Tokyo Video Game Tycoon.

In this world, there will always be things we are forced to do.

If you don't do it, they'll really think you're easy to bully, and then they'll keep attacking you.

Especially in Japan, a society that is somewhat distorted, weakness is even more unacceptable.

Chapter 153 The TV Station in a Dilemma

"Honestly, I'm disappointed. I used to be a big baseball fan, and I'm really disappointed with the performance of these athletes."

On Tokyo TV, an expert from a certain university said with a regretful expression.

"Professor, do you think the baseball league will be affected by this?"

"Well... I don't think so. Baseball is still the best sport in people's hearts. The ones who are really bad are just the athletes. We shouldn't generalize about baseball as a whole. You see, not all athletes are bad. The really bad ones are just a few."

"That's true, the really bad ones are just a few athletes."

"Speaking of which, have you ever played the Super Baseball League Hot-Blooded League, which has been in the spotlight lately?"

"Of course, it's really fun. It's just a pity that it has been attacked so much before, which has tarnished the game's highlights," the host said with a hint of regret.

"Now that you mention it, I suddenly remembered those athletes who criticized this game before. They don't seem to have a clean record now."

The host seemed to realize something and let out a soft "Eh": "Right, that seems to be true. People were saying that this game wasn't professional or realistic enough, but now I feel like some things in the game are actually more realistic."

The professor smiled and nodded: "That's right. This brings us to the producer of this game, Mr. Takeyuki, the president of Yusei Electronics Entertainment. I used to have some prejudice against video games, but now I suddenly realize that he is a very perceptive person who criticizes the current state of society through video games. He is a very socially responsible person."

"Really, you can learn a lot from this game. Before, I just thought of it as an interesting game."

On the television, a professor and a host worked together seamlessly, their voices perfectly synchronized.

Zhu Youxing was amazed by what he saw.

Am I really that amazing? I didn't even know it myself.

He made this game simply to find a different path; he didn't think much of it.

But after being described in this way by the professor and the host, it's as if I've suddenly become a national teacher and started to actively expose the dark side of society.

In film and television dramas, it is common to see criticism of social phenomena.

But in reality, it's not particularly obvious in video games.

Video games are more commercialized than movies and TV shows, and everything they do is for pure entertainment.

Of course, there are definitely some games that reflect social phenomena.

For example, This War of Mine tells the story of ordinary people's lives during wartime, making people pay more attention to the lives of civilians on the battlefield.

There's also Braveheart: The War of the Worlds, which depicts the lack of choice for ordinary people during World War I.

But these are not the original purpose of video games, and they should not be the main focus. At most, they should be a supplement to video games.

However, this would indeed be a good breakthrough point.

We can have the online trolls start from this angle, and also teach those people at the TV station a lesson while we're at it.

……

Asahi TV's director, Hisae Ando, ​​is a new director who has only been in office for a year.

He had just taken office and was preparing to make a big splash in the television industry, hoping to make the station thrive.

However, he just happened to arrive at the end of the television station's run.

Internet, video games.

Caught between these two pressures, television is getting worse every day, with ratings seemingly dropping a little bit each day.

He felt very frustrated in his role as station director.

Despite having worked so hard to get to this position, they haven't been able to achieve anything, their performance has plummeted, and the affiliated TV stations are all complaining that their big brother isn't doing a good job.

Under such circumstances, he also considered launching some television programs to reverse the decline.

But ultimately, it was too late to salvage the situation.

In the end, he chose to use other people as scapegoats.

The video game industry, which was just emerging at the time, naturally became a thorn in their side.

Several other television stations happened to have similar ideas, and the four parties hit it off immediately and began to unite to deal with video games.

When there's an opportunity, they'll try to smear video games as much as possible; when there isn't, they'll absolutely deny video games any channels for promotion.

If video games are promoted through other channels, they will also use their influence to suppress those advertising channels.

But in the end, only these four TV stations persevered.

Other channels all succumbed to the onslaught of money.

He later had a good opportunity to attack video games, but it was destroyed by an unexpected scandal, and he barely managed to keep his position as station director.

Then, recently, there has been a second opportunity to attack video games.

But... this time we weren't as lucky as last time.

A huge number of users suddenly appeared on the internet, and they are constantly posting on various platforms every day.

"**TV station, you are utterly rotten! You yourselves are corrupt, yet you dare to slander others, and you've done so repeatedly, even dragging along a group of equally corrupt athletes to do the same! You're rotten to the core!"

"You trashy TV station! No wonder I find your TV programs increasingly unwatchable; you're always up to those crooked schemes. Just die already! I'll never watch your programs again!"

"I want to apologize to Yuxing Electronics Entertainment. Your games are really fun. I said something against my conscience before. You are a very responsible company, much more so than those established companies. Please keep it up! I will definitely buy all your games!"

There are more of these kinds of messages this time than ever before.

