Will was a winner in the video games console?

Home video game consoles since the Magnavox Odyssey console first released in 1972 were around. Since this time, the video game console has overcome his share of adversity, surviving two periods of uncertainty and the market crash in 1977 and 1983, throwing doubt on the future of the industry.



In recent years, however, the video game console industry has gone from strength to strength and the competition between developers is fierce. New Technologies driven by the game consoles game cartridge format, as these consoles like the Nintendo SNES and Sega Mega Drive on a compact disc format as the current generation of console applications - a technology pioneered by Sega Saturn system. However, it was the launch of the Playstation console in Japan in 1994 and in Europe a year later, the real home-made video games popular.



Since then it has three main developers since> Game console market. Nintendo are perhaps the best known of the three, the design and development of video game consoles since the 1980s. From their SNES and N64 systems up to the Gamecube and today's Wii console, Nintendo has a hardcore following among video gamers and are perhaps the most dominant entity in the handheld gaming market since the launch of Game Boy and more recently the Nintendo DS deserves.



Having seen the phenomenal successwith its PlayStation console, Sony has become almost synonymous in the video game console market. Your Playstation 2 console was released in 2000 and is the most commercially successful and fastest-selling console worldwide delivered at home in video game history, with over 120 million units, was until May 2007. Following a delay their latest Sony console released - the Playstation 3 - March 2007, and it became the fastest-selling home games console in the UK to complete the sale165,000 consoles in the first two days of availability.



The third company, Microsoft, as well as the newcomers saw in the video game console market, its Xbox console in 2002, launched as a rival to Sony's Playstation 2 The Xbox has been put on many desktop computers and games consoles with the console as the first on an internal hard drive for storage instead of using removable memory cards, as well as other similarities seen with hisHardware specifications when compared to a computer. Although it is popular, it was not making much of an impact on the PlayStation 2 market share. End of 2005, Microsoft has the new Xbox 360 to market.



For many, the latest 'Console War' has just begun and it is not possible to determine what, if any, is served by three major consoles - Sony Playstation 3, Nintendo Wii and Microsoft's Xbox 360 - will dominate this newGeneration. The Xbox 360 has gained an early lead in terms of market share, but this is in no small part to having being the one years before his competitors. Sony's Playstation 3 has Blu-ray capabilities, which can show it to high-definition video, and you will see both consoles were on the hardcore gamers want.



At the expense of the blade can be graphics, Nintendo Wii uses a wireless, interactive control, which detect movement and rotation in three Dimensions. The controller also plays sound and includes force feedback and allows the user to vibrations that mimic feelings experienced during the game experience. Despite some quarters dismissing the Wii as "spurious", Nintendo have not found themselves in a position to make consoles fast enough to meet demand. Since January, is both the Sony and Microsoft consoles has left because of its widespread among casual gamers, as well as its ease of use.



The audience for> Game is bigger than ever, with the game industry enjoyed a record year. In the U.S., sales increased in 2006 by 20 percent to $ 12.5 billion, with forecasts for 2007 are rumors surpass that number. Nevertheless, it is too early to say, will fan out as the latest "console war '.