Rebirth 1984: Starting from the development of Hanka

Chapter 177 Popular in Japan, slapping MD (4.2k)

Wang Jizhi smiled, looked around at everyone, and continued: "Next, I will focus on introducing "Tomahawk". "

"First of all, "Tomahawk" is a 16-bit home game console, using the Kirin 2 processor designed by Wujiang Group!Its operation speed has reached 8 MIPS.In other words, "Tomahawk" can process 800 million machine language instructions per second!The high-speed computing cache of the CPU is 4KB. "

"Secondly, the Tomahawk has a special integrated graphics card, but our company calls it a GPU, ie: Graphics Processing Unit!Its maximum hair color number is: 16 colors (777-bit true color), and the display resolution is: 216×24 to 256×224 pixels! "

Many people in the audience were a little confused after listening to it, and didn't know what was going on...Anyway, the more incomprehensible you are, the more awesome you will appear.

However, people in the industry are very aware of the power of these data, and they can't help showing shock on their faces.

At this time, Wang Jizhi deliberately paused, coughed twice, to attract everyone's attention, and then said loudly: "Everyone, what I'm going to say next is the biggest feature of the "Tomahawk".It is different from other brands of home game consoles. It no longer has a game cassette interface, but replaced it with a CD-ROM drive, that is, an optical drive.Game cassettes only have a storage capacity of tens of MB, while CD-ROMs have a storage capacity of about 600MB.This allows Wujiang Game Company to make large-scale games more calmly and conveniently! "

Wang Jizhi paused, smiled slightly, and asked, "A game with dozens of MB or a game with [-] or [-] MB, which game do you think is more well-made?"

Generally speaking, of course, games with a few hundred MB are more well-made.

People also think so in their subconscious. After all, a game with several hundred MB takes a long time to make, so of course it needs to be better.

At this time, the guests at the press conference were all shocked.

You should know that in the era of 8-bit game consoles, the size of game software is usually only a few tens of KB, or a few MB. Games with more than ten MB are considered relatively large games.

However, when the "Tomahawk" game console came out, it directly gave you hundreds of megabytes of games. Are you shocked?

Regardless of whether the game is fun or not, people will subconsciously think that a game with such a large capacity must be awesome and fun!

The audience immediately became noisy.

The players who watched the live broadcast couldn't stop their excitement, and they were full of anticipation for the new game that Wujiang will release soon!

Of course, there are joys and sorrows for some.

Competitors such as Nintendo and Sega were about to faint in the toilet.

This is no longer a normal competition. It is completely because our company's products are being beaten by Wujiang's "Tomahawk"!

"This...how is it possible???" Yamauchi Hiroshi looked decadent.

Wujiang Group was the first to release a 16-bit home game console before Nintendo, but it never expected that the design of "Tomahawk" would be so advanced and bold, even using CD-ROM technology.

However, Nintendo's 16-bit game console SFC (Super Famicom) is still stuck in the game cartridge era, and the size of the game is at most tens of MB.

"It's over, sfc died before it started, and it can't compete with the "Tomahawk" game console at all! ! ! "Shannei Pu yelled, heartbroken.

Right now, if sfc is released, it will definitely disappoint countless players.

If Nintendo wants to regain the dominance of home consoles, it must also develop a console with an optical drive!
However, this basically amounts to redesigning a console.

Without a year or two, Nintendo simply can't launch a product.

After such a long time, the day lily is completely cool.

The "Tomahawk" home game console of Wujiang Game Company has already occupied the market...

At this moment, Hiroshi Yamauchi felt very hopeless, with gray hair and a late hero.

Like watching "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", he couldn't help thinking of a sentence: He Shengyu, He Shengliang.

At this time, he couldn't help feeling: "Since it was born in Nintendo, why was it born in Boundless?!"

"Puff".

The person fainted, and the high blood pressure came up, causing Hiroshi Yamauchi to feel dizzy and black-eyed, and fell to the ground.

This scene shocked everyone...

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All the executives of Sega gathered together to watch the live broadcast of the press conference of Wujiang Game Company.

Everyone's expressions were very serious and melancholy.

Wujiang's "Tomahawk" hangs Sega MD. If this ax goes down, Sega MD may say "goodbye" to the market.

"Don't panic, Wujiang Group uses the latest optical drive technology, but as far as I know, the speed of the optical drive is very slow, only 150KB/S. We use game cartridges much faster than it, and I have the advantage!" At this time , an engineer suddenly shouted excitedly.