Not only online, but their company mailbox has been overwhelmed with messages every day for the past few days, with thousands of emails coming from different parts of the country.

The content inside is mostly slander, wishing that the TV station, this garbage dump, would die as soon as possible.

An Dong Shoujiang, along with the directors of several other television stations, were extremely angry, but had nowhere to vent their anger.

Now, any content on their TV shows that contains even a hint of denigration of video games is immediately met with boycotts.

The viewership ratings will plummet to 10%.

This is already considered a tragic situation.

In contrast, the neutral NHK, as the eldest of the six major television networks, remained calm and collected, and surprisingly benefited quite a bit from the smaller networks. Even its low-quality programs saw a two or three-point increase in viewership, which was quite gratifying.

TV Tokyo, which directly embraced video games, saw its average viewership rating jump from less than 15% to around 20%.

Even if viewers don't want to watch anything, they will only watch TV on TV Tokyo or NHK, which annoys the four TV stations.

What's even more infuriating is that many programs on TV Tokyo are subtly mocking the four TV stations, implying that they are a bunch of lowlifes.

Are you clean?

Do you dare say you're completely clean? You've just not been caught red-handed yet.

But TV Tokyo doesn't care about any of that.

Anyway, it has nothing to do with me that these things are being exposed. I'm just trying to ride the wave of popularity. Even if you want to target me, you can't target me. You should target video games first.

However, Youxing Electronic Entertainment has now gained a certain reputation.

In just one year, according to the game console sales data disclosed by Yuxing Electronic Entertainment, the Famicom has reached nearly four million users, and the Super Famicom is also approaching one million in sales.

With so many users, they have gained a certain degree of control over the narrative and are no longer easily manipulated.

Now we're starting to suffer the backlash from those gamers.

Some slightly more extreme players even stood directly in front of their TV station and unfurled banners.

The message read: "This trashy TV station dares to smear video games? They should clean up their own mess first! Bastards!"

You want to get rid of this kind of person, but you don't dare, because you're afraid of provoking an even stronger reaction.

Anton Shoujiang knew that this was probably related to Yuxing Electronic Entertainment, and that they might have secretly hired these people to put up the banners.

But without any evidence, if they dare to expel them, it would prove that they have a guilty conscience, and for a moment they really are in a dilemma.

Chapter 154 Ceasefire

The Japan Eastern Baseball League announced that it has completely removed the following individuals from the league and blacklisted them.

The baseball league promised to conduct an internal overhaul and would not tolerate any illegal or irregular behavior. The league president personally bowed 90 degrees in apology during a live broadcast.

The four major television stations announced that they will prohibit any business dealings with the following individuals.

Several TV station directors who had barely escaped unscathed before were not spared this time.

Because this time someone dug up their past and blew their bones out again, no matter how hard they tried to suppress it, it was no use. The TV station's mailbox and the mayor's mailbox were flooded with complaint letters every day.

Two of the four television stations' directors resigned to take responsibility, and the director of the other station stepped down and was reassigned to a rural television station as its director, which was essentially an exile to the frontier, and he wouldn't be able to return until he retired.

The only remaining TV station director is the newly appointed Anto Hisae.

He, the newly appointed station director, didn't have much of a scandal in the past, so he was less affected. In addition, he had just taken office and had some connections, so he didn't have to resign or be transferred.

However, his influence has also significantly decreased, and those above him seem to have begun to doubt his work ability.

If Andong Shoujiang doesn't achieve anything significant in the next year or two, his career will likely come to an end.

The newly appointed directors of the other three television stations no longer had any interest in dealing with video games. Instead, they began to learn from TV Tokyo and actively promote video games, producing some video game-related programs.

Since they can't beat them, they might as well join them. After all, it's all for ratings. Seeing TV Tokyo thriving because of it, they'll naturally be envious.

Just then, Surui Electronics was in dire need of expanding its publicity channels, and these four TV stations promptly reached a strategic cooperation agreement with Surui Electronics.

Surui Electronics also took the opportunity to release a number of games, including one self-developed game and several third-party games from other companies, seemingly intending to seize the opportunity to grab market share.

Previously, when Youxing Electronics Entertainment was suppressed, Su Rui Electronics saw a surge in sales of PN game consoles, with sales increasing by more than 300,000 units. Now, the total sales have reached 700,000 units.

After a long period of significant investment, Surui Electronics seems to have finally seen some improvement.

Yuxing Electronic Entertainment hasn't made any major moves in this regard, seemingly entering a period of stable development.

Each company releases one game every month as usual, and more and more game developers are joining the SFC camp, with game quality rapidly improving.

By July, the Super Famicom (SFC) had officially reached one million units sold, while the Famicom (NES) had reached four and a half million units sold. The two consoles were constantly competing with each other in sales speed, showing no signs of stopping.

The Famicom (NES) focused on a low-price strategy to attract more gamers, while the Super Famicom (SFC) offered better content for players who demanded high-quality graphics, creating a complementary relationship.