At the end of the video call with Lin Xiaoguang, Zhong Ming first turned off the design documents of the new game, and then took out the hand-drawn board to draw the shape of the new handle.

Is there a difference between the handle and the handle?

No, of course, the difference is great!

Some of the basic layout of the handle is indeed difficult to change, for example, other people's handles have two rockers, two shoulder keys, two pull-up keys, you have to make three rocking rods, a shoulder key, that is not violent to death.

The basic layout of the handle is indeed a lot of hardware design experts combined with the ergonomic institute to study the current most suitable equipment, fully consider the comfort and convenience of players holding the handle, in these places to make changes, will only become "innovation and innovation", in the eyes of the industry are just a joke.

The functions on the handle, such as adding electronic screens, plus touchpads, plus loudspeakers, new buttons, etc., these solutions have basically been tried by countless people, some left, some removed.

Those remaining functions may indeed be essential, or they can slightly enhance the experience, while those removed may be cost-free.

Compared to doing hardware, it is more necessary to be awe-afraid, because there are too many aspects to consider when doing hardware, to consider the actual configuration, practicality, but also to consider the shape of the hardware, feel, these are all things that affect the whole body.Some manufacturers of hardware, because there are some unique fuss in the appearance, resulting in a decrease in the yield of the product and a variety of quality problems, which is simply not worth the loss.

The development of a handle that is ahead of the times requires a huge investment in research and development costs, and the new technology used in the handle also needs to invest huge R&D resources.The bell is now obviously impossible to smash tens of millions to study the new technology to do the handle, he is not so rich, the bell to do, is combined with the current technology, the handle for some optimization and improvement.

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The bell is quickly drawing a sketch of the new handle on the hand-drawn board, and the functions and practices of each component are also indicated next to it.

This shape is the bell ringing past life of the XBOX elite controller, it is said that Microsoft in order to develop this controller, spent more than 100 million U.S. knives.Zhong Ming can not spend so much money to die the breakthrough of technology, but many of the success elements on the elite handle can be used to learn from.

The first is the shape of the handle, Switch, PS4, Xbox three handles similar layout, but the specific shape has its own shape, according to the feedback of past players, XBOX's handle should be the most like players.Of course, Sony and Nintendo's handle is not bad, but if you have to be divided into a high, it is still a little different from the Xbox controller.

This set of handles, in addition to the most basic handle configuration, also attached additional accessories: a set of raised joystick caps, a set of mushroom head rocker hats, two sets of four sets of four paddles, and a classic cross button - because the default cross button is changed to the middle depression suitable for the hand rubbing fighting game eight-way cross button.

And these accessories are all adsorbed by magnetic force, and the installation is very convenient.

The left and right rocking rods of the handle, the position of the cross key and the inner part of the middle finger press behind the position have corresponding slots, and the corresponding keys or paddles are gently placed to achieve the adsorption effect, and the real fool operation is real.

In addition to the interchangeable joystick cap and cross keys, the handle also supports changing the trigger key key, as well as free mapping of new function keys to the back peg.

This is the smartest place of this controller, it does not force to change and optimize, the optimization it makes, it just touches the player's pain point, and is the player's actual use of the function.

The joystick hat, different players have different habits, some people like to use the traditional joystick hat, with the thumb to touch the top of the rocker hat depression position, some people like to push the rocking rod from the side, the use of different, the height of the rocker hat, the shape will naturally affect the feel.

Even many players have slight differences in the way they push the stick because of the different types of games they play, and this difference may not even feel it themselves.

After changing a variety of joystick hats, players can change at any time according to their habits.

The advantage of a long rocker hat is that when turning the direction of the same amplitude, the player's hand needs to draw a larger circle, so that it can be more accurate when moving or rotating the viewing angle - especially when looking up at the attack of a tall enemy at close range.

The mushroom key cap allows the player to shake the rod cap frequently for a long time when the hand will not be rubbed red because of friction, let alone fatigue or pain, which is also a huge improvement for the game experience.

In terms of cross bonds, the official standard cross key is a central depression of the eight-way key, its biggest role is to play fighting games can very simply rub out the desired strear, and because the surface of the eight-way cross key is very smooth, no matter how to rub continuously, will not hurt the hand.

In addition, there are some items in the game are selected with the directional key, the original four-way cross key to choose the top right of the props need to click two times, and now only need to click a click is enough.

Although there are very few players in the world who play fighting games, there is still a group of people, and this design is a boon for them.

There are two special buttons on the back of the handle, and after pulling, you can change the key of the two pull buttons - one is the more common deep key, the other is the shallow key.

This design is also very practical, deep key in the racing game is very suitable, can be very good simulation of the throttle, brake feel, slowly press the right pull button, the car will slowly accelerate, gently press a little left-wrenching key, the car will slightly slow down, and not stop at once.

In the shooting game, the player can shorten the key of the trigger key according to their own preferences, so that as long as the click can trigger the shooting, do not need to press so tired.

In addition, it is the back of the handle, these pegs are also magnetic adsorbed, a total of four, the player can choose to use part of it according to their own needs.When used, the official driver allows the player to map arbitrary function keys to these pegs, after which these pegs can take on the new function.

The biggest role of these pragettes has two, one is to add new buttons for the player, many players with the handle to play the game always feel that the key is not enough, or some keys are not convenient, the plucking can solve this problem; the second is that some players in the game need to press a certain key very frequently, such as some RPG game ordinary attack key, shoulder key and trigger key press more and more very tired, this time as long as the mapping to the pris, you can easily press.