Everyone heard the words and immediately reacted.

"That's right, the speed is only 150KB/S. It would take a lot of effort to change to a large map. If you play games, it will definitely not be very smooth!"

"That's right, Ichiro Ono is right, we still have an advantage!"

Everyone comforted themselves at this time.

Back at the press conference, Wang Jizhi signaled everyone to be quiet, and then introduced: "At present, the speed of optical drives is generally only 150KB/S. If it is used to read large-scale games, the speed is a bit slow. However, after our developers With our improvements, the CD drive has now been sped up to a quadruple speed drive!!!”

As soon as the words fell, I saw that the office of Sega Company suddenly became silent, everyone looked at each other, very embarrassed, and a heavy atmosphere permeated the room...

"I didn't expect Wujiang Group to be so powerful that it has improved the optical drive by 4 times. As far as I know, even the inventors of CD, Philips and Sony, the speed of the optical drive they developed is only 150KB/S." Ichiro Ono said in a low voice , to defend himself.

At this moment, the executives of Sony and Philips were also watching Wujiang's press conference. They never expected that Wujiang Group would go ahead of them and develop a quadruple-speed optical drive, and they all felt incredible.

The inventor of this technology is not as good as outsiders, which is embarrassing.

Wang Jizhi approached the big screen behind him, pointed at the photo, and introduced: "Look, there is a CD drive in the center of the top, open the cover upward, and there is a round button on the right side of the cover, press it to open the cover. There are two round buttons, one big and one small, on the left side of the optical drive cover. The big button is the power button, which is responsible for switching on and off. The small button is the hot reset button. There are two handle sockets on the front, and each handle socket is equipped with memory Card socket. Right behind is the socket for AV cable and power cable, and the socket for AV cable will also increase or decrease depending on each model.”

"Oh, by the way, our Tomahawk home console can also be used as a music CD player, it can play music CDs.Like most CD players, the Tomahawk has the ability to shuffle CD songs, play songs in order, repeat a single song, or repeat an entire CD, which is very powerful..."

Good guy, once this remark came out, it brought a big surprise to everyone. Now not only gamers want to buy the "Tomahawk" game console, but even music lovers want to buy the "Tomahawk" game console.

In fact, if Wujiang Group wants to, it can also make "Tomahawk" play VCD video, just install an MPEG-1 decoder on the motherboard of "Tomahawk".

However, Zhao Ye did not intend to do so.

If the first-generation "Tomahawk" has too many functions, how can it be updated in the future, and how can it surprise consumers.

Therefore, the first generation of "Tomahawk" only has game functions and music functions, but even so, it is enough to shock the world.

Besides, if you sell both "Tomahawk" and VCD, wouldn't you earn two shares?

As a big capitalist, Zhao Ye can still tell the difference.

Of course, the most critical factor is that the current competitors are not strong enough for Wujiang Group.

Many of Nintendo's classic games have been cut off, and their influence and strength are far from enough to compete with Wujiang Group.

In Zhao Ye's view, a company that can wrestle with Wujiang must meet at least two conditions. One must have strong technology, and the other must have huge capital.

In the future, Sony should be the confidant of Wujiang.

With Sony and Nintendo teaming up, that's going to be tricky.

In the previous life, Nintendo cooperated with Sony to develop CD game consoles in 1989. However, due to this cooperation, Nintendo will lose the initiative, so it chose to terminate the contract and continue to develop game cassettes.Sony thought to itself, if you don't cooperate with me, then I will do it alone, and I will have the later PS1. game console.From falling in love to killing each other, Nintendo and Sony can be said to have staged an epic and soul-stirring business war.

But this life is not clear. After all, Nintendo is not in a good position at this time. If it wants to win the market, it is best to cooperate with Sony to develop CD game consoles.

At the press conference, Wang Jizhi successively showed many games, including "Pokemon II: The Classic of Mountains and Seas", "Dragon Quest II: Gods of Evil", "The Legend of Zelda II: Link's Adventure" ", "Final Fantasy II", "Calabash Brothers II: Prehistoric Gourd Vine", "Metal Slug", "Sonic", "Crash Bandicoot".

It can make the players very excited.

They want to play every game.

At this time, Wang Jizhi smiled and said: "This product launch, Wujiang Game Company has brought a huge surprise to all game players. There are more than 40 games in total, which are guaranteed to make players very happy to play, even if it is You won’t get tired of playing for a whole year!!!”

