"Qingsang, you're so big this time!"

At dinner in the evening, Hattori Hiroyuki's eyes changed when he looked at Qing Zhiyuan.

"Are you really not afraid of Sony at all?"

"Hey, sometimes the situation is here, and you don't have a choice." Qing Zhiyuan smiled, "Moreover, Sony is not so scary. ”

Sitting with Hattori Yuyuki, Qing Zhiyuan felt a lot more relaxed.

If there is anyone in this world who really wants Pokeni to become as powerful as possible, then Hattori Hiroyuki should be counted as one.

"By the way, if you buy Sega, will the previous "Bugger" still be released on the PS platform?"

This time, Hattori Hiroyuki invited Qing Zhiyuan to dinner, and he was most concerned about this issue.

They have already pre-ordered the game disc.,Don't sell it on PS when the time comes.,Pokeni doesn't lose much.,But it's in the hands of dealers.。

You must know that Hattori Hiroyuki ordered more than 300,000 copies in one go.

"Well, there should be no problem with this, I have already communicated with Kutaragi-san, and "Insect Master" is still released according to the original plan." Qing Zhiyuan said.

But well......

"Bug Master" will most likely be pokeni's last game on the PS platform.

The final swan song!

"Oh, that's good."

Hiroyuki Hattori patted his chest and breathed a sigh of relief.

But......

No matter how you think about it, it's very risky.

Pokeni acquired the Sega Insect Master and was able to release it as scheduled, and everyone was kind on the surface, but in fact there was an undercurrent surging, and according to Hattori Hiroyuki's business experience over the years, there would definitely be a battle between the two.

It's just that he's not sure when it's going to erupt.

"If you fight, you won't hurt the pond fish, right?" Hiroyuki Hattori asked, "If you make any big moves in the future, remember to inform me in advance, I'm afraid I won't be able to prepare." ”

Qing Zhiyuan stared at him with his eyes, "What are you afraid of, you are a salesman, and you don't conflict with everyone, no matter who makes the game, don't you also sell it?" ”

"Haha. That's true. Hiroyuki Hattori laughed a little embarrassedly.

"Then, I wish Pokeni can develop better, and I hope you will have a successful start!"

……

During this time, Qing Zhiyuan made a comprehensive understanding of Sega.

After holding an all-staff meeting to tell about Qingzhiyuan's expectations and commitments to Sega's future, and giving employees a reassurance, Qingzhiyuan began to chat with the heads of important departments one by one.

On the one hand, it is necessary to understand Sega's organizational structure and personnel composition, and make a more comprehensive assessment and understanding of each key person, which is conducive to future work.

On the other hand, it is also through these veteran employees that they have a comprehensive and in-depth understanding of the various departments and business conditions of SEGA.

Not only to listen to what they say, but also to see what the result is, for this reason Qing Zhiyuan also asked Mr. Hayabusa Nakayama to find him a lot of information, study day and night, and when there is any doubt, he will ask the relevant person in charge to come over and explain in person.

It is under such work intensity that Qing Zhiyuan has a general understanding of Sega's situation in a short period of time.

First of all, the new console Dreamcast has been developed almost completely.

Unlike its predecessor, the Sega Saturn, the Dreamcast uses off-the-shelf components such as Hitachi's SH-4 CPU and VideoLogic/Neon Electric's PowerVR2 graphics processor instead of custom components to reduce costs.

DC's function is actually quite powerful, and the support for 3D graphics is better than PS, almost at the level of PS2.

And Sega is an arcade company, such a company may be a little lacking in the field of RPG games, that is, it is not very good at making games with long linear narratives, but it has a strong control over gameplay.

Arcade games are games that require a few minutes of gameplay, but allow players to keep playing.

Therefore, the requirements for the expressiveness of the picture and the game performance are very high.

The DC game console not only has powerful 3D graphics, but also has high-speed computing power, and Hideki Sato designed this game with the Internet in mind.

It saves Qing Zhiyuan a lot of trouble.

In other words, DC game consoles can not only play games, but also dial-up the Internet.

In order to make Qingzhiyuan understand this more intuitively, Hideki Sato, the director of the game console development department, also demonstrated the Internet function of DC on the spot in the conference room.

Seeing that he was really able to open the official website of pokeni through DC, Qing Zhiyuan was shocked.

Originally, he wanted to promote the networking function, but now it seems that there is no need for it.

