"240 x 160 resolution!" Yamauchi frowned and asked, "What's the resolution of our screen? I can't remember!"
Yamauchi really couldn't remember. After all, he was old. How could he remember so much detailed data?
Of course, Satoru Iwata remembered, but he didn't dare to say it.
Hence, he remained silent for a full minute.
"Looks like it's not as good as the Daqian's screen!" Yamauchi sighed. "What about the other data? Color, color difference, etc. That bastard reported more than ten data points. There must be one or two areas where our screen is better than theirs!"
During the minute that Satoru Iwata was silent, Boss Jia introduced all the data points of the screen in detail. In fact, other than the resolution, the players couldn't understand the other data points, but that didn't stop them from cheering loudly.
"President, the situation is like this!" Satoru Iwata said helplessly. "The color display is divided according to the generation. Every generation of the display will improve the overall display. Our screen is the third generation, and the Daqian's screen is the fourth generation, so … "
"So our display is not better than the Daqian's!" Yamauchi's face was ashen. Satoru Iwata could only nod helplessly.
That was the truth, and he couldn't do anything about it.
"Then we'll change it. We'll change to the fourth generation display you mentioned!" Yamauchi said sternly.
"But President, the production of the fourth generation display is very limited. Almost all manufacturers are competing for the production of the fourth generation display. For a screen like this, I estimate that the price will be raised by at least 20 USD. We …" Satoru Iwata didn't finish his sentence, but his meaning was obvious.
If they wanted to change the screen, the price of the GBA would increase even more.
"Then let's increase it to 259 USD. It's not that much more expensive than 239 USD! The display is the most important part of a handheld device. If the battery isn't important, then if the display isn't good enough, you'll always be inferior to others! "Yamauchi said.
He wasn't wrong. For example, if a company's flagship phone didn't have a 2k display and a 122Hz refresh rate, would it still be considered a flagship phone? Would they still have the face to sell it for more than 5000 RMB?
Oh, Apple phones didn't count. Even if they didn't have anything, they still sold it for more than 10,000 RMB.
"Hey!" Satoru Iwata felt that something was wrong when he saw the GBA's price increase to 259 USD in the blink of an eye. but he couldn't say anything.
"Hmph, I'd like to see how much that little bro wants to sell it. With Hua Xia's technology, these components, parts, parts, parts, they're parts. at most, they're parts's's assembly.. that's, they're parts parts.. at most, they're parts parts parts parts parts assembly....
... the display display display display the display display display display display display '''s's????????????? After Boss Jia finished speaking, he smiled and took out a brand new game card from his pocket. Looking at the game card, Yamauchi's expression froze. Damn it, why is this card so small? It's only the size of two fingers!
"Oh, right, I forgot to introduce our Thousand Machine Transformation's standard game cartridge!" Boss Jia smiled and introduced the game cartridge. "As we all know, some consoles are limited by their storage capacity. A huge card can only hold up to 64MB. For many large-scale games, this is a huge pity!"
"As for the game cartridges that we use, we use the brand-new flash memory chip storage technology independently developed and manufactured by Daqian Technology. If you don't remember the name, you can call it TF Card!" Boss Jia said with a smile.
"Moreover, there's no limit to the storage capacity of the TF Card. As long as you're willing to spend money, even terabytes of TF Card can theoretically be manufactured!"
"However, considering the cost, we've released a total of 32MB, 64MB, 128MB, 256MB, 512MB, 1024MB, and the highest is 2048MB. Seven different Thousand Machine Transformation game cartridges are available for all game manufacturers to choose from! Everyone can choose the most suitable cartridge capacity according to the needs of your game! "
"The highest capacity is 2GB. That's terrifying!!" Actually, compared to the audience, the game manufacturers were even more shocked.
Now, everyone thought that CDs would replace cartridges. That was because they never thought that a game cartridge could exceed the limit of 100MB, let alone reach the astonishing 2GB capacity!
Moreover, a game didn't need such a huge storage capacity. Was there any game in the world that could exceed 2GB?
Especially when Boss Jia announced that Da Qian's TF format game cartridges could theoretically read at a speed of 24 megabytes per second. On the Thousand Machine Transformation, the maximum reading speed for daily operation could reach 12 megabytes per second, and the maximum reading speed for continuous operation could reach 6 megabytes per second!
This data once again shocked all the game manufacturers. If what Boss Jia said was true, then this TF game cartridge was the most perfect game medium in history. It was even more perfect than CDs.
Although the storage capacity of CDs was huge, there was a limit to CDs. That was the slow reading speed. Currently, the fastest reading speed was only about 500KB/second. This was also the main reason why Nintendo insisted on using cartridges.
Because Nintendo's cartridges could reach 1MB/second, which was twice as fast as CDs, they could have smoother and more efficient graphics than CDs.
It was like copying and pasting something into a USB drive. One would take 20 minutes, and the other would only take 10 minutes. The improvement was visible to the naked eye.
However, Daqian's TF game cartridge had increased the reading speed by 12 times. It reached a maximum reading speed of 12MB/second.
Although this speed was only the highest speed and could not be maintained continuously, the continuous reading speed was still 6 mb/s, which was still 6 times the highest speed of Heavenly Sword. The improvement that this kind of cartridge could bring to the game was almost god-like.
There were many programmers in the audience. The first thing they did was to imagine what it would be like if their game was installed on such a cartridge.
At this moment, they suddenly felt that the changes of light and shadow, particle effects, multi-player movement, and so on were all unattainable fantasies. At this moment, their dreams could come true.
As long as the storage capacity was large enough, the reading speed was fast enough, and the calculation speed was strong enough, they could even imagine GTA 5 on the spot.
"Like I said, cartridges are the future of gaming. CDs can't even be compared to cartridges!" Looking at the cartridge in Daqian's hands, Yamauchi said excitedly.
As one of the most loyal fans of cartridges in the world, Yamauchi couldn't accept the fact that CDs would replace cartridges as the best gaming medium in the future.
But now, with the appearance of the TF cartridge in Daqian's hands, Yamauchi's worries completely disappeared. This made Yamauchi want to shout, "Cartridges are the best in the world!"
But in the next second, Yamauchi's expression froze when he remembered that the card was in someone else's hands. He then asked Satoru Iwata, "Do we have the technology for this TF cartridge?"
"…" Satoru Iwata was also at a loss. He had been paying attention to the advancement of storage technology in the world, but he had never heard of this TF cartridge before!
Nintendo really didn't have this technology!
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