Earlier this month, the miniStation Tencent released his first living room entertainment hardware. Different from the Xbox One PS4,miniStation Steam Machine that uses a similar Valve company authorized to design and manufacture mode, hardware partners in Tencent’s architecture design based on your miniStation.
At present, the Association and the miniStation Skyworth has said it will launch its own products.
Function, the miniStation Tencent Tencet OS system, equipped with Gao Tongxiao Dragon mobile processor, built-in range of Tencent games and services, players can use their QQ number or a micro-account login, purchase prepaid one-button operation.
Then, as Tencent’s first living room entertainment hardware, miniStation quality performances in the end how?
“Rubik’s cube” look biger full
Get the miniStation’s first, whether it is called “Rubik’s cube” or “four square”, which reached a certain height, and level of industrial design. From the United States has Huge team in San Francisco to find accurate “empty” design. A simple cube shape + hollow handle, miniStation looks unique, if not informed, maybe a lot of people make the mistake of thinking that this is a delicate art.
Orange miniStation ontology and iPhone 6 Plus compare, in practice the phone becomes the controller
Positive “miniStation” LOGO simple and generous, full biger fan art
Housing made of plastic molding, matte texture, square hollow section at the top is the “power button”, press touch induction
I/O on the back, from left to right are: LAN interface, HDMI connector, RESET button, USB interface and power connector
Hollow sections like “mirror” in which the indicator is hidden
Blue breathing lights effect
Accessories
HDMI connector
Very compact and can easily fit into a daily backpack
Connection TV effect
Appearance of comments:
Highly artistic design fan made miniStation look biger, and placed in the living room or bedroom will definitely not “drop”, the grade of feeling overwhelmed. On how to realize it really is “mobile game of big-screen”, and look down the next.
MiniStation App linkage, mobile second handle
Since it is for mobile gamers, and everyone has a Smartphone is inevitable, miniStation offers App of the same name can support smart mobile devices handle controller, whether it is Android or IOS.
Note: video June trial testing iPhone 6 Plus, miniStation as an engineering prototype for testing, with the official version may differ slightly
First in the App Store to download the miniStation App
After booting the host pairs
By miniStation signal matching
Enter the App after a successful pairing, you can achieve the host control
The pairing process is in the miniStation and phone between does not affect their use outside the network, the host can be connected separately wired LAN or wireless Wi-Fi, mobile phone daily functions at this time were not impressed.
Touchpad design, the player can be used to set horizontal/vertical
Mobile phone touch panel
Click on the blue “crosshairs” float and it has transformed into the “Trackpad” controller used another player very easy
Resolution adjustment, output 1080p 60Hz mobile games
To adjust the volume
Free connection Wi-Fi
MiniStation with App can upgrade system, games and system will not take phone storage space
Comments:
Each player to play mobile games will have a cell phone, so let the player’s existing equipment into a miniStation controller idea is bold and innovative, tailored App is simple, reducing the threshold for use of the maximum, allowing the player to save costs, but also to users of smart devices “secondary use”.
However, this App still needs to be improved, which hosts memory space as well as install the software functions such as unrealized.
Heavy mobile games players big screen experience
Next is everyone’s concerned game shows, miniStation currently popular mobile gaming masterpiece and many owned by Tencent games all in the Pocket, the game library is very rich. Mobile games and mobile phones the same games are also popular on the miniStation QQ or app scan code authenticated logins, appropriate payment link, too, is a familiar smell.
Very full games market, Tencent own mobile game alone, line-up rich enough
Mobile scan codes to log in or pay directly (a second gold AK)
Brother this experience not to “300 million mouse gun dreams”
However, hosts have installed quite a few other games, come and have a look.
ARPG games: the implosion of
Large screen real machine pictures
Felt the game machine a setting much like Hideo works–the ultimate Strip series that year. The amount of … Seems to pull away …
Operation is very smooth
Due to the video game you seldom play mobile games (cock wire up to landlords, play sneaky music), and started to touch controls will take some time. But it should be clearly stated, many people worry that the control delay almost does not exist.