The operating system of the DC host is Windows CE, which is customized by Microsoft for DC, and the extension API of Direct 5 has been introduced, which has an excellent development environment.

So it's not surprising that you have a browser and can surf the Internet.

Windows CE is even better for Qing Zhiyuan, it is an operating system developed by Microsoft, and there is no transplant barrier with the PC in the future.

In other words, based on this, Qingzhiyuan's dandelion platform plan will be more convenient to implement in the future, and it will be able to connect PCs and game consoles at once.

"But...... If I have access to the Internet, will it be a problem? At this moment, the vice president of the company, Shoichiro Iriko, put forward his opinion, "The game console is for children to play, if children can use this to surf the Internet, enter the astringent website or something, will there be a bad inducement?" ”

"Huh?"

This question doesn't seem to have been thought about by everyone.

Everyone present looked curious.

Practice is the only criterion for testing the truth, so Hideki Sato demonstrated it on the spot.

I found out that I can really fucking be on the astringent website.

A bunch of blue pictures popped up on the Internet, which directly stunned everyone.

Hearty laughter rang out from the room.

A group of men all looked unusually excited, and the girls who attended the meeting were flushed with shame.

Show, it's really showy!

Qing Zhiyuan couldn't help but applaud it.

……

Everyone laughed for a while, and then Qing Zhiyuan clapped his hands and motioned for everyone to be quiet.

"Well," he said, looking at the people in the development department, "I hope to postpone the DC game console and not exhibit it at the E3 electronics show." ”

"Huh?"

Yes, the E3 electronics show to be held in July this year, Sega has actually promised to participate in it before, and the DC game console is the focus of this promotion.

Now that the acquisition has happened, it is actually very difficult for the E3 organizers to give Sega a place, or to merge the booth with pokeni?

Fortunately, Hayao Nakayama later called the organizers and said that as usual, Sega could participate in the exhibition as an independent game company, and the organizers were relieved.

However, now Qingzhiyuan wants to postpone the release plan of DC, and it will naturally not be exhibited at the E3 electronics show.

This made everyone a little disappointed, because everyone was riveting and counting on DC to win back a city and hit them hard before Sony's PS was developed.

"My idea was to make some adjustments to DC.

This may take some time for everyone.

But after you listen to it, you will definitely feel that it is all worth it. ”

……

"First of all, we will replace the PowerVR2 graphics processor with NVIDIA's, and then we will cooperate with NVIDIA to develop, and they have stronger 3D graphics chip design and development capabilities."

As soon as Qing Zhiyuan said this, there was an uproar below.

"President," Hideki Sato said, holding up his hand, "but we have already signed an agreement with Neon Electric, and we will pay compensation after the breach of contract." ”

"Hmm." Qing Zhiyuan nodded, "Compensation, it doesn't matter, you should pay for it." ”

Qingzhiyuan said that instead of making a less perfect product, it is better to spend some money and time to polish it more.

Huang Jenxun's Qing Zhiyuan has actually communicated well, and now Nvidia is already iterating once a year according to Moore's Law said by Lao Huang, and every year in the future, Nvidia's GPU will be multiplied.

This speed can help them get the most out of their console's hardware.

"You just have to do it, and I'll figure out how to solve the money thing."

Qing Zhiyuan said categorically.

"Okay president."

Although I think that there are some problems that the president handles in this way, not to mention that you have offended Neon Electric, you have to pay a large amount of liquidated damages, which is simply more than worth the loss.

But since the president has a lot of money, you can't do anything if you want to burn money.

And the courage shown by Qing Zhiyuan is really deterrent, for developers, if they can have a very strong back, stable support, more important than anything else.

So that they can fight with all their might.

Otherwise, like before, when Sega's finances were tight, it would be impossible to pick and search everything and not be able to completely follow its own ideas.

However, Qingzhiyuan's approach, to a certain extent, saves money for the company.

Nvidia is half of its own people, after all, Pokeni is a strong shareholder, Lao Huang has a good relationship with Qingzhiyuan, Nvidia can have today thanks to Qingzhiyuan, not only provides a lot of funds, but also provides chip design ideas.

Otherwise, it will take some time for Nvidia to come out.

Since it's half of my own, it's easy to talk about the price.

In other words, through the resources kneaded by Qingzhiyuan, the cost of Sega DC can be reduced.

