After listening to Wu Ming's words, Huo Jianning and Tripp Hawkins both fell into deep thought.

After a long while, Huo Jianning shook his head and said with a smile: "No wonder Xiao Ming, when you were in Xiangjiang, you asked the home host development team to develop a very strict copyright protection chip. I see, you don't want our company to follow in the footsteps of Atari!"

Since Atari has learned from the past, Wu Ming will naturally not repeat his responsibility.

So I learned Nintendo's method and asked the developers in the company to set up an extremely strict copyright protection chip for the game console when developing the PSB game console.

It has now applied for copyright patents worldwide.

After the PSB console is launched, other game developers who want to bypass the control of Centron Entertainment and freely produce and sell games on the PSB platform will find that they will face lawsuits from Centron Entertainment.

Wu Ming picked up the teacup and drank a sip of water, moistening his throat.

"I don't want game developers to take advantage of us and ruin our reputation. Wu Ming sneered.

Immediately, Wu Ming seemed to remember something, looked at Tripp Hawkins, and asked, "By the way, how is the release of our Game Star magazine?"

Wu Ming, who came from later generations, naturally knew how important a dedicated game media would be to a game.

The most representative is a magazine called "Famitsu" in the island country.

Of all the games that have been given high marks by Famitsu, there are very few that are not extremely best-sellers.

Although the game's ratings have completely lost their former seriousness and fairness over time, Famitsu has become a laughing stock in the industry.

But until the new millennium, the magazine still sold hundreds of thousands of dollars a week.

In order to lead the direction of public opinion, Wu Ming founded a weekly game magazine called "Game Star" based on "Famitong".

Tripp Hawkins smiled and replied, "Very good, we didn't sell anymore last week, but we still have more than 300,000 sales." It has established a reputation among millions of players. ”

For the popularity of "Game Star", Wu Ming deliberately made its inaugural issue sold as a bonus with the Pokemon pet machine, and it immediately became well-known among millions of players.

Of course, this method only lasted for four periods, and it could not be supported because of the huge cost. It can be said that the profits of the Pokemon pet machine that month were all put into it.

Later, the magazine was officially sold, and the game cartridge of the cube machine was included as a bonus for Game Star magazine.

Before and after, Wu Ming smashed tens of millions of dollars for this magazine, and if he didn't have any more influence, Wu Ming would vomit blood.

Huo Jianning continued: "The Xiangjiang edition of this magazine has also sold 20,000 copies, the island edition has 200,000 copies, and the European edition has 100,000 copies. That's how millions of people have watched Game Star. The number of people affected is already in the millions. ”

Wu Ming nodded and said with satisfaction: "Very good, with this magazine, it will be much easier to promote the game in the future than before." ”

Tripp Hawkins smiled and praised, "Yes, boss." You've done a really good job with this magazine, and it's worth the money. Now, some other game developers, in order to get more attention from some players, have taken the initiative to send their games to Game Star for trial. ”

Wu Ming smiled proudly and said, "I won't do something meaningless!"

……

On January 8, 1981, Star Entertainment's PSB game console conference was officially held in the United States.

The reason why I chose the United States instead of Xiangjiang is because the United States has the biggest rival of PSB consoles, the Atari 2600.

At this time, Star Entertainment was already firmly in the second place in the video game industry, second only to Atari.

Therefore, on the day of the press conference, news media from more than 30 countries and regions such as the United States, island countries, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Xiangjiang gathered at the scene.

Under the watchful eyes of many reporters, Huo Jianning and Tripp Hawkins appeared one after another.

"Ladies and gentlemen, hello everyone, welcome to our new product launch conference held by Star Entertainment!"

As soon as he took the stage, Huo Jianning first greeted everyone present.

Huo Jianning had a bright smile on his face and said eloquently: "Presumably, everyone has a lot of guesses about what our company's new products are, and many people should have guessed it. I'm not going to sell it, so I'm going to take out the new product and show it to everyone. ”

After speaking, as Huo Jianning waved his hand, a staff member took the PSB game console.

"Yes, our new product is a home console. A game console with more powerful performance and better graphics than the Atari 2600, which is now the dominant player in the home console market. The name of this console is 'Phantasy Star Box', or 'PSB' for short. Huo Jianning said with a smile.

In order to build momentum for the PSB game console, Huo Jianning naturally wanted to hold his company's PSB game console high and step on the Atari 2600 mission of the rival Atari company.

As soon as Huo Jianning's words were finished, the reporters at the scene became excited.

"The second boss in the video game industry is going to be the boss, and there is a lot to watch. This was the thought of all the reporters present.

There were also some game developers present who thought: "Xingchen Entertainment, the tiger, is finally not satisfied with the arcade market and handheld market, and wants to set foot in home game consoles!"

"Everyone should be very puzzled why we at Centron Entertainment dare to claim that the PSB is better than the Atari 2600. ”

Huo Jianning raised his hands with a smile on his face, holding a CPU chip in one hand.

Then we took a closer look at the Atari 2600 and the PSB console.

"As we all know, our brother company Aihua Electronics has developed a reduced instruction set CPU that surpasses all 8-bit CPUs on the market, ARM8. ”

"What I'm holding in my left hand is the Atari 2600, which uses a MOS 6502 CPU chip with a frequency of 2MHz. In the right hand is the CPU chip ARM8 used by the PSB, with a frequency of 3.23MHz, which is 1.5 times that of the MOS 6502. ”

On top of that, the Atari 2600 runs on just 256 bytes of memory. The PSB runs on the other hand, with 8KB of RAM, which is 32 times that of the Atari 2600. ”

"At the same time, the Atari 2600 has a maximum of 128 colors, while our PSB console has a maximum of 256 colors, which is twice as many as the Atari 2600. ”

"It can be said that our PSB game console is more powerful than the Atari 2600 in all aspects. ”

After listening to Huo Jianning's words, everyone present had a detailed understanding of the Atari 2600 and PSB.

"No wonder Xingchen Entertainment is so confident, the performance of the PSB game console is much stronger than the Atari 2600, and it is not at the same level at all. Some reporters who know a lot about home consoles secretly said in their hearts.