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Chapter 507 - 168: A Confused Account!_1

Chapter 507: Chapter 168: A Confused Account!_1

Gazing at the youthful and handsome face on the screen,

and the mountainous, tsunami-like applause from the audience below, players on site, though having shouted themselves hoarse, were still not stingy with their cheers for that young man, appearing as fervent as the most devout believers.

Hattori Hiroshi’s face revealed deep exhaustion, he languidly leaned back in his chair, the final glint in his eyes seeming to scatter away.

If one could say that for the first three titles, he could still make an effort relying on spending a large sum of money on marketing, hiring paid posters, or self-promotion, bombarding with overwhelming information to trade for a glimmer of hope,

then at the moment when the "Super Mario: Odyssey" promotional video ended,

Hattori Hiroshi knew the outcome was already decided.

With the quality of this title, it was absolutely not something SE could compete with at present.

It wasn’t even a gap that could be bridged by massive promotional efforts.

You may think its graphics do not surpass those of our own 3D masterpieces.

You may find its character, nothing more than a kindly, plump plumber uncle.

Even the entire story background is as naive as a children’s fairy tale picture book.

Princess Peach is abducted by the villainous Cool Tyrant, and Mario becomes companions with Kepi, a resident of Hat Country, agreeing to embark on an adventure to save both Princess Peach and Kepi’s sister.

Truth be told, even a five-year-old child may not sit through such content now.

But somehow... it seems to have a lethal attraction to young adult players.

Hattori Hiroshi was not foolish enough to believe that it was this story that deeply captivated players.

The reason was precisely because the overly simple story allowed players to quickly skip the protracted world background and dive in.

Loved ones taken by the Demon, thus buckling up for the rescue.

That’s the most basic logic, aligning with everyone’s values, hardly requiring much explanation.

Then, setting aside the story itself,

players could truly immerse themselves in this odyssey, fully experiencing the game.

And was this game fun?

Of course.

Just the numerous gameplay features introduced in the promotional video made even Hattori Hiroshi sigh with envy.

The lead player, with what seemed to be a very fairy-tale design style, precisely captured what the mainstream players currently crave most—pure fun.

"Defeated," Hattori Hiroshi muttered, a powerless, bitter smile tugging at the corner of his mouth.

This war without gunpowder smoke, his side almost lost like a dog bereft of a home.

Without any power to fight back.

And Hattori Hiroshi didn’t have much time to savor the bitterness of defeat.

He had to properly consider how to face the upcoming pricing issues of their own Slover13, as well as what to do about the inability of "Gilralel" to catch any new title from the leading players—all of these required careful thought.

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The Switch’s launch event came to a successful close and was scheduled to go on sale uniformly three days later.

The staff of the leading players, who had been busy for three months, could finally take a short break; the rest could be left to the sales department to monitor.

However, the media’s traffic spree had truly just started to heat up.

On the night when the launch event ended, various edited clips about the Switch event began to be uploaded non-stop to all major video websites.

There were official media as well as individual bloggers.

There were domestic mainstream video platforms like Thunderbolt, Fighting Tones, Chopsticks Hand.

And there were foreign ones like YouTube, Netflix, TikTok, IGN, and so on.

Simply put, it was only because this Switch launch was too significant.

The Switch’s design concept, or the four flagship titles released simultaneously, virtually brought the joy, gameplay, and appeal of games to an extreme.

If you posted it, there was traffic, there were viewers.

Even by the second day,

videos of ’famous international streamers watching the Switch event’ and their reactions started to be uploaded one after another.

Watching those foreigners, with their big beards or noses, widening their eyes in astonishment when the detachable Switch controllers appeared, looking incredulously at the camera with a ’wtf?’ made many Huaxia Nation bystanders rather pleased.

Some went as far as to pull out their credit cards in front of the camera, banging on the desk, shouting: "Shut up and take my fucking money!"

There were also prankster players who edited and spliced two video segments together.

At the top of the spliced video was the scene from SE’s handheld console launch.

Beneath the video was a young man in a casual jacket, with a jaded and mocking smile, casually holding a toothpick in his mouth as he said, "Okay, look who the fuck is here."

And the next moment, the content on the top part of the video suddenly switched to the leading player’s Switch launch event, the moment when Mario made his surprise appearance.

The spirited young man beneath the video gasped, hurriedly spat out the toothpick, straightened his collar, straightened his back, and saluted ceremoniously with a solemn expression.

This short video of just a few seconds, due to its abstract editing yet fitting so well with the theme, instantly triggered millions of likes and countless shares on foreign websites.

It also let many more international players know about the Switch’s launch event and these four titles that were explosively popular, even just by their promotional videos.

There are those who rejoice and those who are distraught.

Now the pressure was clearly on SE.

With their Slover13 sales plummeting since the Switch’s launch event, after the release of the four new titles, the sales fell into the negative numbers.

An electronic product that was only on the shelves for just over a week, to experience such a Waterloo-style drop in sales, was unprecedented in the electronic device market before.