Why did the domestic game consoles of Jianzhi PS4 and XBOX cool down in less than a year

In the impression of current players, there are basically only three game console manufacturers: Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft. The other V Club, including the production of Steamdeck, cannot be regarded as a strict host manufacturer. As for domestic game consoles, I have never heard of any other except for the Xiaohegang game console that imitated the Nintendo SFC decades ago.

But what many players may not know is that there was a domestic game console called Tomahawk F1 in 2016, and it was quite high-profile at that time, claiming to be the benchmark of the three, especially the Sony PS4 and Microsoft XBOX consoles.

The manufacturer of this game console even held a two-hour press conference, which also showed the parameters of the console, the appearance of the real console, and the first batch of games. After the conference, it also began to officially sell. It can be said that the press conference was very popular for the players of that year, and almost all single player players paid attention to it.

However, what all players did not expect was the subsequent sales of Tomahawk F1, a domestic game console. Everyone knew that the sales of the first domestic game console would not be high, but what they did not expect was that the sales of Tomahawk F1 would be only a few hundred in a few months.

As for the game lineup, it was even worse. Almost none of the games that the official promised to join in the future had been on. After a period of time, even the official server often couldn't be connected. This so-called first domestic game console also became cool. The whole process even took less than a year. The failure came so quickly that all players didn't expect it.

As an old player who has played games since childhood, I am not surprised at the failure of the so-called first domestic game console after watching the press conference. The only surprise may be that the failure process is too fast, because from the host information given by the press conference, there are at least three fatal defects.

1. The parameters and specifications of the whole machine are quite simple. Compared with PS4 and XBOX ONE in the same period, they are completely rolled

I also watched the Tomahawk F1 press conference. From their tone of voice in the press conference, although the logo of Tomahawk F1 is listed with NS, PS4 and XBOX ONE, in fact, the manufacturer wants to benchmark PS4 and XBOX, and may not pay attention to NS with poor performance.

However, the performance of the console given on the scene is really a big difference from that of the PS4 and XBOX at that time. Even compared with the NS, it is only limited. In addition, the console's handle is completely copied the appearance of the XBOX handle, leaving a bad first impression on players.

What's more outrageous is that the operating system of this game console is Android, which is not to say that players have any prejudice against Android, but Android is almost dominated by lightweight games. Even today, no 3A level games have been logged in, let alone that year. So when the official announced that the operating system was Android, Heavy players like me are basically not interested in this console.

2. The first game lineup is too shabby, and the game that serves as the facade is just an old game

Host players should all know that the most important thing for a game console is its game lineup. A strong game lineup is even more important than the performance of the machine. Like Nintendo's game console, its performance is completely inferior to that of Sony PS and Microsoft's XBOX at the same time, but it has always led the host market with its extremely powerful first party games.

However, the game lineup of Tomahawk F1 can only be described as a cicada. Most of the first dozens of games released by the official are small games crudely transplanted from the mobile phone. Even the so-called blockbuster masterpieces "Chronicles of Assassins' Creed" and "The True Three Countries' Top 7" that the official has been promoting are just old games.

Moreover, in the subsequent field trials, it can be seen that the number of enemies on the game screen and on the same screen of the Landing Tomahawk F1 is much more castrated than that on the PS4. Even the AI of the enemy soldiers in the game has been cut off, almost all of them stand still, and the overall performance of the game is very poor, No one wants to play during or even after the trial.

3. The price of the game console is no better than that of the PS4 and XBOX ONE

Tomahawk F1 also had two versions in that year. The most common version was about 900 yuan, including a game console+a game controller. Although the price was indeed cheaper than the game consoles of Yusan, it had no advantage in terms of cost performance.

Because at that time, a second-hand ordinary version of the PS4 only cost about 1300, which means that players can play 3A masterpieces such as Mysterious Sea Area 4, The Last Survivor, GTA5 and so on for only one more PS4 controller. In contrast, Tomahawk F1 has almost no games to play except a lot of small games transplanted from the Android platform to the host computer.

It is this extremely low cost performance that has led to the fact that few consoles have been sold in the months after the launch of the game console, most of which are bought back by various game bloggers for testing. Ordinary players may not have many people to buy at all. In less than a year, this home-made game console, which has experienced great pride, has completely disappeared in the eyes of players.

In fact, in addition to the visual defects of the game console, the whole conference also gave the players a feeling of lack of confidence. During the two-hour conference, a lot of time was spent talking about feelings and inviting so-called guests to speak. There was little time given to the hardware of the game console and the display of the game, and even most of the time was spent showing the live broadcast function of the console rather than the game function, From the player's perspective, it is simply putting the cart before the horse.

Now we can see that the original game console is just for the sake of gaining popularity. Maybe the officials themselves don't know what is the most important thing about the game console, but they only know the feelings of harvesting domestic console players under the banner of a domestic game console. However, the reality is cruel, and players will never pay for this insincere behavior, Finally, it can only disappear in the long river of history.