In the opening ceremony, Japan promised to showcase video gas, ani, and other aspects of its pop culture. This is the promotional approach that Japan committed to with the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
Of course, the IOC does not just evaluate promotional strategies when selecting a host city; they also assess many other aspects, such as the city's overall environnt, living conditions, event managent capabilities, drug control asures, and various other minor details.
For Japan, a country that has already hosted the Olympics, these details were never a problem. They had experience dealing with such matters, and with their unique and impressive opening ceremony idea, they finally managed to move the IOC.
The Japanese governnt quickly organized an Olympic Gas preparation committee, which would be responsible for the various tasks related to hosting the Olympics.
For the then Pri Minister, hosting the Olympics was a lifeline.
In the past, Japan had greatly boosted its national economy through hosting the Olympics, and this ti, they hoped to replicate that success.
However, from Takayuki's perspective, it was unlikely that this would be repeated. The previous ti Japan was able to revitalize the economy through the Olympics was because the entire nation was riding the wave of developnt. The Olympics acted as a catalyst, greatly boosting the public's enthusiasm, which accelerated the nation's developnt.
Now, Japan was in an overall downturn, and relying on the Olympics to restore the economy would probably be difficult.
But this had little to do with Takayuki, who only cared about video gas. Japan's economy was sothing the politicians could handle, and it wouldn't affect him.
However, Takayuki did care about the Olympics.
He was truly eager to witness a perfect opening ceremony, one that celebrated video gas, ani, and other forms of modern cultural entertainnt.
This would also fulfill an incomplete dream from his original world.
So, as soon as the Olympic preparation committee was established, Takayuki demanded to be one of the decision-makers.
His reason was that Gastar Electronics Entertainnt would generously provide all of its cultural intellectual properties for promoting Japanese culture, and in return, he would be one of the key decision-makers for the Olympic opening ceremony.
While Takayuki was not a professional in organizing the opening ceremony, all he needed to do was firmly remove anyone who tried to ddle with the ceremony. He simply wanted to see a perfect opening ceremony, nothing more.
The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology beca Takayuki's biggest supporter. They saw it as a perfect opportunity for cooperation: both parties could take a step back and work together to create the best possible Olympics, which would be the best outco.
However, this did spark discontent among so people in Japan's traditional arts community, as they also wanted to use the Olympics to promote Japan's traditional culture.
But given that Gastar Electronics Entertainnt was in its pri, with the support of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology, these traditional artists had no choice but to give up on influencing the opening ceremony, though reluctantly.
However, it was still only 2013, and the actual preparation for the Olympics wouldn't start for another seven years. There was no need to rush; Takayuki needed to secure absolute control over the plans to prevent anyone from interfering with his vision.
After handling the Olympics-related matters, the ti ca to December.
Ghost of Tsushima had completed all its ga developnt in early October, as it was a standard canned-style open-world ga with no significant technical challenges. It just needed to be developed step by step.
The developnt team then worked together with the marketing team for an intensive promotional campaign, and it seed Ghost of Tsushima had the advantage in this area.
Sekiro, on the other hand, only completed developnt in mid-November, leaving very little ti for cartridge production, and the coordination with promotional work wasn't as smooth as Ghost of Tsushima.
But luckily, Sekiro had already garnered a lot of player interest, and even without much promotion, there were still many supporters, which provided so reassurance to the tenth developnt team.
In early December, many people were already lined up in front of video ga retail stores in the US, Japan, Europe, and other countries, waiting for the stores to open.
They were all there to buy the two gas released that day.
However, this year, the number of people in line was noticeably smaller than before.
When the store doors opened, people entered in an orderly fashion to make their purchases, but the scene of enthusiastic buying that the store employees had expected didn't occur.
The stores had prepared more than fifty thousand copies for each of Ghost of Tsushima and Sekiro.
anwhile, trucks in the back were on standby, ready to rush to the production base and customs to pick up more copies if needed, ensuring a steady supply of physical cartridges.
But surprisingly, there were far fewer people.
By the end of the day, each store had only sold about twenty to thirty thousand copies.
If this had been two or three years ago, or even five or six years ago, when Gastar Electronics Entertainnt's first-party gas were set to release, the lines in front of stores would have ford a unique sight in the area.
But this ti, the number of people buying the gas was far fewer than expected.
"Manager, looks like we won't be very busy today. This is all the people we have," one of the staff mbers said while placing ga cartridges on the shelves and chatting with the manager.
It did seem less busy than expected, and they even had ti to chat.
The manager glanced at the crowd and looked serious. "Hmm, there aren't many people, what's going on here?"
"Do we need to report this to the higher-ups?" the staff mber asked.
The manager nodded without hesitation. "Of course, we need to report it. Normally, we would report the exact sales figures every day, but let make a quick call to check with the other stores."
The manager walked to the back of the store, picked up the phone, and contacted other stores selling video gas.
The responses he received were nearly identical.
This ti, there weren't many people in line to buy the gas.
"I heard so news recently," one of the staff mbers said.
"What news?"
"It seems that the supply of physical cartridges for our stores isn't as much as we expected. This ti, we just followed the usual procedure, preparing trucks to pick up from the factory and customs, but I heard that the actual supply from the factory and customs is less than half of what we normally get."
"Less than that? It seems like the head office must have anticipated this. Did they expect the sales for these two gas wouldn't be too good?"
"Well, let's report the sales figures after the day ends. After all, the sales data is managed by the higher-ups. We just need to focus on selling the gas normally."
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