The PS2 game console, which is highly anticipated by the Japanese people, uses a custom 128-bit Dragon chip, and the specific parameters and details have not been announced, and even the brand has not been revealed, unless the pins and integrated circuit transistors are checked after disassembly.

The Japanese game industry was originally rumored to be made by NEC or AMD, and after seeing the real thing, it must have been purchased from China's Longteng Entertainment Game Company, but none of them received a positive response from these companies, especially Longteng Company's categorical denial, which made the Japanese angry and annoyed, but there was nothing they could do.

What CPU to use on a game console is up to the game company and has nothing to do with the game itself, so after the initial dispute for a while, no one cares who makes it.

PS2 graphics card used in the Nvidia Gforce series of custom graphics cards, hard disks, memory drives, and other important components are all found by mature technology companies OEM, and finally pasted with the NewSonic brand, not the IBM brand hard disk that people imagine, Flextron memory, Toshiba optical drives and other big brand parts, NewSonic official did not specify the detailed parameters, many Japanese game hardware experts suspected that it was purchased from Taiwan, China or Shanghai foundry, which was also denied by Longteng.

After all, there are still a few people who are entangled in these problems, for the general public who support Japanese games, as long as NewSonic provides a perfect PS2 quality warranty, the game console can achieve high performance, which company makes it really doesn't matter, they buy game services, the origin of the console is not the most important, even if it is all made in China, it also has the advantage of being cheap.

The PS2 software uses the Android open-source operating system. It comes with an 8G hard drive, which is only 2G less than the Xbox. It allows users to connect to the Internet, go to NewSonic or the Android community to download suitable Android applications freely. In addition to Android games, there are also some commonly used video, network, image processing, word processing and other software.

In other words, as long as the PS2 is connected to the Internet, it is a simple personal PC with the Android operating system installed, which can implement the functions of the PC on the PS2 console and home TV.

This has become a puzzling practice, why is PS2 open source? NewSonic open-sourced its gaming platform. They're not crazy, are they?

"Why open source?"

"It's absolutely impossible for Android to fight against Windows, our carefully crafted PS2 games can't match the PC effect, we shouldn't fight Microsoft so early, it's a crazy idea!"

"President Zhongshan, open source is likely to make us lose control, we have worked hard to promote, and in the future, any big consortium can use the open source system for free, and easily seize one of our qiē!"

Hayakuo Nakayama looked at the busy clerk downstairs and couldn't help but recall the PS2 reform last year. There are a variety of different voices in the company.

He also remembered Yang Yun in China, who was the open source planned by this man, and almost single-handedly built the PS2, and the operating system was provided by Yang Yun's Longteng team. Even the Android software APPStore was built by Yang Yun himself, and then hung under the name of NewSonic, and Hayabusa Nakayama had a proud idea in his heart. I was full of emotion.

An open-source operating system would have been unimaginable a decade ago. At that time, Nintendo and Sega, in order to ensure the unity of the game card and the authority of the platform. Each game maker is required to pay an admission fee, the manufacturer only provides the software source code, and the cassette is produced by Nintendo and Sega themselves, and the sales channels are strictly controlled, so as to ensure the interests of their platform.

Nowadays, the world has changed, physical cartridges have become a thing of the past, modern large-scale games have basically become PC and DC dual versions, a disc, even without a disc, can be copied hardware, the CPU reads the hard disk much faster than the disc, and the effect is better.

The consequence of the improvement of the game effect is that the difficulty of anti-piracy increases, so many players on the DC platform, they also need to write anti-piracy modules in the operating system, plus anti-piracy restrictions for online games, and they can't block the pervasive and strange piracy cracking group.

The game's profit model, sales model, verification model, and operation model are also changing with the changes of the times, and the open source Android operating system cannot be completely anti-theft, but it can free NewSonic from the tedious and inefficient anti-piracy struggle, and concentrate on server verification and service upgrades.

