Playstation
One of the biggest giants in the video game world today is Sony and their revolutionary Playstation. Right now their Playstation 3 is in circulation throughout the world, but prior to last year there was the original Playstation, and Playstation 2. This was the first video game system that used CD’s as disks for their games, instead of the usual cartridges used by Nintendo, Sega, Atari, and many other companies. It started off as a collaboration with Sony and Nintendo in 1988 trying to create an extension to Nintendo’s console Super Nintendo called the Super Disk, since most companies were about to start making systems that way, and it was also much cheaper to create. Since Nintendo figured out that Sony would get all of the rights to their games so they split apart and did not finish creating the new addition. This is when Sony kept going with the CD concept and after a few years created Playstation.
After Sony parted ways with Nintendo, Sony began researching and developing the original Playstation in 1991. It was released in the United States in September 9, 1995 and was also known as Playstation X otherwise known as PSX. It played CD-ROM’s and was the first video game system to start this trend. It was released at $299 in the United States and the original games cost thirty dollars. It was revolutionary with 4 shoulder or on the back buttons known as the “R” and “L” Buttons, it also had more than one joystick along with a grip pad on the sticks. The Graphics unit was separate from the actual CPU and had a resolution of 640 by 480 pixels and was in 2-D. The actual computer inside was a 32-bit RISC, held 2 megabytes of RAM as well as 1 megabyte of Video RAM. The library of games was almost 1,000 and was used...
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...se throughout the last fifteen years it has been the most technologically advanced and contains many parts of an actual computer. It contains a hard drive as well as a high quality CPU and Graphics card. This is how Playstation and its other consoles after relate to technology and computers.
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The PS2 offers a reasonably powerful processor, about 297MHz (Megahertz). It may seem a little bit on the sluggish side compared to the processor of Xbox, about 733MHz, and to the GameCube processor, about 485MHz. If you ask me, I think that 733MHz is a little much for a gaming console, it’s just plain ridiculous. The PS2 has enough power to run high quality games. And with the planned decrease in cost for the PS2, you should be able to get one for lower than the normal price, $299, sometime in the near future. Microsoft cannot decrease their price for Xbox, $299, because they are already losing money selling systems, about $50 a system sold. So that tells you that the PS2 could match the price of GameCube, $199, before long.
XBox 360 released in 2005. XBox 36o sold the 78.2 million and surpass Play Station and WII consoles. The game was first introduced in MTV on may 12,2005. The game is released kinect a motion control system which made it very different from other video games. X Box was first released with 250GB hard drive and sku feature with 4 GB internal storage.
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...lah S.). The PlayStation 4 released November 15 of 2013 and had preorders larger than launch sales of Sony’s PlayStation 3 at one million orders. The people have waited almost 7 years for a brand new gaming console. That 7 year wait has tremendously increased the demand for the new console.
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