"Is this a game console?" asked Ken Kutaragi, pointing to the machine in front of the TV.

"Oh, this is a new generation of consoles that we have just developed, and we are going to let the business department here help evaluate and evaluate. Chen Zhipeng pretended to be relaxed and said.

Ken Kutaragi suddenly felt that his opportunity had come, and it was not the game console he had dreamed of for a long time, and if Sony could get it, I believe that Nintendo would soon be able to taste the pain of treachery. Kuda Ragi Ken thought about it in his heart and made up his mind.

"Mr. Chen, if you want to do an evaluation, we at Sony can provide the best help, we can do a comprehensive inspection of your machine, and even provide you with the most professional improvement suggestions. Kutaragi Ken tried to keep his expression normal.

"It doesn't seem to be in line with the company's rules. Chen Zhipeng's expression seemed to be very embarrassed.

"Mr. Chen, please believe in Sony's strength, and this matter can also help me, as a friend, you can't be so ruthless. Kutaragi Ken tried hard to persuade.

"In this way, for the sake of my friends, I can only reluctantly embarrass it. However, I had two conditions: first, I and several people from the company should be present, and second, I was not allowed to disassemble the machine for inspection. Chen Zhipeng seemed to be convinced.

Kutaragi Ken thought to himself: "If you can get Sony, as long as you let President Oga see it, I believe that I can always find a way to keep things, at least no one will think that I am talking nonsense." ”

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The next day, the anxious Kutaragi Ken drove early to pick up Chen Zhipeng and others, and of course, the most important thing was the game console. After the group arrived at Sony's headquarters, they went directly to the special conference room on the 16th floor through a special elevator, where President Oga and several high-level executives who had supported the entry into the game industry were already waiting, but these people didn't seem to care too much about this meeting, and this was the best result of the overnight communication between Ken Kutaragi yesterday.

The two sides met and politely exchanged a few words of greeting, and began to get to the point. Chen Zhipeng opened the suitcase he was carrying, quickly assembled the host with the help of the technicians who came with him, and then connected to the large-screen TV in the conference room, everything was ready.

Kutaragi Ken bowed deeply to Chen Zhipeng, his attitude was extremely sincere, "Mr. Chen, please, please introduce this host to the president." ”

Chen Zhipeng nodded, walked to the TV, and began to introduce: "I'll give you a brief explanation of the performance of this host first."

This console uses our MIPSR-3000A as the CPU (Central Processing Unit), which is a 32-bit reduced instruction system processor with a speed of more than 30 million operations per second, and has been specially enhanced in multimedia processing, which is very suitable for game code operations.

In order to enhance the graphics processing capabilities of the host computer, a dedicated image processing chip is also installed. Originally used on SGI's advanced graphics workstations, the chip has superior 2D image processing capabilities, which can achieve a variety of special display effects such as zooming in and out, swirling, deformation, multi-scrolling, and plasticine effects on the host, and the chip also has powerful 3D image calculation capabilities, which can perform up to 360,000 polygon processing times per second.

The display output can reach a maximum of 640×480 screen resolution, 24-bit color channels can achieve true color output, the maximum number of colors on the same screen can reach 16.77 million colors, and the same screen can display up to 4000 active characters. It's no exaggeration to say that this console will be the most powerful gaming console for years to come.

The specially developed sound processing chip has 24 PCM (pulse code modulation) audio sources, and the signal sampling rate is 44.1KHz, so players will be able to experience the perfect soundtrack with music CD effect during the game.

Game storage uses standard data discs, and the console's current data reading device is a single-speed optical drive, which reads 150K bytes of data per second.

The host's internal memory has a total of 28 megabits, including 16 megabits of data storage, 8 megabits of image storage, and 4 megabits of sound buffer. Since the disc cannot store the data in the game process, we also designed an external portable flash memory for the purpose of saving the game process data.

Directly in front of the console are two standard gamepad connectors, which can be connected to a variety of controllers. Through the expansion interface on the rear of the main unit, it is also possible to connect peripheral devices such as mice and remote communication cards.

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After a professional introduction, in addition to a few on-site technicians, Sony's president Ohga and the senior management were all confused like a cloud and a mountain of fog, and Kutaragi Ken saw that the situation was not good, and hurriedly stepped forward and muttered a few words to Chen Zhipeng: "Mr. Chen, don't just talk about technical indicators, this is not intuitive enough, you can simply demonstrate the game effect of the console directly." ”

Chen Zhipeng had this intention in mind, so he turned on the game console and put it into the demo disc. The first thing that came out was the sign of the three discs, followed by a long reading of the discs. Just when President Oga and the top management were about to lose their patience, the game finally appeared on the TV, and it was still a demonstration of the interior of the church. The shocking three-dimensional effects and the appropriate background music made Sony's President Ohga and the top management completely unbearable, and they got up and gathered in front of the TV.

Chen Zhipeng holds the handle and controls the movement of the characters in the church, followed by the rolling, jumping, and finally ending with a sword dance. Looking at the people around him who were eager to try, Chen Zhipeng handed the handle to President Ohga so that he could experience it with his own hands.

