Chapter 404: Game Sea
Strangely, whether it was first revealed on CJ as a gaming computer, or now officially launched as a game console, the specific performance parameters of PT game consoles are a mystery.
Even at the press conference, the projection PPT behind Atletico was only briefly mentioned, but it was only said that the default frequency of the 24 CPU cores is 1300MHz, and it supports intelligent adjustment function, each core can be safely overclocked up to 1600MHz, and the minimum can be reduced to 300MHz or simply turned off. As for the floating-point computing power (FLOPS), as well as the cache capacity of the processor, and the number of transistors, he did not mention it.
GPU was directly skipped by him, only the back PPT on the sentence "3 CW3000GPU provides you with a super picture beyond the mainstream desktop PC", which is a little bit of it.
Atletico Madrid did not hide the configuration of memory and hard disk, the memory is 8GBDD, the hard disk is 120GB SSD, there is no optical drive, and the game is installed completely through the network download method. In addition, the official also thoughtfully provides two standard hard disk bays, allowing users to install up to 8TB mechanical hard disks, with the help of its built-in dual-band WiFi module or wired network interface to turn PT into a home media center and home NAS network hard drive.
However, in this way, the energy-efficient 60W low power consumption that Atletico Madrid strongly emphasizes has naturally become a floating cloud, plus two mechanical hard disks with a maximum power of 24 watts, the power of the whole machine is absolutely to break the rhythm of 100.
Fortunately, even so, PT is still quite power-efficient, without a mechanical hard disk is purely disgusted with its noise, but the price of SSD is too expensive, so it can only be compromised, not providing hard disks, but for those who need large-capacity storage, the hard disk space is specially reserved for those users who need large-capacity storage.
Thanks to the low power consumption of the Bee Heart 314 as a mobile processor, the power of the PT game console is a little less than a quarter of that of the Sony PS4, but lower power consumption also means lower performance, which is also a helpless thing. For processors of the same process, higher performance inevitably requires more transistors, which naturally means greater power consumption and heating, and the black technology of bees and the microarchitecture designed by absorbing the strengths of others can only maximize the performance generated by each watt of power consumption, but cannot break through the limitations of the technical foundation of silicon-based semiconductor technology and integrated circuit technology.
So on the ppt page that introduces PT performance, Atletico Madrid played a trick to make PT and ordinary mainstream PCs compare power consumption, and as a result, the rated power is generally more than 200 watts of PCs, as well as most of the notebooks with high-end configurations are all defeated, and the water-cooled game notebooks and kilowatt power supply four-way Titans are even more ambitious and unpaid, and they both cry and faint in the toilet.
As for the "outlierous" Wiiu that runs with power consumption as low as 40 watts, the bee PT can shout arrogantly: "Bah! Let hell come here, let's compete in the picture and somatosensory control technology!"
Wu hugged Wii and cried silently: "It's clear that we used somatosensory control first, and I hate you guys playing with cameras the most!" "PT's somatosensory control technology is similar to Microsoft's Kinect, Sony EYE, Intel's REAL color N-color technology, of course, when the bee mobile phone and tablet are connected, the latter's motion sensor can also be called to identify user movements.
As the saying goes, first easy and then difficult, persimmons should pick up soft pinch, choose this time to enter the game console market, bee pt's opponent is obviously carefully selected. Android game consoles built by small teams like Ouya are completely unnoticed by them, although PT is not much different from the latter in essence.
And if you put the comparative focus on the new generation of three hosts, you can only look at the weakest Wiiu. I can only choose it.,Don't look at PTT24 CPU cores of gorgeous plastic surgery,But in terms of computing power alone,It's not as good as 8-core APU,No matter how people say it, it's also a desktop-level processor.,The price alone is not on a horizontal line.,Naturally, there is not much comparison。
So the performance indicators of PT game consoles,Basically, it's completely against the Wiiu,Just ask to be stronger than the other party,If you don't think that the on-board 16GB or even 64Gbrom is too beggar,Will be ridiculed by players"Not as good as mobile phones",They will definitely follow in the footsteps of Nintendo,Also equip PT with tablet-level "large-capacity" flash memory。
It's not that Bee can't make a machine that matches or even surpasses the PS4 in performance, and only needs a few more processors, but as soon as the idea was put forward at the internal discussion meeting of the design team, it was opposed by most of the participants, and it was directly negatively rolled over.
