Chapter 494 398 Spreading Dreams Is Our Dream

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When hearing the music of "Sonic the Hedgehog", the whole audience was excited.

Today's performance is both ordinary and strange, and has extraordinary significance to the whole world.

Sega carries the memories of a generation, especially Sonic the Hedgehog. This was the first game developed by Sega to compete with Rentendo Mario, and it was a huge success in North America. It was Sonic the Hedgehog that introduced players to What an exciting, tense, and cool horizontal version of the level-passing experience.

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

This is the impact Sega has brought to the world. As they say in their slogan, if Rentendao's games are for children, then Sega's games are made for teenagers.

It is more exciting and cool, allowing players to be passionate and adrenaline-filled in the game.

This is Sega.

But for Sega like this, the news that has come out in the past two years is actually not very optimistic, which makes countless players feel a little worried, fearing that this company will not survive.

Not long ago, after Qing Zhiyuan acquired Sega, he also terminated the production of the Saturn game console, which made Sega players' hearts drop to the bottom.

However, today this time, in the scene——

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

Sega is no longer the same Sega, but it seems like nothing has changed.

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

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Memories have been awakened, the emotions I felt when I played Sega games back then.

After Gu Yuzo conducted the performance of "Sonic the Hedgehog", he played "Strikes of Rage", "Sakura Wars" and "VR Warriors" one after another...

After the performance, there was silence.

After a while, everyone finally came to their senses and stood up to applaud.

"I'm so touched. I originally thought I came to hear pokeni's concert, but I didn't expect to hear Sega's concert."

"Ah... I'm really touched. It's full of memories. I remember that it was 8 years ago when I played Sonic the Hedgehog. At that time, my classmates and I went crazy trying to play this game."

"Sonic the Hedgehog, the game that came out on the Sega GP handheld console, is also a classic game. I bought the new handheld console just for Sonic the Hedgehog, and later I discovered that there was a surprise like Pokémon."

"Hmm... what should I do? I have an urge to cry. Listening to Sega's music live today, isn't it a swan song?"

"impossible?"

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The crowd applauded for a moment.

Qing Zhiyuan invited Mr. Yuzo Kouru and the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra off the stage.

"Thank you Mr. Yuzo Koko, and thank you to the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra. I hope to be able to meet you here again at this time next year."

Hahaha……

Everyone present 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.

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

"Beautiful and exciting, that's what Sega is."

Qing Zhiyuan sighed.

Returning to the center of the stage, he raised his head and scanned the audience below, and then said silently:

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

When everyone heard this sentence, a look of loneliness flashed on their faces.

Although the Saturn machine is indeed not as good as the PS, and there are much fewer games on it, so many powerful third-party games have chosen the PS platform instead of the Sega Saturn.

But when they actually heard that Saturn was discontinued, everyone felt a little uncomfortable.

This feeling is like the death of a hero and the death of the God of War.

Although you may think that he is dying now and is too old to 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. All the glory that they have experienced before is like stars falling at this moment, which makes people sad.

"But this doesn't mean the end."

Qing Zhiyuan raised his voice, bringing everyone back from their pessimism.

"On the contrary, death heralds rebirth. We will not meet again until the end."

"Sega will embark on a new journey after bidding farewell to the past."

At this moment, a beam of light hit Qing Zhiyuan, making him look so dazzling, like the moonlight lighting up the starry sky.

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

Dreamcast! "

"Wow!!!"

When I heard the word new console, everyone on the scene was excited!

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

"Is it true? After pokeni acquired Sega, not only did it not lay off the R&D department, but it also launched a new game console?!"

"Wow, wow, I really cried to death. To be honest, when I heard the news that Saturn was gone, my whole heart dropped to freezing point. I didn't expect that there would be a new console!"

"Great pokeni, damn Qing Zhiyuan, you almost gave me a 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's eyes couldn't help but shine.

Because this new game console is so good-looking:

The DC appearance presents a unique design. The entire host is white and shaped like a flat cylinder with a raised part above it, similar to a "hat" or "lid".

There is a handle socket in the front of the host, and a row of indicator lights above it to display the status of the host. There are AV interfaces, power interfaces, etc. behind the host.

It looks particularly futuristic and technological, and the appearance color is different from all the game consoles sold by Sega in the past. This time Sega DC adopts a pure white design, giving people a warm and bright feeling.

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

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

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

However, Qing Zhiyuan just smiled at him and said that he didn't need to be so nervous, I'd take care of everything.

Sato Hideki took a deep breath and stood aside, ready to wait for Qing Zhiyuan to explain the next process.

"Dreamcast, spread the dream."

Qing Zhiyuan took a deep breath, "Our original purpose in developing this game console is to hope that it can become a medium that can spread dreams, so that players around the world can feel the designers' intentions in the game. The love of the game, and their dreams.

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

Qing Zhiyuan spoke with great emotion, which moved countless viewers.

But Hideki Sato stood nearby and thought——

President Qing, a performance freak, is not ashamed at all. Our game console was already developed before you acquired Sega.

If anything, this is also our dream.

Qing Zhiyuan said: Aren’t we all a family now?

I inherited Sega’s dream, so isn’t it my dream to spread the dream?

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"Dreamcast is definitely the most competitive console now. It uses a 64-bit processor and the new GeForce 2X chip tailor-made for us by NVIDIA."

The camera showed Huang Renxun below, who smiled politely.

In fact, Lao Huang himself is also very puzzled. We have just met the development needs of game consoles not long ago. Although the design here is indeed very fast, it is not so fast. You can buy real game consoles here. Already?

