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The Battle Of The Consoles: From Atari To The Xbox

Posted by michael on from the breakthru-still-my-favorite dept.

msolnik writes: "There's been a lot of talk about Xbox, and GameCube, and even more speculation about the technology inside the box. However, the console wars are not going to be won based purely on technology. There's a long history of cyclical win and lose peaks and troughs for companies that have tried to stay the course in this business. Nintendo stands alone in having survived a number of generations of innovation and still managed to remain a contender in the market. Tom's Hardware has delivered this unique assessment of The Console Wars." Update: 12/06 16:28 GMT by M : Note that Tom's has updated some of the charts in the article - they note that there was a misunderstanding between Tom's and the article's author as to which version of the charts to post.

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  1. Console History by festers · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Looks like Tom forgot all about the SNES. Kind of a big omission. I remember the SNES starting out slow, but becoming one of the biggest consoles ever.

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  2. Really bad chart by autopr0n · · Score: 2, Redundant

    Did anyone else notice the chart on the second page. The 'history of game consoles'?

    It was so full of errors as to be amazing. No mention of the supernintendo, marking the Turbo Graphix 16 as a 'success' and marking the orgional playstation as being 64bit? I mean its not a big deal, but seeing it really calls into question the crediblity of the whole article, IMO

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    1. Re:Really bad chart by dwlemon · · Score: 1, Redundant

      The Super Nintendo is listed (1991: SNES) but the best console in all time -- the one that dug console gaming out of it's grave and shocked it back into life -- is missing from the list. The NES!

  3. Operating Systems...Correction. by Gannoc · · Score: 2, Redundant
    On this page, under "Operating Systems" they list:

    X-Box: W2k Kernel
    PS2: Closed, Sony proprietory
    Cube: Closed, Nintendo proprietory

    That should be:

    X-Box: Closed, Microsoft proprietory
    PS2: Closed, Sony proprietory
    Cube: Closed, Nintendo proprietory

    I like how having the OS be the W2k kernel is presented as a bonus. You have to pay a hefty license to develop/publish a game on ALL the systems. Maybe this guy is just a little too used to getting all of his Nvidia hardware and MS software for free.