Chapter 217 Sega’s Reversal Fifth Update

With the Chinese New Year, Sega's latest game console MD is officially on sale in Japan, the United States, and Europe.

In Europe, Sega's main battlefield, it broke through all the way.

Originally, Sega's reputation in the European market was still good.

It's just that NGS was really aggressive in the past. In the era of eight-bit computers, its competitiveness was accumulated over several years.

Relying on the advantages of high-quality games, there are too few people who can compete with them.

But in a new era, a new sub-era, it’s hard to say who has the right to speak.

At least now it seems that NGS is no longer the absolute dominant voice.

“Cool picture quality!”

"Amazing sound effects!"

"Absolutely dominant starting lineup."

“Your choice!”

At the beginning of the year, Sega also took the opportunity to go to several technology expos in Europe and the United States to show off its reputation, so that its MD could have a better public impression.

And now is when it takes effect.

Sega has become synonymous with picture quality at this time.

Compared with NGS, the only thing NGS can do is to try its best to promote its own games that are more fun and more fun.

But this kind of statement is unconvincing in the face of the picture quality that is soaring like a rocket.

On the Sega MD, Mega Man has more flexible movements.

Moreover, Zuo Zhen also cooperated with the performance of the Sega MD game console to add more fast and dynamic rhythms to Mega Man, and added more monsters on the same screen.

However, Zuo Zhen also has a difficulty adjustment for it. At the lowest difficulty level, you can even play it with an effect similar to that of unparalleled unparalleled skills.

The high difficulty requires players to defeat the opponent while avoiding the enemy's attacks like a dancer on the tip of a knife.

Both advanced players and ordinary players can find fun on it.

There is also Double Dragon. This more realistic story background easily attracted more people's attention.

The story background follows the previous work, but new players can also get a general understanding of the overall story of this game through the synopsis in the game.

The picture quality, gameplay, and other functions that borrowed the latest functions, Sega quickly regained its advantage in Europe.

Seeing that it had lost ground in the European market, NGS simply gave up on the European market.

And some people who had jumped ship from Sega before were a little dumbfounded.

They had all seen the booming development of NGS and went to each other's company to develop it.

But why are your NGS so careless?

How long has it been since? In just a few months, they were defeated and defeated.

But even if they think so, NGS will not respond.

They are businessmen, not philanthropists. Since they are no longer profitable, they should withdraw as soon as possible. As for the life and death of the local people, what does it have to do with them?

After leaving the European market, NGS did not just lie flat.

At this time, the NGS headquarters finally took Sega seriously as a rival.

Several Sega MD game consoles have been placed on the table in the conference room of NGS headquarters, and many managers looked at each other in confusion.

It was President Yamauchi who requested this.

He seemed really angry.

"Which of you has done a good job of studying the game console I asked you to study?"

Yamauchi looked at everyone in front of him with a gloomy face.

Everyone fell silent.

President, when did you ask us to study game consoles?

I guess you didn't say it?

But when faced with the president's questioning, no one dared to say such a thing.

And if you had said it, the president would probably have something to refute: "Won't you do it even if I didn't say it? Why don't you take the initiative to study the competitors when they are right in front of you?"

Therefore, retorting was tantamount to asking for trouble, and they all fell silent.

"President, we have been studying this game console for a long time, and the result is that the overall number of games is not enough, but the quality... is amazing."

At this time, Akira Nakamura spoke before everyone else.

Yamauchi's gloomy expression softened, and then he looked at Akira Nakamura.

"Sega really had a big helper this time, and this helper almost helped Sega reverse the unfavorable situation."

There is no need for Akira Nakamura to say who this helper is, everyone already knows it.

That's just Zuo Zhen, and his real game.

But...how is this possible?

It's just a game company.

How can you have this ability?

Their current advantages in NGS also rely on their strong monopoly power and control of many games.

So far, the number of games on NGS has approached one thousand.

With this game lineup, any player can find something they like.

"But we also have good news." Akira Nakamura changed the topic.

"Oh? What's the good news?"

"Until now, real games have not launched an all-ages game that is suitable for all ages. What I am talking about is a game of the same level as our Super Mario."

Speaking of this, Nakamura Akira couldn't help but straighten up.

This game was created by him and his game development team, so the credit must go to him, and no one can take it away from him.

After hearing this, Yamauchi actually nodded in approval.

This game can indeed be regarded as the face of NGS now.

Since the release of the third part, it has sold more than five million copies worldwide so far, which is a figure that no other game can match.

And this data continues to rise.

In the game, Super Mario is no longer just a simple jumping game.

This time Mario has many transformation abilities.

Before, you could only fight enemies by changing sizes.

In the third part, there are more transformations and more varied tactics.

This way of playing is quite novel.

But in fact, a few people have suggested that this game is very similar to Squirrel Wars 2, which was launched at the beginning of the year.

In Squirrel War, Zuo Zhen introduced various transformation gameplays in advance, and even introduced combined skills in two-player gameplay, making fighting more enjoyable.

However, Super Mario is still more famous, and the influence of the series is not comparable to that of Squirrel Wars.

"Miyamoto and I have started research and development on a new Super Mario, just to prepare for the release of the Sega MD."

For Yamauchi, this should be considered good news. His gloomy expression just now has finally completely disappeared.

He nodded: "Well done Nakamura, you can at least come up with some ways to deal with it, while others..."

He looked around at the others again, his eyes filled with disappointment.

What he meant was obvious.

That's why he was very disappointed with these people.

You have the best resources, but even Sega MD can't defeat it.

It really shouldn't be.

However, at this time, the person in charge of marketing and competition also put forward his own ideas.

"President, we should make arrangements in advance so that Sega MD cannot survive in the American market."