Chapter 496: The salted fish turns over and is still the salted fish
“As of 8 o’clock last night, the sales of “Rainbow Six: Siege” in the second week exceeded 3 million units, and global sales exceeded 7.5 million units,”
“Compared with the same period last year, the sales volume of “Alien: Endless Tide” was approximately 43% higher…”
Golden Wind, President’s Office.
Shen Miaomiao, who was lying on the sofa nearby with a lollipop in her mouth, was listening to Chu Qingzhou's report to Gu Sheng, with a look of helplessness and decadence in her eyes.
At this time, two weeks have passed since the release of Rainbow Six.
Although Shen Miaomiao was heartbroken about the sales reported by Chu Qingzhou, she was not surprised.
After all, she already knew last night—
Two weeks, yesterday was the day when the documents for "Rainbow Six" were settled. She had already seen the data of this project.
Can't lose, not at all.
It’s so cruel!
Shen Miaomiao sighed secretly.
If you can't find another way to invest huge amounts of money in units of hundreds of millions of dollars, it will be really difficult to earn some rebates from Lao Gu.
You need to know!
The total production cost of "Rainbow Six" is 202 million U.S. dollars, which is definitely not low.
If you include the 25% commission from the two platforms of Yiyou and Xunteng, just this cost alone would require a total sales of more than 270 million U.S. dollars to recover the capital.
On this basis, they have also reached an industrial alliance and technology sharing cooperation with Jiguang Games.
The two parties jointly funded the technical upgrade of the golden engine, with a total investment of more than $65 million.
Sixty-five million.
In any case, this investment is not low.
If the price of a game is 60 dollars, the cost of this engine upgrade alone would require them to sell nearly 1.1 million more units of the game to make up for it.
Including game development costs including a 25% commission of 270 million U.S. dollars.
If "Rainbow Six" wants to make back its money, it must at least reach a total sales volume of 335 million U.S. dollars within the specified two weeks, which is equivalent to nearly 5.6 million sets of the game!
Let’s not talk about others! Just look at our "old friend" Yunwei!
There is nothing wrong with this "Alien: Endless Tide" overall, right?
It is neither as boring as "High Energy Pioneer" nor as abstract as "Lord of the Rings: Gollum"!
Whether it is gameplay or industrial quality, they are all top-notch.
Moreover, it is also the first to be equipped with the most theoretically advanced Fantasy VI engine on the market. It is also the only game in the world to be produced using the sixth generation of Fantasy VI.
Game quality, industrial quality, and technical content are far ahead in all aspects!
They only sold more than 4.2 million units in two weeks!
Look at our side again?
7.5 million sets in two weeks!
This is what you did as a human being!
The equivalent of the investment of 65 million was poured in, and there was no splash at all.
Mr. Gu easily passed the line by selling casually, and more than recovered his capital.
Can’t lose.
Can't lose anything at all.
Rao was mentally prepared, but when faced with such outrageous sales results, she was still more or less depressed.
Lao Gu has always been a stumbling block on her way to repay... Oh no, it's a "stumbling block".
This product is like an insurmountable mountain, standing between her and the rebate.
Theoretically speaking, of all the works he has handled, none has lost money.
Even "Garden Warfare", which is slightly short among many games, did not cause losses from a sales perspective.
Four years, all victories, no defeat.
God knows what kind of monster this guy is.
and!
Nowadays, with the increasing global popularity of Golden Wind, Yiyou and Xunteng somatosensory cabins occupy an increasing market share globally.
It is getting harder and harder to lose your own money.
This can be seen from their latest release of "Rainbow Six".
You must know that the release of Cailiu was very sudden. It can almost be said that it was "streaking" on the shelves without any warning.
But even so!
There are still a large number of anchors who bought the game for the first time to live broadcast, and a large number of players rushed to tell each other on social platforms to experience it for the first time.
It can be said that their influence is now at the global T0 level, and they can compete with the top manufacturers across the Eastern and Western hemispheres like Yunwei.
This situation is naturally good news for Lao Gu and even the entire Golden Wind.
But for Shen Miaomiao...
This money is getting harder and harder to lose.
At this time, it is completely impossible to achieve losses based on pure "game production costs".
If you want to get a rebate, you have to -
…"Kill the Dreams and buy off their technology."
Gu Sheng took a sip of tea and thought deeply.
7.5 million sets were sold in two weeks, surpassing Yunwei by 43% year-on-year.
This result can be said to be in perfect line with their previous expectations.
Now Yunwei's stock price has just improved slightly due to the early announcement of "Endless Dark Tide", but it has once again fallen into a downturn due to the loss of competition after the release.
Fantasy VI, which had high hopes at the beginning, under the banner of "redefining new next-generation somatosensory gaming experiences", was also seriously affected. Not only did its market value not increase with the early release of the sixth-generation engine, but it actually dropped from the previous level. It's faster.
