Chapter 221: Development of Next-Generation Consoles

Time flies, making zuò a racing simulation box game, except for the game of other game platforms all the same process, what must be done is a lot of physics to complete. :3w.

The physical effect is done through the physical engine, as for what is called the engine, as the name suggests, the game engine can actually be simply compared with the car engine, which refers to the program required to complete a certain effect, to give the simplest example, for example, I want to make the character in the game jump, and the program that completes the jump effect is called the engine.

But what is a physics engine? In short, to use the previous example, I'm going to make this person jump, but how high he can jump, how many seconds to complete the jump, and then how long he stays in the air, and then how long it takes to land, these things are closely related to physical factors, and to do this, you need a physics engine.

To be precise, the core of the physics engine is the physics engine library, which can be simply supplemented into a number library that stores a large number of physical real numbers jù, and when a condition occurs, the number jù will be extracted from this number jù library, and then the physical number jù will be determined according to the extracted physical number jù to determine how this condition will occur.

For example, in a racing game, the physics of crashing at 200 km/h versus 300 km/h are definitely different, such as how the car will fly out.

And the game developed for the single-chip platform does not need to be like the functional problems of home consoles, ordinary arcade machines and PC games for the platform, and the simulation frame can basically be developed with the best hardware at the moment.

Of course, it is certainly inferior to later generations, but it is not difficult to achieve the 3D effect of simple polygons in the early 90s.

To fully simulate various physical effects, it is also unrealistic under the current CPU processing power, not that it is impossible, such as a supercomputer with n CPUs in parallel to calculate together, of course, it can be solved. But this way is pointless.

However, some of the necessary physical number jù libraries still need to be built, and it is not an overnight task to complete such a number jù library.

This is only the physical effect needs to be completed, as for how to make the game and the hardware simulator to achieve perfect coordination and synchronization, it is a matter of a long time, so the development progress of "American Rally" is not fast.

And Jester is also happy to relax, although his previous work situation is called a crazy man by many people in the company, but this state of high mental tension cannot be sustained, and it can only last if there is a degree of relaxation. So taking advantage of the current break in the development of this game, he often finds time to go to the R&D department of the handheld to have a look.

Now within Mars Entertainment, the development of the sixteen-bit game console is basically well-known, and the speed is also very satisfying, Jester in the spirit of perfection, did not want to give the sixteen development team any tasks to meet the deadline, just let them follow the plan step by step.

As far as Jester knows, he is currently at the forefront of the research and development of the 16-bit machine. In fact, this situation is a bit abnormal, the so-called ruler of the current battlefield share of the eight-bit game console, it is impossible for him to want the eight-bit machine to be eliminated so quickly.

However, Jester from later generations is well aware of the elimination speed of game consoles, and the eight-bit machine is eliminated. It is an irresistible tide, and it doesn't depend on whether you want to or not, which was the case with Nintendo at the beginning, so that Sega was caught off guard directly after the release of the MD. So much so that the new host developed by himself is not enough for Sega's MD to play, so it can only be redone, and it will only launch its new host from a week to 91. However, unlike the best-selling FC in the past ten years, in just three years, the PS was born, which made the video game industry completely enter the 3D world.

Jester, who knows this history, knows that even if he doesn't develop a sixteen-bit machine, then Sega will soon go all out to develop it, it is true that the function of MS is very good, but no matter how good the function is, only relying on his own game, and no other third-party manufacturers support the game, this game console has no future.

However, the current game market is like this, it is difficult to have a place for a third game company, and if you want to snatch such a Japanese third-party company from Nintendo, even Jester can't do it at present, let alone Sega, which has a basically negligible market share.

Jester doesn't know how Sega will break the game, but as things stand, in one year at most, if the situation of MS can't improve, then it's inevitable that Sega will start to fully support the development of the sixteen-bit console.

As for Nintendo, they didn't even think about the next era, and in their eyes, the most important thing was to fight for enough market share from Mars Entertainment.

