On September 12, Yoichi Kashikawa, the president of Koei Co., Ltd., received an official notice from Sega, requiring Koei to sign an exclusive agreement on the Sega platform within ten days, otherwise he would bear the consequences.

In response to Yoichi Kagawa's protest, Commissioner Sega said meaningfully: "If Koei does not sign an exclusivity agreement, the contract previously signed between Sega and Koei will still be valid, but Sega will no longer accept applications for new games on the SS platform. In addition, Sega's upcoming 64-bit console Uranus, Uga-Uranus, will raise the application criteria for Koei's video games, so I would like to ask President Ekawa to make a decision. ”

Yang Yi was furious: "You are discriminating against!" This is unfair treatment! ”

The Sega commissioner retorted with a sneer: "Koei did not choose Sega SS, but Sony PS, which is also discrimination and unfair treatment for us Sega!" President Xiangchuan, the game platform and the game manufacturer are cooperative relations, everyone has the right to choose in both directions, send you a word, there is no wall grass in the world is a good ending in the end! ”

Yang Chuanyi pinched the notice, trembling with anger, roared at the door, and blasted people over.

But a loud voice does not mean that he is strong, and it does not mean that he can change a qiē!

After being angry, Yoichi Xiangchuan calmed down and discussed with his henchmen how to deal with it, which is a difficult choice that has a huge impact on the future development of the company, and must be treated carefully!

The same thing happened in many game companies in Japan, where the larger companies had a special person to call the door, and the small business was sent by phone. The 20% of game makers who refused to sign an exclusivity agreement with Sega were faced with this dilemma.

They don't want to sign an exclusivity agreement. The main thing is that Sega is not mandating exclusivity, they are making zuò games for SS. At the same time, an SFC version is being developed, and Sega has not raised any objections.

Because according to Nintendo's market share and scale, the profits from developing the SFC version may not be able to catch up with the R&D costs, and they will not receive exclusive game subsidies from Sega, so the vast majority of companies have achieved de facto monopoly and peaceful coexistence with Sega.

But Sony is different, Sony's foray into game consoles began to hype two years ago, and after Sony was put on a stand by Nintendo, it took two years to finally come up with results. Developed PlayStation, also a 32-bit console.

This has made these swing companies a little excited, ready to test the waters of the PS platform, and they have been in contact with Sony since a few months ago, getting the PS development kit, and trying to develop a game for the PS platform.

Sony's growth is far greater than Nintendo's, and the threat to Yang Yun is not ordinary, so he has to use extraordinary means to deal with it at very moments, he must completely tie up these game suppliers and not provide Sony with enough games!

But this paper order. Completely bewildering game providers who are hesitant at both ends, months of development time are likely to be wasted, and neither end is pleasing to both ends, leaving a bad impression on both sides.

That's business. Either you die, or I die, and we must be ruthlessly suppressed in the face of the enemy. Can't be sympathetic, if Yang Yun doesn't do this to Sony. When Sonny grows up, they will do the same against himself!

No one is to blame. Everyone is forced to be like this!

The young man sitting in front of Yoichi Kashikawa is named Nao Suzuki, a very good manager, who has made great contributions to the marketing of Koei Company, and is Yoichi Kashikawa's most valued partner, serving as the vice president of the company's marketing department.

"Suzuki-kun, how do you think Sega's policy should be handled?"

"President, there are still ten days to go, and I believe that Sega's approach is definitely not aimed at one of our companies, and Sony and Nintendo will definitely know."

"You mean, leave this puzzle to them to solve?"

"Yes, obviously, this is a struggle between platform providers, and it doesn't have much to do with us, the small game makers. If Sony doesn't give higher and more favorable terms, we don't have to offend Sega. ”

After careful analysis, the two believed that this was a scene of a fight between the gods, and they ordinary suppliers only needed to wait for the results, which was in their own interests.

Their analysis was correct, and Ken Kutaragi also heard this decision for the first time, and he could only transfer the pressure to Nintendo to force Nintendo to fulfill the contract and provide more games for Sony.

For ten days, a big storm was brewing in the Japanese game industry, and everyone was waiting for the moment when Sony Nintendo and Dragon Sega officially declared war.

On September 20, 1994, the International Consumer Electronics Show CEA was held in Chicago, USA, which is one of the largest consumer electronics exhibitions in the United States.

Sony's electronic products are numerous, divided into music equipment, game equipment, video equipment, home theater, etc., hundreds of square meters of booths, more than 20 employees, the formation is particularly huge.

