Wang Jizhi smiled, looked around at everyone, and continued, "Next, I'd like to focus on introducing the 'Battle Axe'."
"First of all, the 'Warhawk' is a 16-bit home gaming console that uses the Kirin 2 processor designed by Wujiang Group! Its computing speed reaches 8 MIPS. That is to say, the 'Warhawk' can process eight million machine language instructions per second! And the CPU's high-speed computing cache is 4KB."
"Secondly, the 'Tomahawk' has a special integrated graphics card, which our company calls a GPU, or Graphics Processing Unit! Its maximum color depth is 16,777,216 colors (24-bit true color), and its display resolution is 256x224 to 640x480 pixels!"
Many people in the audience were a bit confused after listening to this, feeling impressed but not quite... Anyway, the more incomprehensible your explanation is, the more impressive you seem.
Industry insiders, however, fully understood the power of these data and couldn't help but show expressions of shock.
Wang Jizhi paused deliberately, coughed twice to attract everyone's attention, and then said loudly, "Ladies and gentlemen, what I'm about to say is the biggest feature of the 'Warhawk.' Unlike other brands of home game consoles, it no longer has a game cartridge interface; instead, it uses a CD-ROM drive. Game cartridges only have a storage capacity of tens of megabytes, while a CD-ROM has a storage capacity of around 600 megabytes. This allows Wujiang Games to create large-scale games more easily and conveniently!"
Wang Jizhi paused, smiled slightly, and asked, "Which game do you think is better made, a game that's a few dozen MB or a game that's five or six hundred MB?"
Generally speaking, games that are a few hundred MB in size are of higher quality.
This is also the subconscious belief of people; after all, games that are only a few hundred megabytes in size take a long time to develop, so of course they should be of higher quality.
At this moment, every single guest at the press conference was shocked.
It's important to know that in the era of 8-bit game consoles, game software was usually only tens of kilobytes or a few megabytes in size, and games larger than ten megabytes were considered relatively large.
However, when the "Tomahawk" game console was released, it directly installed several hundred megabytes of games for you. Are you shocked?
Regardless of whether the game is fun or not, people will subconsciously think that a game with such a large file size must be awesome and fun!
The audience erupted in noise.
The players watching the live stream couldn't contain their excitement and were full of anticipation for the new game that Wujiang was about to release!
Of course, some people are happy while others are sad.
Nintendo, Sega, and other competitors must be crying their eyes out.
This isn't fair competition anymore; it's like our own company's product is being completely crushed by Wujiang's "Tomahawk"!
"This... how is this possible???" Hiroshi Yamauchi looked utterly dejected.
Not only did Wujiang Group release a 16-bit home game console before Nintendo, but they also never expected that the "Tomahawk" design would be so advanced and bold, actually using CD-ROM technology.
Nintendo's 16-bit game console, the Super Famicom (SFC), was still stuck in the era of game cartridges, with games being at most a few tens of megabytes in size.
"It's over! The SFC died before it even got off the ground. It can't compete with the 'Tomahawk' game console at all!!!" Hiroshi Yamauchi shouted, heartbroken.
If SFC is released now, it will definitely disappoint countless players.
If Nintendo wants to regain its dominance in home video game consoles, it must also develop a game console with a CD drive!
However, this is essentially equivalent to redesigning a game console.
Nintendo simply cannot launch a product without a year or two of development time.
After so much time, the daylily buds have gone completely cold.
Wujiang Games' "Tomahawk" home game console has already taken over the market...
At this moment, Hiroshi Yamauchi felt utterly hopeless, his hair now completely white, a hero in his twilight years.
He, who enjoys reading "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", couldn't help but think of the saying: "Since Zhou Yu was born, why was Zhuge Liang born?"
At this moment, he couldn't help but exclaim, "Since Nintendo was born, why was Wujiang born?!"
"Plop."
He fainted; his high blood pressure spiked, causing him to feel dizzy and his vision to blur, and he collapsed to the ground.
This scene startled everyone...
...
All of Sega's top executives gathered together to watch the live stream of Wujiang Games' press conference.
Everyone's expressions were very serious and melancholy.
The Wujiang "Battle Axe" is crushing the Sega MD. With this blow, the Sega MD may have to say goodbye to the market.
"Don't panic, everyone! Wujiang Group has used the latest optical drive technology, but as far as I know, the speed of an optical drive is very slow, only 150kb/s. We use game cartridges, which are much faster. The advantage is on our end!" At this moment, an engineer suddenly shouted excitedly.
Upon hearing this, everyone immediately realized what was happening.
"Yeah, with a speed of only 150kb/s, it'll struggle to even switch to a large map. It definitely won't run smoothly when playing games!"
"That's right, Ichiro Ono is right, we still have the advantage!"
Everyone then tried to comfort themselves.
Back to the present moment of the press conference, Wang Jizhi gestured for everyone to quiet down, and then introduced: "Currently, the speed of optical drives is generally only 150kb/s, which is a bit slow if used to read large games. However, thanks to improvements made by our developers, we have now increased the speed of optical drives to four times faster!!!"
As soon as the words were spoken, the Sega office fell completely silent. Everyone looked at each other awkwardly, a heavy atmosphere filling the room...
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