The climax of the living room game hits, viaplay releases the world's smallest video game console

On April 21st, game peripheral vendor viaplay released a video game console through a well-known hardware incubation platform Jingdong Crowd, which is only 1/2 of the iPhone 6 and 1/3 of the iPhone 6plus. It is by far the smallest in the world. TV game console, viaplay's R & D team named it "magic wand".


In addition to highlighting the "extremely small" of viaplay's hardware design expertise, the Magic Wand also incorporates an innovative fuselage into the HDMI male design, and the industry's first to abandon the power adapter to achieve the USB port power supply, magic rod host power input and content output By integrating the USB port and HDMI port on the TV respectively, the entire magic wand game hardware is hidden on the back of the TV like a USB flash drive. It doesn't occupy any home space, and players play games via viaplay Bluetooth wireless controller. The whole experience is simple and cool.


"It is small in appearance, but it is very rich in game content. It is the starting hardware of our VOS video game system." Viaplay project manager Guo Junxiong said in introducing this mini-TV game console that he is able to communicate with a well-known TV game platform in China. In cooperation with the game, there are thousands of games on the "magic wand". Currently, mainstream game content on the market supports it. Such as the "Ghost Warfare 5", the "Eternal Warrior" fighting class, the "Need for Speed ​​17" game, the role-playing game "Grand Theft Trainer: The Bloody Chinatown", the sports game "NBA 2K14", the simulator game " Boxing 97, Super Mario, Contra, card games, Three Kingdoms Kill, Landlord, etc. These mainstream game titles that players like very much, this world's smallest video game console can be very good The compatibility, of course, there are some leisure games for female players and educational games for children.


The rich content is on the one hand, to ensure the smooth running of the content and to provide users with a quality living room entertainment experience, the host configuration is also very important. "The magic wand used the mainstream configuration of the current video game consoles on the market." According to Viaplay said, the "magic wand" game host uses 4+2 core Mali450 GPU, 4 core 1.5G 28nm process technology CPU, mainstream top graphics and data computing chip, hard to solve 1080P full HD quality output, to protect large-scale 3D games \ video experience! At the same time, the mainframe also comes with a Bluetooth wireless smart controller professionally certified by Nvidia, and the game control experience is refreshing.


In addition to the game content, viaplay this mini-game console is also pre-installed with high-definition television and other professional Internet TV applications, even if you do not play games, players can multiple experience high-definition large-screen living room entertainment Internet life.

It is reported that viaplay this world's smallest game console retail price will be 399 yuan, but the current Jingdong crowdfunding price of 299 yuan, compared with foreign thousands of video game console products, "magic rod" price positioning significantly more civilian . “We hope to provide game players with cost-effective game consoles for domestic players, and to promote domestic living room entertainment among ordinary players. This is why we are pricing this way,” Viaplay said.

In 2015, video games have entered the Red Sea. Hardware, CP, VC, etc. have joined each other and are stricken with fierce scrutiny. How can video game companies help themselves in the Red Sea? As this year's main proposition, viaplay’s civilian strategy has undoubtedly shattered a gap in the domestic and foreign manufacturers’ unanimous targeting of high-end and professional players in favor of Gao Liangfan’s market.

“At any time, quality content and product experience are always the key to capture users. viaplay is building its own cool play community and game ecosystem with the goal of better serving users with quality game content”, viaplay responsible person It said that in addition to the current "Video Magic Wand", which is the smallest video game console, they will have a new video game console in the key 2015, and will continue to update the user experience in terms of configuration and content.


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