After a round of trial play, President Oga and the executives returned to their respective seats, and occasionally two people would whisper to each other, these people are worthy of being battle-hardened old foxes, one by one, they can't see any change in their expressions, as if what happened just now didn't happen at all.

In order to enhance the effect, Chen Zhipeng took out another disc and put it into the CD-ROM drive, which was sent before departure, and it was a newly made two-dimensional action game demo CD. Soon the game screen appeared on the TV screen, a fighter plane flying over a calm lake, surrounded by strange cliffs or tree-lined jungles, and soon the calm was broken, and groups of enemy aircraft appeared above, enemy ships began to appear on the lake, and even the occasional submarine sneak attack. The player's fighter planes began to fight back, shells and missiles of various colors and styles flew in the air, and the downed enemy planes slowly fell towards the lake with smoke, occasionally hitting a few unlucky surface ships. Accompanied by intense background music, various explosions, flashes and realistic sound effects appear on the screen from time to time. More enemies continued to appear above, and the battle intensified......

President Oga and the top executives gathered in front of the TV again and started a new trial tour. Seeing that the effect was so good, Kutara Mujian next to him happily patted Chen Zhipeng's shoulder, pulled him aside, and thanked him repeatedly.

After the demonstration was done, Chen Zhipeng also began to pack up his things. Seeing that President Oga had not said anything, Kutaragi Ken couldn't help but run over and whisper in the president's ear, President Oga glanced at Chen Zhipeng and replied in a low voice, Kutaragi Ken put his legs together, and then nodded, as if he understood something.

According to the plan, Chen Zhipeng packed up his things and got up to say goodbye. As soon as the group walked out of the conference room, Ken Kutara Mu chased after him and kept begging Chen Zhipeng to leave the host behind. Chen Zhipeng was unmoved and refused on the grounds that he did not comply with the company's rules.

Kutaragi Ken hesitated for a moment, and then said as if he had made up his mind: "Mr. Chen, our president is very interested in this game console, and I hope that we can carry out in-depth cooperation in this regard." This time, the time is urgent, the number of people who come is not uniform, and the president still needs to communicate with other senior executives of the company, so I hope that Mr. Chen would better keep this host for others to understand. ”

Chen Zhipeng was embarrassed: "This is our company's confidential product, and it is definitely not possible to stay here directly." However, since your president has this idea, we can't refuse it. Well, help us find a hotel close to us, so that when you need to see it, we can bring it. Wouldn't it be the best of both worlds if it didn't violate the company's rules and could achieve your president's idea? ”

Over the next few days, Ken Kutaragi actively ran up and down, and with his efforts to persuade and with the support of President Oga, Sony once again set the goal of entering the game industry, and in order to achieve this goal, the console in front of him became the best shortcut.

For this reason, Kutaragi Ken kept lobbying Chen Zhipeng, and often invited Chen Zhipeng's group to go out for dinner, leisure, and entertainment under the banner of Sony. After staying up for a few days, Chen Zhipeng pretended not to be persuaded, and told Kutaragi Ken that he needed to ask the company's headquarters for instructions, but he would take Sony to talk about it.

The goal has been initially achieved, Chen Zhipeng reported the good news to Zhang Lexing through the transatlantic telephone, and briefly introduced the process of this time, and after determining the bottom line and strategy on the phone, the formal negotiations began.

It was an arduous process, and the gap between the two sides narrowed as the two sides continued to see-saw, and it took a full week for the negotiations to reach a final conclusion. KF-Panda paid for the technology of the prototype and set up a joint development team with Sony in Tokyo to further develop the prototype based on the prototype. As the party that took the initiative to post it, Sony naturally had to pay more price. In order to obtain console technology to enter the game industry earlier, on the other hand, it hopes to get the support of KF-Panda, which holds many best-selling game brands, Sony has to come up with bald head reading technology in exchange, and to provide relevant equipment to assist in the establishment of a CPU production plant in Hong Kong, and in the future, no less than 40% of the CPU of game consoles will be purchased from Hong Kong factories, and the operating system codenamed "G1" in game consoles will be purchased from VisualSystem, of course, the purchase price will be very favorable.

When the formal agreement was signed, Sony finally got the coveted game industry stepping stone, and the joint R&D team officially began to be formed, and Sony's next-era game journey officially began.

All this Nintendo was kept in the dark and unaware,At the end of August,Sony also pretended to say that it wanted to sue Nintendo for unilaterally tearing up the cooperation agreement,And Nintendo in order to contain Sega、NEC and other opponents,Deliberately maintain a severing relationship with Sony,As if the previous console cooperative development plan is still advancing。 During this period, Nintendo's publicists exaggerated the hardware performance of PSX (the codename of the console jointly developed by Nintendo and Sony) by a hundred times, inducing consumers to take a completely wait-and-see attitude towards existing models such as NEC's PCE-CD console and Sega's MAGACD console, without knowing that they were digging their own grave.

At the end of 1991, Nintendo relied on the Super Nintendo, GameBoy and other consoles to soar all the way and then glory, dazzling business performance ranked among the top 15 listed companies in Japan, and the net profit of that year is even expected to overwhelm the home appliance giant Sony, whose sales are more than ten times that of it. Everything seems to be developing according to Nintendo's vision, but out of its sight, the undercurrent is constantly surging.

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