PS: (Don't be embarrassed, I'm sorry everyone, the circuit in the bathroom at home is short-circuited, the line is buried in the floor tiles, and the electrician who came to repair said that the floor tiles must be knocked off, and it took a whole day.)

What's even more frustrating is that after prying open the floor tiles, it was found that the water pipes buried under the floor were still leaking, and not only had to replace the wires, but also had to replace the water pipes, which was really unlucky.

I can't update normally these days.,I hope you bear with me.。

After the father and son played the game for a while, the screen turned again, listing the performance data of the XOBX game console.

CPU: K80 (Z80 in history) clock frequency 14MHZ, process integration 3.5 microns, 16 address ports, 64K addressing space, 8K video memory, the total color of the picture is 512 colors.

Integrated graphics card: 2 ATI graphics processors, each GPU consists of 6 2D floating point arithmetic units, and the clock frequency is 8MHZ.

The memory capacity is 32K, the gaming memory (main memory) is 16K, and the graphics memory is 16K.

With two integrated chips, the controller, memory, CPU, GPU, game socket, and audio source chip are all connected, in order to let players have a better game experience, Ling Shizhe also added an overall cache chip to the motherboard.

Seeing this data, many people can't sit still, especially the representative of Atari, the clock frequency of the CPU is 14MHZ, damn! THE EARLIEST PCS, THE CPU FREQUENCY WAS ONLY 18MHZ, WHAT WAS THE PRICE AT THAT TIME? More than $3,000, after a few years, although the price has dropped a lot, but it also costs $1,200 to buy.

With such high performance, how much should this console sell for? A game console is not a computer! The price is too high for no one to buy. Soon, a reporter put forward everyone's thoughts - how much?

Ling Shizhe smiled slightly, and did not answer directly, but asked everyone to continue watching the screen, and soon the price came out, $399!

The people below stopped talking. They all talked to each other at the bottom, and they all thought that the price was a little expensive.

But if you think about it carefully, the performance of the game console is so high, the price is $399. In fact, it is still very cost-effective.

Historically, Nintendo's FC red and white machine, the CPU is used by the Japanese Ricoh company's 6502 processor, the frequency is only 1.8MHZ, and even its successor SFC only uses the 16-bit 65c816CPU, and its speed is only 3.58MHz, as for the GPU, there is no at all. The memory is even more pitiful, only a good 2K.

As an 8-bit game console,FC's performance is not only weak to explode,And the circuit structure is also too complex,The complex circuit structure has also caused the high cost of the host,Just such a bad machine has to buy 299 US dollars,And so many people buy it,I have such a good performance of a game console is only 399 US dollars,It's quite cost-effective。

Of course, consoles can't just look at performance. You also have to look at the price, which means that designers must find the best balance between performance and price when designing a game console.

First of all, the price can't be too high for most players to afford, you have to make it easier for people to buy.

But although the price is low, in order to make money, the game console developer will inevitably reduce the performance of the game console, if the performance of the console will be too low. It will also be abandoned by the player.

There are many such examples, the most typical is Microsoft, when the XBOXone was developed, Microsoft wanted to reduce the cost a little. Only one CPU was installed on the host, and the GPU was canceled.

The result? Players all went to Sony, and they all went to buy PS4s.

Game consoles, the pursuit is the picture, the pursuit is the visual feast, you cancel the GPU. Just a CPU there,Any player will have the most intuitive feeling when you look at it and compare it,XBOXneo performance is not as good as PS4,Since the price of the two machines is about the same,Why don't I choose a game console with better performance? In the end, PS4 won.

Thinking back to the original game console war between Sony and Microsoft, the game console war between Sony and Sega, the game console war between Nintendo and Sega, and the war between Nintendo and Sony, we can draw a conclusion from this, that is, whether the performance of the game console is good or not is not determined by the hardware, but often by the software, that is, it is the game software that determines the success of the game console, and it depends on whether the game is fun or not.

Whether it's fun or not is the only criterion for judging a game, and if it's a console platform with a lot of fun games on it, then the console will definitely win.

