The temptation of the big screen · Ministaion big screen game machine to get started evaluation

prologue

Hello everyone, on the tail of 2016, the Big Buddha won the qualification of the ministation Titanium Ministation, thanks to Aunt Zhang’s trust and the affirmation and help given by the mid-level friends in the past year.

I wish you all the best in 2017, financial resources, good health, all wishes come true!

From the childhood hegemony to the Soufun PS4, console games brought us too much happy time, but due to policy and spending habits, console games in China have been at a Even if the PS4 and XBO break through the policy barriers in a certain sense, it is still only a niche way of entertainment that the core players are relishing.

At the same time, with the rapid development of the mobile Internet, the continuous improvement of the hardware level, and the outbreak of the mobile gaming industry caused by capital injection, mobile games have become the absolute main force of the Chinese game market, and not only have a hand in the domestic PC stand-alone gaming market, but also will The traditional endgame market has also almost pushed into the glacial era.

More and more excellent mobile games are appearing in our field of vision and tens of thousands of choices are overwhelming.

China has never had such a flourishing era of games. It has not only achieved a leap in the quality of the game, but also achieved domestic cultural output to Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, North America, the Middle East, Europe, and Southeast Asia.

The foreign developers’ masterpieces are even more overwhelming. The Chinese game market is finally connected with the world through the emerging platform of mobile games, official Chinese and synchronous offerings, etc. These dreams of our middle-aged players have been fully realized, with outstanding images and novelties. Creativity brings players a wonderful game trip again and again.

However, at the same time, the blurry operation experience coupled with the cramped feeling brought by the small screen not only reduces the joy of games that require high operation, but also makes mobile games less fun.

For decades, the game console has undergone an astounding technological innovation, but the display is still in front of us as a host-handle-TV combination.

Big screen + handle is recognized as the best casual game mode, even if the current 3A masterpiece is the PC host full platform for sale, many players will still choose the host version, even if the FPS mouse and keyboard operation is significantly more convenient game category, there are still Numerous hosts have fans.

If you can play games on the big screen with the handle, it is a brand-new opportunity and experience for both developers and players.

The Android set-top boxes popular in the north and south of the country seem to be excellent mobile games - TV docking platform, but the uneven performance, lack of support for the game makers to support the game, there is no professional gaming peripherals manufacturer software and hardware development and other disadvantages There is still little interest in playing games with set-top boxes today.

Although there are already several specialized set-top box game companies in China that have developed set-top box game products to provide large-screen gaming experiences, it is difficult to create image-quality masterpieces because of the lack of standard production and immature markets.

There are also several high-quality products on the Android simulator that appear in front of the players, support the operation of the handle, FC, MD, GB, GBA, PS, etc. platform on the former classic selection is rich, but the classic old works can not replace the new game The charm and heat can only be used as a "icing on the cake" function.

All major handle manufacturers have introduced handle products for Android and IOS. Game handle operations are achieved through key mapping and other methods. However, most of them lack professional button adaptation, require ROOT permission, and have poor quality hardware quality. The development is still not warm for many years. Not fire.

The patchwork entertainment system does not meet the needs of today's market. The market needs a large-screen gaming hardware product that is guided by content manufacturers, created by a professional team, and has excellent performance. It is a one-stop solution to all problems and plugs in the power supply. , pick up the handle, the next second will be able to enter the game world's products.

As a result, Titanium teamed up with Tencent to launch this Android-based Ministation big-screen game console and tried to interpret the new experience of the big-screen game in the mobile game era from another perspective.

Out of the box


Very smoothly received Auntie's package

Tough on the tallest shunfeng morning, the aunt more and more praised

Because it is a set (host + handle), it is two boxes

Keep in mind the code of conduct of the aunt and do the most impartial test with impartiality

Red and black color packaging people first feel the vitality

The body highlights the innovation in design. The hollow design in the middle and the LED light reflect the sense of technology.

Behind is the product of Slogan, after all, SKY's industry, do not pull the word on the game are sorry their own name

Various parameters

The remaining few packages

The front of the handle of the handle shows the product and model

The description on the back is actually more than the host...

Still born for gaming

The host's inner box, the overall is a big red

Open the box, the first one that appears before the eyes is a thank you note

SKY signature, as an eSports player, it is not easy to create an eSports hardware brand

Host family and accessories family portrait, respectively host, HDMI cable, power supply, thank-you letter and instructions

The machine shell is made of plastic frosted technology, with a slight fingerprint collection function, the top is a large touch-type power button, the side is the brand nameplate

The back is a variety of interfaces, there is a product LOGO on the opposite side of the brand nameplate, the overall texture is not significantly cheap

The underside is the product label and anti-slip mat. There is a screw under each anti-slip mat. It is not familiar with this special design product. It will not be dismantled in this article. Please also understand.

