The plan to expand into the US market certainly cannot affect the expansion plan in Japan.
Ti cos after Halloween, which is considered a small celebration in Japan.
In other countries, Halloween is usually a day for people to casually dress up as ghosts and monsters.
But in Japan, it has beco a large-scale cosplay exhibition. Regardless of whether they're dressed as ghosts or not, everyone can showcase their costus on this day.
And currently, the most popular cosplay character is the iconic superhero from the old-fashioned tokusatsu series, "Jiaziyuan Superman".
Then, the second to fifth hottest cosplay characters are all taken by characters from Gastar Electronics Entertainnt.
The first place goes to the Brave Lott, the second place is Mario, the third and fourth places are the two protagonists from Contra, and the fifth place is the very popular Ash from the Pokémon ani.
For one company to monopolize the second to fifth places in popularity is quite a feat.
This is a great opportunity for publicity, which Gastar Electronics Entertainnt naturally won't miss.
Taking advantage of Halloween, the price of the Nintendo Entertainnt System (NES) once again saw a wave of price reductions, lowering it to 3000 yen.
This price can be considered slaughter-level.
Even people who aren't interested in video gas would be willing to buy one just to fit in and because it's so cheap.
And the cost of the NES is also kept low, not exceeding 1000 yen including packaging and shipping. With each ga console making a net profit of over 1000 yen, it's quite impressive.
With this low-price strategy, Suirei Electronics can't compete with them.
They may indeed attract players with low prices.
But they can't match Gastar prices. After all, their ga consoles are 16-bit, and the cost can't be lowered as much. Lowering it to around 6000 yen is already the limit.
At the sa ti, they don't have the strategy of selling machines at a loss and making money from software gas like in later years.
Takayuki has long been making a profit with this strategy, and the cash flow has always been quite healthy.
At the sa ti, Takayuki also organized a Halloween limited-ti event.
During Halloween, players who have Pokémon can exchange exclusive Pokémon at Pokémon restaurants by completing designated Halloween check-in tasks in the Tokyo area of Japan.
This is also a regular operation of Pokémon gas, increasing the interaction among players. In fact, it's like the real-life version of holiday missions in later online gas.
And for children, the allure of getting exclusive Pokémon is significant.
So people even co from afar, from Hokkaido, just to get Pokémon. This shows how popular Pokémon is now.
Apart from these collection-type activities, there are also so new activities taking place in several initially authorized stores.
On the Friday morning of the first week after Halloween, several stores simultaneously set up several huge promotional posters in front of their doors.
On the posters are ga screens of Mario, Tetris, and troid.
At the bottom of the pictures, it says, "Recruit the fastest challengers. The final winner will receive a seven-day family trip to Hawaii and a bonus of 10 million yen."
As soon as the promotional posters were set up, a group of people imdiately gathered around, discussing curiously.
Before this, they only treated video gas as entertainnt.
Like watching TV dramas, they enjoyed the fun of video gas.
But suddenly saying that we can get so real-life benefits from video gas is quite surprising.
TV dramas require professional actors and professionals to do professional things.
Sports competitions require professional athletes.
What about video gas?
"Hello, I'd like to ask, what does the challenger on this poster an?"
The clerk who was receiving custors heard the question, glanced at the poster, and then said, "It's about who can clear these gas in the shortest ti. The fastest clear of each ga in the competition can receive rewards."
People widened their eyes in disbelief and asked, "Just need to clear the ga as quickly as possible? Are there no other requirents? Isn't this too simple?"
"How could it be so simple?" The clerk shook his head and said, "Only the first place can get the biggest prize. This is no different from athletes competing. But to be fair, everyone can participate, and all participants can at least receive a participation prize."
"What's the participation prize?"
"It's so prizes like keychains. Anyway, if you're interested, you can co over tomorrow to participate. This event will last for half a month. During this half-month period, everyone can challenge three tis. Then when the half-month period is over, we will announce the strongest players of each ga."
10 million yen is not a small amount even in today's Japan. Many people are now eager to try, even if they're not gars, they'll be tempted by this prize and want to give it a try.
"Tomorrow? What ti can we officially participate tomorrow?"
"Look here." The clerk pointed helplessly to the bottom of the promotional sentence on the poster.
Tomorrow morning at nine o'clock, the Speed Challenge competition will officially begin.
As for the specific competition content, it needs to be explained more detailedly by the players themselves tomorrow.
If you explain everything here, then half of the people who co with curiosity tomorrow might decrease. This is a good opportunity for publicity, so it needs to be maximized.
Satisfied with the answers, people prepared to leave and co back tomorrow to see what's going on.
And so people who were still puzzled would stay a little longer, wanting to inquire about the specific details.
A young man in his early twenties was staring blankly at the contents of the poster at this mont.
A look of longing appeared in his eyes.
10 million yen, that's almost the annual salary of a mid-level employee in a big company, and a seven-day family trip to Hawaii. This is also a very tempting reward.
His na is Taiga Oono, a person commonly known as an otaku.
He used to be an optimistic person, but because of breaking up with his girlfriend of ten years, his willpower completely collapsed, and he couldn't muster interest in anything.
Fortunately, his family situation is okay, and his parents' savings can still ensure his basic needs, so he beca even more decadent. Until he ca into contact with video gas, a long-lost feeling of joy began to swell in the process of playing video gas.
In video gas, he could find happiness that he rarely experienced elsewhere.
But he knew that this was not a long-term solution. Happiness could not last forever, and his family's savings were not infinite. Sotis, when facing his parents' slightly disappointed eyes, he could only avoid them in sha, unable to do anything.
Now, he only feels happy when he plays gas.
Apart from that, he has no interest in anything else.
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