"Mars Entertainment is developing a next-generation console! The competition for console development is heating up again! "

Kutaragi Ken looked at the "Yomiuri Shimbun" in his hand, and he didn't understand why a super newspaper like the Yomiuri Shimbun would also report this kind of news, which was simply a shadowless thing!

Why did he say that?

Because on the other side of his desk, there is a book that has been spread out, but has not yet finished reading, and the page spread out is the "Game" magazine of Jester's recent interview article, in this interview, the reporter of "Game" asked Jester this question.

However, Jester did not say that Mars Entertainment is currently developing a console, he just said that they are now researching what type of console to choose for development.

Maybe the layman looks at this answer and doesn't know what kind of console to choose for development - isn't the development of the previous two consoles not enough for the development team to accumulate enough development experience? Don't even know what type of game console you're going to develop?

In fact, in Jester's sentence, what he didn't say was that he was researching, whether to develop a host based on 2D performance or to develop a host based on 3D performance.

If it weren't for the fact that Ken Kutaragi had made up his mind before, I'm afraid he was now struggling with whether to continue to develop a console based on 2D games, or to develop a console that fully supports 3D imaging effects, you know, the current 2D image, with the development of two generations of consoles, has accumulated a lot of experience in this area, and the development of 3D consoles. But it is the first time, and the difficulty between this cannot be calculated in the Tao.

And. The amount of development funding required is also not the same.

As a matter of fact. Even the current Hayabusa Nakayama is struggling with how to choose the type of next-generation console.

2D has proven his success, and now the glorious situation of video games can fully confirm this, but what about 3D game consoles? You know, the only game that has proven that 3D games can be as successful as 2D games is Jester's "Quake" on PC.

But here's the problem, Quake is a game developed specifically for PC. His qiē operation is set according to the operating habits of the keyboard and mouse, even after the performance of the host can achieve the same 3D simulation effect as the PC, it is difficult to use the controller to copy the FPS gameplay.

So, it was a difficult decision to make a decision to completely tilt the host like 3D.

For ordinary people, this may be the case, but for Jester, there is no such thing as Zài, he understands the future direction of game consoles, and FPS can be popular on console platforms. It also has a deep relationship with the game "Halo" - it is the creation of the use of assisted aiming in this game, which makes this unseemly game that is popular on PC become the first category of console games.

In the past, only a few people were willing to try the .fps genre of games on consoles.

The reason why Jester said this in the interview is to deceive Sony and Sega into believing that he has not yet developed a formal next-generation console, so that they can delay the process and speed of their own development on a certain level.

Actually, according to fifteen years later. The meeting in Ken Kutaraki's own memoirs, this time he was really careless.

At that time, Ken Kutaragi had stepped down as president of the SEC. He's in an interview with a show,

At that time, the host asked about Sony Computer Entertainment. What was the biggest mistake in the period of the thirty-two machines, after thinking about it for a long time, Ken Kutaragi talked about this past.

"During PS2 development, I made an unforgivable mistake."

When he said it, although many years had passed, there was even a look of chagrin and remorse on his face.

"When I was in the office looking through the latest edition of "Game" magazine, I just knew that this magazine had a deep relationship with Jester, but I didn't expect that Jester was one of the founders of this magazine, you know, "Game" at that time can be said to be the most authoritative magazine in the industry, basically practitioners like us, is a copy of each person, if I knew that this magazine has such a deep relationship with Jester, I may have been at that time, I'll think about it more carefully, but I don't know, and I haven't thought about it further."

"I watched this interview about Jester, and in this interview, Jester said to the interviewer that they hadn't decided what the next generation of consoles they were going to develop would be based on - anyway, I was almost overjoyed when I saw it, you know, our next-generation console development at that time was already on the right track, and our most important opponent hadn't made the judgment it should have."

"Of course, at that time, it was a very difficult decision to make to choose 3D as the future without hesitation."

"So, I didn't think there was a lie in Jester's words at the time, and we later learned that in fact, the development of Dreambox3 was not slower than our PS2 at that time, and even slightly faster than us."

As he spoke, he himself felt a little amused.

"That evening, I met with a couple of officers from our hardware development department. [,！ I talked about it, and they all knew about it, and we even laughed at Jester together, because Jester was recently interviewed, and someone asked him why he was able to make so many great games, and Jester said very unceremoniously that his eyes can see the future, and what we laughed at was laughing at him at the time, why can't he see the future at this time, it must belong to 3D?"

As he spoke, Ken Kutaragi sneered twice.

"Actually, we were all played by Jester like monkeys - our hardware development progress was slackened at the time, because we knew that we were in the best position of all the competitors, and although I urged them a few times, it didn't work until a year later......"

Speaking of this, Ken Kutaragi stopped talking, as if recalling something.

"Was that the Mars Entertainment leak?" The interviewer in the interview immediately followed up with a question.

"Yes."

Kutaragi Ken nodded, he didn't talk carefully about the information leak incident of Mars Entertainment this time, but immediately jumped the topic back to PS2 development.

"It was from that leak that we learned that the development progress of Mars Entertainment's Dreambox3 at that time was far ahead of us, and according to the leaked news at that time, the official development time of Dreambox3 was definitely much earlier than Jester's interview with this interview."

This was only an interview with Ken Kutaragi fifteen years later, and now no one knows that his unintentional act of interfering with the willow this time, including Jester himself, will cause him such a big result.

And later facts have also proved this, in terms of 3D game matching and imaging, as well as the difficulty of development, PS2 is better than Dreambox3 in an all-round way, but it is because these two consoles are on sale in terms of release time, Dreambox3 is nearly ten months ahead of PS2, so that this console war has become a war without suspense.

In fact, later Sony Computer Entertainment also believed that PS2 was actually a period when they had better surpass Mars Entertainment, and this period was the period when their hardware development strength could give full play to its power, and Mars Entertainment's hardware development team, as well as 3D technology, were far inferior to their own.

Of course, this is all an afterthought, and it is still the early days of the sixteen-bit machine.

Rob. Pardo received a thick letter from Mars Entertainment today, to be precise, it was a gift box, beautifully packaged, and the excitement in his heart when he received the package from the postman's hand was indescribable.

He is a loyal player of Mars Entertainment, and he also participated in the RTS speculation campaign, and wrote a long letter analyzing how he got to know Guò Sid. Mel's team guessed the genre and gave some of their own opinions about the genre.

A few days ago, when he saw Jester's interview in the latest issue of "Game", when he saw RTS, which is a real-time strategy game, he was so excited that he even danced in the library regardless of his image, so that he was coaxed out by the security guards on the spot.

But this qiē in his opinion is all worth it.

Because he knew he guessed it right, he could participate in this year's Mars Entertainment Carnival! You know, being able to participate in a carnival has become the ultimate dream of almost any fan of Mars Entertainment, and of course, it is his.

But the problem is that the tickets for the Mars Entertainment Carnival are really a bit expensive, and if you work, it's okay to say that you are just an ordinary student now, and you can only graduate next year.

In fact, the price of tickets for the Mars Entertainment Carnival is not very expensive, but those frenzied copyists can directly speculate the price of the carnival tickets to close to 2,000 US dollars, which is still the current price, and by November, the price of tickets can even rise to 5,000 US dollars. (To be continued)