Yamauchi has been a little anxious lately.

The reason is simple, because their NGC...... Hit the streets.

NGC was originally born out of the "Dolphin Project", which later became the name of NGC and II simulators.

And this dolphin project was launched almost at the same time as Sega DC.

Three years ago, that is, at the beginning of ninety-eight, Lao Ren made contact with Panasonic, and Panasonic completely terminated the 3DO-M2 resurrection plan and turned to cooperate with Lao Ren.

As a result, the first version of NGC's prototype "Dolphin" was developed at the end of that year – faster than Senxia's.

However, Lao Ren was immediately hit by the "combination punch" of Sega and Sony.

With the release of the DC and PS2 hardware specifications, Lao Ren has redesigned the hardware specifications to completely surpass the PS2 performance while controlling the manufacturing cost as much as possible.

Originally, it was entirely possible that NGC would be released in time for the best of the business war at the end of the 2000th year, but because of Yamauchi's decision, this time was delayed a lot.

Of course, this is also related to Yamauchi's underestimation of the enemy.

At the beginning, Sega DC hit the street and changed hands to Phoenix Club (Phoenix Society), and Sega completely got out of the field of home computers, which made Yamauchi quite happy.

But then came the DC-P, an improved DC successor that supported the original DC game while having more powerful performance.

But in the beginning, no one was optimistic about it.

Because the iteration is too fast.

However, it turns out that it was cut into a cheap model in DC, and with the DC-P route, it was surprisingly easy to use......

And then they survived tenaciously – but not because of the machines themselves. After analyzing the executives, Lao Ren's side found that the other party was completely because of the popularity of his own games, and he also supported online games.

Especially the latter.

The concept of "if you want to finish the online game, go to DC-P" has become an inherent cognition - no way, other people's network systems just do it well.

Nintendo and Sega used to be rivals, but after this iteration, the distance between the two sides is getting bigger and bigger.

But in fact, Lao Ren and the Order of the Phoenix are actually quite similar.

Because both are first-party and powerful.

Now the Order of the Phoenix, all the game business has been stripped away and handed over to the fraternity club Animic, but it is undeniable that it is no problem for these two manufacturers to be one.

If it is a listed company, it naturally cannot be counted in this way. But these two companies are non-listed companies controlled by Senxia, so the scheduling or something, it depends entirely on whether Senxia is happy or not - anyway, the equity distribution on both sides is about the same, especially after Senxia redeemed Sega's shares.

Therefore, there is really no problem for Company A to be regarded as the "first party".

And if you look at it this way, the situation is obvious: Senxia, like Lao Ren, is the most profitable on the first side.

If you carefully analyze the financial statements of Lao Ren in the past few years, you will find that although these years are the time for the N64 "street" machine to be listed, in fact, Lao Ren's profit in the field of home host has even exceeded the time when most of the world dominated the world in the past.

- The reason is very simple, this is because the game sales of the old Ren factory completely monopolized the market of N64.

Yamauchi Pu analyzed the situation on Mori Xia's side.

Because it is not a listed company, Yamauchi Pu cannot get the financial statements of others, because the other party has no obligation to disclose them to the outside world.

But through their foreign policy, we can still see the clues: the sales of first-party games are also millions.

Then he found out that other people's means of making money ...... But something seems wrong?

At first, Yamauchi didn't think much about it.

But with the appearance of "Infinite Realm", he suddenly realized, because the other party's means of making money are very clear: krypton gold.

At that time, Yamauchi Pu was actually quite relieved.

Although it is said that Senxia is a "terrifying person", this method just shows that although the other party and his own profits are "first party", the profit methods between the two are completely different.

Therefore, before that, Sony was the big problem for Yamauchi.

But......

NGC is in the streets.

Moreover, after NGC hit the streets, Yamauchi noticed that something was wrong.

After investigating, he found that Sony's PS2 seemed to be ...... Oh no!

