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When I heard the music of "Sonic the Hedgehog", the audience was boiling.

Today's performance is both ordinary and peculiar for the whole world, and it has extraordinary significance.

Sega carries the memories of a generation, especially Sonic the Hedgehog, the first game developed by Sega to fight against Mario the Paradise, and was a huge success in North Mi, and it was Sonic the Hedgehog that gave players a taste of what an exciting, tense, and cool side-scrolling experience is.

The brain is strongly stimulated, and dopamine and endorphins are secreted throughout the process.

That's the impact Sega has had on the world, and as they say in their slogan, if Rentendo games are for kids, then Sega's games are for teenagers.

It's more exciting, cooler, and gives players the thrill and adrenaline rush of the game.

This is Sega.

But this is the kind of Sega, in the past two years, the news has not been very optimistic, which has made countless players feel a little worried, afraid that this company will not survive.

Not long ago, after Qingzhiyuan acquired Sega, it also terminated the production of Saturn game consoles, which made the hearts of Sega players fall to the bottom all of a sudden.

But this time, today, in the middle of the scene-

When the music of "Sonic the Hedgehog" sounded, the audience's doubts were instantly dispelled.

Sega is no longer the same Sega, but it doesn't look like anything has changed.

It was really touching to hear the music of Sonic the Hedgehog live.

……

The memories were awakened, and I was moved when I played Sega games.

After conducting and playing "Sonic the Hedgehog", Yuzo Gu played "Iron Fist of Fury", "Sakura Wars" and "VR Warrior" one after another......

After the performance, there was silence.

After a while, everyone reacted and stood up and applauded.

"I was so impressed that I thought I was here to listen to Pokeni's concert, but I didn't expect to hear Sega's concert."

"Ah...... It's really moving, it's full of memories, I remember when I played Sonic the Hedgehog 8 years ago, when I was crazy with my classmates to play this game. ”

"Sonic the Hedgehog on the Sega GP handheld is also a classic game, I bought a new handheld for Sonic the Hedgehog back then, and later found out that there is such a surprise as Pokémon."

"Hmm...... What to do has an urge to cry. Listening to Sega's music in the live today, it shouldn't be a swan song, right? ”

"Impossible, right?"

……

There was a pause in applause.

Qing Zhiyuan invited Mr. Yuzo Gu and the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra on the stage.

"Thank you, Mr. Yuzo Furu, and thank you to the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra. I hope to be able to see you here this time next year. ”

Hahaha......

Everyone at the scene had happy smiles on their faces.

As if this was not a simple wish, but a promise, at this moment, everyone was willing to believe Qing Zhiyuan's words.

The young president has brought so many wonderful and surprising things to the audience and the whole world.

"Wonderful and exciting, this is Sega."

Qing Zhiyuan let out a sigh.

Back in the middle of the stage, he glanced up at the audience below, and then said silently:

"Some time ago, we stopped production of the Sega Saturn."

When everyone heard this, a trace of expression flashed on their faces.

Although it is true that Saturn's machines are not as good as PS, and there are many fewer games on it, so many powerful third-party games have chosen the PS platform instead of Sega Saturn.

However, when they really heard that Saturn was out of production, everyone was also a little uncomfortable.

This feeling is like the twilight of heroes and the fall of the god of war.

Although you may feel that he is no longer good now, that he is dying and old, and that he can't even lift a knife, when you look up at his majestic body, you will still see his past glory.

It turns out that heroes are still heroes, and all the glory that has been experienced before is like the fall of a star at this moment, which can't help but make people sad.

"But that doesn't mean the end."

Qing Zhiyuan raised his voice and pulled everyone's pessimism back.

On the contrary, death is a sign of new life. We will meet again when the curtain ends. ”

"After saying goodbye to the past, Sega will embark on a new journey."

At this moment, a beam of light hit Qing Zhiyuan's body, making him look so dazzling, like moonlight illuminating the starry sky.

"Everyone, please allow me to introduce you to Sega's new console-

Dreamcast！ ”

"Wow!!"

When I heard the word "new host", the scene was all boiling!

"Huh?! What do you mean?! Did I hear me right? Sega's new console?! ”

"Really? After Pokeni acquired Sega, instead of cutting the R&D department, it was about to launch a new game console?! ”

"Woo woo, I really cried to death, to be honest, when I heard the news that Saturn was gone, my whole heart fell to the freezing point, and I didn't want to fight that there was a new host!"

"Pokeni is good, damn Qing Zhiyuan, I almost didn't scare my heart attack."

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When the DC game console was brought to the stage by Hideki Sato, the head of Sega's game console development department, everyone couldn't help but light up.

