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Title: The Future of Video Gaming


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The Future ofVideo Gaming
  • Rich Jeffery
  • President of TermiSoc

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The Seventh Generation
Microsoft Xbox360
Nintendo Wii
Sony PlayStation3
DS, PSP, GP2X, XGP
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Look at the past!
  • 4th Generation (16-bit era)
  • Battle between Sega (Mega Drive) and Nintendo
    (SNES)
  • In 1992-93, Sega release the MegaCD

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Sega Mega-CD
  • (Japanese Model 1)

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Nintendo retaliates!
  • Nintendo contemplates CD drive for SNES
  • Nintendo team up with Sony, then Philips
  • Nintendo abandon project

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Philips CD-i 210
  • The horribly boxy UK version

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Sony Playstation
  • (1st Generation)

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The Casualties of War
  • 3DO Interactive Multiplayer
  • Sega Saturn

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The Casulties of War
  • Atari Jaguar (CD)
  • Neo-Geo CDZ

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Nintendo64
  • (Damn fine respray!)

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The Sixth Generation 128-bit
  • Sega release Dreamcast 1998
  • First console of the current generation
  • Killed off after 2 years, 10.6m consoles
  • Failed due to
  • PS2 expectation
  • Huge losses from Sega Saturn
  • Fractures in company structure
  • Sega closed down console division

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Sega Dreamcast
  • (UK Version)

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Nintendo GameCube
  • Released 2002
  • Small footprint partly due to small media
  • Sold 21.2m consoles
  • Seen too much as a kiddie console (despite having
    Resident Evil 4 first)

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PlayStation 2
  • lowest powered console
  • Gamecube is nealy 50 more powerful.
  • High 3rd-party support means a stupid number of
    games
  • Backwards compatibility DVD support helped it's
    popularity.
  • Over 100 million consoles worldwide
  • David Lynch The Third Place

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Finally, the Xbox
  • released in March 2002 in the EU
  • 4 months after US release.
  • Despite being
  • last into the fray
  • being a Microsoft product
  • getting a lukewarm reception, especially in JP
  • has sold 24 million consoles.
  • The Banned Xbox advert

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The Next Generation
  • Xbox360
  • Power-PC Based (Triple Core custom)
  • 4 times as powerful as a high-spec Apple G5
  • ATI-based graphics chipset, running HD
  • Launched December 2005 to critical acclaim
  • Killer app PGR3, Halo 3, Gears of War
  • Banned Xbox360 advert

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Xbox360
  • (Voted Years Sexiest Hardware in recent poll)

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Nintendo Wii
  • NOT a powered-up Gamecube 3 times more
    powerful
  • Power-PC based, ATI GPU
  • Motion sensing ability is its killer app
  • Two-handed control Wiimote and Nunchuck
  • HD Compatible (lower res than X360 PS3)
  • Virtual Console classic gaming
  • Launching December 8th in UK
  • Red Steel Trailer

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Wii
  • (Humourous jokes aside)

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PlayStation 3
  • Original date November 2005, changed to June
    2006, changed to November 2006, UK gets it March
    2007
  • 8-processor system, named
  • Killer apps Blu-Ray HD1080p and, um
  • Missing dual-shock motion sensitive
  • Only used on one game so far Tony Hawks
  • Quite a bit of support, but 425 price-point a
    sting.
  • US PlayStation commercialUK PlayStation
    commercial

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PlayStation 3
  • (Voted worlds most expensive wait)

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Console war
  • as represented by G4/TechTV

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The end
  • Any questions?
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