The host computer provides a network cable interface, an HDMI interface, a USB interface, a power socket

The middle hollow part is a strong reflection of the LED light strips, after the boot is breathing blue light, very scientific sense

The power button is surrounded by a metallic decorative edge. This switch is designed with touch control. In order to give feedback to the user, vibration design is added.

Ministation is the name of this product, let me be surprised is that Lenovo has exactly the same product, also called Ministation, but with different handles, I do not know what the situation is ......

Titanium degree plate, metal texture is very eye-catching

The hollow design not only brings the two antennas not to interfere with each other, but more importantly brings this hidden large-sized heat dissipating hole to bring excellent heat dissipation performance without destroying the appearance.

Handle inner box

Handle and accessories family portrait, including handle body, manual, data cable, battery

The main body of the handle is made of skin-like material, and the non-slip material is used in the sweaty parts of the palm of the hand.

Dual analog rocker design allows more game types to be easily controlled

In order to adapt to the Android operation, the middle of the handle is added Android three King Kong: HOME key, menu key and return key, and connection status indicator

All keys have bright plastic material

The handle has four buttons LT, LB, RT, RB, and two buttons L3 and R3 pressed by two analog sticks, which are designed according to the number of buttons of the home console.

The battery compartment is on the back of the handle and is powered by the 5th battery

Below the battery compartment is a small receiver compartment for 2.4G receivers


The handle and the host appear to be very harmonious, unlike the dissonant handle in Lenovo's set, although the titanium handle has a drawing behavior, it has to be said that it is more suitable for the delicate shape of the host.

Titanium Ministation's out of the box will stop here, enter the evaluation section below


hardware

Titanium Ministation uses Rockchip RK3288 CPU with A17 architecture, clocked at 1.8GHz. This CPU was released in 2014 and it was awarded the title of "run the king" in that year.

It seems that at least in the Android set-top box, the performance of this CPU is still very good, and its integrated ARM Mali-T764 GPU is even better, close to the Apple A7 (iphone 5s) GPU level, to cope with the vast majority of the time Hand travel more than enough.

It is worth mentioning that this CPU supports H.265 hard solution and 4K output. With the development of video coding, H.265 will become a new trend, whether it is a local video file or a streaming video. However, many Android set-top boxes on the market today are marked with H.265 decoding, but they can achieve very few hardware decodings, and software solutions occupy a large amount of system resources.

Ministation is born for the game, equipped with 2GRAM to ensure the smooth running of the system, and 2G RAM is also the standard configuration of high-end Android set-top boxes.

The unique shape design won the if2016 design award. Although the gold content of the IF and the red dot became more and more commercialized in recent years, it is enough to show that the Ministation has been carefully designed. In addition to the concave shape, this hollow shape has also been considered from a practical point of view, to avoid the dual wifi antenna mutual interference, while the use of hollow reasonable expansion and hidden cooling holes, not only to make the appearance more concise, but also make the heat more efficient.

Compared with other set-top boxes in the home, the Ministation is huge in size. Its unique design is different from other set-top boxes on the market and it is very attractive.

I do not know whether it is to shape the game console or for other reasons, the Ministation does not come with a remote control, and only comes with a gamepad. Although the gamepad can replace most functions of the remote control, it also requires the Ministation mobile phone remote control APP to perform settings and other operations. However, neither of them can be turned on remotely and set in detail. The operation is slightly inconvenient.

Let's talk about the attached handle. The Ministation comes with a titanium degree TGA100 gamepad. This handle uses 2.4G for wireless connectivity, with no need for pairing, plug and play, good stability, low latency and so on. The non-slip rubber design of the main body of the class material and the gripping part brings a comfortable feel. The button's press feel is moderate, and the rebound feel is solid. Combination of shortcut keys facilitates easy operation and design. Can connect Android, windows and other systems. In the domestic game controller, the design and workmanship of this handle is relatively good.

Compared with other handle products in the home, it can be seen that its shape is very similar to the XBOX360 handle, although it lacks innovation but also guarantees an excellent feel

The Ministation only provides a USB interface. When the handle adapter is inserted, external storage devices can no longer be used. This causes a slight inconvenience in daily use. It may be that the manufacturer provides the 2.4G handle in consideration of the delay of the Bluetooth handle. But why not prepare a USB interface or simply built-in receiver?

Next, we use performance-testing security rabbits

After the performance test was completed, the Ministation scored 45,822 points. This performance is slightly different from its advertised "game-level" performance. It is necessary to know that the enhanced version of the $399 Millet Box 3 can still reach 57,000+ points, and this price is 699. The product has such performance table reality is somewhat disappointing

Performance ladder, belonging to Charm blue note3 quite, can also run most mobile games smoothly

Let's take a look at the iphone7 plus's score...and of course there is no hope that the 699 can bring black technology performance, but this gap is particularly impressive, if the Ministation does not have strong hardware support, I am afraid it is difficult to establish a reputation in the player group.