Because this new console is so good-looking:

The DC exterior presents a unique design, with the main unit being white as a whole, resembling a flat cylinder in shape, with a raised section above that resembles a "hat" or "lid".

There is a handle socket in front of the main unit, and there is a row of indicators above it to show the status of the main unit. There are AV interfaces, power interfaces, etc. behind the main unit.

It looks particularly futuristic and has a different color from all the consoles released by Sega in the past, but this time the Sega DC has a pure white design, giving it a warm and bright feeling.

Just when you see the game console come out, your mood suddenly becomes happy.

……

In fact, not only the audience in the audience was nervous, but also Hideki Sato on stage.

Because he knows very well in his heart that the DC machine shown here today and the one that will be released in the future are fundamentally two different things, although there is not much change in appearance, but there will be a big difference in function.

However, Qing Zhiyuan just smiled at him, saying that there was no need to be so nervous, everything was up to me.

Hideki Sato took a deep breath and stood to the side, ready to wait for Qing Zhiyuan to say the following process.

"Dreamcast, Spread the Dream."

Qing Zhiyuan took a deep breath, "The original purpose of our development of this game console was to hope that it could become a medium that could spread dreams, so that players all over the world could feel the designers' intentions, love for games, and their dreams in games.

At the same time, spreading the dream itself is also our dream. ”

Qing Zhiyuan spoke eloquently, which made countless audiences very moved.

But Hideki Sato stood next to him and thought-

The young president is a showman, and he is not ashamed at all, and our game console was developed before you acquired Sega.

If anything, it's our dream.

Qing Zhiyuan said: Isn't everyone a family now?

I inherited the dream of Sega, so isn't it my dream to spread the dream?

……

"The Dreamcast is definitely the most competitive console out there, with a 64-bit processor and the new GeForce 2X chip tailored to our needs."

The camera shows Huang below, who smiled politely.

In fact, Lao Huang himself is also very puzzled,We just colluded with the research and development needs of game consoles not long ago,Although the design here is really fast,But it's not so fast.,You can get on the game console?

However, Qing Zhiyuan had already communicated with him before he came, so Lao Huang also knew very well in his heart that today was just a [no physical performance].

He just needs to show his face and show his support, and when the time comes, he will be able to catch up when the DC console is officially released.

So Huang is also performing dutifully.

In short, several people present are actors.

For Huang, this can be regarded as propaganda in disguise for NVIDIA, so why not?

Qingzhiyuan talked about the performance of the DC game console, and the more the audience listened, the more surprised and excited they became.

The console configuration alone is already remarkable, whether it is the central processing unit or the 3D graphics processor it carries, as well as various supporting equipment, it is the most advanced at the moment, and it can be seen directly from the numbers alone, DC game consoles are at least twice as advanced as the PS.

It not only has the world's fastest information exchange and processing capabilities, powerful data processing capabilities, but also has the most advanced 3D graphics support.

Such a game machine can definitely be called the best in the world.

The representatives of many game manufacturers below were amazed, and the first thought that came to everyone's minds was-

It's time for a new generation again.

If Sony didn't respond in a short period of time, but gave Sega such an opportunity, even if it was only for a year, this gap would be enough for Sega to occupy the console market.

Kutaragi Ken, who was sitting at the bottom, was also confused, and even extremely nervous.

At this moment, in addition to the pure white game console on the stage, there is only one picture in his brain-

The cool dressed, beautiful lines, cool and sassy 2B young lady lingered, as if it was deeply imprinted in his brain.

Even though more than a year has passed, it is as if Ken Kutaragi had only seen the 3D model that Qing Zhiyuan showed him yesterday.

He swallowed silently - this time Sega's DC function could support this extent, right?

At the same time, Kutaragi Ken's heart was also remorseful to death.

If I had known, I should have followed Qing Zhiyuan's advice at the beginning, not to mention whether the performance of the game console should be improved to the extent that it can support 2B, at least it should have entered the research and development preparations earlier.

The reason why the company didn't do this is that it is too careless, thinking that after defeating Sega, the entire game console market will be stable.

In this way, next year will definitely be a vacuum period, and we can only watch Sega use DC machines to conquer the city.

"In order to give you a more accurate idea of how far Dreamcast can go, we will show you the latest game developed by Sega, [Shenmue]."

After Qing Zhiyuan finished speaking, Hideki Sato and Yu Suzuki next to him were nervously debugging.

The current Shenmue is actually a semi-finished product, and with this DC game console that has been eliminated internally, the two of them are actually very panicked.

However, when the game Shenmue appeared on the big screen in the back, all the audience at the scene were stunned.

Because Shenmue directly exerts the performance of the game console to an extreme, so that the current 3D effect presents a more refined and surreal effect that is closer to the real world.