Last year, Sony's global hardware shipments were close to 8 million units, but according to Lao Ren's investigation, they found that the actual sales may be only 70% of the shipments, and in the year of last year, the opposite side exceeded 500,000 sets of game sales...... There are only three models: Namco's "Tekken TT", Square Enix's "Drama Space Wild Ball" and A Society's "Lelouch the Rebel".

Belch...... It's embarrassing, but the game on the side of Company A does account for the top three......

On the contrary, on DC-P, the game with millions of sales is menacing, and people make money not to earn you once, but to earn you once, and then release DLC to earn you again......

Compared to PS2, DC-P's shipments are six million, but if you count the cheap version of DC, it is tens of millions, which is more than Sony!

Then I looked at it, and Lao Ren found that people had changed the DC-P dress up and made a Kirin computer!

Moreover, Kirin Computer also monopolizes the market of a large eastern country!

It's not that a big country in the East prefers Kirin computers, but in addition to Kirin computers...... Other game consoles, you can't get in!

Yes, at the time of the ban on game consoles, PS2, N64, NGC, are completely on the street over there, and people are "on top", you are not an opponent at all!

Other than that, it's the North American market.

PS2 accounted for only 6% of hardware sales in North America during last year's Christmas war, where the market was squeezed by DC-P.

And this year, DC-P sales have soared with the popularization of the Internet.

"But their minds are not on the hardware. ”

Yamauchi Pu knew that in fact, Mori Xia could still expand the results of the battle - if they engaged in monopoly.

But Senxia's operation here is very fascinating, and many of their games are almost shared on multiple platforms.

In particular, A company also went to the PS2 platform to develop games.

IT'S LIKE SAYING THAT YOU WANT TO DEVELOP OFFICE SOFTWARE TO FRUIT, IT'S RIDICULOUS!

- WELL, JUHARD REALLY DEVELOPED AN OFFICE SUITE FOR THE FRUIT......

Back to this year.

"Metal Gear Solid", "GTA" and "Dynasty Warriors" have fully exploded on PS2, and on the DC-P platform, "MUV Moonfall", "Lelouch 2" and a series of follow-up works have also begun to be released, especially "Monster Hunter" and "Demon's Souls", which are simply menacing. Well, and the one that was taken to complain about Capcom's "Road to Survival".

Obviously, this year is a big year for games.

However...... NGC is in the streets.

Honey embarrassment.

"But...... I don't understand!"

NGC hit the streets, but in fact, it can be redeemed, because Lao Ren still has the first party.

However, at this time, Yamauchi Pu got a news, or rather, everyone knew a news: the Order of the Phoenix is going to develop a new conference again!

Isn't your DC-P thriving?

Why are you going to develop a conference again??

They're really going to launch a hardware product, but ...... I don't mind what you want to do......

......

Mori Xia didn't know what Old Man Yamauchi was thinking, in fact, he was preparing for the press conference.

The second CG was far more successful than the first.

After the success of the first edition, many game manufacturers have discovered the façade of the World E-sports Championship.

Before that, it was the committee that went to the game manufacturers, but after the first competition, it became the game manufacturers who licked their faces and came to the committee.

Not to mention, the sales of game projects that have been contested in CG have increased by more than 30% on average, and some relatively niche games have directly doubled their sales after being exposed.

Of course, this is one thing, and on the other hand, the number of advertisers for games is starting to increase.

In the beginning, CG was made by Senxia Power Generation, but in the second competition, advertising alone was able to generate enough surplus for the entire committee.

An emerging industrial chain has begun to take shape.

However, among them, the most earning is actually not Senxia, and Senxia's income in the century is actually not much.

The person who earns the most is actually ...... Alice.

Well, don't look at people who are sometimes as undisciplined as licking dogs, but people have really deducted a lot of real money from here.

The old man of the Tianhai family once wanted to marry Senxia and the Alice family, which is not unreasonable-the hard power of the people is still very powerful.

Of course, none of this has anything to do with Senxia for the time being.

After brushing the nun with Qianjia...... No, after playing the game for a while, Senxia began to prepare for the press conference.

