Tokyo Video Game Tycoon.

Is it really not someone who wants to deliberately exaggerate their company's influence and get the government to help promote it?

Actually, it's not impossible to get the government to help with publicity. Now, Youxing Electronics Entertainment is considered a national flagship enterprise. However, it would be quite beneath the dignity of the country to have the government help promote a company's anniversary celebration. Others would probably not agree to this.

However, he still wanted to hear what Zhu Youxing had to say next.

“I know you may have some doubts, Vice Minister Asakusa, but you should change your mind after hearing what I’m about to say.”

Zhu Youxing then produced another data list.

"Deputy Director Asakusa, you can take a look at this."

Asakusa immediately accepted it with both hands. He treated Takeyusei very well and did not change his attitude because of Takeyusei's rude requests.

He took the data list, and on the cover it was clearly written: Yuxing Electronic Entertainment Financial Report 2002.

He was taken aback.

Is this the annual financial report of Yuxing Electronic Entertainment?

This is very important information.

In fact, the Japanese tax authorities also have this data, but since he is not a member of the tax authorities, he naturally cannot access it. Moreover, the tax authorities are obligated to keep the financial statements of companies that pay taxes on time confidential.

Unlike other listed companies, whose financial statements simply cannot hide such things, Yuxing Electronic Entertainment is an anomaly among the world's well-known companies.

It does not accept any external capital intervention and relies entirely on its own money to survive. It only borrowed some money initially through bank guarantees, and has been steadily developing ever since.

Countless investors who wanted to invest in Youxing Electronic Entertainment had to give up, and could only watch with envy as Youxing Electronic Entertainment repeatedly reaped the wallets of players, while they themselves received no share of the profits.

He immediately took out a pair of glasses and began to carefully study the information in the data.

First, the report shows the sales data of several game consoles sold by Youxing Electronics Entertainment over the course of a year.

The Super Famicom (SFC) has ceased production, with sales stopping at 87 million units. In contrast, the Famicom (FC) continues to be produced because the manufacturing cost of the FC game console itself is incredibly low.

The inexpensive, unpackaged retail version can even sell for less than 1,000 yen.

Game consoles don't actually make much money anymore; at most, you can only earn a meager sum of a couple hundred yen per console.

Even so, this FC game console was frequently on sale, with Youxing Electronics Entertainment even paying out of their own pockets to do so.

As for game cartridges, they're often given away with the purchase of a game console, though most of them are cheaper versions.

With current technology, producing this thing is nothing special.

If this were a typical company, it would probably have stopped production long ago. After all, the money this thing makes in a year isn't even a fraction of what a new game console would generate, so there's absolutely no need to spend any more time on it.

But this is Zhuyouxing's strategy.

As the most classic game console, and also the world's first true game console, the FC was a game console that Zhuyouxing hoped to use to open up the world market.

Today, this game console can be found all over the world.

Because it's so inexpensive, everyone can enjoy a very pleasant gaming experience with very little money, which makes them remember the Youxing Electronic Entertainment brand.

FC's sales are about to surpass 200 million.

Asakusa was slightly shocked.

A single electronic entertainment product can sell nearly 200 million units. Even if it doesn't make much money anymore, it's enough to prove the influence it has.

This made him look up at Zhu Youxing, his eyes filled with undisguised shock.

Yuxing Electronic Entertainment's financial reports are never officially released; only occasional glimpses reveal a general picture of the company.

But this is only a glimpse of the whole picture.

It was only then that Asakusa suddenly realized that the young man in front of him... no, this young man was no longer young; he was already thirty years old.

But who in this world can reach his level at the age of thirty?

Perhaps the CEO of Morgan Stanley had such charisma when he was young.

It's such a pity. If he hadn't given birth to a son, he would have really wanted Zhu Youxing to be his son-in-law.

In this way, he will have no regrets in his life.

Zhu Youxing simply smiled and ate some snacks, without touching the sashimi at all.

Asakusa continued to carefully examine the subsequent data.

However, perhaps because the astonishing sales of the FC, nearly 200 million units, had such a profound impact on him, he didn't react much to the sales of the new game consoles that followed.

However, he became restless after seeing the profits brought by these new game consoles.

The FC sold nearly 200 million units, but the annual profit was probably only around a million US dollars.

This is a drop in the ocean for a top company.

The latest GS1 and GSL sold nearly 20 million units last year, and each brought in more than two billion US dollars in net profit.

Are video games really that profitable?

This is practically printing money!

His views were not conservative, but he still couldn't imagine that a lot of data stored in a processor could bring in such huge financial benefits.

Each line of code is probably worth as much as gold.

"Mr. Zhuyou, this is truly amazing. The output value brought by your company is beyond imagination."

