"Mr. Jia, if Daqian is willing to join Sony's console lineup, we will agree to any conditions!" Nobuyuki Idei was very dedicated to his job. Although he knew that it was impossible, he still tried his best to say it.
"You know, one billion USD …" Boss Jia poked his finger. Ikei Nobuyuki's expression froze, and then he said, "As far as I know, the only game that has such a contract is Pokemon. We can cooperate on other games, that's not a problem at all!"
"Hahaha!" Boss Jia could not help but laugh. "If that is the case, then we have nothing more to talk about!"
"Mr. Jia!" Nobuyuki Idei said sternly, "Nintendo's F&C game console has been developed for more than ten years. Although there have been several new versions, it's still the same configuration from more than ten years ago. How can such a game console keep up with the development of the times?"
"Later, you will see how powerful the PS console developed by Sony is. I believe you will know whose side the world is on!"
"Oh!" Boss Jia nodded and laughed. "Then I will wait and see!"
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The banquet hall at Sony's headquarters was bustling with noise and excitement. In the small banquet hall, there were about 300 seats arranged in rows. These seats were filled with reporters and people from all over the world. All of them had arrived at the banquet hall.
More than half of them had blonde hair and blue eyes.
At the same time, in the middle of the banquet hall, there was a black stage. There were three projectors showing Sony's logo and PowerPoint slides. This was the first generation Sony PS console launch event.
At 14 pm, music started to play in the banquet hall. Then, a video appeared on the projector in the middle of the banquet hall. A man and a woman appeared on the video, one in black and one in white.
This video was in English. It showed Sony's first electronic product, the Sony radio, then Sony black and white TV, Sony small TV, Sony color TV, Sony VCR, Sony Walkman, Sony sports headphones, Sony portable DV, Sony CD player, Sony CD player, Sony CD-ROM, and finally, Sony TV antenna. This video showed Sony's development and innovation in the field of media and electronic products.
Seeing this, Boss Jia had to admit that Sony was a great company. Sony's achievements and capabilities in the multimedia electronics industry were unrivaled. At the same time, Sony had a strong foundation. Boss Jia was envious of Sony's foundation and admired Sony from the bottom of his heart.
"It's a pity that this company is still my opponent. I will crush them without mercy!" Boss Jia rubbed his nose and sighed in his heart.
At this time, the promotional video was still going on. The video showed all sorts of popular movies and TV shows. At the end of the video, the man in black and the woman in white asked the same question. Sony had reached the pinnacle in the field of media. What's the next step?
"In game." This was the answer given by the video. It meant "In game!"
At this time, Sony had unveiled their launch event. They were going to introduce a gaming console!
Countless enthusiastic applause and cheers instantly rang out from the crowd. It seemed that everyone was shocked by this news.
In fact, many of the guests were calm. This was because they already knew this would happen. Sony had wanted to enter the gaming console industry for a long time. They had even worked with Nintendo to develop a gaming console. But it failed in the end.
The day for Sony to enter the gaming console industry had finally arrived!
After the applause, the executives of Sony went on stage to introduce their gaming console. It was worth mentioning that the first to go on stage were all blonde foreigners. There was not a single Fusangpeople in sight. Sony was truly international!
"Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Sony's press conference. I believe everyone had seen the promotional video earlier. Today, Sony will be introducing a new gaming console!"
"Why do you say that this is a brand new game console? Because this console will be different from the traditional gaming consoles. This represents the arrival of a new era of gaming consoles. Because of our console, let me keep everyone in suspense. Everyone, please take a look at the development of gaming consoles! "
Next, the host started to introduce the entire gaming console industry. From console games to PC games, then from PC games to gamers.
At the end, the host asked a question. Where is the next era of the gaming console industry?
Then, the Sony gaming console finally unveiled its mysterious mask and appeared in front of all the players.
It was the first generation of PS console.
Next, the host started to boast about the performance of this PS console.
"First, our PS console has an unimaginable computing speed. It is up to 30 MB/s!"
"Secondly, our PS gaming world has an unimaginable amount of memory. The total memory is as high as 28 MB. The main RAM memory is 16 MB, the display memory is 8 MB, and the audio memory is 4 MB. The amount of storage space is unimaginable!"
Boss Jia remembered clearly that when the host announced these figures, the audience screamed. It was as if these figures were shocking.
Well, in 1994, this was indeed an unimaginable number. After all, the F&C game console that dominated the game market only had 4 kilobytes of internal storage and display memory.
The PS console's RAM was up to 24MB. It was 6,000 times more than the FC console. This was shocking.
Logically speaking, if Sony had used the same strategy as those Chinese companies in the future, and used FC Games' data for comparison, the effect would be much better!
Then, the display resolution was up to 480P.
The development environment was C language. It had a rich library of functions and was easy to develop.
The command reading speed was up to 4kB per second, and the data on the hard drive was up to 1kB per second.
The host introduced even more data on the spot, but he wouldn't list them one by one here. In any case, it was awesome!
In the end, the host announced the most important feature of Photoshop, which was that the storage module it used was no longer a cartridge, but a CD disc. Such a CD disc had a hundred times more storage capacity than a cartridge, and it could store a larger amount of games.
Everyone had to admit that PS console was an outstanding console. If not, it would not be able to create such an uproar in the audience.
The biggest feature of the PS game console was its superior image processing ability. The PS was equipped with a dedicated 3D processor, which made the image processing speed as high as 30 MIPS. It could perform 360,000 calculations per second. The 3D chip of the PS was a standard chip dedicated to advanced graphics workstations. It was the mainframe with the strongest image processing ability among the game consoles of the sub-era.
To be honest, the PC at that time did not have a display card that could match the 3D chip of the PS. The only thing that could match the PS was the advanced computer at the workstation level. The PS's working principle was also the workstation's working principle, that is, the image processing work was handed over to a special "3D Geometry Auxiliary Processor" (GPU), and the CPU focused on the data calculation work.
It was not until a few years later, the rise of professional graphics cards, that PC had better display than consoles. If not, why would the gamers of that era be so obsessed with consoles? It was because of the better display!
[PS: The content of the above press conference is based on the video uploaded by Bilibili's uploader, Cloud Gamer. < 1995 E3 Sony First Generation PS Console Release >. Although this is not the first generation PS Console released in Japan, you can still see the shadow of the first generation PS Console. If you are interested, please take a look. BV number is: BV1Cs411i7]
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