Chapter 495: Salted Fish Turns Over, Still Salted Fish
“As of 8pm last night, Rainbow Six: Siege has sold over 3 million copies in its second week, with global sales exceeding 7.5 million copies,”
"Compared with Alien: Endless Dark Tides, sales are about 43% higher..."
Golden Wind, President's Office.
Shen Miaomiao, who was lying on the sofa with a lollipop in her mouth, listened to Chu Qingzhou's report to Gu Sheng, with a look of helplessness and decadence in her eyes.
At this point, it has been two weeks since the release of Rainbow Six.
Although Shen Miaomiao felt hurt by the sales volume reported by Chu Qingzhou, she was not surprised.
After all, she already knew last night——
Two weeks have passed. Yesterday was the day for the settlement of the Rainbow Six invoice. She had already looked at the data for this project.
No loss, not at all.
It's so fucking cruel!
Shen Miaomiao sighed secretly.
If you can't find another way to invest huge amounts of money worth billions of dollars, it would be extremely difficult to make some rebates from Lao Gu.
You must know!
The total production cost of "Rainbow Six" is 202 million US dollars, which is definitely not low.
If we take into account the 25% commission of the two platforms, Yiyu and Xun Teng, the total sales would need to exceed 270 million US dollars to make a profit just for this cost.
On this basis, they also reached an industrial alliance and technology sharing cooperation with Aurora Games.
The two parties jointly invested in upgrading the technology of the Golden Engine, with a total investment of more than 65 million US dollars.
Sixty-five million.
No matter how you look at it, this investment is not low.
If the game is priced at $60 per copy, the cost of the engine upgrade alone would require them to sell nearly 1.1 million more copies of the game to make up for it.
Add to that the game development costs, which include a 25% commission of $270 million.
If Rainbow Six wants to make a profit, it must at least reach a total sales amount of $335 million within the specified two weeks, which is equivalent to nearly 5.6 million copies of the game!
Let’s not talk about others! Let’s just look at our “old friend” Yunwei!
There's nothing wrong with this game "Alien: Infinity War" overall, right?
It's neither as pitfall-ridden as "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" nor as abstract as "The Lord of the Rings: Gollum"!
Both the gameplay and industrial quality are first-class.
Moreover, it is the first to be equipped with the most advanced theoretically advanced Huanmeng VI engine on the market, and it is also the only game in the world that is produced using the sixth generation Huanmeng engine.
Game quality, industrial quality, and technological content are all far ahead!
They only sold more than 4.2 million sets in two weeks!
Look at our side again?
7.5 million sets in two weeks !
Is this what a human being does?
It's like the 65 million investment went in but didn't make a single splash.
Mr. Gu easily crossed the line by just selling anything and made more than his investment back.
No loss.
There is no loss at all.
Even though she was mentally prepared, she was still more or less depressed when faced with such outrageous sales results.
All along, Lao Gu has been a stumbling block on her road to rebates... oh no, it's a "stumbling mountain".
This thing was like an insurmountable mountain, standing between her and the rebate.
Theoretically speaking, none of the works he handled lost money.
Even Garden Warfare, which had some shortcomings among the many games, did not cause losses from a sales perspective.
Four years, all victories, no defeats.
God knows what kind of monster this guy is.
and!
Today, as Golden Wind’s global popularity grows, Yiyou and Xunteng’s motion sensing cabins are occupying an increasingly larger market share around the world.
It's becoming increasingly difficult to lose my own money.
This can be seen from their latest game, Rainbow Six.
You know, the release of Rainbow Six was very sudden, and it can almost be said that it was put on the shelves "naked" without any warning.
But even so!
There are still a large number of anchors who bought the game as soon as possible to broadcast it live, and a large number of players spread the word on social platforms to experience it firsthand.
It can be said that their influence today has reached the global T0 level, and they can compete with top companies like Yunwei that span the Eastern and Western Hemispheres.
This situation is naturally good news for Lao Gu and even the entire Golden Wind.
But for Shen Miaomiao...
It's becoming increasingly difficult to lose this money.
At this point, it is completely impossible to achieve losses simply by relying on "game production costs".
If you want to get a rebate, you have to...
"...destroy Huanmeng and buy out their technology."
Gu Sheng took a sip of tea and pondered.
7.5 million units in two weeks, crushing Yunwei by 43% year-on-year.
This result can be said to be perfectly in line with their previous expectations.
Now, Yunwei’s stock price, which had just improved slightly due to the early promotion of "Endless Dark Tides", has once again fallen due to the competition failure after the release.
The Fantasy VI, which was once highly anticipated and advertised as "redefining the new experience of next-generation somatosensory gaming", was also seriously affected. Not only did its market value not increase with the early release of the sixth-generation engine, but it fell faster than before.