Especially in the new product launch area, the CyberShot concept digital camera and the PlayStation home game console have become the novelties that people are looking after.

For the first time, Sony's PS hardware parameters were displayed in front of ordinary players, and players actively looked for differences from SS, hoping to find a number that surpassed SS.

Yang Yun got a copy of the specific parameters in his hand, and after scanning it with his eyes, he chuckled.

In the absence of a huge innovation in the CPU and GPU, PS continues to start its flickering method, and has to say that its 3D graphics processing effect is even better than SS.

The current SS is not the SS in real history, with the technical collaboration of ATI, the maximum number of colors is 16.77 million colors of 24 true colors, 8-bit transparency, resolution 320*224, processing 560,000 polygons per second, and this is a real number jù!

Let's take a look at the PS promotional slogan, 16.77 million colors are tied with SS, the resolution is 256*224-640*480, slightly better than SS, in addition, 600,000 polygons per second!

Just this last one, Yang Yun almost laughed out loud, 600,000, they dare to brag about this bull, it's really shameless!

SS's highest special effects are only 560,000,Usually running 3D games,The effect can reach 400,000 even if it's very high,Sony is definitely exaggerating its image processing capabilities。

For example, the wheel of a racing car can only be connected by a straight line when drawing, so that the round wheel must be composed of multiple pixels connected by pairs.

If the wheel is a quadrilateral, it is square, and the twenty-four quadrangular is somewhat like a circle, and after the 10,000-sided shape, it is almost impossible to see the difference between it and the round wheel with the naked eye.

In order to show the power of PS graphics processing power, at the Sony booth, the PS console demonstrated a racing game, which was "Ridge Racing" made by Namco for PS.

A demonstrator controls the race car to play the game, and when viewed on a Sony Trilon monitor, the effect is very good, the picture quality is quite detailed, the background on both sides of the sprint road is also lifelike, the beautiful vehicle tail flicking technology makes players feel thrilling, and at the same time, the processing power of the PS console is full of praise!

Yang Yun saw this scene and didn't think so, because this game was transplanted from the Namco arcade, and it was able to be launched at the same time as Sony PS, and it can also be used as a demonstration game for people to watch at the CES exhibition, because PS referred to Namco's arcade substrate System11 when designing, and the two platforms have a certain commonality in hardware, so that the game presents a very good effect.

In fact, this is just a special case, not all commonalities, and if you change to another 3D game, I'm afraid the effect will be greatly reduced.

But the layman audience doesn't understand, maybe there is still Sony's support in the crowd, and the applause is endless, so that Yang Yun keeps shaking his head when he listens, and at the same time relaxes his heart.

3D technology is not unique to Sony! Sega has been working on a 3D game for two years, okay, isn't it just a Ridge Racer? When Dragon's "Dakar Rally" comes out next year, it will definitely be as effective as any racing game on PS!

Because there are no TVs, audio-visual digital and other products, Longteng Entertainment & Game Company only has a 30-square-meter booth, with a large number of TVs and game consoles, as well as rows of arcade machines, personal PCs like Internet cafes, and handheld computers can also be tried by the audience themselves.

The most popular is the latest game from Dragon, and the 3D game Tomb Raider - China Prequel is played against the PlayStation Ridge Racer, which runs on four TVs, and there are many professionals who are close to the TV screens and are very interested in the technology of 3D modeling.

"George, look at the texture of these walls! Also, these wolf corpses that fell to the ground died in different ways! ”

"Yes, I noticed it too, don't you know? Dragon games are famous for their exquisiteness, and every detail is handled well, so their games will be classic and prosperous! ”

"Oh my God, look at the details of these hidden weapons! Hey bro, can you walk to the wall and let me see the details? Wow, there are tiny mosaics, but they can't be distinguished by the naked eye from a distance......"

"Tomb Raider 1" grabbed everyone's attention, on the one hand, it was a console performance special effects confrontation with PS's "Ridge Racer", and on the other hand, it was compared to "Doom 2" at ID's booth.

It's a big scuffle, and many game companies are showing their latest technology to players and their peers.

Whoever can have the last laugh will be judged by the sales volume!

At this time, Yang Yun saw a familiar man standing next to the Longteng exhibition area, he laughed, this is the first big fish he attracted, very big, very delicious, very tempting, people have been coveting for a long time! (To be continued......)