Although the development of game consoles is invented to play games for players, before playing games for players, software is needed, that is, the developers of the game to develop games based on this game console.

Because of the architecture, developing a game on a console is completely different from developing a game on a PC.

And if it makes it easier for game developers to develop games, they will naturally be able to develop better games. Saini's rationale when he was the chief architect of PS4, and the subsequent performance of PS4 in the market, also proved this to be correct.

Therefore, when Ling Shizhe was designing the game console, he did not close the door behind closed doors, but first asked DreamWorks Games to get together to discuss XBOX development.

Then, collect all the opinions, analyze and summarize them one by one, and find out what kind of game console best meets the requirements of game makers if they want to develop a good game.

At this point in the video, everything about the game console has been explained, and the rest is of course the live experience.

There are a lot of people at the scene, but there are not many people who participate in the trial, most of them are die-hard DreamWorks game loyalists, and those reporters just experienced it after collecting all the XBOX information, and left directly, which is in stark contrast to the elation of the reporters at the release site of the game console in later generations.

"Boss, what do you think of this ......? Do you want me to chase them all back? "Mark. Seeing that many reporters were gone, Saini was a little overwhelmed when he saw the cold on-site press conference.

"It doesn't matter." Ling Shizhe waved his hand and comforted: "Although this situation is a bit unexpected, it is also within the normal range. ”

Seeing that he was puzzled, Ling Shizhe explained: "At present, in everyone's eyes, game consoles are completely children's toys, since they are children's toys, what is worth reporting?" There are so many new toys that are produced in North America every year that we can't count them, so how can journalists focus all their attention on them? Unless there's a big news topic on our consoles, they're going to take the initiative to report it. ”

"And what kind of news topics does your console have?" A voice sounded behind Ling Shizhe.

Ling Shizhe turned around and saw that he was a middle-aged man who was a little thin.

"Hello, introduce yourself, Walter. Joey. Disney. The middle-aged man stretched out his hand and introduced himself.

It turned out to be him, Ling Shizhe was stunned, but he quickly reacted, stretched out his hand to shake the other party, and said, "Hello, Jester. Ling, you can call me Jester or you can call me Ling. ”

"I've heard of you, you were the one who proposed to Mr. Disney Sr. to build a Disneyland, right?" Ling Shizhe asked.

"It was a long time ago, when I was young and not very sensible, but fortunately my uncle didn't blame me, but gave me a lot of support for my proposal." Walter. Disney said with a gentlemanly demeanor.

Ling Shizhe squeezed his shoulders, obviously very unimpressed by his gentlemanly style.

Although the United States and Britain are allies, in fact many Americans are not interested in the British, saying that they are fake Sven, and the British are not interested in the Americans, saying that they are a bunch of nouveau riche.

Especially Walter. As an American, Disney just has to put on a gentleman's style, which makes everyone around him feel insensitive.

So, see Ling Shizhe's movements, Walter. Disney doesn't mind, he's encountered this kind of thing too much.

So he continued the topic just now: "What do you think your game console is worthy of them reporting on them?" ”

"For example, if the sales exceed 20 million or something."

Walter. Disney smiled and said: "This is indeed a topic worth reporting, but you must know that Atari is currently the largest provider of home consoles in the North American market, and in the past year, their console sales combined were only 8 million units, and you want to sell 50 million. ”

Ling Shizhe smiled: "Whether it's a fantasy or not, you'll know after a while." ”

Sample, do you know that the total sales of Nintendo's FC game consoles alone exceeded 60 million units, 20 million, it's not a thing at all, you must know that it's the 70s, not to mention that my game console has better performance, with more mature and fun games, plus it's the 70s again, such a console performance is just put in the world, if this can't surpass Nintendo, it's better to just buy a piece of tofu and kill it.

There are five games available for trial this time, three of which are arcade ported games, "Contra", "1942" and "Double Dragon", and the only new games are "Kung Fu Panda" and "Chinese Cubes".

These are classic games in history, especially "Kung Fu Panda" Ling Shizhe has high hopes, and he hopes to use these classic games to quickly open up the situation in North America. (To be continued.) )