Chapter 667: R&D Progress of Somatosensory Devices
And if you buy XBO, you can't just buy one game, right?
There's no point in buying a host.
I will definitely buy a few more, such as Microsoft's own "War Plane Qì" and "Halo" series, it should always be launched, right?
In this way, Microsoft's purpose has been achieved, after all, the Tomb Raider series also has a large number of fans.
For example, their transformation of "Tomb Raider 9", in fact, "Tomb Raider 9" is the player's own statement, because this is the ninth part of "Tomb Raider", but in fact, the official has never said on any occasion that this is "Tomb Raider 9", nor has it been written on any poster or poster.
Their call is the new Tomb Raider.
Because this is the first work after the reboot of the "Tomb Raider" series, it completely abandons the previous "Tomb Raider" style and comprehensively learns from the "Uncharted" series.
While the previous Tomb Raider series was puzzle-solving at its core, the new Tomb Raider is action-adventure at its core.
There is a fundamental difference.
Of course, judging from the demo of "Tomb 10", that is, the new "Tomb 2", EIDOS not only went to the "Uncharted" development team to study, but also went to the "American Doomsday" development team for a period of time, otherwise, there is no reason why this game will be able to absorb the advantages of the two games so similarly.
The sales of the host are the things that Jester is most worried about in the future, and every generation of consoles is released, and no one has a bottom in their hearts.
Don't look at it, Sony's PS4 sales were booming later, and even in the first quarter of 15 years, the sales were more than all other consoles combined, but before the PS4 was officially released, Sony people didn't dare to say that their consoles could be bought very well.
It's like Shuhei Yoshida, someone else is interviewing him. Ask him why the PS4 sells so well.
And Shuhei Yoshida said this strangely.
"We don't know why so many people buy PS4s, and we wonder where these people came from."
In fact, every console release is such a situation, your last console has an advantage, it doesn't mean that you can still have an advantage this time, it is likely that not long after the console is released, the offense and defense are easy.
After looking at the development of next-generation consoles, Jester did not leave the hardware development center. Because one of the most secret projects currently underway is not the development of a new console, but a small development team that has been secretly going on for five years.
Throughout Mars Entertainment, not many people know about this development team, codenamed Project X.
There are no more than five people in the full dozen.
Even at the annual internal meeting of the group, the public statements are also secretive about this group.
But. Every time Jester came to the hardware development center, which was not affiliated with the Mars Entertainment headquarters, he would personally visit the development team of the entire group's most mysterious Project X to find out what was going on.
The number of people in this development team is not large, only about thirty people.
For a hardware development team, that's not a lot of money.
But. Each of these people is the most well-known somatosensory equipment expert in the industry, and this development team, named Project X, carried out the development project. It's the somatosensory device on the home game console, which is a plan that Jester started five years ago.
The people of Project X weren't surprised to see Jester coming. There is not even a special indication of it.
They continue to do their thing.
Jester just looked at it casually, and then looked at Dr. James, the person in charge of Project X, who had previously conducted somatosensory research at Stanford University, by an absolute awesome man he had poached at a high price, and Dr. James nodded and went to his office with Jester.
The conditions of Project X were very lenient, and Jester did not arrange any R&D requirements for the development team.
On the contrary, the people in this development team have the highest salary, the best treatment, and the most stress-free work, but no one dares to take it lightly.
Each of them signed a strict confidentiality clause when they joined the development team, prohibiting any disclosure of any information about Project X to the outside world, and the internal assessment of Project X was very strict, and if the people in the Project X development team did not meet the assessment requirements within the specified time, then the person would be expelled from the Project X team.
Although there will still be a good job in the hardware development center of Mars Entertainment.
However, the salary will be cut in half.
This is something that no member of the X development team wants to meet.
"How's the development?"
Jester didn't go around in circles, he saw that James was also in the office, so he asked straight to the point.
Although Dr. James was a professor at Stanford before, he had been with Jester for a long time, so he also knew Jester's personality very well, and after he heard Jester's question, he was not dissatisfied, just smiled, and then shook his head.
"If we want to reach the level of somatosensory you mentioned, we may need at least ten years of continuous research and development, but the somatosensory equipment we developed on the Dreambox3 is very smooth in melee combat, and it is basically guaranteed that at the same time as the Dreambox3 is released, the somatosensory equipment we have for him will be released......" At this point, Dr. James paused slightly.
And only then did he add a sentence.
"However, although our somatosensory equipment is no match for us among other game companies at present, it still can't meet the requirements of being able to give players a flawless experience."
Hearing Dr. James's answer, Jester was also a little disappointed, although he had expected it, and he would basically read every development report of Project X carefully, so he still knew very well how far the current Progress of Project X could go, basically, it was roughly equivalent to the level of the late nineties in the original world in his memory.
"It seems that I want to start promoting the somatosensory plan on Dreambo3, but there is no way to complete it."
Jester sighed.
"Actually......"
James actually wants to say that although their current physical feel is not as smooth as Jester requires, it is still very good to add it to their next-generation console, and judging from their own reality, there will be many people who like this very special way of playing. (To be continued......)