2024/12/23 17:01
Console of the Year 2024 is out! Performance has been upgraded to a big theme, and the "mobile era" is coming
2024/12/23 17:01
2024 will be a big year for AI hard technology innovation.
"Parameter volume application without volume" has become the consensus of the AI industry. On the one hand, the hardware is stacked with AI buffs, AI hardware has exploded, and industries such as mobile phones, PCs, home appliances, automobiles, cleaning, home furnishings, headphones, cameras, and storage are vying to use AI. On the other hand, AI has deeply transformed software, native AI applications such as Wen Xiaoyan and Doubao have been popularized, and search, input methods, browsers, payments, office software, and e-commerce have been reconstructed by AI.
AI has become the magic wand of technological innovation, and this is just the beginning.
In December, the "Lei Technology of the Year" topic was launched, in which "Focus on 2024" will systematically sort out the companies, products, technologies and people worth recording in the technology industry in 2024, and "Outlook 2025" will "spoil" the products and technologies worth looking forward to in the technology industry in 2025, paying tribute to innovation, recording the times, and inspiring the future.
Stay tuned.
In 2024, Black Myth: Wukong caused an uproar in the gaming industry, and with it came a discussion about what device would be more appropriate to play the game on.
Some people believe that a PC that can play games and work is the best choice; Others believe that games and work should be separated, so that the game console can immerse people in the game and avoid the TV in the living room being reduced to a decoration; There are also people who have a strong demand for outdoor games, and it's not that they can't play "Black Myth: Wukong" on the handheld.
2024 is coming to an end, and in the past year, foreign companies around the world have released many games console equipment, some of which were once coaxed by consumers and need to add money to buy them. Next, Xiaolei will take a plate for everyone, what are the outstanding products among the various types of game consoles launched in 2024.
At the beginning of December, Sony Interactive Entertainment officially launched the 30th anniversary celebration, and launched a series of 30th anniversary products, such as the DualSense wireless controller, DualSense charging dock, MD 7000 CD radio, PS5 Pro 30th anniversary limited edition set, etc., among which the most popular product is undoubtedly the 30th anniversary limited edition PlayStation®5 digital version console.
(Source: Sony Interactive Entertainment)
In 1994, Sony Interactive Entertainment launched the first generation of PlayStation, which sold more than 100,000 units in Japan on the first day of its release due to its leading image processing technology and cost performance exceeding that of Sega SS and Nintendo N64. Coupled with the launch of a bunch of classic games, the original PS became the first game console to sell more than 100 million.
Subsequently, PS2, which has many masterpieces such as "Resident Evil 4", "God of War 2" and "Metal Gear Solid", continued the high sales of the original product. Although PS3 also has many big games and has sold more than 80 million units in its lifetime, compared to PS and PS2, its performance has dropped a lot, losing to the Nintendo Wii, which is in the limelight.
In the PS4 era, Sony Interactive Entertainment has risen again, with 128 million units sold over its lifetime, surpassing consoles of the same generation such as Microsoft's Xbox One and Nintendo WiiU.
The PS5 was released in November 2020, when the mining tide was raging and the cost of configuring computers skyrocketed. A graphics card with GPU performance close to PS5 is enough to buy two or three PS5s, not to mention the cost of CPU, motherboard, memory, power supply, and chassis. During the 2020-2022 mining boom, PS5 gave many shy friends the opportunity to play triple-A games. And allowing more users to play games freely and happily is also the original intention of Sony Interactive Entertainment to launch PlayStation.
Today, we are plagued by the trivial things of life, and there is not much time to really calm down and immerse ourselves in the game. The 30th Anniversary Limited Edition PlayStation®5 Digital Edition console is more than just a game console, with a silver-grey color scheme that resembles the original PlayStation, it takes my mind back to that carefree childhood.
High-performance consoles are constantly being updated, but the time is gone. This emotional empathy and sense of belonging is the greatest value of the 30th Anniversary Limited Edition PlayStation®5 Digital Edition console, and I am also a member of the Sony PS family of users, even if I don't know the other members of the family, but I will not be alone with them.
Hosts have a price, but feelings are priceless.
ROG is often dubbed the "Eye of the Loser" due to its high price and eye-shaped logo, but in the Windows handheld space, the ROG Handheld X is not much more expensive than other products of the same configuration.