The reason is simple, more processors naturally mean higher costs and higher prices, and for a new product, too high a price will inevitably limit the user's purchase impulse, which in turn will seriously suppress sales. Even if the bees are playing hardware subsidies and game-making tricks like the giants, higher costs will also bring more financial pressure, and high-performance consoles also need high-performance games to highlight their performance advantages, and this aspect is obviously not PT's strong point.
As a newly launched gaming platform, PT Console claims to have more than 50,000 games, the largest number of games among modern console platforms. But everyone understands how this 50,000 games came about, more than ninety percent of them are mobile games, and the remaining hundreds of large-capacity "masterpieces" only occupy enough storage space.
But even so, the bee pt game console can only rely on them for the time being, using mobile games, domestic online games, and plausible copycat imitation games as the three legs of the support platform.
As a strange one,Binding a game engine game console,Game development on the PT game console,It's actually quite simple,It's as simple as using the map editor to make a WA (Warcraft 3) map,Although the independence of the new game is stronger than all kinds of Warcraft RPG maps,But their essence is the same。 This is also the origin of a large number of copycat games on the PT platform, those small and medium-sized developers and even individual authors only need to reproduce the gameplay of other games on the V4 engine like making Warcraft RPG, of course, the art pictures and sound effects still have to be redone.
As a first-party developer, Bee Games can't do the same, and they're responsible for making more and higher quality games.
The most "masterpiece" games on the platform are classic stand-alone games that Bee bought out all the copyrights and replaced the VEE engine, such as "God is Crazy", "Dungeon Guardians", etc., and only these classic remastered games can reach the average level of console games in terms of gameplay and graphics.
It's a pity that there is no sequel for various reasons.、"No successor" classic game,It's always been a rare resource that can't be found.,After all, blockbuster games won't worry about the development cost of sequels.,Even the eternal bounce of the "Duke of Destruction" finally launched a sequel two years ago, not to mention others.
And a cheat is the fact that many classic games have lost their sequels, but their copyrights have been transferred to game giants such as EA and Ubisoft, either the development team was acquired and dismantled, resulting in the game being gone, or the game was not selling well, and the development team went bankrupt and the game IP was bought by the giants, in short, it was in the hands of people who were not bad for money, which made it much more expensive and difficult for bees to buy the copyright from them.
Even if there is a willingness to release the right to use, there will be a bunch of troublesome conditions to get home and the sky-high price of the sea catching prawn level by byte capacity, anyway, it is beyond the capacity of the bee game, and it is naturally abandoned.
Since there is no famous game character like the rich plumber Mario who is famous at home and one person saves a platform, the bee has no choice but to make up for the quality and quantity, and directly copied the once glorious "machine sea tactics" in the mobile phone field to the game console platform, and is ready to launch a series of "10-in-one" and "30-in-one" low-cost game collections, trying to use game sea tactics to pull the attraction of the product and establish the image of the product as soon as possible.
When the little overlord learning machine was popular all over the country,Pirates played multi-in-one tricks,At first, because with the advancement of technology,The cost of the game cartridge decreases and the capacity rises,Simply put a variety of games in a cartridge to save costs,Later, I found that it was very easy to sell,Simply modify the game,The different gameplay modes are also listed separately,It's hard to make up 99 in one、300 in one,Even 999 in a super large collection。
It's just that after entering the year 2000, because of policy problems, a learning machine that stayed in the eight-bit era quickly declined, and was quickly defeated by the Internet café computer.
