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The list of video game consoles is split into the following articles: List of dedicated video game consoles; List of handheld game consoles; List of home video game consoles. List of video game consoles by generation; List of first generation home video game consoles; List of microconsoles; List of video game console emulators
With more than 101 million units sold, the Nintendo Wii is the best-selling home video game console in the seventh generation. The release of the Xbox 360 began the seventh generation. Video game consoles had become an important part of the global IT infrastructure by the mid-2000s. It was estimated that video game consoles represented 25% of ...
This is a list of retro style video game consoles in chronological order. Only officially licensed consoles are listed. Only officially licensed consoles are listed. Starting in the 2000s, the trend of retrogaming spawned the launch of several new consoles that usually imitate the styling of pre-2000s home consoles and only play games that ...
The 32-bit/64-bit era is most noted for the rise of fully 3D polygon games. While there were games prior that had used three-dimensional polygon environments, such as Virtua Racing and Virtua Fighter in the arcades and Star Fox on the Super NES, it was in this era that many game designers began to move traditionally 2D and pseudo-3D genres into 3D on video game consoles.
New World Computing, Inc. was an American video game developer and publisher founded in 1984 [1] by Jon Van Caneghem, his wife, Michaela Van Caneghem, and Mark Caldwell. [2] It was best known for its work on the Might and Magic role-playing video game series and its spin-offs, especially Heroes of Might and Magic.
The PlayStation 2 was the best-selling system of the sixth generation, selling over 160 million units, also making it the best-selling console of all time.. The PlayStation 2 [6] [7] [8] achieved sales dominance in this generation, becoming the best-selling console in history, [9] with over 160 million units sold as of November 2024. [10]
These initial home video game consoles were popular, leading to a large influx of companies releasing Pong and other video game clones to satisfy consumer demand. While there were only seven companies that were releasing home consoles in 1975, there were at least 82 by 1977, with more than 160 different models that year alone that were easily ...
In the early 1980s, many large corporations, spurred by the success of the home video game industry and especially the VCS, launched or bought subsidiaries to produce video game console software. By 1982, the shelf capacity of toy stores was overflowing with an overabundance of consoles, over-hyped game releases, and low-quality games from new ...