It’s not that it’s hard to understand.
After all, before it was released, Huanmeng praised this new engine to the skies, calling it "redefining" and "innovating the era."
Investors are all looking forward to the release of Huanmeng VI to make a big splash, and Yunwei, who has been given the early experience, will be able to make a big splash and create a new myth of somatosensory cabin games.
result!
In two weeks, Cailiu was beaten like a roasted sweet potato that fell to the ground and was run over by a dump truck.
You know, although Huanmeng is a company in the field of gaming technology, not all investors have a deep understanding of this industry.
Even many investors' understanding of this industry is not as deep as their understanding of fishing bait.
Most of the time, investors judge investment prospects based on profit and loss situations.
If your new technology can take over everyone, then you are awesome. I will increase my investment to seize the initiative.
If your new technology doesn't make any splash, then it's rubbish. I will reduce my investment or even withdraw immediately.
Stock prices affect market capitalization and investor confidence affects stock prices.
Investors were originally expecting you to make a comeback.
It turns out that even if a salted fish turns over, it is still a salted fish.
The growth rate of the decline in market value was naturally expected.
Perhaps in the future, as public opinion ferments further and more investors give up hope while hesitating, Huanmeng's market value will sooner or later fall below the bottom and be taken into their pockets.
But for Gu Sheng.
Time is money.
He couldn't wait that long.
Because there are still four months.
The Japan Game Festival in Tokyo is about to begin.
Although theoretically he has already experienced all four major exhibitions in the world, and can now be called a regular at the four major exhibitions, it is not surprising that he participated in the Japan Game Festival.
But this time, it was different from before.
Yiyou x3 is expected to be officially released at this Tokyo Game Festival.
And they, Golden Wind, are naturally the first supplier of escort masterpieces.
Yiyou is an old loyal minister after all.
From the Mini Game Festival to now, more than four years have passed, and 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 reasons, during the Japan Game Festival in November, Golden Wind must join hands with Yiyou and march to Tokyo.
If by then, they will be able to use Huanmeng's "augmented reality" technology in the escort masterpiece.
Combined with Yiyu's new generation of "Full Sense Assist Pro" technology.
The second life in the virtual world will no longer be just an imagination.
"We need to speed up Huanmeng..."
Gu Sheng murmured.
Accelerate death.
The current situation is obvious.
Under the impact of Rainbow Six, Psychedelic's poor performance in the market has already put them in a quagmire.
But it is undeniable that there are still many investors who are still hesitating at this time. After all, Fantasy Dream VI has not been officially launched yet, and some people still have hope that Fantasy Dream will finally make a comeback.
This is also the fundamental reason why Huanmeng’s stock price has not collapsed.
So it seems so!
The situation is very clear.
Although Gu Sheng knew very well that if they continued to wait and wait for Huanmeng's market value to drop, they would be the winners sooner or later.
But he doesn't have that much time to waste on fantasy dreams.
Now, we need another work to take over the spear from Rainbow Six and give the final fatal blow to Phantasm.
And this work!
"… Let's repeat the same trick and teach forehand and backhand again."
Shen Miaomiao took the lollipop out of her mouth, a sly look on her little face.
OK!
There is a new project again!
After hearing Gu Sheng's analysis and plan, Shen Miaomiao, who was originally uninterested, couldn't help but become excited.
Nothing else matters.
To her, the two most valuable pieces of news that Gu Sheng said were "kill Huanmeng and buy their augmented reality technology" and "use money to exchange time to accelerate the downfall of Huanmeng."
It's all about spending money!
And if successful, in three or four months, the 2.7 billion yuan in her hands will be put to good use!
Opportunity is fleeting , once lost, it will never come back!
So, Shen Miaomiao had an idea and prepared to teach Yun Wei and Huan Meng how to use forehand and backhand again!
Didn’t your “Endless Dark Tide” have sales failures?
So watch carefully, I will only demonstrate it once.
Same type, same format, let me teach you how to play this game!
Only such a most intuitive comparison can kill the game most effectively!
Hearing this!
Gu Sheng's eyes couldn't help but light up.
indeed.
If at this time, they could launch a game that is not much different from "Alien: Endless Tides" in type, but completely crushes this rigid copy in terms of gameplay creativity, and then guide public opinion, it will surely be able to completely shatter the fantasies of those investors who are still on the sidelines about Fantasy Dream, and then completely kill the competition and bring Fantasy Dream to the bottom.
"and!"
Speaking of this, Shen Miaomiao has another clever plan:
"Besides that, there is one more thing we need to pay special attention to..."
