Chapter 729: Sony feels that it has a big advantage

? November, when DC is about to go public.
After seeing the DC configuration, Kutaragi really felt a little nervous, but after carefully analyzing Sega’s promotion strategy and their goals, Kutaragi knew that Sega’s move this time, and Sony’s subsequent development PS2, it took two routes.
Kutaragi felt that Sony had a great advantage.
"This kind of handle is weird."
There are still a few days before the DC launch, but Kutaragi has a way to get the machine.
Who called him the head of Sony SCE?
Kutaragi Ken, this dear friend, is the father of PS, that is, he took the PS2 and threw Sega DC into the garbage dump of history.
The full name of SCE is Sony Computer Entertainment, Sony’s game console department, which is>
N64 has not caused many waves in Japan, and Sega’s SS is also in the sand. At this time, Sony’s PS is simply unmatched. At this time, Sony is the overlord of the game console industry!
However, just as the empire was approaching noon, the former challenger Sega appeared again.
Sega used to be the challenger of Nintendo. They have fought with Nintendo for half their lives. Now, Sega is the challenger of Sony. They stand under Sony, the new overlord of the challenger.
Sega’s former president Hayao Nakayama once said, "I live to make Nintendo uncomfortable", and now that Nintendo is no longer good, Sony will face Sega's "make you uncomfortable."
At first, Kutaragi was very cautious.
However, after noticing that Sega adopted it instead of it, and these people even added a hard drive to DC in a funny way! In addition, they also installed a lot of unnecessary software, the simplest is the tasteless network system.
In Ken Kutaragi's view, things like the Internet can be used as an addition to game consoles, but they are actually used as a complete accessory in the machine and placed in the machine. This way of increasing costs is simply a dead mouth. !
And when he tried the VR Warrior 3TB version of the first game on DC, Takeru Kutaragi realized a problem even more-this handle is like a disc!
"No, this thing doesn't work..."
Kutaragi shook his head.
In his opinion, Sega is simply funny.
Obviously there could be a very good reversal situation, but Sega made a very amusing decision.
"Obviously, Sega’s strategy is to focus on various categories of games. The Internet function should be their main strategy. However, the Internet is such a niche thing, which increases the cost of things, and they are also unable to do Come out..."
In Ken Kutaragi's view, many of Sega's strategies look good, but they are actually meaningless.
For example, Sega's network, or Sega added a hard drive to the game, this is a deadly thing for game consoles, and it is not possible for Sega to do it.
Sony has a great advantage.
Ken Kutaragi dropped DC's mouse, and he felt stable now.
This is not just because of the supply problem. Another reason that Kutaragi feels stable is that when he got the DC, he learned a piece of news. This news is DC's current supply. Not enough.
According to Sony's understanding, although DC is not yet on the market, the order volume is at least 300,000 units. According to their speculation, it is likely to be between 500,000 and 700,000 units.
But the tragedy is that the current shipment of Sega DC is only about 100,000 units-because the display chip is out of stock.
The processing chip used by DC is Hitachi's SH-4, while the display chip comes from the chip.
But the problem is that now Sega has encountered a very sad thing, that is, NEC has dropped the chain.
The chip yield cannot be improved, and this is the tragedy they are experiencing now.
NEC's current problems directly caused Sega's current DC game consoles to face major problems.
The shipments are insufficient and there is no way to spread the goods. For Sony, this is their opportunity.
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"This is unscientific!"
On the other side, Qian Jia, who had just arrived home, also sighed.
"So, senior sister, why are you so surprised these days?"
Originally, Qianjia was in a good mood today. After class, she invited everyone from Xingshiyan to the cafe for dessert and coffee.
However, when Qian Jia returned halfway and answered a call, Qian Jia began to worry.
No, to be precise, it was not that she answered a phone call, but Qian Jia thought of something eagerly, and then made a call by herself.
After making the call, Qianjia now became like this.
"Why is this happening? Senxia-kun, isn't it because you have already set up a lot for Sega? Why does this happen..."
Qianjia couldn't figure it out.
"So what happened? And, what happened to Sega, why did you force me to get involved!" Morinka said, and put down her schoolbag next to him. Yukino is now working at Toba Shrine and put it down. Senxia with the schoolbag is going to see Yukino first.
Then, Senxia was caught by Qianjia.
"To put it simply, Sega's is now experiencing a major crisis." Qianjia frowned.
"Oh. So, what happened?" Of course, Morinya knew that Sega's DC would encounter a problem, which was obvious.
As Moriha, who had been mentally prepared for a long time, of course he was calm at this time.
No matter how bad things happen, Sega's situation will not be worse than in history.
Therefore, when Qianjia frowned, Senxia had no fluctuations in her heart about this matter, and she even wanted to laugh.

