Chapter 491 395 Qing Zhiyuan Is Too Scary

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No layoffs, but it does not mean that Qing Zhiyuan will not integrate departmental resources.

So after he took office, he held several meetings with Nakayama Hayao, and after countless communications, they finally reached a unified understanding.

In the past, Sega's department expanded too much. Due to the failure on Saturn, the company directly established many sub-studios and let them develop their own independent games. In other words, Sega's strategy is-

When there are not enough third parties to join Saturn, then let the company's development department split up, so as to achieve the effect of piling up the number of games. Multiple different departments make different types of games, which seems to be no big problem.

But in fact, this strategy dispersed Sega's own resources and made many people do jobs they are not good at.

Most of Sega's game producers and developers are better at arcade games, not long-term narrative RPGs.

In addition to these, the hardware development department is also a mess.

Such an organizational structure is not convenient for resource integration and allocation, secondly, each is independent, and thirdly, it makes everyone enter unfamiliar fields, consuming enthusiasm and wasting talents.

No wonder Sega is getting worse and worse. In fact, there are problems in business management.

If it continues like this, won’t it just keep bleeding?

The strategy of multiple departments and multiple studios looks a bit like the incubation model of Yiwang or Penguin that Qing Zhiyuan experienced in his previous life.

The so-called incubation model is equivalent to letting you fend for yourself. First, you will invest a little money in you. If you can do it, you will continue to invest. If it does not meet expectations, you will cut it off.

It is equivalent to raising a lot of pet eggs, and then if you are lucky, you will see which one can explode gold coins. If you are unlucky, you will smash all the eggs.

From the perspective of risk control, this approach is actually understandable, because you don’t know what the future will be like, so it is better to cast a wide net and try more. What if one succeeds?

But the result is also likely that each one is malnourished and dies prematurely.

The gold coin chicken that might have appeared originally disappeared before it grew up, and you can’t say whether this strategy is good or bad.

When the company has enough funds in reserve and faces the uncertainty of the future, it seems feasible to use this method.

But when the company's resources are relatively scarce, it seems a bit unrealistic to want to support so many children.

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For a time traveler like Qing Zhiyuan, he already knows the changes in the world in the next few decades, so why should he engage in an incubation model?

At this time, it is too wrong to run a company with the mentality of buying lottery tickets.

Qing Zhiyuan promised President Okawa that he would not lay off employees, but he did not say that he could not integrate and adjust departments.

So after discussing and communicating with President Nakayama Hayao, he decided to make some necessary drastic reforms to Sega.

First, all the hardware departments of Sega were combined together, and the hardware department of Pokeni was also moved over to establish a special hardware development subsidiary.

This company only does two things, one is the DC game console, and the other is to prepare for the future development of handheld game consoles.

The future function is to specialize in hardware.

Secondly, Sega's game subsidiary was reorganized into a game department, with different studios under it. Currently, it is focusing on the development of Shenmue. Other games will continue to be developed if they are relatively complete. If they are relatively incomplete or even if Qing Zhiyuan thinks they will lose money, they will be directly cut.

The staff structure is flattened, and there will no longer be multi-level leaders and multi-level studio departments. Only department heads and producers will be set up when needed.

Other programmers do not belong to the studio, but all belong to the program department, and personnel will be deployed as needed.

The same is true for art and planning.

It is equivalent to setting up talent pools for multiple different departments, and then the producers will set up projects, apply for and deploy to these pools, and correspondingly allocate the required talents to form project teams for development. After the project development is completed, they will return to the pools.

The advantage of doing this is to reduce communication costs, reduce hierarchical structures, and at the same time allow each department to share technology and differentiate content, that is, to achieve no repetitive reinvention of the wheel.

At the same time, because of the allocation mechanism of the large pool, there will not be a situation where some projects are particularly short of staff, while other projects have very idle staff, and human resources can be used to the maximum extent.

This model is also used after the reorganization of Pokeni.