Then, Wang Jizhi finally announced the price of the "Tomahawk" home game console.

"In the Japanese market, the uniform retail price of the "Tomahawk" home game console is 35000 yen, and the price of the game disc ranges from 2500 yen to 3000 yen! "

"From [-] o'clock tomorrow morning, the "Tomahawk" game console and game disc will be officially launched throughout Japan! ! ! "

Immediately, Wang Jizhi announced the end of the product launch.

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After the press conference of Wujiang products, the player groups took action one after another.

Although the "Tomahawk" will not be launched until tomorrow, many game fans are preparing to line up today, wanting to snap up the game console as soon as possible.

Otherwise, if the "Tomahawk" game console is sold out, I don't know when I will be able to grab it.

Since the afternoon, there has been a long queue at the Wujiang flagship store. The key point is that they did not enter the store to buy anything, but waited in line to buy the "Tomahawk" game console tomorrow.

A group of passing melon-eating people were stunned when they heard the news.

In the middle of the night, the chill was overwhelming.

Tents stand impressively outside the door of the Wujiang flagship store, which is truly breathtaking!

Not far away, Japanese media reporters also stayed with these crazy game fans all night.

"It's crazy!!! Ever since I grew up, Hashimoto Duji, I have never seen so many people queuing up in the cold late night, setting up tents, just to buy a game console!!!" A middle-aged reporter sighed No end, there was an incredible look on his face.

Isn't it just a game console?
Why are there so many people queuing up?
In fact, only games can be so attractive.

Because, when game fans think of these new games, their hearts itch and they can't help but want to play.

Otherwise, why many people compare games to electronic viruses.

People who don't play games, of course, can hardly understand these people who are addicted to games.

Zhao Ye was also obsessed with games for a while, and even stayed up late playing games.

Even he is like this, let alone others.

Come to think of it, there is no one in this world who doesn't like playing games.

The reporters took pictures of this scene in the middle of the night, and then passed it on to newspapers or TV stations. Presumably, such explosive news could attract a large number of readers or viewers.

8 am.

The Wujiang flagship store opens on time.

A group of players entered the store in an orderly manner under the command of the staff.

Akira Ishikawa walked into the flagship store, and immediately told the shopper that he wanted to buy a "Tomahawk" as well as "Pokemon II: The Classic of Mountains and Seas", "Dragon Quest II: Gods of Evil", "The Legend of Zelda II: Link's Adventure", "Metal Slug", "Sonic".

He actually wanted to buy more games, but his wallet was empty.

This is the pocket money he has saved for more than half a year, and it is all spent now.

Ishikawa Mingrui walked out of the flagship store with a big bag in his hand. The sun was shining like a bath, and he felt warm all over his body, dispelling the fatigue of staying up late last night.

Catch up on sleep? no.

As soon as Ishikawa Mingrui got home, he played the game excitedly.

People like him abound.

On this day, "Tomahawk" and games on this game console platform became popular throughout Japan.

On that day, Wujiang sold 112 million "Tomahawk" game consoles and 560 million game CDs.

At this moment, the sales volume of Sega MD is only 55 units, but it took two months.

Wujiang "Tomahawk" broke through 100 million in just one day, and the gap between the two is really too big.

What makes Sega even more aggrieved is that the price of the "Tomahawk" game console is 35000 yen, while the price of Sega MD is only more than 2 yen, a difference of more than 1 yen.

but……

Unexpectedly, he couldn't sell the other party!

Is this annoying?Are you wronged?

When Wujiang Game Company announced the sales of "Tomahawk" on the first day of its launch, the whole of Japan was shocked.

The industry has even expressed cooperation intentions to Wujiang Game Company.

Obviously, "Tomahawk" is more popular than "Qongqi" game console, and the reputation of "Tomahawk" is far higher than that of "Qongqi". It is not difficult to speculate that "Tomahawk" will soon become popular all over the world!
Right now, the total sales volume of "Qongqi" is as high as 1.54 million units.

"Tomahawk" may break this sales volume! !

Hurry up and get on the boat, the sooner you get on the "Tomahawk", the more you will earn.

Third-party game developers are excited.

Of course, the reason why they are so happy is that "Tomahawk" is a CD game machine, which means that the previous game cartridges cannot be compatible with "Tomahawk".

Many third-party game developers can directly port their old games to "Tomahawk" and sell them for another round. It is not easy to make money.

So, can these third-party game developers be unhappy?
(End of this chapter)