The reduction in cost means that the soft-to-hard ratio is improved, which means that DC game consoles can be sold in a more cost-effective way when they are released.

If you really want to fight a price war with Sony in the future, cost control has become a very important part.

"Second," Qingzhiyuan continued, "the software library of the game console needs to be converted to use the C language and access to the game engine of pokeni. ”

I don't know if I don't see it, but I'm shocked when I see it.

Qing Zhiyuan also just learned about it, and Sega is still using the assembly to develop.

Therefore, many game manufacturers want to develop games on Sega's console, and the difficulty is not a little bigger, compared to the game library provided by Sony, Sega's game console software development is completely tortured.

However, if you can provide a game engine for Pokeni, it will be completely different, not only convenient and fast, but also very supportive.

In other words, as long as a third party develops a work on DC, they can not only enjoy the powerful performance brought by DC, but also use the powerful engine of P Company for free, and to a certain extent, they can make games of the same level as pokeni.

Then the games that will appear on DC in the future can completely crush PS at least in terms of picture quality.

In terms of game engines, Qingzhiyuan also has its own plans, which seems to be open to third parties for free use, but Pokeni is also constantly iterating.

In other words, when third-party game manufacturers use the Trailblazer 1.0 engine, P is already working on Trailblazer 2.0.

Such a strategy can ensure that P Society's games can at least have a certain generation gap with other games on the market.

The third party has opened the generation gap with the PS game, and pokeni has opened the generation gap with the third party on the DC, and I may not feel that there is anything at first, but after a few iterations, the players' appetite is cultivated and they can't adapt to the [backward] PS at all.

This is called dimensionality reduction strike.

After hearing the news, everyone was mixed feelings.

The happy part is that-

After the game console supports the new development library, and then connects to Pokeni's pioneer engine, it must be good news for third parties, one is to provide great convenience for game development, so that the cost of entry is reduced, and on the other hand, it is also powerful, and the game is naturally more competitive.

The sorrow is, this Nima ...... Although it does not completely push the game console design from scratch, there are many parts that need to be adjusted, and it cannot be completed in a short period of time.

It will take months to say the least, and it will have to be re-docked on the Nvidia side.

No wonder Qing Zhiyuan said that he would postpone it.

It's impossible without an extension, okay?!

Hideki Sato's brows furrowed, and the hardware engineer felt bitter.

"However, you don't have to worry too much, we will also arrange people to work with you on the development side," Aojiyuan introduced, "Chikawa Hongichi, the chief hardware technology officer of pokeni, has previously worked with Sony on the PS, so he should be able to help." ”

Chikawa Hongichi squeezed out an ugly smile, which can be regarded as getting to know everyone again.

The president, this guy, is always transferring people around, so can't I stay in Pokeni with peace of mind?

"So," Qing Zhiyuan continued, adding, "Thirdly, we need to use a twin-joystick controller on DC game consoles, and you don't have to worry about the patent and intellectual property rights of the controller, because pokeni has the corresponding intellectual property rights. ”

The handles are all designed by Qing Zhiyuan, so when I cooperated with Sony for PS, this was clearly stated in the contract.

When you play a 3D action game, it's too painful without a dual-stick controller.

The N64 of Rentianda is already using a single-stick joystick.

Can you believe that today's DC game consoles still use the D-pad?

"Okay president."

Hideki Sato and the others nodded in agreement, they actually found this problem, how could it be smooth when playing Pokeni's games before, but when playing their own games, it was always uncomfortable.

This time, you can use the twin joysticks directly, and the gaming experience will be greatly improved.

"Finally, the Internet access is standard." Qing Zhiyuan continued.

Now the DC game console uses the Internet interface developed by Sega itself, in fact, it is not unified with international standards, and Qingzhiyuan's request for unification is also to prepare for the era of Dalian in the future.

……

After a few hours of discussion, the plan for improving DC was almost decided.

Hideki Sato frowned, indicating that he was not very optimistic.

However, the amount of time the subsequent development process will have to wait for the intervention of Nvidia and Pokeni's engine department to make an assessment.

It took half a year to develop the trial machine, to say the least.

However, in Qing Zhiyuan's view, these preparations are necessary.

Preparing for war is never easy.

The more fully you have, the more chips you have, the easier it will be to fight in the future.

……

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There is one more chapter in the afternoon (end of this chapter)