The Women's Federation finally completed the great cause of defeating and killing the "Electronic Conch Cause" game machine, but ushered in the more ferocious opponent of the online game, their enhanced shaman sheep called the beast was knocked down by the dark, and their holy light knight Tao called the beast was instigated to run back to endorse the online game, and the tank green tyrant who was finally cultivated also knelt crisply in front of the heavenly dps output of the online game army, leaving only the urban legend of the 40 million eldest lady Green Dam Niang to the world.
It is precisely because of the muscular second brother of online games in front of the monster that has attracted most of the hatred, and the big brother who has not healed from the serious injury of the stand-alone game can survive and not completely hang up, but in the same way, the popularity of online games is strong, and it also makes the stand-alone game in talent, Funds and even player habits have been significantly suppressed,It has not been able to recover,Even in the era of mobile games,The vast majority of domestic mobile games are still all kinds of online games,Even if it is the so-called stand-alone,There is still an in-app purchase function,Considerable content needs to be activated and used only after the user pays online。
In fact, up to now, the distinction between online games and stand-alone games has become more and more blurred, and the vast majority of stand-alone manufacturers will not reject providing players with online game modes, and some manufacturers regard online verification as a cure for piracy, and at the same time, there are more and more so-called "movie-style plots" in online games.
Interestingly, the Internet addict Tao Shoumeng originally said such a sentence all day long: "I haven't seen many children playing online games in the United States", but he didn't tell others that it was only part of the truth. American online game manufacturers do not have such shrewd business acumen as domestic manufacturers, and their online game clients actually ask for money! How can a game that also requires money, and an online game that pays multiple times be able to compete with a high-quality stand-alone game that can be enjoyed for a long time with a single payment? It is no wonder that one or two of them have lost money one after another! Moreover, the current stand-alone machine is not a complete stand-alone machine, and many of the year's gun car ball games such as Call of Duty, Need for Speed, and Pro Evolution Soccer all have a free online mode, which naturally greatly squeezes the living space of "authentic" online games.
It wasn't until later that American manufacturers came to China to learn from their experience and introduced the advanced experience of F2P (FreeToPlay) to the United States, which rescued online games that were on the verge of closure and suspension.
And the bee's pt game console,Undoubtedly, it has gone further and more radically on the road of stand-alone online gaming,On the one hand, remove the optical drive,Game installation can only be downloaded from the official game store through the network,On the other hand, the player's archive progress、Although there are local records,But it must also be synchronized and backed up on the network,At the same time, the "ownership" of the game itself is also saved on the network.
In the past, manufacturers sold games to players, in fact, they sold players storage media, floppy disks or optical discs loaded with game client software, and the networked PT game console also networked the stand-alone game, whether it was a single game, or something like "30 in one" Such a collection of games,After the player pays, he just lets his game account have the right to use the corresponding game for a period of time,After starting the game, it will automatically check the account authority online,Even if it is a free game, there are also steps to connect to the network,It is said to read the progress of the online game,In fact, it is also the same network to check the account authorization。
This is naturally done to cultivate the habit of users to keep the Internet at all times,In fact, to the "is there no wifi" has become more and more mantra now,No need for game manufacturers to take action,The vast majority of players themselves will not be able to stand the world without a network,What the bee has to do is just to make this verification system faster and more stable,Don't crash at every turn。
So after throwing away the fast food carton and sitting down in front of the computer desk, Gou Mao did not open the folder to check the boutique collection that Brother Bao passed to him, but opened the browser and logged in to the official website of Bee Games.
PT game consoles will not be "budding on the market" until October 10, the day of the Moe Festival, but the official website has already been opened, and the sales of related games have also begun. Although the game console has not yet been listed, in fact, only those large games with hardware requirements of more than 4 points need PT consoles to play, and other games with less than 3 points are essentially mobile games, which can be downloaded and played on the mobile phone or tablet of the bee system. For mobile phone users, please visit http://m.piaotian.net