1. TRENDS IN COMPUTING VIDEO GAME CONSOLES ~ BY DREW CRONIKEN 4096 WILDERN SCHOOL 58243

2. INTRODUCTION I'm going to talk about video game consoles and show how they have developed and become better throughout time. I have chosen this because I use video game consoles quite a lot and I think there a good thing to use for different things not only video games to keep you occupied and entertained.

3. DEVELOPMENT OF VIDEO GAME CONTROLLERS It started with gaming consoles using a joystick plugged in with a wire and its progressed a lot since then and now you can have a nice looking controller which is wireless and has a lot more controls to it so you can do more and you can customize it.

4. USES AND THE IMPACT OF A VIDEO GAME CONSOLE You can use them for many things such as watching films, Blu-ray, high definition, surfing the internet, listening to music (audio CD’s) and obviously you can play games. The impact of things like being able to watch Blu-ray movies could make people not buy Blu-ray players anymore because they can just watch it on their gaming console which would make the company of Blu-ray lose money/business as less people would buy the Blu-ray players. The cost in gaming consoles has also gone up a lot, they started off quite cheap but through the years as they have developed they have become more expensive, when a new console comes out they are often very expensive, but as they get older, and newer ones come out, they become cheaper.

5. WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF GAMING CONSOLES DIDN’T EXIST? I think that if gaming consoles didn’t exist then everyone would be more sociable and more teenagers would be doing other things like going out and hanging out with their friends rather than being locked up in their rooms all day, also because there is quite violent games such as Call Of Duty and Grand Theft Auto people could get influenced by the behaviour in those games and start to act like it in ‘real life’. So if gaming consoles didn’t exist there would probably be less violence.

6. LEGAL ISSUES People can hack your gaming account when you have your personal details on it and they can change your passwords and find out stuff about you. The online networks or the actual game network can go down if someone tries to hack it so you cant play for a few days until its sorted out.

7. ETHICAL ISSUES Excessive playing of a game where the age is an 18 for example and a child is playing it, there could be bad language or violence in the game and the child could copy it in ‘real life’ and act as if he/she was in the game such as Grand Theft Auto or Call Of Duty. Also If a child is online in a game and the PEGI rating is much older than them and they could hear bad language or things that they shouldn’t be hearing on chat on the game from people that are older and can actually play the game.

8. SOCIAL ISSUES Kids sit in there rooms all day playing video games and not being social, rather than going out and hanging out with their friends, they would rather just play on gaming consoles for hours and not socialising with their friends or family and not getting any exercise, which could lead to being overweight and looking at a screen for so long can damage you eyes and give you head- aches etc.

9. CONCLUSION As you can see gaming consoles and games have hugely developed throughout time and more people worldwide are using them and becoming addicted. Things like the prices, high definition, games being more like real life, etc. has increased massively and is ruining todays society. More teenagers and young adults are becoming more interested and buying consoles and games because they are ‘trendy’ and the latest gadgets, its become mostly boys and not so much girls that play games day-in, day-out and are letting gaming consoles ‘take over’ their social life.