All PS2 games are in a new mode, which is completely reborn from the previous generation of PS, and open source is the best tactic in line with NewSonic, which is the best means to gather a large number of software suppliers in a short period of time!

As for whether there is a large consortium that uses open source systems for free, can it really easily occupy a certain industry? Yang Yun has the most say on this issue.

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The first day of sales was a success, from the opening at 8 a.m. to the end of the business at 8 p.m., with more than 3,000 loyal fans buying PS2s at the NewSonic flagship store, and a total of 4,000 PS2s sold in 12 hours, almost 10 seconds.

The PS2 is priced unexpectedly, selling for just $348 per PS2 for less than 40,000 yen, and comes with two free NewSonic games.

The key is that it is open source, all the source code of the Android operating system is free and open, NewSonic does not control the version of the operating system, all games are implemented through the NewSonicGameTool game software toolkit, this set of tools can be sold to anyone, all game makers or individuals can buy NewSonicGameTool to quickly develop games, or develop their own toolkits.

It was found that the approach of PS2 has become very flexible, and NewSonic has transformed from a platform provider to a game engine seller, and in order to compete with the DC platform of Dragon Entertainment Games, they do not hesitate to abandon the entire operating system, and cooperate with IT companies around the world to produce Android system software, and then they themselves play the role of the ruler of the game category in this expanding operating system.

"Clever Japanese!"

Mike Dell received an email from the lead analyst of his think tank team, with NewSonic's business strategy and a proposal to seize the opportunity to enter the software market.

On this day, Yang Zhiyuan and David Ferro, the founders of Yahoo in the United States, also learned of NewSonic's true intentions, Yang Zhiyuan laughed at himself: "The Japanese deceived the whole world, I thought PS2 was a mediocre continuation of PS1, but I didn't expect them to have such an amazing idea." ”

David Ferro also sighed: "They chose a nameless Linux operating system to break the ice, I admire their courage even more, the era of open source is coming, and the era of free information is about to begin." ”

Yang Zhiyuan laughed: "For ordinary people, isn't Yahoo also completely free?" They're just doing what we did. I'm bullish on the Android operating system, we should do something about it. ”

The Android system suddenly appeared in front of the world, and countless IT companies have set their eyes on it, thinking about whether they should do something.

Bill Gates once again urgently summoned his team of thinkers, in addition to the head of the gaming department.

He felt a headache, there was a tiger in front of him, he couldn't move an inch, and then a wolf appeared, and he immediately sensed that something was wrong, and this had gone from a simple battle over gaming platforms to a serious incident that affected the foundation of his Microsoft empire.

"I said many years ago that home entertainment consoles are going to be our biggest competitors, and they can swallow up the low-end entertainment market without giving us a chance to breathe, which will make us lose the initiative! It's just that I didn't think that things would come so quickly, although Android is just a germ seed that has just sprouted, and NewSonic's market share is only 7%, but we must not take it lightly! ”

Bill Gates looked at the members of the think tank with solemn expressions and said, "What do you think is the best solution?" ”

A chubby man with glasses said, "I think we have to expand the marketing of Xbox and squeeze NewSonic's market share to the point where it can't survive." ”

Another white man disagreed: "Even if NewSonic loses out of the game competition, they won't be completely bankrupt, and the open-source Android system is not only available to video game consoles, any assembled computer device can run the system, then it has the meaning of saving zài, and making zuò software on this operating system will not go unrewarded." ”

The man with fat glasses retorted: "But now in addition to the necessity of using a video game console, what other equipment can be used on such a large scale?" All software is built on the operating system, the powerful Microsoft system is much better than Android in terms of performance, and the PC console running Windows 2000 system runs games far better than Android, and the discerning gamer will never choose the PS2 to play Age of Empires! ”

Although they can't really compare the results of the game without Age of Empires on PS2, it is a conceivable fact that the Android operating system, which is still very weak, is still a long way from Microsoft's Windows in terms of the underlying instructions of the computer.

That's what the fat glasses man is saying - to strangle NewSonic in the cradle. (To be continued......)