxes of channel providers? Can he really make money?
"This..." Iwata Cong stopped talking. He really couldn't understand how a pocket electronic pet machine, which has basically entered the threshold of the game console, reduced the cost to less than $7. It's terrible!