Chapter 646: 2D Company monopolizes the Japanese comics market!

Chapter 646: 2D Company monopolizes the Japanese comics market!

Yang Ming already knows that the biggest opponents of Empire Games in the future are Nintendo and Sony.

Although Sony is still a potential rival, can it be eliminated in advance?

That's simply not possible!

The only thing is to use other methods as much as possible to surround the opponent, even suppress it as much as possible, or seize more markets.

Empire games are foreign to Japan.

Toyo's game industry market is so big, it's impossible for other Toyo companies not to be jealous. However, games like "Street Fighter" and the Famicom are all patented and have intellectual property rights. It's useless for them to be jealous. They can only copy them or develop other games or electronic products.

When Yang Ming visited Akihabara this time, the greatest significance was that he had already seen the development potential of Nintendo.

At this point, I'm afraid even Xu Qingsheng can't see it.

In Xu Qingsheng's view, Nintendo is similar to Taitung, so he still doesn't know how powerful Nintendo was in history.

Now that Yang Ming has seen it with his own eyes, he already knows that Nintendo may develop and become its biggest competitor in the future.

However, Yang Ming already has his own plan.

. . .

noon.

Yang Ming and others had lunch at a restaurant in Akihabara. He found that in addition to Japanese food, there was also Western food.

Compared to Asian food, Yang Ming is more accepting of Western food.

Finished western food here.

In the afternoon, Yang Ming continued to look at other companies.

Like Capcom, the company that historically developed "Street Fighter".

However, the games developed by Capcom are not well-known now. "Street Fighter" developed by Yang Ming's Empire Games Company has also had a great impact on Capcom.

There is also Konami. Although it was founded in 1969, it does not have any well-known products now. Its real rise was in the late 80s and early 90s, when it relied on the success of a large number of FC game software and a large number of well-made arcade games. , Konami can be said to be invincible and powerful in the Japanese video game market. By 1992, Konami naturally took the top spot among Japanese third-party manufacturers.

Finally, I went to see Taitung.

After Taito's three giants, Tomohiro Nishikado, Akio Nakanishi, and Masato Matsushita, were poached by Imperial Games, Taito's main business now, in addition to resting on its laurels, is to represent several games from Imperial Games.

It is under this circumstance that the once dominant gaming company in Japan has become what it is now in just a few years.

This is something Yang Ming can't believe.

Yang Ming didn't feel sorry for Taidong.

He knew that even if Empire Games did not appear, with the growth rate of companies such as Nintendo and Namco, they would soon surpass Taitung.

When Yang Ming read these companies.

He visited many places in Akihabara and noticed an obvious place.

That's about Comic Weekly.

Historically, Akihabara has been known as the holy land of otaku culture.

In addition to various electronic game consoles and electronic game products that otakus and otakus like to play most, the most important ones are related to comics and animation products.

At this time, comics and comic-related derivatives have appeared in Akihabara.

among them.

Clearwater Bay Comics is produced by 2D Company under the Imperial Group.

In addition to "Dragon Ball" and "Detective Conan", the newly launched "Slam Dunk", "Tutor", "Ghost", "Crayon Shin-chan" and so on, became popular in the Japanese comics industry almost as soon as they were launched.

At this time, these comics are the best-selling comics in Japan. Everyone knows that Clearwater Bay Comic Weekly is the comic that many fans of Japanese comics look forward to every week.

Yang Ming saw these comic weekly magazines in the streets and alleys of Akihabara, and even at the newsstands outside the game arcade.

"Boss, our Clearwater Bay comics are very popular among Japanese people." Xu Qingsheng said from the side.

Basically every issue sells very hotly.

"Dragon Ball" and "Detective Conan" have been serialized in newspapers and magazines for a long time, and now the sales volume of each issue is stable at around 800 million to 1000 million copies.

Movies such as "Slam Dunk", "Tutor", "Soul of Chess" and "Crayon Shin-chan" were only released last year, with sales of around 500 million to 800 million copies.

According to the market response to these sales volumes, there will be further increases.

At this point, the three original publishing giants in Toyo can only be envious. Their own comics cannot keep up with the pace of comics produced by Two-Dimensional Company.

Many Japanese comic companies are already studying Two-Dimension Company and Clearwater Bay Comic Weekly, but they have not really studied the success of them yet.

Yang Ming knew that he wanted to laugh.

Historically, these comics were only one in a hundred, or even one in a thousand. Their success has been tested by history, the market, and thousands of readers.

If other comic companies want to succeed, they need to choose one comic from hundreds or thousands of comics, which is not easy.

Yang Ming saw a large bookstore in front of him.

When Yang Ming and others entered.

He found that it was full of novels and comics.

For the time being, Japanese novels are not as good as comics.

In other words, this is basically a comic weekly, or comic book.

Comic books are mainly produced by 2D companies.

Yang Ming saw the sales chart here and learned that the comic book collections of "Dragon Ball" and "Detective Conan" were the best-selling ones and were purchased by the most consumers.

When Yang Ming took out a collection of "Dragon Ball" comic books and looked at the price, it was really not cheap.

That is to say, Japanese people have this spending power.

In Xiangjiang, there are probably only over 100,000 consumers with this spending power. However, here in Japan, there are at least millions, or even tens of millions, of consumer groups.

Yang Ming knew that Diana really liked these comics now.

This is also related to the fact that Diana may not have read much when she was a child. Compared to Sarah, who likes to be quiet and read traditional books, Diana is really different in this regard.

Diana also mentioned to him that she wanted to develop into a cartoonist.

"Boss, the reason why these Toyo comic books and comic weekly magazines are so expensive is because Toyo has to pay taxes, and the taxes paid are not low."

Yang Ming nodded.

As far as Toyo comics are concerned now, the two-dimensional company of the Imperial Group has an absolute advantage.

In addition to Yang Ming providing a steady stream of comic outlines and creative themes, a large number of Japanese cartoon talents have joined the 2D Company. Even in the Qingshui Bay office of the Xiangjiang 2D Company, there are now hundreds of Japanese cartoonists.

This time, Lan Shaojun, general manager of ACG, specially brought a delegation to Dongyang to inspect the market and find more talents to develop in Xiangjiang.

This is of great significance for Imperial Group and ACG to further monopolize the comics market.

Yang Ming did not buy the comic books or comic weekly here. He knew that these were all genuine, whether they were black and white or color, and the prices were not low.

From here, he can see that two-dimensional comics are still very successful in Japan, but the market and position in this area still need to be further consolidated.

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