The following enter the video playback test

The Ministation perfectly supports all current common video formats. However, it is strange that frequent Caton can still be found in TV live applications such as televisions. This kind of hardware performance is very puzzling.

system


In order to align with the traditional host, the Ministation made a deep customization on the system to simplify the operation. The minimalist UI makes all content clear and beautiful, and even moves the basic setting interface to the remote control APP.

Because it is located in the "big screen game" products, Ministation did not cooperate with the licensee, that Ministation itself does not have any video resources to watch, vaguely remember that national regulations set-top box products must cooperate with the camera to be approved for listing, I do not know whether the Ministation is playing a policy to wipe the ball or simply did not go through the policy approval on the market.

I believe that most users will want to use the Ministation to watch videos, install third-party apps, etc. However, deep-customized systems do not even come with a file manager, and they need to be downloaded first from the official store. After the third-party APP is installed, the system cannot display the ICON of the APP. Only the default default ICON of the system can be displayed, the aesthetic level is greatly reduced, and the classification is lacking.

The built-in game download store is fairly rich, able to find most of the hot mobile games in the country, and all of them have been fitted with titanium handles, and they can handle them with joy. The game in the mall supports in-street scanning. If you need to purchase in-game payment content, you can simply pay for the payment by using the QR code on the mobile phone scanning screen. This is very convenient.

There are game recommendations at the bottom of the main interface of the system. Each game has an interface display, rating and detailed introduction. It is very hard and professional.

Ministation has prepared an official mobile phone remote control app to solve the vacuum caused by the lack of a remote control.

Compared with most remote APPs on the market, this APP is also a minimalist design, with only one touch mode of operation.

All the settings and operations are almost carried out through this APP. Too radically simplifying the design brings inconvenience to users. The cost of a remote control is not high. Now that the price has been positioned at the 699 level, why not send a remote control? Increase the product value?

Attempted to upgrade the system, but it was found that the APP and the system upgrade server could not complete the connection. There was still no system update released before the final draft. This function could not be evaluated.

In order to install Goku's remote control for screen captures, Goku's remote control is easier to use than Ministation's own remote control.

No shutdown function, yes you read it right, this product in addition to pull power I have not found a way to shut down, whether it is the handle or control APP, did not provide a shutdown function, even long press the machine switch button can only let The machine is dormant instead of shutting down, this design is very puzzling...

For an Android-based hardware product, it is obviously that a device that can be used as a "living room entertainment center" can be made to be "born for the game only". I don't think this type of B format is very large. necessary.

What's even more weird is that it is obviously a product with such a powerful hardware quality that it encounters a stuck condition when playing a third-party live TV APP, and it frequently crashes and restarts. We must know that even if the low-end Android set-top box on the market does not appear to be watching live TV, it is not known to be stalled. The reason is unknown.

Because the operation mode of the mobile game is still based on the touchscreen design standard, many games in addition to the click there are sliding and other operations, then the handle can not be the corresponding operation, even if the king of glory to cancel skills such operations can hardly be completed, so Ministation Created a set of reverse projection screens to map TV screens to mobile phones for easy sliding operation. However, this approach seems to be a bit of a stumbling block, flaunting the experience of the big-screen game and returning it to the phone.

It is worth mentioning that, based on the restrictions of APPLE, most of the mobile phone online games are IOS and Android sub-services, so if you are an IOS user, unfortunately your game account will not be synchronized to the Ministation, you can only play Android server from scratch. It's not a big disadvantage.

to sum up


The Ministation is a bold attempt of the game set-top box products. It is built by professional peripheral manufacturers and first-hand manufacturers in China. It is the best solution for large-screen mobile games on the market.

Excellent design, exquisite workmanship, powerful performance, rich game content, bring new entertainment ways to leisure time.


But in many ways, this product still has flaws:


At the beginning of the system design, the use requirements of the third-party APP were not taken into consideration, and no ICON display was simple;

No video licensee access, there is no official video resource;

There is no remote control but there is no other remote boot mode. It is inconvenient to press the fuselage boot button every time you turn on the machine.

In addition to pulling out the power supply, the shutdown operation cannot be achieved;

In order to simplify the UI to hide a lot of commonly used functions such as system settings, etc., bring some unnecessary inconvenience;

Poor system stability, multiple crash restarts during use;

The operation of the handle cannot satisfy many operations and can only be solved with the help of mobile phone reverse projection, which leads to a game experience being reversed and cannot reflect the comfort of the large screen;

Only one USB port comes with a 2.4G wireless controller that requires an adapter. External storage devices cannot be used during use.

The handle can't support games made by unofficial malls, etc.


It's not a shame. As a new generation of first-generation products, this kind of performance is also reasonable. We hope that Titanium and Tencent will gradually solve problems in the next products, such as improving host hardware performance, providing Bluetooth handles, or in game development. When considering the possibility of full handle operation, bring a more perfect product.


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