Chapter 50 First Week Sales
After reading the letter, Takahashi began to write the article.
In 1985, whether in Japan or the United States, paperless office was more like a big pie with a beautiful vision, but I don’t know when it will be realized.
The carbon pen of Sakura Brand feels round in the hand, and the needle tip falls on the paper, slowly turning into page after page of text.
The manuscript of three or four thousand words was completed instantly. In order to meet the layout requirements of about two thousand words of the magazine, Takahashi checked it from the beginning and deleted all unnecessary words. Those that could be replaced with shorter words were replaced with shorter words.
The hand of the wall clock pointed to four o'clock, rubbing Takahashi with dry eyes, and finally finished the planned work. As for the readers' letter, he picked out the more meaningful ones and put them in a bunch of them, and wrote the reply letter tomorrow in his spare time.
There were five hours left before Hudson's work, and he fell asleep directly on the table.
It has been two weeks since he was like this, but fortunately, this body is relatively strong. He can still hold on with such a long time of work.
Compared to long and endless heavy physical labor, although long-term mental labor is equally hard, at least it will not make him tired again.
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【Unexpected? Survey on the Sales Status of Hudson’s Edition of Gold Digger!】
Reports about Hudson and the Gold Digger continue. Compared with the initial meanness, it has been much more eased.
The new magazine, which was released on Friday at the same time as the Gold Digger cassette, began to show its power on Saturday the next day.
"Do you want to buy "Gold Digger"?"
"Takahashi's "Gold Digger"?"
"purchase!"
Never underestimate your child’s purchasing power.
Hundreds and thousands of small players have walked out of their homes and rushed to the nearest game cartridge sales outlet.
One by one, the "Gold Digger" entered the hands of the children, and the owners of the game store watched the hot sales scene. While having fun, they immediately called to order more games.
One hundred disks!
Two hundred disks!
...
Five hundred disks!
Six hundred disks!
The volume of goods is getting more and more exaggerated! The owners of game stores are afraid that if they are out of stock, their peers will compete to purchase goods, and they will be troublesome to replenish the goods, so the quantity of goods is getting more and more exaggerated.
When Nintendo asked about their sales data, they also exaggerated it.
Therefore, the market shows that there is a false trend of over-prosperity.
How could Nintendo not know the virtues of these stores? Their investigators wandered around Japan to investigate sales on the spot. Finally, the "Golden Digger" cartridges sent to various stores were generally only fifty to seventy percent of the numbers they submitted.
[Dark Horse? Sales exceeded 70,000 in the first week?]
It was soon the second Friday, and the column written by Takahashi continued.
At 8 o'clock on Friday night, Nintendo called Hudson and informed them of their first week sales statistics.
"Sixty-nine, eight hundred and seventy-three."
Although this number seems to be very accurate, even if it is zero or even, it seems to be very accurate. However, as long as it is an insider in the industry, everyone knows that counting sales is unreliable.
Now it is not like ten or twenty years later, games need to be activated online. How many of them are activated are recorded.
The current game sales depend on various stores to report.
However, as before, no store will hand over actual sales data to Nintendo.
And Nintendo cannot put a self-investigator in thousands of stores selling cassettes across the country.
"I was so yelling just now, now you tell me!" Kudo Hiroshi slapped the table and shouted.
Chapter completed!