Chapter 201 Job-Hopping, Fourth Update

This time NGS seems to have realized the threat from Sega.

Their way to deal with the threat is to continue to increase their investment in the European market.

We need to take advantage of Sega's gradual decline to drive it out of the home console market.

In early 1988, NGS-related posters were everywhere on the streets.

And they all had the same slogan.

If you want to play video games, look for NGS.

Except for NGS, other game consoles are evil.

And in fact that seems to be the case.

The number of video games on Sega's home console is not as good as that of NGS, and the quality has only suddenly improved in the past year.

On the NGS side, there are too many games to choose from.

A game like Super Mario that appeals to all ages can easily appeal to everyone.

There are also sports, adventure, action, role-playing and many other games.

Every game type is considered the leader of its time.

In one family, a child had just received his birthday present.

It is the latest NGS game console.

He was very happy and couldn't wait to turn on the game console and play.

What surprised him was that there were indeed many games on NGS, and because of NGS's dumping behavior, NGS games were generally much cheaper than Sega's.

The quality of the games was good, there were so many games, and the prices were so low, Sega simply had nothing to compete with.

Slowly, the Sega game console was no longer liked by European children at the beginning of the year, and was replaced by new game consoles.

"What should we do? Our headquarters doesn't have any plans?"

In one of Sega's European offices, several employees were worrying about their jobs.

As Sega's sales fell in Europe, so did their salaries.

If this continues, they won't even be able to pay the rent.

However, they actually like Sega, and so far they have never bought an NGS game console at home.

But now that they see NGS killing everyone in Europe, Sega's main battlefield, they feel unspeakably uncomfortable.

It's like the feeling that your former childhood sweetheart is about to become someone else's girlfriend.

And in addition to the salary reduction, I don’t know where the news came from. It seems that Sega is preparing to launch the home console market, and people in their offices will start to think about finding a new home for themselves.

However, Sega's headquarters will still send someone to clarify that all these are rumors, so that employees in the office can rest assured that wages will continue to be paid, but now they are less.

"I have found a new job. An NGS video game store has just opened next door to my house, and they are hiring people there."

"Really? How's the salary?"

The man spread his hands and said, "How much do you think the salary will be if you work as a sales clerk in a video game store? It's probably not much better than what you get here now."

"Hey...why is this happening?"

Everyone sighed.

"It's all my fault that Sega headquarters insists on expanding in their own markets of Japan and the United States, which angers the NGS people and makes them come to Europe to compete with us for jobs!"

"You can't blame the Sega headquarters. The company always needs to develop. It can't continue like this, right?"

"That's what we say, but it's us at the bottom who suffer. We can escape at any time, but we have to bear the risk of losing our jobs in the future."

"Actually, it's not a big deal. I just keep looking for a new job."

"It's just...hey, I just might not be able to find a better job than this one."

Several employees working in Sega's office usually do pretty good jobs.

They only need to be responsible for communicating with local stores about the supply of goods each time, and conducting publicity and promotion in accordance with the above requirements.

"Hey, speaking of which, I wonder if you have heard of such a rumor. It seems that Sega is preparing to develop a new game console?"

"So what." One person said unconcernedly, "NGS has so many games now, how can it change the situation even if it releases a new game console? Has Sega released few game consoles in recent years? Let's look at the games of NGS Machine, one model has been developed to this day.”

From the time NGS released its own game console in 1983, there was only one model. Although the appearance of the game console will be slightly different depending on the region, the internal performance of the game console is basically the same.

Sega's game consoles have been updated for at least three generations so far. Each time the performance has been improved, and performance improvements are used as a gimmick to promote, but the effect is still minimal.

The biggest pessimism of these people is that they see that the promotion effect of these games is not good, and they can only watch it like this.

The quality of the game is not something they can control.

"Forget it, let's not mention these unhappy things. Let's discuss where to work next."

It's not just this Sega office.

Several Sega offices in Europe are now filled with such a pessimistic atmosphere.

Salaries are getting lower and lower, and there seems to be a risk of being laid off.

If the headquarters hadn't always clarified that they would not lay off employees and it was just a temporary difficulty, they might have really planned to leave.

But after all, some people couldn't help it and reported their resignation.

A manager at the Sega office looked helplessly at several resignation reports that were sent to him at the same time.

"Are you really planning to resign together? Why don't you just wait a little longer? Our headquarters has always said that this is just a temporary difficulty."

"Temporary difficulties? BOSS, do you believe what you say? Looking at the current posture of NGS, it is estimated that it will not be long before Sega is completely defeated. It is better to leave here as soon as possible. I have found a new job. NGS Bian is recruiting new people, we have all been poached, why don't you come with us, boss?"

The manager immediately hesitated after hearing this.

In order to survive, sometimes you still have to compromise.

"I...I want to wait."

"Then we can't wait any longer."

After these people handed in their resignation reports, they left the Sega office that day and went to the NGS office not far next door.

The NGS office next door was in high spirits at this time.

"Welcome, you are all rare talents. If you join, our NGS office will develop faster. I believe that my leaving the Sega office is your best choice."

The person who spoke was an employee who also used to work at a Sega office.

But because he left earlier and joined NGS earlier, he became the manager of an office early, which made him very proud.

These former colleagues naturally became his employees. He accepted everyone with a smile, and then he was well prepared to look forward to his future ambitions.

But just a few days later, Sega's latest promotion reappeared on the streets of Europe.