In terms of configuration, the ROG Handheld X is equipped with AMD's Z1 Extreme chip, which is based on the Zen4 architecture and 4nm process technology, with 8 cores and 16 threads, and the new version of the Entertainment Master (Master Lu) can score 1.2 million to 1.3 million points, which is on par with the R7 8845HS, which is commonly used in laptops. The 7-inch 1080P 120Hz screen is also excellent in handhelds, and the storage combination of up to 24GB+1TB is enough to install and run a variety of large games, and the large battery of up to 80Wh gives the product a stronger battery life.
(Source: ROG)
In the past two years, the global handheld industry has exploded, Windows handhelds have sprung up, and Steam, the world's largest game platform, has also developed Steam Deck.
Among the handheld phones released in 2024, the ROG Handheld X is one of the best in terms of performance, design, battery life, and screen quality. The built-in RC Center can also intelligently manage all game platforms, as well as the games purchased by users on each platform, which is suitable for hardcore gamers.
Of course, the price of the ROG Handheld X is still a bit on the expensive side, and there is no shortage of products on the market that are more sincere. However, considering many factors such as performance, screen, design, and system, Xiaolei awarded the ROG Handheld X with the Best Windows Handheld Award.
Compared with Windows handhelds, the Android handheld market is actually smaller, after all, what it can do, mobile phones can do. If you don't want to rub the screen, it's a big deal to spend two or three hundred to buy a pull-out handle.
Although the market is relatively small, there are still netizens who need Android handhelds, and AYANEO, founded by Uncle Tail, a famous game enthusiast and handheld enthusiast, is a company specializing in the development of handhelds, and its AYANEO Pocket S won the Best Android Handheld Award from Lei Technology.
The AYANEO Pocket S is powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon G3x Gen2 processor, equipped with up to 16GB of LPDDR5X RAM and 1TB of UFS4.0 flash memory, and the screen is available in 1080p and 2K versions. The Snapdragon G3x Gen 2 is based on the 4nm process technology, with a maximum core frequency of 3.36GHz, and the performance release can reach 15W, and the Antutu benchmark is close to that of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2.
(Source: AYANEO)
However, the AYANEO Pocket S, which has a stronger cooling module, can be fully powered on for a long time, making gaming more stable. Moreover, Qualcomm officially announced that the Snapdragon G3x Gen2 has 30% higher CPU performance and twice GPU performance than the previous generation of handheld chips. In larger GPU-hungry games, the AYANEO Pocket S is more stable than the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 model.
Although Qualcomm entered the market and personally guided manufacturers to design Android handhelds, there is a significant difference between them and mobile phones, and Android handhelds are destined to always be a niche demand. It is precisely because of the small scale of the Android handheld market that the enterprises that can persist are more admirable, after all, niche needs are also needs, and taking care of the niche groups can highlight the humanistic care of the enterprise.
There are too many domestic open source handheld products! In particular, Ambernic, which was ridiculed as "Zhou Mo", held one after another, and most of them were equipped with Allwinner H700 chips, which was quite a shadow of Nokia's "technology based on shell replacement".
The price span of open source handheld computers is large, with the cheap ones only about 100 yuan and the expensive ones as high as thousands of yuan. CONSIDERING THAT THE OPEN-SOURCE HANDHELD IS MAINLY USED TO PLAY NOSTALGIC OLD GAMES OR AS A COLLECTIBLE, XIAOLEI BELIEVES THAT THERE IS NO NEED TO PURSUE PERFORMANCE EXCESSIVELY, SO HE AWARDED THE BEST OPEN-SOURCE HANDHELD AWARD TO THE TRIMUI SMART PRO.
TRIMUI SMART PRO is equipped with Allwinner A133 Plus chip, and its performance is between the Rockchip RK3566 and Allwinner H700, which are common in open source handhelds, but under the optimization of Trimui, the game scene is basically no different from RK3566, and it can run "God of War" at 30FPS. The biggest advantage of this open-source handheld is the battery life, not only is it equipped with a 5000mAh large battery, but after the Linux-based system is updated to version 1.0.4, the standby power consumption is significantly reduced, so you don't have to worry about the handheld running out of power if it is not turned off.
