Super Game Empire

After the Spring Festival holiday in 1996, work officially started. This time, a conference was held at the Longteng headquarters in Beijing. All overseas senior executives were present. The main reason was that Yang Yun personally distributed New Year's benefits to enhance the company's cohesion. In addition, there were some important things to explain.

At 7 a.m. on the eighth day of the first lunar month, Yang Yun came to the company's door early. Behind him, Zhao Yongping, Zhang Guoqiang and others were followed by him. Several people carried different travel bags, all of which contained red envelopes with the words "Congratulations on getting rich".

All of the shopping cards from Carrefour are Carrefour, with the amount ranging from 1,000 to 10,000. This is China's first foreign supermarket. It only opened last year, and many people have long wanted to go shopping.

"Aunt Wang! Happy New Year! You came so early to do hygiene? You came before 6 o'clock? Oh, you are so dedicated... This is a red envelope for you, I wish you a happy New Year... You just hold it,

Everyone has it!"

"Captain Qiao, hello! Happy New Year! We will hand over the security work of our Longteng Company to you. The task is arduous! This is a small red envelope, and it doesn't matter. Brothers have it, so I'll send it one by one..."

"Oh! Isn't this Director Qian? Why did you come to the industrial park so early today? Have fun together! Hey, what are you doing? How can I receive your red envelope? Yongping, Zhihong, hurry up and get us

I brought the red envelope! Director Qian devoted his wholehearted efforts to the animation and game industrial park. He always thought about our Longteng company as soon as possible, and he had to give red envelopes! What? I haven't heard of the profits being sent to unmarried people by married people.

I...I don't count!"

Yang Yun had just sent Qian Deliang, the director of the industrial park who came to give him warmth. After a while, the bosses of several companies watching the fun next door rushed over to deliver red envelopes to each other.

They gave Yang Yun the cash bag. Yang Yun also gave them supermarket cards, and it was almost the same as when they entered and went out. In fact, everyone was looking for a festive look, and they were all about hundreds of thousands of yuan in minutes. Who would care about this little money?

When Longteng employees go to work one after another, Yang Yun is busy. The employees he already knows can shake hands and say a few more words, thank you, encourage you, and continue to work hard.

Some of the backward employees whom I didn’t know were Zhao Yongping and Zhang Guoqiang and others behind us to remind Yang Yun that he could also quickly call out his name, care about the progress of R&D, care about family life, and strive to be as beautiful as the spring breeze.

On the first day of the New Year, I received a red envelope from Yang Yun personally. Everyone was excited and full of fighting spirit. The core senior executives came to the conference room to hold the first meeting of this year.

After saying a few words of blessings that suit the situation, Yang Yun entered the topic: "Today I called you from abroad is not just to give everyone a chance to sit together and exchange feelings, but there is also an important decision to announce to everyone.

.This is the decision made by Manager Zhao and I after a detailed discussion. This may be the biggest crisis in the history of our Longteng Entertainment Game Company!”

Seeing Yang Yun’s serious words, everyone put away their smiles and looked at him solemnly.

Yang Yun said: "Nintendo's n64 is not expected. It should be launched at the end of February. Its CPU processing speed is twice that of our SS, and all data seems to be far ahead. However, from what I learned, the matter is not

It’s not simple. Chief Engineer Fang, please explain.”

Fang Jindong pushed his glasses and introduced: "From the public information of N64, we can know that the host uses 64-bit CPU, manufactured by Nec company, and has 4m memory, which is twice as powerful as our SS.

In addition, it also has a specially customized graphics chip. Although the model is not marked, it points out its performance in an ambiguous tone like Sony. For example, the graphics processing has up to 450,000 polygons per second, in fog, water marks, shadows, textures

The 3D processing effect of mapping, light filtering, etc. is even better than PS. We have reason to believe that this is a customized 32-bit GPU.

In this way, n64's calculation speed is 2 times that of ss, and the 3D effect should be better than both ss and PS. In addition, they changed the cassette to cd. My conclusion is that n64 will definitely meet the standards of the next generation of hosts, and its competitiveness is

Quite big!"

Yang Yun coughed and woke up the other people who were in deep thought, saying: "The performance of the 64-bit Su host in our Longteng Laboratory is no worse than that of the N64. In fact, after cooperating with ATI, they plan to use dual 32-bit GPU chips to process 3D graphics in one piece and

Audio function, a piece of processing drawing of all pixels in hardware, Motorola's 64-bit CPU is also the latest technology. In fact, in terms of technology, our Su is even a little ahead of the curve."