Sega’s current order volume is about 600,000 machines,
Qianjia said,
and the current order volume is still increasing.

"Ah, isn't this a good thing?"
600,000 units? Moriha's memory is not clear, but he can barely remember that DC reached 500,000 units sold or something, it should have been in 1999.
Isn't this a good thing?
"However, the current shipment...only 150,000 units. There are not as many pre-orders for our games." Qian Jia pressed his head and sighed.
The two versions of "Guilty Crown" on DC, and then the four series of "" and "Plants vs. Zombies" are added together. The number of reservations is 160,000 sets, and it is still growing.
In other words, if we follow this trend, when DC is officially listed, DC sales may not be as much as these games from Anii Club combined...
Although it seems a bit unfair to compare four games with one machine, the dilemma DC is facing now is probably this.
"So, it's a problem with the display chip." Senxia immediately understood.
"Eh? That's right." Qianjia was a little surprised, and Guigui Senxia knew this, "How did you guess?"
"Because the supplier is NEC!" Mori Xia said of course, "If it is NEC, then they will drop the chain. This is not a normal thing!"
"Huh?" It seems to make sense...
"Anyway, the problem with Sega DC is very serious now. It's not a matter of production capacity. This can't be solved in a short while." Qian Jia sighed. Of course she knew what would happen to this kind of thing. We could have caught Sony by surprise, but now that the supply of DC is insufficient, it is easy for Sony to take advantage of it."
The conditions of the DC platform itself are still very good. The historical sales of 10 million units also shows how much DC is welcomed.
But the problem is, if there is no way to suppress Sony now, Sega's early advantage is almost non-existent.
At this time, it is the most troublesome thing.
Even Qianjia can see the problem, Sega certainly can't fail to see it, but NEC loses the chain, even if Sega is in a hurry, I am afraid there is no way.
"So, Senxia-kun, do you have any whimsical ideas?" Qian Jiae asked Senxia.
"Ah? You ask me? Even if I say it, Sega won't adopt it. We are just outsiders after all." If it weren't for the father to own shares there, Qianjia would probably not be so anxious. Persuading the other party to calm down.
"But it just feels very uncomfortable. Although I know it's useless, if you can listen to your opinion, there will be no problem." Of course Qianjia knows the situation, but she just can't let it go.
"This kind of thing can't be helped~EbookFREE.me~ Sega itself has the basic arcade game. They are destined to not break the boat if they have a retreat. Simply relying on the suppression of Mr. Okawa and Uncle Qianyu, I am afraid that they will not It's very useful." Senxia shook her head.
Sega is big enough and they have enough retreats, so it is destined that they can't break the boat. In the end, they choose to give up the stop loss, which is normal.
"But I am always unwilling. Damn, I really want my own console platform!" Qian Jia shook his head.
"Rather than thinking about this, it is better to think of ways to make two more gentleman games. I think if we can develop several popular gentleman games on the console platform, it will be more helpful and motivating for us!"
Morika said that a gentleman is king.
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Today’s second update, it’s ethics~ (to be continued.)
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