"Alas, you said that I am a person engaged in the cultural industry, why did I start to engage in equipment......"

At this time, Senxia was looking at the new generation of game consoles that were still in a state of secrecy, as well as the wireless controller prepared next to it.

This time, Mori Xia is ready to make a big move.

Next to Senxia, Chika and Alice are there.

On Yukino's side, Mori Xia didn't bother, because it was the final of "Counter-Strike" in two days.

"It's a pity that the chip business can't be done by a big eastern country, otherwise our costs can be cut again. ”

The new generation of game consoles, of course, uses new chips.

But hearing Senxia's words, Alice next to her came over: "This is not good, IBM will not agree." ”

The new generation of hosts, the chip did not come from Hitachi, but Senxia found IBM through Alice's relationship, and then the two sides collaborated on research.

But after hearing Alice's words, Senxia sighed: "It's a pity that the cost of their chips is too high, and the requirements for our customized version are not so high, but the cost of chips has risen by at least 35% compared to the previous generation." ”

The price of DC-P is very strong, and after switching to the production of major parts in a large eastern country, Senxia is even able to make a surplus.

However, it is more difficult for the new generation of machines to be as calm as before. Because of this chip customized in cooperation with IBM...... It's too expensive.

It can't be helped, IBM is so mad.

You know, in a CPU chip they released this year, the cache of L3 is 128MB.

What is the concept of L3 cache with 128MB?

Well, many computers in this era don't have 128MB of memory, let alone CPU cache.

If you don't understand that, let's take another example.

At this moment, many chips of Intel and AMD do not even have L3 cache, and more than ten years later, on the I9-9900K home flagship chip, the size of the L3 cache is only 12MB, which is one-tenth of others!

Of course, everyone's design and packaging are different, in fact, this comparison is quite subtle.

Packaging technologies such as SoC, MCM, SiP, or SoP are different from the core.

Oh, by the way, IBM's chip uses MCM packaging technology, and this technology is ...... Well, you can really use it to heap caches.

IBM is great, but the price and cost go up.

But Sen Xia can't help it, he wants something new, so he can only hug other people's thighs.

Because at this moment, there are some technologies that are really only available to IBM, and Senxia can't handle them here.

"Actually, I'm more inclined to do my own research. Qianjia said, "There are many manufacturers in China - I mean mud bombardment - are ready to give up their plans to further research high-performance chips, if they can, it is better to buy them." ”

Giving up high-performance chips does not mean giving up the entire business. For example, after Texas Instruments gave up the chip business in the field of mobile phones and tablets, it is still a giant.

But this kind of behavior will inevitably cause a lot of talent to lose, and these resources are actually very good.

"Hmm...... Maybe it's an opportunity. Mori Xia muttered. But after finishing speaking, Senxia sighed again.

"What's wrong with Darling?" Alice asked quickly.

"I'm actually a person engaged in the cultural industry, why do I have to do hardware......

Senxia shook his head.

I just wanted to play a gentleman's game, why did it happen?

"Ahh

"No, it's not what I planned, but it's absolutely impossible to sell it. ”

It's not planned, but it's still quite interesting.

Therefore, Senxia's new generation of machines must also be more interesting.

"Okay~" Alice shrugged, seemingly a little bored.

"But self-developed or something, but you can ......" people later have self-developed A series of chips, their own already has the foundation of chips, now engaged in research and development, investment is not as terrible as the future, step by step, maybe good?

However, it is not easy to develop chips.

Especially after the appearance of Kirin computer, Senxia needs to pay more attention to this aspect of things.

In this regard, Senxia decided to learn from the system and hardware iteration scheme of the fruit, and by the way, use the hardware to feed back the chip development......

Of course, that was later, as for now...... Well, of course, let's go to watch the huge hard XP system press conference first!

......

IBM's information comes from the encyclopedia and the Internet, and the author's English is all translated by Google Niang.

In addition, MCM actually had a well-known "nickname" on the rivers and lakes back then, and the I chip was also ridiculed because of this nickname......

Two-in-one meow~

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