Reduce unnecessary resource expenditure and concentrate strength. In this way, Sega's internal structure will be optimized and its future financial situation will be slowly recovered.

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After integrating the company's internal resources, Qing Zhiyuan's next step is to stop the company's bleeding projects.

Many unnecessary games were cut. At the same time, in early July, Qing Zhiyuan announced a shocking news to the outside world-

"In view of Sega's operating conditions and the failure of Sega Saturn, this game console can no longer be maintained.

Sega will stop the production of Sega Saturn forever."

Since every game console sold will lose 5,000 or 6,000 yen, then this project is not worth continuing.

After stopping Saturn, all efforts can be concentrated on the research and development of DC.

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The day after this news was released, the whole country was wailing.

“What?! Saturn is no longer produced?! Does that mean that Sega has completely withdrawn from the game console market?”

“What should I do? It’s so sad. Saturn is obviously a good game console. I like many games developed on it.”

“I love the Langrisser series very much. It is really a masterpiece of war chess games. I still play it all the time. As a result, you said that it is no longer produced? What should I do if I want to recommend this game to my friends in the future?”

“Sakura Wars! Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Age of Discovery… In fact, they are all very classic games on Saturn? It’s not to the point where it can’t be supported at all?”

“Wow, I really want to cry to death. Although I had a hunch last year that Saturn might not be able to support it I didn't expect this day to come so soon. "

"When I heard the news, I was so upset. Sega Saturn is the game console that carries my dreams. Is it going to say goodbye to the game console market?

I have always liked Sega, is it going to end? "

"Damn it, this must be the fault of that idiot Qing Zhiyuan. He just acquired Sega and stopped Sega Saturn. What a jerk!"

"Qing Zhiyuan is killing our dreams."

"..."

But in fact, Qing Zhiyuan only said that it would stop the production of Sega Saturn. It didn't mention whether it would develop future game consoles or whether Sega would withdraw from the game console market in the future. It was just because Saturn was gone that players had a lot of imagination.

Everyone was immersed in pessimism.

But there seemed to be a glimmer of hope in pessimism.

Many players scolded Qing Zhiyuan for being a scumbag.

It's like a girl who is waiting for her boyfriend to come to her house, and received a call from the boy saying that he would not come this morning.

But will he come in the evening? But he didn't say it clearly.

You are worried that he won't come, and you are afraid that he will come.

What a shameless scumbag!

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Players are pessimistic about Qing Zhiyuan stopping the production of Sega Saturn, and they are nervous and uneasy.

But people in the industry can smell something unusual at once.

On the Rentian Paradise side, when Yamauchi Hiroshi saw the relevant news, his first reaction was -

"It's over. After Qing Zhiyuan took over Sega, Sega is really going to take off."

Shigeru Miyamoto nodded with some sighs, and agreed with Yamauchi Hiroshi's judgment.

"After Qing Zhiyuan took over, he acted quite quickly. According to employees inside Sega, he not only stopped the production of SS, but also cut a lot of projects.

He restructured the department, which caused many members to be dissatisfied and complain."

"Haha, complaining." Yamauchi Hiroshi sneered twice, "That's their exaggeration. They don't understand Qing Zhiyuan's thundering wrist at all.

In my opinion, Qing Zhiyuan is a very terrible and remarkable manager."

This situation is equivalent to a soldier fighting in the battlefield, who was hit in the thigh and the leg became infected. If it is not amputated, it may spread to the whole body and cause death.

But before, whether it was Nakayama Hayao or Okawa Isao, no one could do this. Just think about sawing off one of your legs, it would be a bit painful.

Qing Zhiyuan didn't worry about this at all. He was an outside doctor and amputated the infected thigh in no time, but what about it?

After losing its thigh, Sega can grow new flesh, and maybe even regenerate its limbs in the future.

This is something that requires a lot of courage.

"Qing Zhiyuan is better than I thought!"

