Chapter 115 Before Christmas
After all, this was his first successful work, and the game he made in Atari was not as successful as this time.
This time, since he heard the circulating news, he also went to ask Mark Seney, who was easier to talk to, but Mark Seney just smiled mysteriously and did not deny it, so Sean Dabilly was very impressed by this.
After all, he is the most likely person to obtain this qualification, and he also has full confidence in the "Dawn" project he is currently in charge. He cannot guarantee that if this game is truly made, it will not be inferior to "1942".
This is still a humble statement. In fact, only 60% of the settings are needed. Then this game will surpass "1942" in any aspect and become the best of its kind. After all, not all game companies are willing to use more than 20 professional painters to draw thousands of hand-drawn pictures just to complete the explosive effects.
That's why he was so concerned about the release of "Sheriff Balotelli". After all, if this game can be successful, it can verify whether the previous rumor is true.
The day of release happened to be a weekend. Sean Dabilly woke up very early in the morning. He was not surprised to see that it was covered with snow outside. After all, it was almost Christmas, and it was late compared to previous years in California.
After getting up and finishing, he swept the snow in front of the door first, after breakfast, he drove towards Los Angeles.
Before, Fengxing Entertainment also changed the sales method. After all, it was necessary to collect prepayments from others first, and it was too easy for buyers to feel disgusted by not delivering goods for a long time.
It is a good choice to recover funds on a large scale, and it is a good choice to do this when it is the only one in the market. However, now those Japanese manufacturers have clearly seen the popularity of the arcade game market in North America, which is now led by Jester, and they all want to take the opportunity to enter the market to share the food. It would be a bit unwise to offend buyers if they do this.
Especially the recent news of "1942", Capcom officially cooperated with Atari, who returned to the game market, and jointly released their popular arcade game "1942" in the United States. Now the advertising has begun to be carried out on a large scale, and even has long-term advertising on "GAME".
I also sent a game substrate to GAME magazine for the editors to experience it. The purpose of doing so was to let them write a soft article and brag about it.
And Jester also acquiesced to this matter.
He wanted to make this issue of the magazine like the future "Electronic Game Monthly". If he always selectively ignores many excellent games and just blows the games he made, then this game journal can only become a niche.
Just like Nintendo, Sony, or even Microsoft have published their own game journals, but they have not achieved any results, because placing a journal under a game company will inevitably give players a first impression of extreme distrust of the journal.
Not to mention that the content of these journals must be very one-sided.
The most important thing is that the game "1942" is indeed very outstanding. Even if Atari doesn't take the initiative to find Adrian, the magazine will definitely introduce it.
Faced with the poor visitor of Japanese manufacturers, Jester of course also needs to prepare some measures to counter the situation. The first is the franchise plan of the arcade hall. The franchise store takes the lead in getting the goods. Only when the goods from the franchise store are shipped will other pre-purchasers be shipped.
Of course, the sales method of full-payment booking has also been cancelled. After all, I am no longer the kind of person who was the first to lack a lot of funds to carry out various channels. It is time to launch research and development projects, and the pressure of competition is also different from the past. Atari's agent "1942" chose the exact same strategy when Nintendo released "Donnie Kong".
First try for free, then pay.
In addition to the success of this game in Japan, its high reputation in quality, and it is the favorite theme of World War II for Americans, so the number of bookings has also increased sharply.
However, because the specific pre-order amount is Atari's internal data, the outside world is not very clear, but the rumors circulated from the circulating are definitely more than 10,000 units. The most important thing is that the price of this game substrate is only 2,000 US dollars, and the frame will not exceed 2,300 US dollars, and there are also discounts and promotions for pre-orders. The high-price strategy that Jester has been using before is obviously no longer able to continue.
Therefore, Jester also lowered the price of his game. The purchaser who had pre-ordered it and had not shipped it before will compensate the same price when purchasing the next game. As for the refund, Jester never even thought about it. He wanted me to take it out after entering my pocket. You guys are too naive.
Moreover, the current pre-order only requires 40% of the full payment, and the franchise arcade store only requires 20%. Although it is still impossible to compare with Atari's "1942" strategy to play for free first, this can reflect the high quality of its own company's products.
Naturally, I don’t want to learn from Atari’s approach to the declining people.
Sean Dabilly had previously inquired about the pre-order situation of "Sheriff Balotelli" from Fengxing releases, but it seems that the pre-order situation is not particularly good, especially with the free purchase of "1942", which is the restriction that only the franchise arcade hall can be the first to get the goods, and some arcade halls that originally wanted to pre-order as soon as possible but failed to apply to the Mars Entertainment franchise members, which were temporarily stopped, so the data was not very good.
Anyway, it is far inferior to "1942", which pre-ordered more than 10,000 units in less than ten days after the announcement.
So in order to confirm whether this game can really be as popular as the previous Mars Entertainment games, he decided to go to the official release site to see the players' reactions. Only by the on-site reactions can we judge what the game will be like.
Although there are still ten days before Christmas, I still feel a strong Christmas atmosphere in Los Angeles. Many malls are also promoting their Christmas promotions. Many large malls will also give customers a very exquisite Christmas gift buying guide.
Thousands of items are introduced on it in full-color coated paper.
Previously, Atari had announced that their return VCS7200 was officially released on Christmas. In this Christmas gift shopping guide, Sean Dabilli also saw an introduction to this brand new Atari console. The current electronic game market is much hotter than half a year ago. Some players who have grown up playing Atari games also said that they would buy it in the past, but more people still voted for Atari distrust. After all, they were once cheated by Atari too miserably.
Sean Dabilly is actually not optimistic about the success of Atari's game console. After all, whether a game console can be sold is the most important thing about whether there are games that can make players excited on the platform of this game console. According to his own big boss, it is worthless to have no game console that can make players have a strong desire to buy games.
Although the Atari's game console is even better in terms of functionality than the version six months ago, they lack the final heavyweight game and do not have the ability to compete with their new game consoles.
The only thing that this game console is probably backward compatible with all the games on VCS2600, which may attract many players with nostalgia. But then again, I was talking about what my boss said at the meeting. Generally, such players will have VCS2600 consoles. Why do they buy another console to play games on VCS2600?
When he parked his car and walked to the arcade hall "Jeddy House" that qualified for Mars entertainment arcade game franchise store, he unexpectedly discovered that one of his colleagues was also here, which was Seff Daberwater, the actual designer of the game "Ballotelli Sheriff".
And the other party obviously discovered him.
Chapter completed!