Home video game console has been around for the first time the console Magnavox Odyssey released in 1972. From that moment, the game console to overcome its share of adversity, surviving two periods of uncertainty and the market crash in 1977 and 1983, questioned the future of the industry.
In recent years, however, the industry of video game console has continued to strength, and competition is fierce among developers. New technologies have driven gamesConsole away from the game cartridge format, because through that Nintendo consoles like the SNES and Sega Megadrive a format used on compact discs are used as the current generation console - a technology introduced by the Sega Saturn system. However, it was the introduction of the Sony PlayStation console in Japan in 1994 and in Europe a year later, the very popular home-made video games.
Since then there have been three major developers in the games console market. Nintendo are perhaps thethe three known after the design and development of game consoles by 1980. From their SNES and N64 systems for the Gamecube and the current Wii deserves a fan base among the hardcore players are perhaps the most dominant person in the market since the launch of its handheld Game Boy system and, more recently, when Nintendo DS.
After phenomenal success with its PlayStation console, Sony has been almost synonymous with the videoConsole games market. Your Playstation 2 was released in 2000 and became the most commercially successful console and sold more quickly delivered to your home in video game history, with over 120 million units by May 2007. After a delay, Sony has released its latest console - the Playstation 3 - March 2007, and became the best-selling home games console in Britain, about 165,000 consoles sold in the first two days of availability.
The third company, Microsoft,seen as the newcomers brought in the video game console market with its Xbox console in 2002, to life as a competitor to Sony's Playstation 2 Xbox was seen by many as desktop computing and gaming console to get together to use with the console, first on an internal hard drive for storage instead of removable memory cards, and other similarities with its hardware specifications, if a Personal Computer. Although it proved popular, was not much to doan impact on the market share of the PlayStation 2. End of 2005, Microsoft launched the new Xbox 360 on the market.
For many, the latest "console war 'only just begun and is determined not to be, 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 initial advantage in terms of market share, but this is in large part to begin witha year before its rivals. Sony Playstation 3 has Blu-ray have abilities that allow her to appear to show high-definition video, and both were subject to the hardcore gamer console.
At the expense of edge graphics using the Nintendo Wii console, a wireless, interactive control, able to detect motion and rotation in three dimensions. The controller also plays sound and includes force feedback, allowing the user to mimic the vibrations, the feelings experiencedexperienced during the game. Despite some quarters, dismissed the Wii as a "false", found themselves unable to Nintendo consoles fast enough to meet demand. Since January, the console has sold both Sony and Microsoft for its mass appeal among casual players, as well as its ease of use.
The audience for games is bigger than ever, with the gaming industry enjoyed a record year. In the U.S., sales in 2006 increased 20 percent to $ 12.5 billion, withThe forecast for the year 2007, the voice over that number. However, it is still too early to say how the latest "console war" fan out.