As for Mars Entertainment, Nintendo, which now has extremely deep roots in Japan, unless they make an unforgivable mistake themselves, otherwise, it is impossible to defeat them completely just by relying on the quality of the game, and the only hope of defeating them, Jester thinks, should be to take advantage of Nintendo's lack of attention to sixteen consoles, and play a time difference in the first time.

In fact, Jester himself knows that there is no point in doing this, even if Nintendo falls, then Sega will be on top, even if Sega has a good relationship with him, it will be on top at the first time, so even if Sega can't help Adou, then there are many giants in the video game industry.

It's just that Jester knows that in the history he is familiar with, there are the famous NEC who have really penetrated into the video game industry, not to mention Sony, which later shared the world with Microsoft.

Now Sony is at their peak, as a world-class electrical giant and electronic device supplier, and also Nintendo's most important electronic components supplier, may have long been interested in the video game industry, but according to Jester's understanding, Sony may not have rolled up its sleeves directly like NEC at the beginning, but wanted to cooperate with Nintendo.

There are different opinions about the eventual collapse of Nintendo and Sony in his memory, whether it was Nintendo's betrayal of their alliance with Sony, or Sony's decision to enrage Nintendo in their cooperation agreement with Nintendo.

However, according to Jester's understanding of the industry during the period after his rebirth, it is much more likely that Nintendo will take the initiative to betray the alliance.

Because with Sony's scientific research strength, if they want to make a home game console with performance far beyond their peers, it is effortless at all, and they can't afford to set up a cooperation agreement for the so-called experience of developing game consoles, in fact, after Nintendo suddenly betrayed the alliance under the guise of Philips to make Sony angry and cooperate with Nintendo.

For the sake of the shame of Ken Kutaragi and Sony, they immediately challenged Nintendo, which seemed to be unbeatable in the field of video games.

This is where PS was born.

In fact, regardless of this, Jester also thinks that the reason for Sony's cooperation with Nintendo is very convincing, they just want to promote their disc system, at least in the early 90s and late 80s, Sony valued optical discs far more than home game consoles.

However, as for the idea of making game consoles just for revenge, this concept is just some extreme Suo Qing's ideas, such a large and regular company, although Sony has also made many low-level mistakes, but such as the establishment of Sony's computer entertainment division to officially start game development, such a major event must have been carefully considered by the entire board of directors.

After all, they have worked closely with Nintendo for many years, and they know how profitable the video game industry will be.

However, the failure of NEC, a giant in both scale and scientific research capabilities, in the electronics industry, also made Sony not want to enter rashly, and Nintendo's betrayal just made the original one who had not made a final decision so made up his mind, isn't it just a game console, Lao Tzu did it directly.

In fact, when looking back on this period of history, Jester also admired Sony's courage, he knew that Sony had a lot of money, but in the absence of its own core development strength, it was extremely risky for any company to force the game console.

After the successful development of PS, Sony also discovered this problem, and they suddenly found that they did not have enough games to support their console, and Ken Kutaragi, the father of PS, had to personally go to Namco and Hudson, the developers of the family, to beg them to make Zuò games for PS.

However, I have just seen Nintendo lively because of the Japanese electric incident, and the developers who were shocked by the old man Yamauchi with thunder means these vassal developers around him, but he didn't dare to take another step beyond the thunder pool.

If it weren't for the fact that the function of PS really exploded SFC and MD, that kind of realistic 3D effect, especially the incredible 3D effect of "Mortal Kombat" on the PS table, really shocked those game developers, maybe Sony's PS would also follow in the footsteps of NEC's PC-E.

It is precisely because Jester knows the impact of the next era on the video game industry, especially home game consoles, that he will spare no effort to start the development of the next era when the development of the previous era has just ended.

Because Jester doesn't want to be replaced by a changemaker. (To be continued......) R752