After the Spring Festival holiday in 1996, he officially started to work, this time at the headquarters of Longteng in Beijing, all overseas high-level executives were present, mainly Yang Yun personally distributed New Year's benefits, enhance the cohesion of the company, in addition, there are some important things to explain.

At 7 o'clock in the morning on the eighth day of the first lunar month, Yang Yun came to the door of the company early, followed by Zhao Yongping and Zhang Guoqiang and others, several people carried different travel bags, all of which contained red envelopes printed with the words "Wishing you prosperity", the red envelopes were all Carrefour shopping cards, ranging from 1,000 to 10,000, this is China's first foreign supermarket, only opened last year, many people have long wanted to visit.

"Aunt Wang! Happy New Year! Did you come here so early? Coming before 6 o'clock? Oh, you're so dedicated...... This is a red envelope for you, wishing you a happy new year...... You can get it, everybody! ”

"Hello Captain Joe! Happy New YearHappy New Year! The security work of our Longteng company will be handed over to you, and the task is arduous! This is a small red envelope, not a tribute, the brothers have it, I will send it one by one......"

"Yo! Isn't this Director Qian? Why did you come to the industrial park so early today? Have fun! Hey, what are you doing here? How can I receive your red envelopes? Yongping, Zhihong, hurry up and bring our red envelopes! Director Qian has done his best for the Animation and Game Industrial Park, and he usually thinks about our Longteng Company for the first time if there are any benefits, and he must give a red envelope! What? I've never heard of Lei's being sent by married people to unmarried people, I ...... I don't count! ”

Yang Yun had just sent away Qian Deliang, the director of the industrial park, who had come to send warmth, and after a while, several company CEOs who were watching the excitement next door also rushed over to send red envelopes to each other.

They took a cash package to Yang Yun. Yang Yun also gave them supermarket cards, one in and one out. In fact, everyone is trying to celebrate, and they are all hundreds of thousands of masters every minute. Who cares about that money?

When the employees of Longteng go to work one after another, Yang Yun is busy, and the employees he originally knew can shake hands and say a few more words, thanks, encouragement, and make persistent efforts.

Some junior employees who don't know each other, Zhao Yongping and Zhang Guoqiang are reminded behind them, and Yang Yun can also quickly call out their names and care about the progress of research and development. Care about family life and strive to be like a spring breeze.

On the first day of work in the new year, I got a red envelope from Yang Yun himself, everyone was enthusiastic and high-spirited, and the core senior management came to the large conference room to hold the first meeting of the year.

After saying a few words of blessing for the occasion, Yang Yun entered the topic: "Calling you from abroad today is not only to give everyone the opportunity to sit together and exchange feelings, in fact, there is an important decision to announce to everyone. This is the decision I made after a detailed discussion with Manager Zhao, and this may be the biggest crisis in the history of our Longteng Entertainment Game Company! ”

Seeing that Yang Yun said solemnly, everyone put away their smiles and looked at him solemnly.

Yang Yun said: "Nintendo's N64 is not expected. It should be available at the end of February, and it has twice the CPU processing speed of our SS, which seems to be far ahead in all aspects. However, from what we have learned, it is not simple. Chief Engineer Fang, you can explain. ”

Fang Jindong pushed his glasses. "From the N64 public information, we can know that the host uses a 64-bit CPU, which is manufactured by NEC and has 4M memory, which is twice as strong as our SS.

In addition, it also has a specially customized graphics chip, although the model is not indicated, and Sony points out its performance in the same vague tone, such as graphics processing up to 450,000 polygons per second, in fog, water ripples, shadows, texture mapping, light filtering and other 3D processing effect is even better than PS, we have reason to believe that this is a custom 32-bit GPU.

In this way, the N64 is 2 times faster than the SS, and the 3D effect should be better than both the SS and the PS, plus they changed the cassette to a CD, and my conclusion is that the N64 definitely meets the standards of the next generation of consoles and is quite competitive! ”

Yang Yun coughed, woke up the others who were in deep thought, and said: "The performance of the 64-bit SU host in our Longteng real room is no worse than that of N64, in fact, after cooperating with ATI, they plan to use dual 32-bit GPU chips, one to process 3D graphics and audio functions, and one to process the drawing of all pixels in the hardware, Motorola's 64-bit CPU is also the latest technology, in fact, technically speaking, our SU is even a little ahead." ”

These words made everyone breathe a sigh of relief, Jiang Shaoyun and Xiao Liangyu, who have been away from R&D for a long time and focus on marketing, are the most nervous people, what they are most afraid of is that the market will be snatched away by competitors, their performance is not good-looking, and the market share is declining, which is the most humiliating thing!

"But ......" Yang Yun's divine turn came, he looked around, and after seeing everyone's faces, he calmly said his decision: "I don't plan to let SU be officially listed and face off against N64!" ”

What the!

