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Evolution of Gaming C onsoles

Carloe U. Distor. Evolution of Gaming C onsoles. Gaming consoles have proved themselves best in digital entertainment. Gaming consoles were designed for the sole purpose of playing electronic games and nothing else. A gaming

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Evolution of Gaming C onsoles

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  1. Carloe U. Distor Evolution of Gaming Consoles

  2. Gaming consoles have proved themselves best in digital entertainment. Gaming consoles were designed for the sole purpose of playing electronic games and nothing else. A gaming console is a highly specialised piece of hardware that has rapidly evolved. What is Gaming consules

  3. Research conducted in 2002 show that 60% of US residents aged six. And above play computer games. Over 221 million computer and video games were sold in the U.S. Earlier . research found that 35% of U.S.. WHY GAMING IS SO IMPORTANT TO THE COMPUTER INDUSTRY

  4. First Generation – 1972Magnavox odyssey, Atari PongThe Odyssey was initially only moderately successful, and it was not until Atari's arcade game Pong popularized video games (1975), that the public began to take more notice of the emerging industry.

  5. Second Generation – 1976Fairchild VES, Atari 2600The VES, however, contained a programmable microprocessor so its cartridges only needed a single ROM chip to store microprocessor instructions. RCA and Atari soon released their own cartridge-based consoles. the Atari 2600, and marketed as improvements over the Atari 2600.

  6. Third Generation – 1983Sega Master system, NESIn 1983, Nintendo released the Family Computer (or Famicom) in Japan. Sega's Master System was intended to compete with theNES, but never gained any significant market share in the US or Europe.

  7. Fourth Generation – 1988Sega MegaDrive, SNESSega regained market share by releasing its next-generation console, the Mega Drive,, two years before Nintendo could release the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES).

  8. Fifth Generation – Jaguar, 3DO, PS1, Sega Saturn, Nintendo 64The first fifth generation consoles were the Atari Jaguar and the 3DO. Both of these systems were much more powerful than the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) or Mega Drive;they were better at rendering polygons.

  9. Sixth Generation – 1999PS2, Dreamcast, Xbox, GameCubeThis generation saw a move towards PC-like architectures in gaming consoles,Thisbrought games that were both longer and more visually appealing. this generation also saw experimentation with online console gaming and implementing both flash and hard drive.

  10. Seventh Generation – 2005PS3, Xbox 360, WiiThe features introduced in this generation include the support of new disc formats. Another new technology is the use of motion as input, and IR tracking Also, all seventh generation consoles support standard wireless controllers.

  11. Eighth Generation? • Xbox 720 • Playstationorbis • Will U

  12. THE END!

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