Tokyo Video Game Tycoon.

This game sold a lot of copies thanks to the popularity of indie games and the farming genre.

Ultimately, sales reached around 1.3 million copies, making it a standout among indie games.

Now, after just one night of sales, the game has sold over 800,000 copies across Battle.net, home consoles, and handhelds.

The game was priced at two dollars during the discount period, which might not even cover the cost of breakfast for many people.

However, if buying a game can bring you joy for a long time, then it's still quite worthwhile.

So these people didn't hesitate much when they bought them.

In particular, the art style of this farm defense game is quite cartoonish and cute, which is loved by people of all ages and genders, and it adds a lot to the game.

"This is...the game we made?"

Yinjiang looked at the sales data in disbelief.

The sales revenue of the games became secondary; the important thing was that, after this effort, their first game's sales reached two million.

Youxing Electronic Entertainment will only charge a tiny, negligible service fee this time, and the rest of the money will go into the accounts of the three people.

And this is just one of the games they created.

Because Yusei Electronics was involved in the production of Dead Cells, the two parties had a revenue share in the sales. However, in order to promote this summer sale, and because Yusei didn't care about that small amount of money at all, they simply canceled their share and replaced it with a discount, making the complete version of Dead Cells plus several expansion packs only four dollars.

For just four dollars, you can experience over a hundred hours of exciting Metroidvania gameplay, a game that no player interested in the Metroidvania genre can resist.

Chapter 970 did something extraordinary again.

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Zombie Defense, proposed by He Mei, is somewhat modeled after her own Farm Defense game, with some gameplay innovations. It sold 470,000 sets during the summer sale, priced at three US dollars per set.

"The Magical Painter" is a puzzle game where you solve problems through drawing. It was conceived by Yinjiang and Hemei.

This game, due to its artistic flair, is not popular with the average player. However, because every scene in the game is wallpaper-worthy, and the game only costs three dollars, it is worth buying to use as a wallpaper and screenshot machine. A total of 330,000 copies were sold during the summer sale.

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Over the years, the Iron Triangle has produced more than ten games, and each of them sold at least 100,000 copies at yesterday's summer sale.

Meanwhile, their account balances increased by more than six million US dollars in the background.

With careful budgeting, those six million dollars could easily be used to make a mid-budget game.

This can be considered an unexpected surprise.

Their indie games had gradually lost attention, but there was always a statistic displayed in the background that showed hundreds of thousands of people had added each game to their wishlists.

This special sale seems to be a concentrated cleanup of these people's wish lists. They buy everything that is cheap enough, turning wish list data that originally had no profit into cash.

He Mei's eyes are now sparkling with delight.

She started thinking about whether she should buy herself some nice clothes as a treat.

As for Oto and Aiko, they are more realistic; they have already begun to excitedly consider developing a mid-sized game.

They can't afford open-world games yet, but linear level games seem to have already achieved that.

"This special sale was absolutely amazing! Our teacher is truly brilliant; this discount event has helped us make a lot of money!"

Kazumi jumped up happily, and Oto and Aiko couldn't hide their smiles either.

With such high sales figures, no one could contain their excitement.

This income is a real surprise, especially for independent game developers.

At this very moment, there is another group of people who share the same feeling of happiness as Kazumi, Oto, and Aiko.

Within a single day, global game sales entered a frenzy.

Some older games that independent game developers didn't have much hope for have suddenly seen a surge in revenue today.

This amount of money may not be as impressive as the sales figures seem, since indie games generally don't exceed five dollars after discounts.

However, every little bit counts, and even a small amount adds up. Moreover, without this special sale, their old games would probably not have been able to generate so much extra revenue in such a short period of time.

Those who were previously unhappy about Yuxing Electronics' invitation to join the sale immediately vanished.

Mid-sized game developers are also very happy.

Their revenue today is already equivalent to what they typically earn on the first day of a game's release.

They haven't incurred any advertising costs for this; they're simply sitting back and waiting to make money.

Over the course of a year, they will likely all be secretly pleased to have participated in this special sale.

The next sale won't generate such good revenue.

Next time, Youxing Electronic Entertainment will take a cut, and there will likely be more competitors for the next sale, so the profits will definitely not be as much as this time.

"President, our video game sales on multiple platforms have exceeded one million in a single day! This is fantastic news!"

At the headquarters of Surui Electronics, the manager in charge of the gaming department excitedly reported the revenue of the past two days to Hayakawa Ueto.

