Start a company to make games

Chapter 56 Saturn Game Console

Now Feimeng, relying on the good reputation of the blood lion, has largely washed away his notoriety.

Coupled with the later disputes with the ice ghost game group, netizens generally expressed sympathy and support for Fei Meng.

Liu Xiong, who has millions of fans on Weibo, confidently stated a number ten times the original number.

"50 sets!"

"Three Kingdoms and The King of Fighters each produced 25 sets, and I will ask you to replenish them when they are sold out."

Liu Xiong believes that there will be a time for replenishment.

The manager of the optical disc factory said enthusiastically: "Okay, I hope Liu Xiong's new tour will sell well, and the stock will be replenished as soon as possible, haha!"

In the next two days, Liu Xiong successively received representatives of many channel dealers, and easily distributed all 50 sets.

Among them, the amusement house and the most game each required 10 sets, and the iron game also required 10 sets.

The three distributors ordered 30 sets of goods, and the remaining 20 sets were distributed to the rest of the distributors.

Before the game was launched, Liu Xiong pre-sold 50 sets of arcade machines, and [-] sets of PC versions were successfully distributed to various channel vendors.

If the 50 sets of the PC version can all be sold out, then Feimeng's gross profit from these two arcade games will already be around 4000 million!
After deducting production costs and channel taxes, the money Liu Xiong can get is almost 2400 million.

The game industry, the profiteering industry, is not bragging!
Of course, the premise is that all 50 sets of the PC version can be sold.

For the sales volume of 50 sets, Liu Xiong is still very confident.

To be reasonable, the system has given such high evaluations to Three Kingdoms and King of Fighters. These two games that were once popular on the earth will definitely be successful in this world!
In addition to the PC market, Liu Xiong is also actively expanding the host and handheld markets.

After all, PZ4, X361, BSP, and SWICH are all large-scale markets!
If it can get a piece of the pie from these mainframes and handhelds, Feimeng will really take off.

But after some contact, Liu Xiong found that his small company was still a little far from being on the stage of PZ4 and X361.

For example, PZ4, if you want to get the development tools of PZ4, you must provide a development authorization fee of 5000 million!

This alone stuck Fei Meng to death.

The development authorization fees of several other companies are not as exaggerated as PZ4, but they are also expensive.

At the same time, these game console platforms often have other unspoken requirements: for example, they have won game awards, games with sales exceeding one million, companies with a registered capital and personnel of a certain scale, and so on.

Of course, Liu Xiong can also obtain the development qualification by participating in the independent game competition held by the game console platform.

But that is also a time-consuming and labor-intensive task, and Liu Xiong doesn't have that kind of spare time for the time being.

After some investigation, Liu Xiong understood that it is very difficult for Feimeng to enter these big platforms.

At the very least, the current Feimeng does not have the qualifications to enter the first-line host platform.

Unable to get access to such large mainframes as PZ4 and X361, Liu Xiong began to settle for the next best thing, intending to see if there were any suitable second-tier mainframe platforms.

But for things like hosts, there is no second place, and the third place is far behind!
After PZ4 and X361, the only game consoles that still have a certain share in the market are Saturn game consoles.

The Saturn game console has also been brilliant, once occupying a 35% market share in the market.

But now that the Saturn game console has been on sale for ten years, it can no longer keep up with the times and has declined.

Saturn game consoles have basically been discontinued, and no new Saturn games have been launched for more than a year, and the market share has fallen below 5%.

Such a declining game platform is estimated to bring very limited sales.

Holding the mentality of not trying, Liu Xiong dialed the number of Saturn.

As a result, Saturn's enthusiasm exceeded Liu Xiong's imagination: "We at Saturn welcome the entry of Feimeng Game, and at the same time, to show our sincerity, we are willing not to charge development licensing fees."

When Saturn said that it would not charge development authorization fees, Liu Xiong had already made a decision!

No developer license fees!
This is so attractive to Liu Xiong!
Although Feimeng has started, it is still a very poor small company.

Not to mention the 4 million license fee for PZ5000, even if it is 2000 million for other platforms, Liu Xiong still can't stand it!
Now, Saturn agrees to develop the Saturn version of The Three Kingdoms and The King of Fighters without licensing fees. This is equivalent to giving Feimeng sales for nothing!

Even if Saturn is dead now, and the market share is less than 5%, but this kind of free sales, you have to pick it up!
As for the cost of porting PC games to Saturn consoles?
If it is a large-scale 3D game, it may take a lot of time and money.

But what are the Three Kingdoms and The King of Fighters?
It's an arcade!

It was an arcade machine 20 years ago!
Even with the use of modern technology, the clarity of the game screen has been greatly improved, but these two games are still arcades!
For a relatively small game like this, the time and money required to port it to the Saturn game console are extremely small.

This is why Liu Xiong is willing to develop games on unpopular game console platforms.

The cost is low, that is, you can do whatever you want.

……

As for the Saturn game console, the reason why they are willing to provide development authorization for free is because they know it well.

As a dying platform, there are almost no game companies developing Saturn games anymore.

Now Feimeng is willing to develop games on Saturn, although it is just a small Feimeng, even though it is only a notorious Feimeng, but it is a game manufacturer after all, isn't it?

Moreover, the quality of the previous Blood Lion game has also been recognized by Saturn's top management.

After the plagiarism in the decisive battle of 2043, after the controversy, Feimeng's game also has a certain amount of attention and expectations.

All in all, Saturn hopes to use the two games of Feimeng, coupled with its own discounted promotional game consoles, to digest the backlog of inventory.

As for how much you can digest, that's up to fate.

So for Saturn, after Liu Xiong expressed his willingness to port the game to the Saturn game console, he also made a request.

"In addition to arcades and PCs, "Three Kingdoms" and "The King of Fighters" must not be released on other game platforms."

"In the game console market, Saturn must be exclusive!"

This request is very reasonable.

In addition, there were no other game console platforms, so Liu Xiong readily agreed.

The business negotiations were finally settled. After Liu Xiong got the development authorization, he mobilized everyone to work overtime, and the transplant was completed in a few days.

At the same time, an additional 50000 sets of Saturn game discs were produced at the CD factory, and 25000 sets each of Three Kingdoms and King of Fighters.

After everything is ready, the game is officially released!
And Liu Xiong, who had not logged in to Weibo for a long time, posted a Weibo first.

"I remembered the Weibo password."

(End of this chapter)