October 25, 1999, Sony Industrial Exhibition in Japan.

Today is the day when the world’s most eye-catching press conference is held. Less than a hundred days before the new millennium, Sony will release its 1999 new products here.

This conference was also hailed as the best product of the 20th century.

First of all, what makes gamers all over the world crazy is the PlayStation 2, a game console that is popular all over the world… With the popularity of the first-generation PlayStation, Sony saw the huge potential of the game market.

With sales of 100 million, the S game console is destined to be recorded in the history of home game consoles. It broke the sales record previously held by the Nintendo Famicom FC.

Therefore, countless players are full of expectations for PS’s new generation next-generation console 1ayStation2.

Sony CEO Nobuyuki Dei came out and directly launched this product that gamers around the world have been waiting for.

At the press conference, countless fans were shouting crazily, just like future Apple fans.

Including two American technology giants, Microsoft CEO Bill Gates and Apple CEO Steve Jobs, both of whom are fans of Sony and are also watching this conference. grand occasion.

The former is a game fan, and the latter is obsessed with Sony products.

“The new generation of PlayStation console is 128 times more powerful than the previous generation, including the CPU, from 32-bit in the previous generation to 128-bit today!”

“The game storage capacity has been increased from 500M to the highest 4G carrying capacity. There has been a rapid improvement in both the screen and the gaming experience.……”

“Below we can take a look at the comparison of game image quality!”

“……”

Nobuyuki Idei excitedly described the power of the PS2 console.

I have to admit that PS2 is really powerful. Under the circumstances at that time, its performance exceeded 90% of computers on the market. It even killed all computer consoles in GU.

The display effect is equally breathtaking.

What’s even more frightening is that all games on the PS2 console are compatible with the PS generation, and it can also play CDs and DVDs. This is undoubtedly a multi-purpose product.

Countless people were amazed by this console

“This machine is going to be a hot seller!”

Bill Gates can infer the broad prospects of PS2 in the future, and he himself is actually very optimistic about the game console and TV V fields.

As early as 3 years ago, he has been thinking about the game console.

Of course, Microsoft is making a big move into TV There are many accidental and inevitable reasons in the gaming field.

As the personal PC computer market gradually becomes saturated, Bill Gates, who has accumulated astonishing wealth with the WINDOWS operating system and OFFICE series of office software, begins to consider exploring new profit growth points.

And Investing in the TV game industry is completely consistent with the set-top box strategy he has conceived for many years. Microsoft hopes to use this to further sublimate its own products from work necessities to life necessities. To this end, he found the three major game companies in the island country and hoped that their Game consoles were built into the Windows system.

But… all failed without exception.

So Bill Gates’ recent goal is to launch a next-generation console to compete with Sony and Nintendo.

These two companies, I didn’t give him a good look at the beginning.

Sony’s Nobuyuki Idei was also an aspiring entrepreneur. He saw Gates’ ambitions, and then directly let the PS console adopt the LINUX system that had always been a problem for Microsoft.

This approach, This directly angered the world’s richest man.

Therefore, Bill Gates wanted to make hi

s own console and slap Sony in the face.

But now, seeing the PlayStation 2 that Nobuyuki Idei took out, Bill Gates’s face was Complex.

This console really made him feel the pressure…

And at this moment, Sony CEO Nobuyuki Dei came up with a new product

“As you can see, this is a CD box!”

Nobuyuki Idei took out a music box containing a CD from the table, and it was a CD by Noriko Sakai.

Whoops!

He also took out a CD player that was the same size and thickness as the CD box.

Boom!

All the guests and fans in the audience were excited.

The CD player was as thin as a cicada!

“This is the thinnest CD player in the world, only 5.4mm, not even one centimeter!”

As soon as Nobuyuki Idei finished speaking, the audience went crazy again.

This is definitely another epoch-making product.

The body length of less than 1cm can be said to have once again pushed the craftsmanship of CD players to a new level.

Even Steve Jobs and Bill Gates have to admire Sony’s current industrial level, which is definitely the best in the world and has no rivals.

Sony around 2000 was indeed the most powerful technology company in the world, and the PlayStation game console defeated It has defeated its strong rival Nintendo and forced SEGA away. Digital cameras are leading traditional camera brands and stand out among the others. Image receiving chips have a monopoly on the market. VAIO series personal computers are selling well all over the world… countless high-quality products are emerging in an endless stream.

Everyone can feel that Suni is now It is powerful today.

Even Steve Jobs and Bill Gates are full of respect for this company in terms of products.

Everyone can feel that this CD player named WM-WE01 will definitely be the mainstay of the global audio and video market in the future. , aluminum-magnesium alloy upper cover, nickel-metal hydride bar battery, newly developed”lipstick” stick wire control, up to 100 hours of use time.

There are also other features such as G anti-shock, AVLSDMB bass system, optical fiber input, and suction-type disc insertion Method… The sound quality control of the dual decoder can be called a handicraft.

It has both the depth of the product and the beauty of the design.

The moment everyone sees this CD, they have an urge to buy it. , because… it looks so perfect.

It meets everyone’s idea of CD.

39,999 yen!

This is the price of WM-WE01, which is almost 3,000 yuan.

This is for the music of the United States and Japan. For enthusiasts, it is definitely a suitable price. All the fans screamed when they saw the final price.

PlaStation2 game console、WM-WE01’s CD player… Next, Nobuyuki Idei took out a flip phone.

This is Sony and Ericsson’s first Internet-connected mobile phone

……

New computers in the VAIO series, SLRs with new imaging… One product after another was pushed from behind Nobuyuki Idei to the front of the stage, and the screams from the audience never stopped.

So stunning.

It simply gave Sony fans the most gluttonous feast of ideas.

“Sony…is so powerful!”

Jobs sighed slightly. He wanted to change Apple’s current situation. He picked up a zeko1 generation MP3 player on the table, but fell into deep thought.

Apple should also make a music player of its own.

This The zko1 generation MP3 from China gave him a different feeling.

Although the workmanship was rough, some theories coincided with his ideas.

That is, portability.

This MP3 product should be convenient for Carry.

Beep!

Jobs suddenly pressed the phone on the table:”Johnny, come to my office!””

Jonny, Jonathan Ive, is the current design director of Apple and the designer of future iPhone products. He is known as the real”Father of Apple Products”!

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