| Games consoles have now been in our lives for | | | | coming to an end. The first ever console from |
| at least 5 decades. The systems have come and | | | | Sony was born and was called the Playstation, |
| gone and we are now on our new generation of | | | | this console was born out of a bitter feud |
| consoles, which include the Nintendo Wii. | | | | with Sony and Nintendo, as Sony were due to |
| Which has taken an innovative turn and given | | | | create a CD add-on for the SNES, but Nintendo |
| the user more control, over the character it | | | | backed out and went to Phillips. Sony |
| plays with. We then have the two power horses | | | | Playstation was then officially born; with |
| which are the Xbox 360 which was created by | | | | there unparalleled technology the unit |
| Microsoft themselves and the ever so | | | | shifted 100 million consoles and became the |
| successful Sony Playstation 3. But forget | | | | most successful console in history. |
| about the current consoles lets dive deep | | | | |
| back in time and find out what happened to | | | | Meanwhile Nintendo had to act and act fast as |
| the consoles that the nation loved and who | | | | Sony were growing in dominance, so they |
| will win the top spot. | | | | released the N64 which beat all consoles |
| | | | processing power by double, but Nintendo were |
| Lets first begin in the 80's where the games | | | | still using cartridges which was a downside. |
| console boom began, a fairly new Japanese | | | | |
| company had released a games console to the | | | | We now move onto the sixth generation |
| nation called Famicom. This ultimately became | | | | consoles and with the dominance of Sony we |
| a global success and was eventually renamed | | | | had to finally lay the once legendary Sega |
| NES ( Nintendo Entertainment System) for | | | | consoles to rest. There last effort came in |
| domination in America and the UK. This is | | | | the form of the Sega Dreamcast, but Sony's |
| when we were first introduced to characters | | | | dominance was too much to handle, would there |
| such as Mario and Donkey Kong who are still a | | | | be anyone can stop them? As the Dreamcast lay |
| global brand name. Moving on to another | | | | to rest Microsoft released there first ever |
| relatively small company in the name of Sega, | | | | console which eventually took some of Sony |
| who created a new games console called Master | | | | Playstations market share. The sales were |
| System, which was supposedly meant to | | | | levelling out once again but it looked as |
| eliminate the NES, but it never really | | | | though Nintendo were heading for the same |
| obtained any kind of significant market | | | | fate as Sega, as there fourth console the |
| share. | | | | GameCube became a flop due to insufficient |
| | | | production of games. Sony and Microsoft were |
| Moving on to the fourth generation of | | | | Head to Head. |
| consoles and this is where Sega wanted to get | | | | |
| it right, they delivered the ultimate 16 bit | | | | Finally our present day has seen the rebirth |
| console called the Mega Drive. The Mega Drive | | | | of Nintendo as they launched there innovative |
| gave us the likes of sonic and the system | | | | Wii console which has been a major success. |
| quickly rolled out globally. A year later and | | | | Slowly behind them are Sony's Playstation 3 |
| the console war was at an all time peak with | | | | console and it now looks as though Sony is |
| Nintendo also releasing there new generation | | | | suffering, as they no longer have a positive |
| system called SNES (Super Nintendo | | | | grip on the market. Microsoft has taken the |
| Entertainment System), the console war was | | | | lead with the Xbox 360. |
| now hotter than ever. | | | | |
| | | | Well all in all I believe that there is not |
| As we move into the fifth generation a new | | | | one overall great console, all have had there |
| competitor seems to be lurking in the | | | | time and all have performed well for there |
| backgrounds! Sega in the meantime were set to | | | | genre. What has the eighth generation of |
| release a new mood of system called the Sega | | | | consoles have to offer? Who knows, with |
| Saturn, the first ever system to use a CD Rom | | | | richer companies in the mix we may see a new |
| as the standard game play mode. Unfortunately | | | | breed of consoles, with Google being my |
| Sega's rein as a leader in there genre was | | | | favourite. |