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