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    The History of Video Games Some people may not know this, but there was a time when video games were not around. Like a lot of things in the world that are distinctly human, video games were made out of a combination of innovation, necessity, and curiosity. The early video game creators would be making something that would seem clunky, and somewhat crude at first. But that would completely change in time by the innovators, and entrepreneurs to something that would some day be consider an art form

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    Afrika, a new safari videogame for Sony’s PlayStation 3 (PS3) console that allowed players to watch wild animals and take virtual pictures. Hirai could not help feeling frustrated. Most of the conversation—like many others with Sony outsiders in the past month—had revolved around two questions: Was Afrika Sony’s answer to the casual games that were partly responsible for the runaway success of rival Nintendo’s Wii videogame console? And more generally,

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    Video games are revolutionary in this age and they are improving more and more. There are lots of kind of games, some of them have adventures on it and others can make you scared. Companies are the ones that produces these games in a great number. Nowadays most of them have tons of people working on a game to make sure that they produce an incredible product so kids can enjoy a good experience. You may think that only kids buy this things, but a surprising number of adults buy video games and this

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    Alot of people like video game, but don’t really think much about who came up with this and how did it get so popular well here are the answers to those questions. In 1972 Atari develops the very 1st video game Pong a table tennis like game.The game came in a console of its own you could not play anything on it but pong.Today pong seems like a pile of junk, but back in 1972 It was like the invention of the light bulb.Atari was the biggest company for 3 whole years until the competition came to rise

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    The Xbox One is a gaming console made by Microsoft, Inc. It is in the middle of its product life, 2 years old at the time of this paper. The success of the original Xbox, and Xbox 360 provided a platform for Xbox one to succeed and capture market share for competition- Sony PS3 and Nintendo. Xbox one has become a bestselling gaming console with millions of units sold around the world. Genesis: Video games were originated first in laboratories by scientists. “This first idea came from their imaginations

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    use the console in the open. Backwards-compatibility, most PSOne/PS2 games don’t work with the PS3 yet; this could be fixed with upcoming System Updates. Other issues include the Yellow Light of Death, this is an internal hard drive error; similar to the “Red Light of Death” from the Xbox 360. This error is caused by overheating and if the system is no properly vented, your system will be ruined. Sony has been producing world class electronics for nearly 50 years. The first game console produced

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    play a huge role in determining if the Xbox One or PlayStation 4 is superior. The Xbox one is a sleek and very nice looking console designed to impress the buyer with its shiny gloss black finish and touch screen buttons to make it easier to operate. The Xbox One controller was completely redesigned

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    GAMES Convenience of Emulators: (Sinh Ly) The legal aspects of emulations and emulators are tied with its association with ROMs, as defined by Nintendo as Read Only Memory, which are usually illegally ripped (2015). An emulator is a software that attempts to replicate the functions of another platform, in this case, a gaming console or portable system, to run the code and interpret data from plugins that can interpret signals from a controller and used with the program (Newman, 2013). The creation

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    dominate the console hardware market. These three companies are Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo. The Microsoft Xbox One controls about 29% of the market share, while Sony PlayStation 4 controls 51%, and Nintendo Wii 20% (Duran 2015). With technology changing everyday, increased competition, and similarity in hardware products, there is a high level of urgency for Microsoft to come up with an innovation strategy that will enable the company to surpass its competitors. For the video game industry many

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    owning a home video game console, they need to weigh the positives and negatives of their options heavily because the current generation of home consoles is frightfully expensive and once you make your choice, you’re virtually stuck with it. The current popular choice is the Nintendo Wii due to its appeal to people who only play games casually on a basis similar to say, reading for fun or movie watching. I believe common consumer with less gaming finesse would jump on the Nintendo console first, which

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