Comments on: Evolution of Gaming Consoles

By: smd

smd — Thu, 12 Sep 2013 22:16:24 +0000

Haha, the Wii was the first console to sell more than 1 Million units in one year? Man, there are SO many errors on there.

Still, pretty cool to see all those obscure systems on there. Takes me back to the days when I was rockin’ Yar’s Revenge on my 2600, or arguing the merits of the SNES over the Genesis.

By: Tasos Saroglou

Tasos Saroglou — Sat, 07 Sep 2013 03:49:31 +0000

And the winner is the machine with the most titles available bad and good having us decide its destiny.Ps2 was sell allot of units not only because of the cool titles,but one of the main reasons was the fact that you could hack the system with a mod chip making the copying of a game easy as pie. Just by using the original dvd game and copy it with a nero on our pc.How do i know that? i have a mesiah in my ps2 guilty as charged,but that mod chip came with a price because i have give more than enough to pay for that chip just to save a lousy 100 bucks.The evolution of the gaming systems its mostly for how we make it hapen,and not entirely by it self.Great historical lesson thanks.

By: natedog

natedog — Thu, 05 Sep 2013 16:37:50 +0000

which next gen system are you gonna get I can’t decide maybe a wii u for my daughter,and ps4 for myself.

By: Ben_from_G-town

Ben_from_G-town — Thu, 05 Sep 2013 04:43:29 +0000

Very cool, James. Thanks for sharing. This definitely puts everything, concisely, in one place.

By: YellowJello

YellowJello — Wed, 04 Sep 2013 15:30:45 +0000

That is awesome, but I believe that the Dreamcast had an internal hard drive before the Xbox did.

By: DarkWing Dave

DarkWing Dave — Sat, 31 Aug 2013 19:09:10 +0000

150,000,000 UFNITS of PS2 sold??? lol. lots of missing content and misplaced numbers, pretty dedicated overall though. I wish we would stop calling these INFOGRAPHS, and rather Information Displays as Top information designers Edward Tufte and Susan Verba argue.

By: super3dcow

super3dcow — Fri, 30 Aug 2013 11:12:51 +0000

In reply to FJMcCloud. But it says Nintendo secretly canceled the deal, not Sony, that's why I wrote my comment in the first place. Doesn't matter if Sony had bigger plans, it all started because for some reason, Nintendo canceled the deal.

By: FJMcCloud

FJMcCloud — Fri, 30 Aug 2013 07:43:36 +0000

In reply to FJMcCloud.

Oops, you did indeed mention the GameLine.

Also, there was the Edge 16 modem for the Genesis, which I guess never came out.

And the ill-fated Minnesota lottery NES modem.

By: FJMcCloud

FJMcCloud — Fri, 30 Aug 2013 07:33:24 +0000

In reply to super3dcow.

“For some reason” ?
You mean monopolizing CD game licensing fees away from Nintendo?
I would break ties off, too.
It was pretty obvious Sony had grander schemes in mind anyway, and the SNES contract was just to get their foot in the door.

This was all explained in the book “Game Over” by David Sheff.

Nintendo also rejected Microsoft’s bid to buy them outright.

There’s nothing funny or ironic about it. That’s how business goes sometimes. Big sharks will try to eat your lunch, and the yummier your lunch looks the more desperate the sharks get. They will get into your market by hook or crook and either try to double cross you, buy you (sometimes just to shut you down), or out-muscle you with a competing product.

On the other hand, a former competitor (NEC) became a major chip supplier to Nintendo. They manufactured all the big chips for the N64, GameCube, Wii, etc. Not to mention the Sega Dreamcast PowerVR chip.

By: taykel

taykel — Thu, 29 Aug 2013 20:24:05 +0000

Nice!