Betrayal

The clerks obviously had never encountered such a situation before, and for a moment, they didn't know how to handle it. However, they did remember to detain this person, at least to make him compensate for the cost of the game console.

For a baseball player, this amount of money was nothing at all.

He disdainfully threw the money on the ground, and then seemed to be preparing to rush to the next test game console to smash it again.

Now the clerks couldn't just stand by, so they hurried up.

With a height of 1.8 meters and a strong appearance, one or two clerks couldn't hold such a guy at all.

Soon the situation became somewhat chaotic.

However, both sides were just pulling each other, without making any extreme moves, which disappointed many tabloid reporters.

They thought there might be another brawl in the game sales store.

But such reports quickly appeared in the newspapers.

'Professional athletes question the professionalism of baseball video games.'

'Super Baseball Championship panders to the public, disregarding the professionalism of baseball for profit.'

Various eye-catching headlines appeared one after another, and discussions about video games appeared again on the Internet.

And several TV stations seemed to be re-energized, eager to fight against video games once again.

Since the last collective scandal involving TV stations, they had been quiet for a while. But they couldn't control the spread of various news on the Internet. They couldn't control what happened on the Internet at all. Those emerging internet giants were eager for the old industries in Japan to collapse quickly so that they could integrate into Japanese society faster and eat up the biggest piece of cake.

Later, they wanted to divert people's attention and occasionally mentioned in some programs that video games were bad things, but the effect was minimal.

In the end, they could only choose to settle the matter and dismiss some irrelevant executives, have the important management executives bow ninety degrees and apologize to the public on the spot, and then handle it coldly. That's how the matter ended.

Gradually, people began to forget about this incident and shift their attention elsewhere.

Internet users generally had a weak ability to sustain attention. Even though various scandals involving TV stations often appeared on the Internet, it didn't shock them as much as when the revelations first came out.

Gradually, these TV stations stopped making trouble, and scandals about TV stations on the Internet slowly disappeared.

This time, the video game seemed to have angered the baseball players, and the four TV stations immediately called on baseball players to unite and jointly discredit video games.

At the same time, they also cursed Tokyo TV stations and video games for their collusion in filth, abandoning all bottom lines for ratings.

On the Internet, many forums related to games were also discussing this matter.

"I mean, isn't it exaggerated to discuss professionalism in video games? Movies and anime also have a lot of absurd plots, right?"

"Upstairs, you're wrong. If TV shows or anime dare to do this, they will definitely be heavily criticized."

"But isn't playing games mainly for entertainment? If you give up entertainment and focus only on professionalism, can you still call it a game?"

...

Takayuki scratched his head as he watched the news.

In the eyes of the Japanese people, baseball was the national sport, although in later generations, there were so many bizarre sports games and various bizarre sports manga.

Like Murder Tennis and so on, anyway, the more absurd, the better.

In fact, they should have been accepted.

But it seemed that the Japanese people of this era were not so open-minded, relatively conservative about ball sports, and paid more attention to professionalism.

He underestimated it.

It seemed that this parallel world was still very different from the previous world, and couldn't be completely viewed as the world of the previous world.

The baseball game he made was originally a spin-off, more of an experiment, but he didn't expect such a strong backlash.

Speaking of which, that athlete was actually angered by the content of the video game, which felt like he was ashamed and angry.

The more guilty they felt, the more angry and panicked they became when something exposed their gray areas.

Hmm... there might be something to dig deeper into here.

Takayuki rubbed his chin, seeming to have figured something out.

In talk shows on the four major TV stations, active baseball players also appeared to speak for themselves.

They carefully explained to the public the blood and tears of Japanese baseball, as if every Japanese baseball player had grown up through constant effort, almost all of them were extremely inspirational, and seemed to be examples worthy of people's learning.

"We have all been struggling constantly, striving for victory, striving for a dignified victory, and we have given everything."

"In the end, we achieved our glory, but a video game is discrediting us, portraying our industry as a sport that only uses underhanded means. This is something I absolutely cannot tolerate!"

A baseball player angrily denounced video games on a talk show.

Beside him, the host looked very sympathetic to the baseball player.

"You are really great, each and every one of you, constantly striving for your dreams through relentless effort. But someone is questioning your sport. I can understand your current anger."

The athlete calmed down a bit, then said with great sadness, "I don't expect others to understand our pain. I just hope that at least they won't insult us. That's our bottom line."

Then, he changed the subject, "But, I believe there are still those truly responsible people in this world. Not all video games are so bad. For example, the game released by PN game console, the Koshien Baseball League game, is highly professional, and our coaches have been recommending us to experience this game. The professionalism of this game is also stronger."

When Takayuki saw this scene on TV, he almost couldn't help but spray out a mouthful of water.

This advertisement was extremely stiff.

The host on the TV also looked embarrassed.

This talk show was broadcast live, and any accident would be difficult to make up for.

And this baseball player took the initiative to promote another company's baseball game here, clearly without communicating with the TV station.

It seemed that Suiryu Electronics had really spent a lot of money, forcibly getting an athlete to boast about a game on a TV show wasn't easy.

"So, if you want to experience a more realistic baseball game, you can try the Koshien Baseball League game released by the PN game console. I really like it."

"All right, everyone, today's show ends here. Thank you very much for our baseball players for speaking out. Next, we will discuss the disadvantages of video games in more detail."

The host timely stopped the talk show, and immediately the screen switched to some advertisement, making people feel inexplicable.