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The Magnavox Odyssey
The Magnavox Odyssey was the first ever gome gaming entertainment system. The gaming system was released in Augest of 1972. The console sold 33000 units with a retail price of $100. This console also did not come with a CPU which all consoles of today, a CPU is standered -
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The Evolution of Game Consoles
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Atari Gaming Console
The Atari was released in 1977 in Europe.
It sold 30 million units world wide.
Its initial retail price was $199.
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Nintendo Entertainment System
The Ninendo entertainment system sold 61.91 million units world wide.
Its was released in 1986 in Europe.
It was named the best console of all time in 2009 by IGN.
Its CPU clocked in at 1.79MHz.
The NES was so popular, that Nintendo made a sequel called the SNES. Super Nintendo entertainment system. -
Sega Mega Drive
The Sega Mega Drive released in 1990 in the EU.
It sold an estimated 40 million units world wide.
The best selling game for the Mega Drive was Sonic the Hedgehog, selling 15 million copies.
The Mega Drive CPU clocked in at 7.68 MHz.
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Playstation one
The PlayStation One (PS1) was released in 1995 in Europe.
The PS1 sold 102.49 million copies world wide.
The PS1’s CPU clocked in at 33.8 MHz
It was the second best selling console in history behind the PS2.
The PS1’s best selling game was Gran Turismo selling 10.25 million copies. -
Nintendo GameCube
The Nintendo GameCube was released in Europe in 2001.
The GameCube sold 21.74 million copies worldwide.
The consoles CPU clocked in at 485 MHz.
The best selling game for this console was Super Smash Bros Melee.
The dimensions for the console are, 149x160x112 mm.
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Playstation 3
The Sony PS3 was released in Europe in March 2007
The initial retail price in Europe was £425.
with the release came the release of wireless controllers making it a much better playing experience.
The PS3’s video format ran up to 1080p
The console had a GPU speed of 550Mz.
Drive capacity for the ps3 was originally 120GB
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Xbox One
The next generation Xbox was released in late 2013
Xbox one was a revolutionary console that incorporated everything you could want from a console.
You can, watch TV, surf the internet but more importantly play video games.
The Xbox one initial retail price £429.99 but has been reduced to £329.99 because the console couldn’t compete with the Sony PS4.
The Xbox one can run video formats up to 1080p and has an 8 core GPU speed of 1.75 GHz.
It has 500 GB storage capacity.
