Chapter 646: The 2D Company Monopolizes the Japanese Comics Market!

Yang Ming already knew that Empire Games' biggest rivals in the future would be Nintendo and Sony.

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

That's impossible!

The only way is to use other methods to surround the rival as much as possible, or even suppress it as much as possible, or seize more market share.

Empire Games is a foreign company in Japan.

The market of the game industry in Japan is so large that it is impossible for other Japanese companies not to be jealous. However, games like Street Fighter and the Famicom have patents and intellectual property rights, so it's useless for them to be jealous. They can only counterfeit or develop other games or electronic products.

The greatest significance of Yang Ming's visit to Akihabara this time is that he has seen the development potential of Nintendo.

I'm afraid Xu Qingsheng can't see this point.

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

Now that Yang Ming has seen it with his own eyes, he already knows the possibility of Nintendo's development and may be the biggest competitor in the future.

However, Yang Ming already has his own plan.

. . .

At noon.

Yang Ming and others had lunch at a restaurant in Akihabara. He found that there were only Japanese and Western food here.

Compared with Japanese food, Yang Ming was more accepting of Western food.

After eating Western food here.

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

Like Capcom, which developed "Street Fighter" in history.

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

There is also Konami. Although it was established in 1969, it does not have any well-known products now. Its real rise was in the late 1980s and early 1990s. At that time, relying on the success of a large number of FC game software and a large number of well-made arcade games, Konami was invincible in the Japanese video game market. By 1992, Konami naturally took the top spot among Japanese third-party manufacturers.

Finally, I went to see Taito.

After the three giants of Taito, Tomohiro Nishikado, Akio Nakanishi, and Masato Matsushita were poached by Empire Games, Taito's main business now is to act as an agent for several games of Empire Games in addition to living off its old capital.

It is under this situation that the former game overlord of the East has become what it is now in just a few years.

This is also something Yang Ming couldn't believe.

Yang Ming didn't feel pity for Taito.

He knew that even if Empire Games didn't appear, with the growth rate of companies such as Nintendo and Namco, they would soon surpass Taito.

When Yang Ming finished looking at these companies.

He noticed a very obvious place in many places in Akihabara.

That is about comics weekly.

Historically, Akihabara has been hailed as a holy land of otaku culture.

In addition to various electronic game consoles, electronic game products are the favorite of otakus and otakus, and the most important thing is related to comics and anime products.

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

Among them.

Qingshui Bay Comics of the two-dimensional company under the Empire Group.

In addition to "Dragon Ball" and "Detective Conan", the newly released "Slam Dunk", "Katekyo Hitman Reborn", "Hikaru no Go", "Crayon Shin-chan" and so on, almost immediately became popular in the Japanese comics industry as soon as they were released.

At this time, these comics are the best-selling comics in Japan. The well-known Shimizu Bay Comics Weekly is a comic that many Japanese comics fans look forward to every week.

Yang Ming has seen these comics in the streets and alleys of Akihabara, and even in the newsstand outside the game hall.

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

Basically, the sales of each issue are very popular.

Newspapers and magazines such as "Dragon Ball" and "Detective Conan" have been serialized for a long time, and now the sales of each issue are stable at around 8 million to 10 million copies.

Like "Slam Dunk", "Katekyo Hitman Reborn", "Hikaru no Go" and "Crayon Shin-chan", they were newly released last year, and the sales are around 5 million to 8 million copies.

According to the market response to these sales, it will rise further.

In this regard, the three major publishing giants in Japan can only envy, because their own comics can't keep up with the pace of comics from the two-dimensional companies.

Many Japanese comic companies have been studying the two-dimensional companies and Qingshui Bay Comic Weekly, but they have not yet really studied the success of them.

Yang Ming knew that he wanted to laugh.

These comics, in history, are one in a hundred, or even one in a thousand. Their success has been tested by history, the market, and thousands of readers.

Other comic companies need to choose one from hundreds or thousands of comics to succeed, which is not easy.

Yang Ming saw a big bookstore in front.

When Yang Ming and others went in.

He found that there were a wide variety of novels and comics inside.

Japanese novels are not as good as comics for the time being.

In other words, this place is basically dominated by comic weekly or comic books.

Comic books are mainly from two-dimensional companies.

Yang Ming saw the sales table here and learned that the collection of comic books "Dragon Ball" and "Detective Conan" has the best sales and is also 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.

Only Japanese people have this consumption capacity.

In Hong Kong, there are probably only more than 100,000 consumers who have this consumption capacity. However, in Japan, there are at least millions, or even tens of millions of consumers.

Yang Ming knew that Diana liked these comics very much now.

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

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

"Boss, these Japanese comic books and comic weekly magazines are so expensive because they have to pay taxes to Japan, and the taxes paid are not low."

Yang Ming nodded.

As far as Japanese comics are concerned, the two-dimensional company of the Empire Group has already occupied an absolute advantage.

In addition to Yang Ming providing a steady stream of comic outlines and creative content, there are also a large number of comic talents from Japan joining the Second Dimension Company. Even in the office of the Second Dimension Company in Qingshui Bay, Hong Kong, there are now hundreds of Japanese cartoonists.

This time, Lan Shaojun, general manager of the Second Dimension Company, specially brought an inspection team to Japan to investigate the market and tap more talents to develop in Hong Kong.

This is of great significance for the Empire Group and the Second Dimension Company to further monopolize the comic market.

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

From this, he could see that the Second Dimension comics were still very successful in Japan, but they still needed to further consolidate the market and position in this area.

Chapter 6!

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