Two hours after Mars Entertainment's E3 launch event.

Videos of the demo videos of the 'Time' project were also sent to the top management of Sony and Sega.

Because it's in the United States, it's impossible to let the entire Sony hardware R&D team watch it together, but Ken Kutara is a hardware background, and he has also participated in the development of PS2 throughout the process, and he is clear about what kind of performance they can have for Sony's next-generation console, so when he saw this demo video, he was immediately shocked.

Because, he knows, to complete this level of graphics, their next generation of PS2, it is impossible to do it, unless it is the next generation of consoles, maybe it can do it.

Immediately, Kutaragi Ken wanted to immediately ask the hardware development department to stop developing the next-generation console that was being developed, and then go all out to develop a console with better performance, but after a while, he drove this idea out of his mind, and he quickly thought that such a picture is indeed not a picture that the next-generation console can handle.

It's not that it can't be done, but it's very costly.

A home game console, to be honest, performance is of course important, but there is one more important thing than performance, and that is universality.

In other words, it's cheap.

To be able to make most people affordable,That's the most important thing,For example,The price of the current game home console is 200 US dollars,This is not a lot of money,Even some students who don't have an income,Relying on some pocket money,You can also buy it for a while,That is to say,This thing,It can be easily bought,It's the most important thing。

It's like Microsoft competed with Sony later.

At the pre-E3 press conference that year. Ken Kutaragi announced the price of the PS3 on the stage. When Moore heard that the price was as high as more than five hundred dollars, he even jumped with excitement.

Price, in the competition for next-generation hosts, is crucial.

So,Kutaragi Ken quickly thought of this.,It's really possible to do such a picture of the host.,But,Here's the problem.,The cost is too high.。

The price of a gaming console. In Kutaragi's opinion, the price of the next generation will definitely be a little higher than this generation.

But it won't be much higher, probably more than the price of fifty to a hundred dollars in this generation.

The improvement of this generation is actually not too big compared to the eight-bit era, and the cost of electronic components is extremely low, so all parties can maintain it up to two hundred dollars, and if all the costs are included, at the beginning of two hundred dollars. It may be a slight loss, but with the increase in production, it is now sold for $200. You can make money.

Game platform companies don't make money on hardware, except for Nintendo.

Even Jester doesn't make money on hardware, at most they make money by maintaining balance, they make money. It depends on the platform's royalty.

Of course, Jester has more than 60 percent of the shares, and the royalties he receives are very large. It's about one-third of the price of the game, don't look at this royalty is very high, you know, when Nintendo first started to implement the royalty system, it had to charge two-thirds of the royalty of the system, and now the royalty has been greatly reduced.

"It is absolutely impossible for Mars Entertainment's next-generation host to have such high performance."

After all, he was born in hardware, and Kutaragi Ken only thought about it for a while, and then made his judgment, and he also said to himself: "Unless Jester plans to increase the price of the next-generation console to six hundred dollars, it will be possible!" ”

After saying that, there was even an excited look on his face.

"This should be a trick up the sleeve Jester has prepared, but if Jester really wants to sell a game console for six hundred dollars, that's the real way to die."

"So, this demo screen is simply impossible to complete!"

Like Sony's side, Sega's side was also surprised and shocked, and quickly figured out that a game console that can handle this level of picture is too expensive to make, at least six hundred dollars, but at this price of a game console, basically not many people will buy it, according to Jester, it is impossible for him to do this kind of way of death.

Of course, this incident also caused waves on the part of Sega.

Because although it is not clear to the outside world, the management of Sega knows that their new console has finally decided to use 2D image processing as an assist, and 3D processing is to make a compromise.

This has also caused a lot of discussion within Sega, because one of the hot topics of debate in the industry is whether 3D games can replace 2D games and become the center of gravity of the game world in the next era.

Therefore, there is also a lot of debate within Sega about the development of next-generation consoles.

It's impossible to say that Sega doesn't understand the potential of 3D games.

Because it was Sega who first used 3D effects in the arcade, and even, in terms of the development of 3D games, they were not inferior to the previous Mars Entertainment, and in the arcade, they even surpassed Mars Entertainment.

However, in the eyes of many people in Sega, 3D games do have great potential, but the 3D graphics at the beginning must be very rough, but the next generation of consoles can process the 2D pictures to an extreme, which is completely impossible for 3D graphics to do in the next generation, so, after internal discussions, the development plan of Sega Saturn was decided.

Therefore, when the senior management of Sega saw that the 3D game graphics could be so beautiful, they were also shocked.

If the next generation of 3D graphics can do this.

So, what else is their Saturn competitive?

However, soon, they also figured out the key to this matter, that is, it is impossible for Mars Entertainment to produce a game console with a price of $600, and it is even more impossible to sell a console that costs close to $600 for $300, so such a picture is completely deliberate by Jester purely wanting to shock the industry.

His game, when it was released, could have reached such a picture.

It's necessarily the level of that kind of rough 3D picture.

This is also a conclusion made by Sega's hardware engineers after analyzing the video recordings, which also makes Sega's people completely relieved. (To be continued......)