Games consoles have a colourful history, but they only really rose into the public consciousness in the 80s with the NES the original Nintendo system. Nintendo became a word meaning video game, and the Mario character became a worldwide sensation.
Since then, games consoles have been an unstoppable industry. Nintendo dominated for years with the NES, the Super NES and the portable Game Boy systems, only to have its dominance threatened by Sonys Playstation and later Playstation 2 and Portable Playstation (PSP). Despite the fact that the history of mass-market games consoles only really stretches back two decades or so, there have been dozens of consoles in this time, and all-out wars to capture the market. The quality of graphics has improved amazingly in this time try looking at the original Mario next to a modern game like Grand Theft Auto or Halo although it is a matter of some debate whether gameplay (the fun factor) has improved to match.
Probably the biggest thing in games consoles today is the shift towards online gaming, led by Microsofts Xbox Live service. Online gaming allows people to play against each other all over the world using nothing more than...
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