These words made everyone feel relieved. Jiang Shaoyun and Xiao Liangyu, the overseas branch managers who have been away from R&D for a long time and focus on marketing, are the most nervous people. What they fear most is that the market is snatched away by competitors, their performance is not good, and the market share is occupied by the market.

The decline in the rate is the most embarrassing thing!

"But..." Yang Yun's divine twist came. He looked around for a week, looked at everyone's faces, and calmly said his decision: "I don't plan to let Su officially go on the market to show off n64!"

What!

A stone caused a thousand layers of waves, and the ones that were most affected were Jiang Shaoyun and Xiao Liangyu.

"Mr. Yang! Isn't this... not let Nintendo develop? We don't care about it?" Jiang Shaoyun was the first to question. If he really wanted to do this, how could his work be carried out?

"In Europe, many old customers have suggested that the graphics processing effect of 32-bit SS is actually not very satisfactory. They are already tired of pixels and mosaics in 3D games. Many people hope that Longteng will produce 64-bit as soon as possible.

The console is remade with better results." Xiao Liangyu looked sad: "If Su is not listed, wouldn't n64 have obtained these high-end players? No opponents?"

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

Yang Yun called out and signaled Zhang Guoqiang to speak. He said around his head: "I can only explain the situation from a technical perspective. Releasing Su will increase our workload by at least twice as much, make Su development packages, and train programmers for game suppliers,

At the same time, we cannot put down the game on the SS platform. We must 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 will be from the upstream hardware laboratory, to the midstream hardware manufacturers, and then to the downstream game software supply.

The business, everything must be moved, and one move will move the whole body. Of course, there are benefits to issue su, and it is also benefits not to issue su. Mr. Yang must have his own reasons!"

Yang Yunlei said: "Why, don't you care about it? All of you give me the pressure? Well, listen to my explanation why you have to make this decision. After n64 comes out, can it really destroy the entire high-end market?

Let’s analyze it. First, when n64 is listed, who is the first to jump out to object?”

Sony!

This is the answer given by everyone at the same time, Sony will never give up!

Yan Xiong Inoue smiled and said, "The first one to jump out was definitely Sony. Although Sony and Nintendo shared the game supplier directory, Sony could not easily let those people make games for Nintendo. This is called...

”

"Fight in the nest!" Yang Yun took the conversation with a smile and said, "After the internal strife, Sony promises to be more anxious than us. Namco is about to produce "Rider Racing 2". You said it is better to publish it on the pseudo 3D PS platform.

, would it be better to publish it on the real 3d n64 platform? I think Namco will have a headache, Nintendo will have a headache, and Sony will have a headache, right?"

Everyone laughed, because Yang Yun said nothing, Namco would hesitate because of Nintendo's low market share, Nintendo would be troubled by the difficulty of winning over Namco, Sony was afraid of worrying that Namco would really make the n64 version

, For each of the three parties, life will definitely be difficult!

Yang Yun continued: "Rider Racing is just an example. When we first took over Sega, the situation was very similar to that of Nintendo now. More than 80% of the games on the market are FC platforms. Our 16-bit md finally entered

It took more than a year for North America to turn the situation around and gain a foothold. It was not other game providers, but ourselves!”

This is very philosophical. Relying on the sky, the earth, and others, you will never be as reliable as yourself. Most of the classic games on md are provided by Longteng, which is to use these classic games to grab the market and slowly attract other people.

After joining the game production company, more and more younger brothers under his command, he surpassed Nintendo in the second and third year.

Now, Nintendo plans to rely on their public game providers with Sony, which is unreliable unless they make a large number of vanguard games that charge themselves, such as "3d Super Mary" and "3d Legend of Zelda"

》, well, there is also a 3D Tetris!

Then what?

No, Nintendo's R&D strength has shrunk greatly in the past two years, and many R&D teams have been disbanded and poached. There are probably not many people who can really take the lead. Their core strength is all concentrated on hardware research and development. How capable can software have

?You can imagine it!

After figuring this out, everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief. Without sufficient quantity and high-quality game support, n64 may become popular for two or three months, no one will be willing to buy new games.

Who would like to spend $50 to buy a junk game?

Jiang Shaoyun asked again: "What if Nintendo adopts the same tactics as Sony, invites other game suppliers in the form of open source or high-priced bribery, and uses huge amounts to seize the market?"

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ps: This book is about the number of CPU bits of the host. Everything is based on reality, which is familiar to everyone. The manufacturers promote, such as n64 is 64 bit, ps2 is 128 bit (actually a 32 bit architecture CPU, the difference is

128-bit instruction set, front-end bus, etc. This book will not discuss the specific architecture and performance parameters of CPU in depth. Chapter 450 with ambiguity has also been modified) (To be continued...)