(Source: TRIMUI)
With a screen size of 4.96 inches and a resolution of 1280×720, the handheld has good clarity and size, but the 16:9 ratio is a bit difficult for consumers to accept. OLD GAMES GENERALLY USE 4:3 AND 1:1 RATIOS, AND PLAYING THESE GAMES WITH TRIMUI SMART PRO WILL HAVE MORE OBVIOUS BLACK BARS.
The open source handheld market is mixed, Ambernic RG40XXV, Overlord Treasure Box X55, etc., are all strong competitors, and they are also small partners who plan to buy open source handhelds, and they are worth considering.
Similar to the open-source handheld, Sony's 30th Anniversary Limited Edition PlayStation®5 digital version console, the retro handheld is also about making money from the sentimental party. For example, the RG34XX launched by Ambernic some time ago, the appearance is almost a perfect replica of Nintendo GBA. However, it was not it that won this award, but the Mega 95 handheld launched by Hyperkin.
According to Hyperkin, the Mega 95 is inspired by the Sega NOMAD and Nintendo Switch handhelds, with a 5-inch screen and support for 720p video output. The biggest surprise is that the handheld supports the Sega MD (Mega Drive/Genesis) game cartridge.
(Source: Hyperkin)
There are many open-source handhelds that can play old games, and there are not many handhelds that can support inserting cartridges. Hardcore gamers, often collectors, will undoubtedly bring back memories of the past by inserting a long-cherished cartridge into the Mega 95 to play a game.
Strictly speaking, there are only three contenders for this award, namely Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo, and this year only Sony launched the newly upgraded PS5 Pro, so it can be said that there are no competitors at all.
The PS5 Pro's exterior design continues the PS5 Slim's design concept, with the CPU part unchanged and the GPU computing unit increased by 67% compared to the PS5, which is almost the same size as AMD'RX7800M s mobile sub-flagship graphics card. Coupled with the increase in memory and bandwidth, the PS5 Pro's performance has increased by about 45% and ray tracing performance by 2 to 3 times while the power consumption is almost the same.
(Source: Sony)
The PS5, which has been released for four years, has still not gone out of style, enough to run many triple-A games at 4K 60Hz, suitable for consumers on a budget. PS5 Pro, with its soaring performance, is suitable for consumers who pursue the ultimate experience and "fight for the future". In addition to having a certain number of exclusive games, the console platform also has more advantages in terms of game optimization, and the PS5 Pro will not lag behind in performance in the next four to five years.
GameIndustry.biz released a report based on information from Newzoo, Sensor Tower, ICO Partners, GfK, Circana and other institutions, pointing out that the total revenue of the global game market in 2023 will be about 184 billion US dollars (about 1,340.6 billion yuan), a year-on-year increase of 0.6%, and a trillion-level market is attracting many participants.
Judging from the performance of game console-related companies in 2024, there are two major trends in the industry: first, equipment performance continues to upgrade; Second, the game console industry is about to fully enter the "mobile era".
The stronger the performance of the game console, the higher the picture quality will be, and developers will be able to further prevent the details of the game screen and gameplay from being enriched, without worrying about the lack of device performance, so the game console industry's pursuit of performance is endless.
In the past, the handheld product Switch was dominant, because compared with PCs and consoles, the volume of the handheld could not fit too large a battery and heat dissipation module, which limited the performance release ability of the device. Weak performance and battery life have led to too many PCs and consoles in the handheld experience, and many manufacturers have gradually given up the handheld business, and only Nintendo has relied on first-party classic game IPs to support it.
Now that major breakthroughs have been made in semiconductor manufacturing technology, chip architecture, and battery technology, the ROG Handheld X can run AAA titles like Black Myth: Wukong, reopening the era of mobile gaming.
Because of this, Sony is about to resurrect the handheld business, Microsoft has also been revealed to be launching handheld products, the number of products in Windows handhelds, open source handhelds and other categories is growing explosively, and upstream suppliers Qualcomm and AMD are committed to developing handheld chips.
The improvement of performance and battery life blurs the boundary between the host and the handheld, and the handheld can also be used as a host after connecting an external monitor. After the general upgrade of performance, the focus of future game console and handheld manufacturers may not be on product performance and design, but on the exclusive game lineup that can be produced.
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