Of course, this paddle may also make some players do not adapt, because the dial in the player's middle finger position, if some people are nervous to hold the handle may be wrong, this requires the player to adapt to, just like many players play mobile games from two fingers to three-finger operation, there must be a familiar process.

In any case, the designer has to provide these programs, and the player can choose freely.

In addition, an important design is the circular trackpad in the center of the handle, and the high-precision gyroscope built into the handle.

The position of this round trackpad is similar to the position of the PS4's rectangular trackpad, and the shape is similar to the trackpad of the steam handle, all of which are slightly recessed in the center of the circle.The most important function of this trackpad is to allow players to perform some mouse-like operations in the game.

For example, in the operation of simulation games, players often need to choose a certain area on the map to build a building, or build a road, etc. This operation with the original handle joystick is difficult to complete, the best way to operate is with a keyboard and mouse.

But with this round trackpad, it is good to say that the player only needs to gently drag on it with his thumb to complete some specific operations with the cross key of the left hand, such as placing the building in a very precise place.

The sensitivity of this circular touchpad is much higher than the joystick, similar to the touchpad of many laptops, and players can adapt quickly with a little familiarity.This also allows this controller to perfectly support many analog games.

In addition, the handle will also be equipped with a high-precision gyroscope, which is mainly used to improve the accuracy of shooting in FPS games.

In the FPS game, the player can control the direction through the right joystick, if it still needs to be fine-tuned at this time, and the player does not want to use the right rocker or touchpad, you can directly tilt the handle to aim - just like the player in the past life of the bell in the "Zelda" operation.

This is a huge boon for many players who like to play FPS games on the console, of course, the leilight studio advice, want to play FPS games is best to buy a complete set of GS1 simulator, to get the most perfect shooting experience.

In addition, due to the use of metal products in the handle, the weight of the entire handle will be significantly higher than that of other handles, so that the player feels that it has more weight in the hand, so that the feel of the whole handle will also be improved.

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Soon, the bell finally finished the design of the handle and sent it directly to Lin Xiaoguang.

Lin Xiaoguang's first reaction after watching it was: "So complicated?"

Obviously, the bell writing this a lot of things completely exceeded his expectations, before Lin Xiaoguang did not understand why the bell ringing to give him three months to do this handle, now understand, it really takes three months ah!

This handle is different from any handle on the market, which is the touchpad and the gyroscope, the pile is enough to Lin Xiaoguang, not to mention there are some special designs inside, such as the key range that can adjust the two pull-up keys, which have to change the internal structure.

“Teacher Zhong, does this need to be so complicated?”The experience of the player is indeed improved a lot, but the price of this sub-handle should also be very expensive, and it is very likely... to sell for about a thousand dollars.At this price, there is no competitive advantage in the market.”

Lin Xiaoguang does not think that these innovations are not good, innovation is of course good, and any improvement of the player's feel is certainly valuable.But the key is that the increase in the feel must mean the price increase, once the price goes up, the group of players facing it will naturally be narrow.

Zhong Ming replied, “It doesn’t matter, we bundle the handle and the GS1 X host for sale.”It's all bought by the rich anyway, and it's not a big problem for a few hundred dollars."

“God’s worth a few hundred dollars is not a problem!”Lin Xiaoguang asked, “So, what about GS1 S?”

"The GS1 S can be equipped with a most common handle, you can use it.The GS1 S is mainly on the affordable route, while the GS1 X is on the high-end route.In addition, the handle is also sold, how much money to sell to see the cost, sell to 1000 yuan is not impossible."

Lin Xiaoguang did not reply for a while, but quickly calculated the price of the two hosts.

The current two host devices, the GS1 S and the GS1 X, are also very large in the price gap due to the difference in configuration, the former is 2499 and the latter is 4199.

In this, Lin Xiaoguang reserved the price of the handle, reserved for 200 yuan.

That is to say, with a machine without a handle, the GS1 S should sell 2299, while the GS1 X should sell 3999.

But how can the host not have a handle?It must have been brought.

Now that the bell is going to bundle the elite handle with the GS1 X, the price of the GS1 X will be directly soared to 4999 (if the price of the new handle is about 1000), this price is slightly embarrassing.

4999 even if the compression of profits, the maximum is compressed to 4899, for the player, this price is not particularly sensitive, it does not make sense.If it can be compressed from 3100 to 2999, the feeling will be more intuitive to the player, but for GS1 X, it is obviously impossible to push the thousand-bit number down.

In other words, the final pricing is likely to be as follows:

GS1 S version of the host (with ordinary handle): 2499

GS1 X console (with elite handle): 4999

GS1 version of the elite handle: 999

At present, the price of the host on the market, the cheapest is basically around 2500~3000, and the most expensive is about 4500.That is to say, the minimum distribution version of the GS1 host is not competitive in terms of price compared to the cheapest host on the market at present, and the high-end version of the GS1 host is more expensive than the most expensive host on the market.

Of course, considering the price of the elite handle, the price of the GS1 X should be 4000, 500 yuan cheaper than the most expensive host on the market, but... players will not consider this price so sensibly, to play a question mark.

Players are likely to see the number "4999" directly "disturbed".

As for the handle is more expensive, the most expensive handle on the market is basically about 500 yuan, this elite handle crazy pile of materials, directly doubled the price.

According to the general idea, when hardware manufacturers enter a new field, they generally first gain a foothold at a low price, and then slowly explore the price and steadily enter the high-end field.Before the GS1 simulator did this, but look at the current host and handle this situation, it seems to be a direct step in place?

The X version is twice as expensive as the S version, will there really be players who will buy it?

Lin Xiaoguang's heart is also very uneasy.