Yamauchi Hiroshi couldn't help but admire.

It was simply an iron-blooded method, fast, accurate and ruthless, without any mercy, and cut the Gordian knot, and straightened Sega in one fell swoop.

"It seems that we have really met a strong opponent!"

In the past, Pokeni or Sega, separated separately, although they were both very powerful guys in their respective fields, were not so scary.

Now that they are combined together, Qing Zhiyuan's reform directly combines the two companies together and becomes a complete body.

It is conceivable that under the leadership of Qing Zhiyuan, Sega and Pokeni in the future will burst out with such powerful power.

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"To be honest, Qing Zhiyuan is much more powerful than I thought."

In the evening, when having dinner with Kutaragi Ken,

Sato Hideki exclaimed.

Ken Kutaragi could not help but frown.

This guy...

"From your appearance, you seem to admire him? I saw that you were very dissatisfied with the acquisition before, right?" Ken Kutaragi asked with a smile.

"Yeah," Sato Hideki nodded seriously, took a sip of wine silently, and said in amazement, "I did think so at the beginning.

As a third party making games, how can Qingzhiyuan have the ability to guide hardware development?

He is a very boastful man at first glance. If he really wants to get involved in various fields, he will obviously step on landmines.

But in fact, it is not the case after getting in touch with him."

Sato Hideki's eyes sparkled, and he felt it was magical when he recalled every communication and contact with Geng Qing Zhiyuan during this period of time.

"This guy seems to have endless creativity in his head, and his familiarity with software and hardware far exceeds my imagination, especially when he brings it up..."

Speaking of this, Sato Hideki squinted his eyes, and saw the hungry face of Kutaragi Ken, and couldn't help laughing.

"Why should I tell you? These are all company secrets."

"Ah... Hideki-san! Am I not thinking about you?" Kutaragi Ken sat back in his original place with some disappointment, thinking that this guy is good in every way, but he is still so tight-lipped.

"Think about it, if Qing Zhiyuan hadn't interfered, you might have been the president of Sega now.

If it were me, I would definitely feel extremely angry.

Why are you still smiling and speaking for Qing Zhiyuan?"

"In short, Qing Zhiyuan is more powerful than I thought, I am completely convinced."

Sato Hideki said.

"But he cut off many departments of the company. I heard that many employees complained."

"No, no, those are just one-sided statements, rumors, and nonsense from the outside world!" Sato Hideki shook the cup in his hand, as if he wanted to see some wonderful scenes in it. "To be honest, if Qing Zhiyuan didn't make any changes after acquiring Sega, I would look down on him.

At most, he would become the next President Okawa. If he didn't make any changes to Sega, he would fall into the abyss sooner or later.

However, Qing Zhiyuan's random cuts cut off Sega's legs, and at the same time, the hands that grabbed us into the abyss also fell down.

From then on, Sega's burden became lighter and it could climb up."

Speaking of this, Sato Hideki couldn't help laughing, his eyes shining.

That was really the light of hope.

Ken Kutaragi couldn't help but be shocked.

The current Sato is completely different from the Sato a month ago.

Before this, Kutaragi Ken had felt the charm of Qing Zhiyuan, but he had never been so shocked.

Does he know magic?

How could he conquer Sato in such a short time?

"What will you do then? Don't you want to be the president?" Kutaragi Ken asked unwillingly.

Sato Hideki smiled slightly, "The premise of being the president is that Sega must exist. If Sega is gone, what kind of president is there?"

He had a hunch, and this hunch became stronger and stronger-

After Qing Zhiyuan's struggle, Sega will be rejuvenated.

In a few years, when President Nakayama retires, Qing Zhiyuan will hand over a vibrant and energetic Sega to him.

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The greatest motivation for employees is to make them feel that the company is rising all the time and the future is full of hope.

The more hope there is, the more motivation there is to stay and fight for it.

Sato Hideki is like this now.

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There will be another chapter in the evening (end of this chapter)