First, in terms of data, each of their popular games sold an average of over one million copies during this sale.

Logging into the PC Battle.net platform and the games on GameStar Entertainment have yielded very generous rewards.

These games also brought in over 70 million US dollars in revenue for the game development department.

Even after deducting taxes and other expenses, this revenue is still a considerable sum.

Hayakawa Ueto also anticipated that the sale would be a good success, but he thought he would earn at most twenty or thirty million US dollars.

Then he decided not to ask the game department for the money, but to let them reinvest it in the current game development, adding new technologies to improve the game's graphics to another level.

But when he heard that he had earned more than 70 million US dollars in just two days, he was really shocked.

In just two days, Yuxing Electronic Entertainment's entire platform sold over a billion dollars worth of games, with about a third of that coming from Yuxing Electronic Entertainment's first-party games.

The rest is the money earned by major game companies and independent game developers.

At this moment, the first thing Hayakawa Ueto thought of was this: Special sales are a good thing!

Looking at the data given to him by the head of the game division, Hayakawa Ueto was in a very good mood, and he couldn't help but smile: "Very good. In that case, you don't need to hand over this money to the head office. You can use all of this money for game development, and... we can also hold our game sales event."

"Ours?"

“That’s right. Since Youxing Electronic Entertainment can make so much money in one go, how can we, as the world’s second largest game publisher and game platform provider, miss this opportunity? Although we may seem to be following the trend, the players shouldn’t mind.”

The players wouldn't mind at all.

On the contrary, they would love for game developers all over the world to follow suit with Youxing Electronic Entertainment.

That way they can buy games at a cheaper price.

Many gamers have been feeling suppressed for a long time recently.

They have many games they want to buy and play.

However, because the prices of these games are generally prohibitive, they can only carefully consider buying one or two games each time, and in the end, they have to give up the whole forest for a few games.

But now that they have the chance to acquire the entire forest, how could they possibly miss it?

"Yes! I understand!"

The minister immediately understood and returned to the gaming division to begin arranging for his company's gaming platform to launch its own summer sale.

After the minister left, Hayakawa Ueto finally couldn't help but smile.

Zhu Youxing, you've done something amazing again.

Chapter 971 Stop cursing! Stop cursing!

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During the summer sale, players got games at low prices, and game developers gained unexpected profits; both sides got what they wanted most.

Yuxing Electronic Entertainment has achieved both a good reputation and financial success.

Older games that had previously seen sluggish sales also saw a significant boost in sales during this special sale.

In the first two days, the video game sale generated over a billion dollars in sales, with a third of that going to GameSpot.

The company that sells the most games is still Youxing Electronic Entertainment itself.

According to the agreement with the Japanese government, all of these revenues, after deducting local tax policies in other countries, will go into the account of Yusei Electronic Entertainment. Yusei Electronic Entertainment is only responsible for the Japanese government's continued efforts to increase employment and enhance Japan's attractiveness to the world.

This is not a difficult task for Youxing Electronic Entertainment at all.

Construction of the Starry Sky Park is progressing steadily, and the current construction progress is being updated in real time for people all over the world. Countless players are looking forward to the moment when this park belonging to the players is completely completed.

Some people within the company even suggested that Bamboo Star sell first-day tickets for the amusement park.

The park's opening day was definitely a memorable one, and even if the ticket price were three or four hundred dollars, there would still be plenty of people willing to buy it.

Even with the economic downturn, the enthusiasm of players remains undiminished.

This summer sale alone shows that people still have the ability to spend; it's just that the economic downturn has made them more cautious.

When these players encounter something they truly love, they probably won't even hesitate to spend money on it.

Now, let's go back to the summer sale.

Players profited, Youxing Electronics Entertainment profited, and many game developers also profited.

So who lost out?

No one lost out, but someone definitely regretted it.

After earning five or six million dollars on the first day, a mid-sized game developer proudly began to boast about his brilliant decision within the industry.

They described their decision to join the summer sale as a very visionary one.

However, in reality, most of them initially joined the Summer Sale because they were worried that Youxing Electronic Entertainment would target them, and then Void Lineup had no choice but to join.

But now that they've made money, these mid-sized game developers have completely changed their tune, forgetting all the resistance they once had to this.

Seeing that these mid-sized game developers made a lot of money on the first day, the game companies that had previously refused to join were very frustrated.

They were frustrated that they hadn't made any money during this period.

He was also frustrated that not only did he not make any money, but his reputation also suffered.