Home video games consoles have been around since Magnavox first released the Odyssey console in 1972. Since that time, the video game console has overcome its share of adversity, surviving two periods of uncertainty and market crashes in 1977 and 1983, which cast doubts over the future of the industry.

In recent years however, the video games console industry has gone from strength to strength, and the competition between developers is fierce. New technologies have driven games consoles away from the game cartridge format, as used by such consoles as the Nintendo SNES and Sega Megadrive towards a compact-disc format as used by today’s generation of consoles - a technology pioneered by Sega’s Saturn system. However, it was the launch of Sony’s Playstation console in Japan in 1994, and Europe a year later which really made home video gaming popular.

HD-DVD is dead, which is hi-def format war finally over, admitted Toshiba and has announced it is stopping production. What a jerk left to byt destroy his HD-DVD player Xbox 360 on fire? looks like SONY just throw more money on the purchase order of studios and retailers for its version of a hi definition content disk. whatever as long as we can have something before all physical media is largely outdated by the awesomeness of online digital delivery. Enjoy a short time …

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