In the screen, the male protagonist is wearing a stand-up collar light grass velvet jacket, and a pair of close-fitting jeans underneath, the texture and fine hair on the coat are clearly visible.

The faces of the male and female protagonists are softer than in previous 3D games, with more faces, and they are closer to real people.

Sword eyebrows and starry eyes, with beautiful muscle lines all over the body.

When demonstrating the action, it also gives players the feeling that they are watching a live-action 3D animated movie.

And the male protagonist walks through the city streets, some street scenes, neon signs on the road, passing vehicles, talking NPCs, etc., all give people a sense of familiarity.

It's hard to imagine that this is a game.

Everyone was stunned by the visual performance.

The first impression of Shenmue is that you have traveled back in time from the future.

Compared to the games of the same era, it can be said that it is completely crushed, and compared to the "Tomb Raider" that was still shown yesterday, Shenmue's graphics are simply not too good.

The 3D modeling is also very delicate, which directly shocked everyone's eyes.

Yu Suzuki explained while demonstrating, "The Shenmue game that you see now has not yet been fully developed, and it is just our prototype, and it is expected to be this time next year when we officially meet you." ”

"What?!"

There was an expression of disbelief on everyone's faces, such a powerful game screen is actually just a half-finished product?

How good will it be after the development is completed?

But they soon understood—

The semi-finished product mentioned by Yu Suzuki is only in terms of the completion of the game, and maybe there will be no changes in the graphics and character modeling.

But even if it's just the effect that everyone has seen so far, it's shocking enough.

Compared with the previous characters on the market that seem to have obvious outline lines and thick shapes like building blocks, the character design appearance shown in Sega's Shenmue game is really beautiful in the game.

This is beyond the scope of what everyone knows about 3D.

If it weren't for pokeni's clever production of "Princess Mononoke" before, using animation rendering to achieve the 2D effect in 3D, I'm afraid it would have been crushed by Shenmue by now.

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"It's so strong!" Kutaragi Ken let out a sigh, speechless in shock.

And the others probably had similar expressions.

"It's terrible, Sega's new console, which is already far more than Sony's PlayStation, right?"

"Obviously, just by looking at Shenmue's expressiveness, you can know it, this light and shadow effect, character modeling, is not something that PS can bring at all.

Sony's PS console is a notch off. ”

"It's amazing, it's worthy of Sega's broken work, after Qing Zhiyuan took over, can he actually do it to such an extent?"

"Well, and it's just a game that Sega made itself to adapt to DC, and I'm eager to see how far Pokeni's game can play with the performance of the DC machine."

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Qing Zhiyuan smiled, indicating that they were half right.

What the current DC machine shows is just the original Sega design.

The performance of the console has not yet met his requirements, and the performance of this game console will be further improved after the new design is changed and Nvidia's next-generation graphics cards are used.

According to Huang's law, it is to increase the effect by 2 times in terms of performance and function.

In terms of technology, Pokeni has software design capabilities beyond the times, and after the Pioneer Engine 2.0 comes out, the performance of the entire game will be greatly improved.

"Dreamcast not only has the most powerful hardware capabilities, but also has other functions," Qing Zhiyuan said with a smile, "Everyone knows that this is the era of the Internet.

In the future, the Internet will be spread all over the world.

In the future, if people communicate and communicate through the Internet, it may only take a few seconds to travel from Tokyo to Atlanta.

So in order to better spread the dream, we have added a network adapter to the DC game console, which uses the international standard interface, to a certain extent, DC is not just a game console, it can also surf the Internet, can communicate.

But it's better for gaming than for PC. ”

“……”

After the introduction of Qingzhiyuan, the deeper everyone understands Dreamcast, the stronger the shock.

It's horrible, this console.

Although some of them were empty checks issued by Qing Zhiyuan, which could not be demonstrated at the scene, there was no way for everyone to debunk this.

Qing Zhiyuan said that this operation was learned from Sony, and everything is possible before the game console is fully released.

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Now, there is only one question that everyone is most concerned about.

Such a powerful game console was blown to the sky by Qing Zhiyuan, and it also showed an expressive power that surpassed PS in the scene, from the hardware parameters to the actual performance effect, it is enough to show that it is the world's first game machine.

But—

It's so powerful, won't it be expensive?!

"About the selling price of the console."

Qing Zhiyuan smiled slightly, raised the microphone in his hand, and said softly:

“249！ Dollar! ”

Whoa......

As soon as this number was reported, there was an uproar below!!

Everyone was shocked.

At this price, it is even lower than the 299 released by Sony's PS!

And much lower!

"What?! Such a high-performance game console is only $249?! ”

"How is this possible?!"

"There must be something wrong with my ears!"

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There is another chapter in the evening (end of this chapter)