Now, from Asakusa's own perspective, he really wants to grant Takeyusei's request to have the government help promote the company.

However, while this is a very shocking figure for him personally, it is still nothing for a country.

However, he could use his position as Vice Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology to make a suggestion at the next departmental meeting, asking them to help promote Yusei Electronic Entertainment on behalf of the department.

However, Zhu Youxing must also give something in return; help cannot be given for nothing.

Takeyusei remained calm in the face of Asakusa's amazement, simply smiling and gesturing, "Vice Minister Asakusa, you can continue reading; there's more to come."

The data provided by Zhuyouxing is not just from the company's financial statements.

Financial reports only need to present some key information and should only be a few pages long. However, the report that Takeyusei gave to Asakusa was thirty or forty pages long. Takeyusei wanted him to patiently read through the rest of the report.

Asakusa immediately turned to the next page.

The data presented on the next page shows the current number of users of Youxing Electronic Entertainment.

These users are categorized by their geographical distribution around the world.

Firstly, in the Asian region, it is roughly estimated that Yuxing Electronic Entertainment has reached a user base of 40 million.

Of these, 20 million are in Japan, and the remaining 20 million are distributed across various Asian countries.

Then there's North America and South America. The combined user base of Youxing Electronic Entertainment across these two continents is roughly estimated to be around 70 million. While the exact number of active users cannot be determined at present, every time someone uses the online function even once last year, it counts as an active user, bringing the total number of active users to 50 million.

Next are Australia and Europe, each with over ten million and seven million users respectively.

Finally, there is Africa.

Despite their seemingly weaker economic situation, their demand for entertainment is equally strong.

The FC is a very inexpensive entertainment machine. Africa is currently the second hottest region for FC sales, contributing over 30 million units sold, which is roughly equivalent to 30 million users.

All of them together, that's a total of about 200 million users.

A company with 200 million users is almost guaranteed to make money effortlessly.

"Asakusa Deputy Chief, do you think this number of users is large?"

Need I say more? Of course, there are a lot, and a frighteningly large number.

It's hard to imagine that this is a company that has been established for ten years.

He had only ever heard of the internet having such a large user base, and that the internet was free for users; they didn't have to pay when they became users of a company.

To become a user of Youxing Electronic Entertainment, you need to buy at least one FC game console.

Two hundred million users who have paid for the service and two hundred million free internet users are not even in the same league.

If the bubbles in both industries burst at the same time, the internet industry would definitely die on the spot, but Youxing Electronic Entertainment can continue to rely on its user base to maintain its foothold.

At this moment, Asakusa realized once again that he had underestimated Takeyusei's strength.

Asakusa took a deep breath and looked at Takeyusei: "Mr. Takeyu, what else would you like to say next?"

He seemed to already know what was about to be said, but he wanted to hear it from Zhu Youxing himself.

Seeing Asakusa's reaction, Takeyusei knew that his plan had succeeded. The other party had been moved by him, and all that was left was to make empty promises.

Takeyusei immediately launched into a pie-in-the-sky rhetoric: "As far as I know, hasn't the government recently launched a new cultural revitalization plan aimed at vigorously developing the tourism economy in Japan?"

"That's right, this is a plan launched by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry."

In Japanese government agencies, in order to demonstrate their capabilities, they will naturally spare no effort in launching various plans and policies.

The previous cultural industry revitalization plan was promoted by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, and it had a very good response.

As other departments at the same level, they naturally did not want to fall behind and subsequently launched their own plans.

Among them, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry launched a project called 'Cool Japan'.

Later, the Cool Japan Strategy Office was also established.

The previous cultural industry revitalization plan aimed to promote Japanese cultural products to the world and make the world aware of Japan.

Cool Japan aims to draw global attention to Japan, inviting people to travel there and thus boosting the Japanese economy.

Zhu Youxing, with his foresight, knew that this plan was ultimately quite successful, much more reliable than some of the messy plans launched by other parallel organizations.

Later, they even came up with the idea of ​​a holy site tour, and actually carried it out.

The animated film, originally titled "Your Name," brought in over 20 billion yen in revenue for the regions where it was shown, becoming a model for countless other areas. Subsequently, pilgrimages to these sacred sites sprang up in various regions.

At this moment, Takeyusei made a shocking statement: "What if I said that my carnival could bring Kyoto more than 10 billion yen in tourism revenue?"

Chapter 474 Persuasion

Tourism revenue of at least 10 billion yen, which is equivalent to 100 million US dollars.

Compared to the money Zhu Youxing earned, it seems like nothing.

But this is real government revenue, unlike what other companies generate.

As the vice minister of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, he wouldn't particularly care about such a political achievement, but if the region's tourism revenue increases and it sets a good example, it would be a very good path for Japan at present.