Evolution of Video Game Systems CS Miguel Haro Danny Gutierrez Albert Grimes Sergio Delgado

Atari 2600 The Atari 2600 is one of the first video game consoles released in One of the first systems to use cartridges CPU -MOS Technology nd generation

Nintendo The first Nintendo video game console was released on rd generation Sold 60 million units world wide CPU- Ricoh 8-bit processor (MOS Technology 6502 core)

Gameboy Was one of the first portable game consoles that paved the way for the newer consoles like the Nintendo DS (dual screen) and the PSP (Play Station portable. The Nintendo game boy had a very simple set up. It had a memory stick inside of the console. The graphics were very poor it didn’t have any type of hard drive. You need cartridges so the console can be operational.

Sony PlayStation Produced in the mid 1990s Fifth generation (32 bit/64bit era) CPU- Custom MIPS R3000at Mhz. First video game system to play music CDs By 2005 the playstation/ps one sold million units

NINTEDO 64 The Nintendo 64 was the third generation Nintendo Console. It was the first in its kind to consist of 64 bit graphics. In total it sold 64 Million Units World Wide making it the most successful console Nintendo ever designed.

Sony PlayStation 2 Sony’s second video game system was released on October 26, th generation era with a 128-bit "Emotion Engine" clocked at 294 MHz By March 31 st 2006 it shipped 105 million units world wide making it the fastest selling video game console in history First video game console to play DVDs As of November 2006 the PS2 still outsells its competition, the GameCube, Xbox, and Xbox 360 in North America and Japan

Microsoft Xbox Released on November 15, 2001 First video game system that comes with a internal hard drive. (no memory cards required) 6 th generation console with a 733 MHz Intel Mobile Celeron CPU Plays DVDs like the PS2 Sold 24 million units The greatest success of the Xbox's launch games was Halo: Combat Evolved and was the best selling game of the year

Sony PlayStation Portable Sony psp was released on March 24, 2005 (22.94 million units shipped) 7 th generation game system with a MIPS R4000-based; clocked from 1 to 333 MHz CPU The psp has the ability to play games, listen music, watch videos, view images, and as well as Internet browsing functionality. The psp uses a 1.8Gb Universal Media Disk developed by Sony to play video games and watch movies.

Xbox 360 was released on November 22, 2005 The console was developed with IBM, ATI, Samsung and SiS. First video game console to provide wireless controller support at launch. The console sold out completely at release and has since sold 6 million consoles worldwide. The Xbox 360 was the first console to be released in the seventh generation of game consoles and competes against Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Wii. 20GB HD with a 3.2 GHz PPC Tri- Core Xenon CPU Microsoft Xbox 360

Sony’s seventh generation game console was released on November 17, GHz Cell Broadband Engine with 1 PPE and 7 SPEs-CPU Features: 60GB hard drive, Blueray Disk-ROM, DVD- ROM,CD-ROM, and Super Audio CD As of December 3, 2006 it sold 384,836 world wide. Playstation 3

Nintendo Wii Released on December 8, th generation of video game systems along with the PS3 and Xbox 360 A distinguishing feature of the Wii console is its wireless controller, the Wii Remote, which can be used as a handheld pointing device and can detect motion and rotation in three dimensions. IBM PowerPC-based[1] "Broadway" CPU