In addition to operation of the implosion of the outside, where there basically, very accurate, so for those heavy mobile game players, is can be achieved and miniStation “seamless”, without any process of adaptation and learning costs. Worth mentioning is that the cell phone slide your finger on the screen in the past often block screen appears error, came to the miniStation is the perfect solution to the problem. Hong Kong music video Premier copyright mobile
Game will prompt “screens for a secondary display screen, please look at the TV screen”
Dual screen make up, much like the WiiU set. While on the phone’s screen is only the secondary display actually has been done with big screen image real-time synchronization, just cannot be guaranteed in the frames (only App that runs on the phone in a picture on the TV map), so it’s good to watch TV and play. By the way, video game King a half hour hands-on mobile also does not heat well, just a bit faster.
More natural with a completely different screen experience
Picture on the TV screen and visual experience at the phones/tablets can use “a sky of an underground” to describe, miniStation screen output for mobile games is unprecedented, even landmark. Borrow a colleague said: “it’s me playing just two games on a mobile phone! ”
Battle on the big screen very straightforward
In addition, the 1080p/60fps over the TV standard, actual particles can still clearly see the pixels with the naked eye, if you really want to do: basically, PSV is level output to the TV. Of course, mobile games and PSP games are fair, and the uneven quality of the mobile games, video you will have just seen me on the game of the implosion on the miniStation’s pictures showed the player, as a reference.
Number of frames, displayed directly below the screen, FPS range between 60-25 and battle scenes will be kept at around 30, when much of the enemy or BOSS war occasionally fell 25 to frame, frame drop leads to picture Caton, but smooth.
FPS gaming: modern warfare 5
Modern warfare 5
Next is the mobile version of COD–of the modern warfare 5, produced by famous Gameloft.
Opening in the water, and the sense of foot
Screen is very delicate, light and shadow are shown
This for of picture in FPS mobile game in the absolute is leader has, put to big screen Shang of performance further, compared small phone screen for, vision more open, characters, and scene, and firearms of maps also more detailed and clear, can foreseen to in some competitive FPS hand tour in the, using big screen of players will in above get some advantage, see have clear, and playing have associate.
Look at figure modeling, this bald-headed wide with
Feel the fire at … Play touch to play FPS is quite a novelty for June
Feel, touch for gaming you really have no way to play shooting games, can only be regarded as an alternative for me to experience it. And on the other the advantages and the implosion of a similar, not repeat them.
MOBA games: the Super God for all
MiniStation national Super God
I loved the Super God for all, this booming MOBA on the phone what about the performance of the game on the miniStation?
Part of teaching, cell phone into a small screen, similar to the WIIU, but delay is very high.
Pictures on the big screen more beautiful
Fineness of model has been
Before the final performance and experience of the two games are very similar, the picture bigger, fewer mistakes, the operation is smooth, small map is very clear, easier to observe the enemy’s dynamic, modeling and fine a lot of the characters, some skills the special effects become more beautiful. While the core gameplay remains unchanged: was the original recipe or a familiar smell.
Home entertainment
Clouds cinema
In addition to the game, miniStation includes some elements of home entertainment, such as movies, TV shows, sporting events, race coverage, but then it would turn into a “universal TV box.”
Now hit the big play has
Consolidation of competing video resources
Sport also has
Working with Blackstone movies, you need to pay to watch videos
Now hit the big play has
MiniStation is definitely more than a “game” is more like a set of “home entertainment solutions”, of course, it still has a long way to go.
Summary
“A paper decision” announced home games nearly two years since the lifting of the ban, including Play Station/Xbox the global success stories into the domestic market, there are countless copycat game machines, video game boxes such as “mushroom”-like coming out. Domestic gaming market appears to be thriving, but still tough.
With the emergence of miniStation, seems to be in the domestic market and saw a new mobile gaming trends, the new rules of the game. Last hope Lenovo/Tencent real game user’s point of view, give full play to their own advantages, creating belongs to the Chinese player’s “family mobile games ecosystem.”
As planned, the miniStaion will be generally available on December 16, priced at 699 Yuan (player’s hand phone is a controller), comes with 499 Games Pack accessories such as handle requires additional purchase.
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