The history about the video consoles

Video consoles companies have divided the video consoles in "generations". The differences between generations are: 
†Graphics systems
†Processor
†BIT's systems
Until now, there are 8 generations of video consoles.

    First Generation

The first video console was the Magnavox Odyssey, invented and developed by Ralph Baer,but it did not have the expected success, until the appearance of "Atari pong". Since the appearance of this game, the popularity of video consoles began to spread among young people.

Magnavox Odyssey.

Second Generation

Colecovision

It has highlighted  the Atari 2600, Colecovision, Atari 5200 and Mattel Intellivision in this generation. Atari was the absolute control, but had at least two notable rivals (Colecovision and Mattel). Some Japanese companies today considered mythical as Sega or Nintendo, made ​​her timid incursions at domestic level.

Intellivision

Third Generation

NES

Since the crisis of video games, the console world is a  Japanese monopoly. In this generation consoles like the NES (Nintendo Entertainment System) and Sega Master System had a system of 8 Bits. It has totaled control on the market (NES), and dominates alone until the arrival of Sega Mega Drive in 1988.

  

Sega Mega Drive

Fourth Generation

Sega Mega Drive

In 1988, Sega introduces a console with a 16-bit CPU known as Sega Genesis in America and Sega Mega Drive in Europe and Asia. In 1990 Nintendo console brings the 16-bit Super Nintendo this year. This generation stands for graphics chips added to the cartridge, as the Super FX and SVP and hardware upgrades of Mega Drive: Mega CD and Mega 32X.Super Nintendo is the best selling console to 49 million units, while the best-selling Mega Drive in Europe.

                                               

Fifth Generation 

This generation had a variety of manufacturers who presented different equipment with features similar to a PC. Game development companies began to produce games in a 3D environment.

This is a generation that marked the passing of 2D and 3D dimensional environments, this changes began in 1994 when Sega launched the Sega Saturn and Sony the PlayStation, which marked the debut of this company in the gaming world.

Sony PlaysStation

Basically the market was dominated by three consoles, Nintendo 64 (1996), Sega Saturn (1994) and PlayStation (1994). These consoles defined the console war in this era. The 3DO Interactive Multiplayer and Atari Jaguar and were also part of this era, but their marketing was poor and failed to make an impact in the gamers.

Nintendo 64

   

Sega Saturn

Sixth Generation

It has  produced a lot of devices with similarities to the architecture of a PC in this generation, however, the consoles and cartridges use high-capacity storage media such as DVD-ROM and Nintendo Optical Disk. this brought the games were longer and visually attractive. In addition, this generation also experiences the online game consoles and implementation of internal storage systems in equipment as flash memory and hard drives that are used to store game data.

• The Dreamcast was the first console of this generation, and the latest video game console from Sega.

DreamCast

• Sony's PlayStation 2 continued the same success of the PlayStation, and was the first home console to include a DVD player, allowing the system to play movies.On September 20, 2012, Sony has sold 120 million consoles, which makes it as the best selling system in this generation.

PlayStation 2

• The Nintendo GameCube was the fourth video game console from Nintendo, and the company's first system that dispenses the cartridges. This system uses a format similar to DVD disk, called "GOD" (GameCube Optical Disc), whose size is 8 cm. This system was an attempt to regain lost market for the Nintendo 64 at the PlayStation.

GameCube

• The Xbox was the last console that released in this generation and the first of Microsoft. He leaned as did Sega Dreamcast in the online gaming and innovated to provide the console an integrated hard drive, use the DVD format and the ability to save music from an audio CD using it to console games like GTA San Andreas. It was well received, although short-lived.

Xbox

Seventh Generation

It has been the beginning of the "hi-tech video consoles": the integration of optical disc format Blu-ray, used only on the PlayStation 3 and wireless controllers and motion detection that have "replaced" the classic controller via cable.

Xbox 360

Another important aspect is the distribution of games via the Internet, with the advent of Internet providers in the world. Some Internet services that support any multiplayer games is the Xbox Live from Microsoft, the Sony PlayStation Network and Nintendo WiFi Connection. Another important aspect that characterizes this generation to the other, is the inclusion of sophisticated graphics chips that help process real images, as in the case of the digital processor Nvidia GPU RSX-the PlayStation 3 and the ATI Xenos in Xbox 360.

PlayStation 3

Nintendo Wii

However, in this generation no longer has a major company in the manufacture of consoles, Sega. Only three companies are competing in the market (Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft). In late 2005, Microsoft's Xbox 360 was the first to appear in this generation. In November 2006, are Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo Wii. For the sales, the Nintendo Company recovers the lost success in the last two generations, due to the popularity of the brand Sony PlayStation. With the new approach with which Nintendo designed the Wii has helped posicionase in first place in the sales of consoles.

Eighth Generation

Nintendo Company has been having the monopoly in this age with the release of Wii U in 2012.

Wii U

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