Of course, Xu Yi hoped that the Mana Illusion Projector would become an instant bestseller upon its release and quickly find its way into every home. Like televisions on Earth, it would transform entertainment across the Sains Continent and make people's lives richer and more colorful.
But that was clearly impossible.
First, although the Mana Illusion Projector had already been developed, it had not yet entered mass production, and cost control was still far from ideal. Manufacturing a projector identical to the one unveiled at the product launch cost nearly seventy gold coins.
The Xinfei Merchant Guild had positioned this Mana Illusion Projector as a high-end product. It could display exceptionally sharp images, as though real people were performing right before the viewer, and present them from every angle in a full 360-degree view. Its presale price had therefore been set at a staggering hundred and fifty gold coins.
Naturally, such an exorbitant price put it beyond the reach of ordinary households.
Even though the Lampari Kingdom's rapidly growing economy had greatly increased many families' incomes, spending a hundred and fifty gold coins on a Mana Illusion Projector still seemed rather difficult to justify.
So after Xu Yi announced the presale price at the product launch, the Mana Illusion Projector did not immediately become a bestseller like every other new product the Xinfei Merchant Guild had unveiled. Only a handful of Bunta City's great nobles and wealthy merchants expressed interest in buying one.
Aside from its price, the most important factor limiting sales was actually that Xu Yi and Stille had never intended for it to become an immediate bestseller.
The reason was simple. The Mana Illusion Projector itself was not particularly difficult to manufacture, but producing the illusions it projected was extremely demanding.
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