After all, before it was released, Fantasy had hyped up this new engine, which was both "redefining" and "innovating the era".
Investors are looking forward to the release of Fantasy VI to kill everyone. Yunwei, who is in early access, can kill everyone and create a new myth of somatosensory cabin games.
result! In two weeks, Cai Liu was beaten like a roasted sweet potato that had fallen on the ground and been run over by a garbage truck.
You should know that although Fantasy is a company in the field of game technology, not all investors have a deep understanding of this industry.
Even many investors’ understanding of this industry is not as profound as fishing.
Most of the time, investors judge investment prospects through profit and loss.
Your new technology is coming out to kill everyone. If you are awesome, I will increase investment and seize the opportunity.
This new technology is not a splash when it comes out, so you are rubbish, I will reduce investment, or even withdraw immediately.
Share price affects market value, and investor confidence affects stock price.
Investors were originally expecting you to turn around.
It turned out that the salted fish turned over and was still a salted fish.
The growth rate of market value decline is naturally expected.
Perhaps given time and waiting for the further fermentation of public opinion, more investors will give up hope before hesitating. Sooner or later, the market value of Fantasy will fall below the bottom and be pocketed by them.
But for Gu Sheng.
Time is money.
He couldn't wait that long.
Because there are four more months.
The Dongjin Neon Game Festival is about to open.
Although theoretically speaking, he has experienced all four major exhibitions in the world, and now he can be regarded as a frequent visitor to the four major exhibitions. It is not surprising to participate in the Neon Game Festival.
But this time, it’s different from before—
Yiyu x3 is expected to be officially released at the Dongjin Game Festival.
And their Golden Wind is naturally the number one supplier of **** masterpieces.
Yiyou is an old loyal minister after all.
From the beginning of the Small Game Festival to now, more than four years have passed. The cooperation between Golden Wind and Yiyou has always been extremely pleasant, and the relationship between Gu Sheng and Yan Sheng has always been very good.
So for both public and private purposes, they must join hands with the entertainment industry during the Neon Game Festival in November to set foot in Dongjin.
If the time comes, they will be able to use Fantasy’s “reality augmented” technology in the **** game.
Coupled with Shangyiyou’s new generation “Full Sense Assist Pro” technology.
Second life in the virtual world will no longer be an imagination.
"Got to speed up the fantasy..."
Gu Sheng murmured.
Helping death.
The current situation is obvious.
Following the blow from "Rainbow Six", Fantasy's poor performance in the market has put them in deep trouble.
But it is undeniable that many investors are still hesitant at this time. After all, Fantasy VI has not yet been officially launched, and some people have hopes for Fantasy’s final comeback.
This is also the reason why Huanmeng’s stock price has not plummeted.
So it seems so!
The situation is clear.
Even though Gu Sheng knew very well that if he continued to wait and waited for Huanmeng's market value to fall all the way, they would be the winners sooner or later.
But he doesn’t have that much time to waste with fantasy.
Now, one more work is needed to take over the spear from Rainbow Six and give Fantasy the final fatal blow.
And this work!
“…We might as well repeat the old trick and teach forehand and backhand again.”
Shen Miaomiao took out the lollipop from her mouth with a cunning look on her little face.
OK!
There is another new project!
Hearing Gu Sheng's analysis and plan, Shen Miaomiao, who was originally lacking in interest, couldn't help but perked up.
Nothing else matters.
To her, the two most valuable messages Gu Sheng said were "Kill Huanmeng and buy their reality augmentation technology" and "Exchange money for time to accelerate Huanmeng's downfall."
It’s all about throwing money!
And if it succeeds, the 2.7 billion in her hand will be put to use in three or four months!
This opportunity cannot be missed, and it will never come back!
Hence, Shen Miaomiao had an idea and prepared to give Yunwei and Huan Meng some forehand and backhand lessons again!
Your "Endless Dark Tide" failed in sales, wasn't it?
Okay then, I will only demonstrate it once.
Same type, same form, let me teach you how to play this kind of game!
Only this most intuitive comparison can kill the game most effectively!
Hear the words!
Gu Sheng couldn't help but his eyes lit up.
indeed.
If at this time, they can launch a game that is not much different from "Alien: Infinity Tide" in genre, but completely crushes this rigid replica in terms of gameplay creativity, and with the guidance of public opinion, it will definitely be possible. Completely shatter the illusions of those investors who still have a wait-and-see attitude towards Fantasy, and then completely kill the game and knock Fantasy to the bottom.
"and!"
Speaking of this, Shen Miaomiao has another clever idea:
“In addition, there is one more thing we need to pay special attention to...”
(End of this chapter)