PostHeaderIcon Is it a winner in the war video game?

Home video game consoles have been around for the first time the console Magnavox Odyssey was released in 1972. Since then, the video game console has its share of adversity to overcome, survive two periods of uncertainty and the market collapse in 1977 and 1983 casts doubt on the future of the industry.

In recent years, however, the video game industry grew in strength, and competition among developers is difficult. A technology developed by Sega Saturn System – New technologies have game consoles used outside the game cartridge format, such as consoles like the Nintendo SNES and Sega Mega Drive in the direction of a compact disc format that the current generation of consoles used to be trained. However, it was the launch of the Sony Playstation console in Japan in 1994 and in Europe a year later, video games popular home-made.

Since then there have been three major developers in the market for game consoles. Nintendo is probably the most famous of the three, with designs and develops video game consoles since 1980. Their SNES and N64 systems for the Gamecube and Wii current Nintendo console deserves a fan base among hardcore gamers, and are perhaps the most dominant person in the handheld market since the introduction of Game Boy time and more recently the Nintendo DS.

After phenomenal success with its PlayStation, Sony was almost synonymous with the market for video game consoles. Your PlayStation 2 was released in 2000 and became the console’s most commercially successful and fastest-selling home-delivered in video game history, with over 120 million units in May 2007. After a delay, Sony releases its latest console – Playstation 3 – March 2007, and became the fastest selling console games at home in the UK , has sold 165,000 consoles in the first two days of />
The third company, Microsoft is the newcomer in the market for video game consoles seen since launched its Xbox 2 in 2002 as a competitor to the Sony Playstation Xbox was seen by many desktop consoles, and the game to come together to deal with the console, first on an internal hard drive for storage instead of removable memory cards and other similarities with its hardware specifications when used with a personal computer for comparison. Although it has proved popular, it was not to make much impact on the market share of PlayStation 2. In late 2005, Microsoft launched the new Xbox 360 on the market.

For many, the last “console war” is just beginning and is determined not yet possible, which, if any, of the three major consoles – come to dominate this new generation – Sony Playstation 3, Nintendo Wii and Microsoft Xbox 360. The Xbox 360 has gained an early lead in terms of market share, but this is due largely to the beginning one year before his rival. Sony Playstation 3 has Blu-ray capabilities, which allow to show high definition video, and both consoles seem to have been true to the hardcore gamer.

At the expense of cutting-edge graphics using the Nintendo Wii, a wireless interactive control, which can detect motion and rotation in three dimensions. The control system also plays sound and includes force feedback, allowing the user to simulate the vibrations of the feelings experienced during the gaming experience despite a few quarts dismissing the Wii as a “gimmick”, Nintendo have found incapable of consoles fast enough to meet demand. Since January he sold both Sony and Microsoft consoles because of its mass appeal among casual gamers, and its ease of use.

The hearing of the games is more than ever, with the gaming industry has experienced a record year. In sales in the United States in 2006 increased 20 percent to 5 dollars, exceeding the forecast for 2007 with the report that these numbers. However, it is still too early to say how the last “console war” unfold.

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