One stone stirred up a thousand waves, and the most affected ones were Jiang Shaoyun and Xiao Liangyu.

"Mr. Yang! Such...... Isn't it left to Nintendo's development? We don't care? Jiang Shaoyun was the first to question, if he really wanted to do this, how could his work be carried out?

"In Europe, there are a lot of regular customers who have told us that the graphics of 32-bit SS are not very satisfactory, they are tired of pixels and mosaics in 3D games, and many people want to make a 64-bit console and remake a game with better results." Xiao Liangyu frowned: "If SU is not listed, wouldn't N64 be a player who has obtained these high-end needs?" No opponents? ”

The sales team objected, but the R&D team expressed a neutral attitude, and Inoue Yanxiong, Zhang Guoqiang, and Ma Liang were all silent.

Yang Yun took a roll call and motioned for Zhang Guoqiang to speak, he turned around his head and said: "I can only explain the situation from a technical point of view, releasing SU will at least double our workload, making zuòsu development kits, training programmers from game providers, and at the same time, we can't put down the games of the SS platform, we have to recruit more people to do things." ”

Jiang Shaoyun was unhappy: "Guoqiang, I'm afraid that doing things is not our style!" ”

Zhang Guoqiang waved his hand and explained: "Mr. Jiang, you misunderstood, I mean, if we develop SU, our entire game industry chain, from the most upstream hardware room, to the midstream hardware manufacturers, to the downstream game software suppliers, all have to move, and the whole body will be moved. Of course, there are advantages to issuing SU, and there are also benefits to not issuing SU, and Mr. Yang must have his own reasons! ”

Yang Yunle was happy: "What, don't you all care about it?" All put the pressure on me? Well, you guys listen to me explain why this decision was made. After the N64 comes out, will it really be able to destroy the withering and decay and occupy the entire high-end market? Let's analyze, first of all, N64 is listed, who is the first to jump out against it? ”

Sony!

This is the answer that everyone gave at the same time, and Sony will definitely not rest on its laurels!

Inoue Yanxiong smiled and said: "The first one to jump out is definitely Sony, although Sony and Nintendo share a catalog of game suppliers, but Sony can't let those people make games for Nintendo, this is called ...... It's called ......"

"Fight in the nest!" Yang Yun took over with a smile and said: "After the infighting, Sony assures that we are more anxious than us, Namco is about to produce "Ridge Racing 2", do you say that it is better to release it on the pseudo-3D PS platform, or on the real 3D N64 platform?" I think, Namco will have a headache, Nintendo will have a headache, Sony will have a headache too, right? ”

Everyone laughed, because what Yang Yun said was not wrong at all, Namco would hesitate because of Nintendo's low market share, Nintendo would be distressed because of the difficulty of winning over Namco, Sony was afraid that Namco would really make the N64 version, and the three parties would definitely have a hard time for their own interests!

Yang continued: "Ridge Racing is just one example, when we first took over Sega, the situation was very similar to Nintendo's now, more than 80% of the games on the market are FC platforms, and our 16 MDs finally broke into North America, and it took more than a year to turn the situation around and gain a foothold, not by other game providers, but by ourselves! ”

That's what I said,It's very philosophical.,Relying on heaven and earth to rely on others.,Never have your own reliability.,The classic games on MD,Most of them are provided by Longteng.,It's to use these classic blockbuster games to grab the market.,Slowly attract other game makers to join.,After more and more younger brothers.,Only in the second year and the third year surpassed Nintendo.。

And now, Nintendo intends to rely on their common game suppliers with Sony, which is very unreliable, unless they make their own zuò a large number of charging vanguard games, such as 3D Super Mario and 3D The Legend of Zelda, well, and a 3D Tetris!

And then what?

No then, Nintendo's R&D strength has shrunk greatly in the past two years, the R&D team has been disbanded and poached a lot, I'm afraid there are few people who can really take the lead, their core strength is all focused on hardware research and development, how much can software have? It can well be imagined!

After figuring this out, everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief, without sufficient number and high-quality game support, N64 may be popular for two or three months, and no one will want to buy new games at all.

Who wants to spend $50 on a garbage game?

Jiang Shaoyun asked again: "What if Nintendo adopts the same tactics as Sony, inviting other game suppliers in the form of open source or high-price bribery, and grabbing the market with a huge quantity?" ”

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PS: This book is about the CPU bit of the host, a qiē is based on reality, that is, everyone is familiar with it, the ones advertised by the manufacturer, such as N64 is 64 bits, PS2 is 128 bits (it is actually a CPU with a 32-bit architecture, the difference is a 128-bit instruction set, and the front-end bus, etc., this book does not discuss the specific architecture and performance parameters of the CPU in depth, and the ambiguous Chapter 450 has also been modified) (to be continued......)