However, Qing Zhiyuan had already communicated with him before coming, so Lao Huang knew very well that today was just a [no physical performance].

As long as he comes to show his face and show his support, it will be no problem if he can catch up with the DC game console when it is officially released.

So Huang Renxun also performed conscientiously.

In short, several people present are all movie stars.

For Huang Renxun, this is also a disguised publicity for NVIDIA. Why not do it?

Qing Zhiyuan talked about the performance of DC game consoles, and the audience at the scene became more surprised and excited the more they listened.

The host configuration alone is already amazing. Whether it is the central processing unit, the 3D graphics processor, and various supporting equipment, they are all the most advanced at the moment. It can be clearly seen from the numbers alone. The DC game console is at least twice as advanced as the PS.

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

This kind of game console can definitely be called the best in the world.

Many game manufacturer representatives below were full of praise. The first thought that came to everyone’s mind was——

It's time to update again.

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

Kutaragi Kenshin, who was sitting underneath, was also confused and even extremely nervous.

At this moment, apart from the pure white game console on the stage, there was only one image in his mind——

That cool and sassy 2B girl with cool clothes, beautiful lines, couldn't get rid of her, as if it was deeply imprinted in his brain.

Even though more than a year has passed, Kutaragi Ken felt as if he had just seen the 3D model Qing Zhiyuan showed him yesterday.

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

At the same time, Kutaragi Ken felt extremely regretful.

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

The reason why the company did not do this was that it was too careless, thinking that after defeating Sega, the entire game console market would be stable.

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

"In order to let everyone know more accurately what Dreamcast can do, we will show you the latest game developed by Sega, [Shenmue]."

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

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

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

Because Shenmue directly brought the performance of the game console to an extreme, the current 3D effect presents a more refined and more real-world surreal effect.

On the screen, the male protagonist is wearing a stand-up collared velvet jacket, and a pair of tight jeans underneath. The texture and fine hair on the jacket are clearly visible.

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

Sword-like eyebrows and bright eyes, with beautiful muscle lines all over the body.

When demonstrating the movements, it also gave players a feeling like watching a real-life 3D animated movie.

The male protagonist strolled on the streets of the city. Some street scenery, neon lights on the road, passing vehicles, talking NPCs, etc., all gave people a sense of familiarity.

It is hard to imagine that this is actually a game.

Everyone was stunned by such a picture performance.

The first impression of the game Shenmue is like traveling from the future.

Compared with the games of the same era, it can be said to be completely crushed. Compared with the "Tomb Raider" that was still on display yesterday, Shenmue's picture is simply too good.

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

Suzuki Yu explained while demonstrating, "The Shenmue game that everyone sees now has not been fully developed. It is just our prototype. It is expected to be this time next year before it is officially released to everyone."

"What?!"

Everyone showed an incredible expression on their faces. Such a powerful game picture is actually just a semi-finished product?

How powerful will it be after the development is completed?

But they soon understood that the semi-finished product mentioned by Suzuki Yu was only the completion of the game. Maybe there would be no changes in the picture quality and character modeling.

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

Compared with the previous games on the market that have obvious outlines and thick characters that look like building blocks, the character design and appearance of Sega's Shenmue game are really beautiful.

This has exceeded everyone's understanding of 3D.

If Pokeni had not been more clever in making "Princess Mononoke" and used animation rendering to achieve 2D effects in 3D, I am afraid that it would have been crushed by Shenmue long ago.

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"So strong!" Kutaragi Ken exclaimed, shocked and speechless.

And the others probably had similar expressions.

"It's terrible. Sega's new game console has greatly surpassed Sony's PS, right?"

"It's obvious. Just look at the performance of Shenmue. The light and shadow effects and character modeling are not something that PS can handle.

Sony's PS game console is a level lower."

"It's amazing. It's worthy of Sega's desperate work. After Qing Zhiyuan took over, it can actually achieve such a level?"

"Well, and this is just a game adapted for DC made by Sega itself. I really want to see to what extent Pokeni's game can bring out the performance of the DC machine."

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Qing Zhiyuan smiled, indicating that they were half right.

The current DC machine only shows the original Sega design.

The host performance has not yet met his requirements. After the new design is modified and NVIDIA's next-generation graphics card is adopted, the performance of this game console will be further improved.

According to Huang's law, it means that both performance and function must be doubled.

In terms of technology, Pokeni has software design capabilities that are ahead of their time. After the release of Pioneer Engine 2.0, 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 an era of the Internet.

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

People's communication and exchanges, if completed through the Internet in the future, may be separated by thousands of mountains and rivers, and it will only take a few seconds from Tokyo to Atlanta.

So in order to better spread dreams, we added a network adapter to the DC game console, which uses an internationally accepted standard interface. To some extent, DC is not just a game console, it can also access the Internet and communicate.

But compared to PC, it is more suitable for playing games."

"..."

After Qing Zhiyuan's introduction, the more people understood Dreamcast, the more shocked they were.

This game console is so scary.

Although some of it was a blank check issued by Qing Zhiyuan and could not be demonstrated on the spot, everyone had no way to expose this point.

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

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Now, everyone is most concerned about only one question.

Such a powerful game console was praised by Qing Zhiyuan, and it also showed a performance that surpassed PS on the spot. From hardware parameters to actual performance effects, it is enough to show that it is the world's number one game console.

But——

It is so powerful, will it be expensive? !

"About the selling price of the game console."

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

"249! US dollars!"

Wow...

When this number was reported, there was an uproar below! ! !

Everyone was shocked.

This price is lower than the 299 that Sony's PS was released for!

And it’s much cheaper!

“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)