Explain constraints and opportunities of different gaming platforms across a variety of consoles and handhelds.…
Product: The Xbox 360 is a non-portable games console which was the best selling games console worldwide in the year of 2011. Many game genres can be bought on it and frequent updates allow the player to gain more for their money for example social networking is now available on the Xbox 360. The Xbox 360 appeals to their target market because the price is lower than other consoles in the market and also it has a varied range of apps and games which can be downloaded and played.…
There are few professional sports rivalries that compare to that of the Yankees and the Red Sox or the Flyers and the Penguins. Well since the year 2006 when Playstation 3 was released there has been a much heated rivalry between the Xbox 360 and the Playstation 3. It has been a nonstop war for the development of the superior gaming system. There are many reasons one could say that one console is better than the other. In saying this, the users are correct. Each console does in fact have attributes that give one the edge over the other. As an online gamer myself, I do in fact own a Playstation 3. When one is in the market for a new gaming experience, deciding which console to purchase can be as painful as pulling teeth. Some factors that should be considered during the shopping process should be quality of online multiplayer, entertainment value, and most important to me was obtaining the most “bang for my buck.”…
In this paper I will show and explain how the advancement of video games consoles has changed Humanity in more ways than one. I will show how the inventors started their Empires by selling plain, simple playing cards all the way to online gaming linked all around the world. How Nintendo and Atari started as two of the giants in the gaming world and then how Nintendo almost died out when Sega came out with their console. I will also explain how the video game mindset changed overtime and evolved into something worldwide.…
The product I have chosen is the Xbox 360 because it is well known and they do a lot of campaigns for the product. The Xbox 360 was designed mainly for the use of teens…
The Xbox One console system was built by gamers, for gamers. The perfect balance of power and performance, Xbox One takes gaming to a whole new level. The product has a stunning level legalistic graphics, and advanced AI (what is it) that adapts to the way you play, as well as a new generation of multiplayer that is both smarter and faster.…
When you have Xbox LIVE you feel as if you can do anything. All you have to do is sit comfortably in your gaming chair, and have everything you want to entertain yourself at your very fingertips. “Xbox LIVE truly is the ultimate gaming arena.” as said in the article Xbox LIVE on the Gamertag website. This is just another way of kids and teenagers to avoid going to someone’s house and play a game with a friend because they can just connect with those same friends through Xbox LIVE.…
Video games and computer games (from here on both categories will be simply referred to as video games for simplicity) have entered the domain of pop culture fairly recently. Although the first video game was developed in 1958 by William Higginbotham, their popularity didn’t occur until the seventies with the appearance of Pac-man and Frogger in the arcades (Computer and Video Games). If the younger generation of video game consumers would take a look at what was out there when the video game boom begun they wouldn’t be able to understand what was so attractive (and addictive?) about Pac-man and Frogger? The truth is, video games from over three decades ago share the same basic principles with the games we have out there right now. Let’s face it, we like video games because they provide us with interactive entertainment. In other words, we’re genuinely entertained by colorful objects that move on the TV/computer screen when we press certain buttons. I suggest that it is the overwhelming gratification that we experience from actually having absolute and unconditional control over something in our lives. Another suggestion that I have is that video games share the same elements or even directly imitate traditional games such as tag, ping-pong, chess, hopscotch etc.; video games allow us to engage in these games easily, without any stigma or significant effort on our parts. Video games are fun, inexpensive, can become a social activity allowing friends to play along, and sometimes they’re even mentally stimulating if not challenging. They’ve been a real hit every since they came out and today the video game industry has grown significantly. However, let’s examine the circle of people that are involved in production and design of video games.…
Xbox One review: More than a game console, less than a living room revolution | Ars Technica. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/11/xbox-one-review-more-than-a-game-console-less-than-a-living-room-revolution/3/…
Xbox one, also called next generation console, is the newest release from the Xbox franchise and has been in the market for almost three years now. Is still labeled as a next generation console because there are many customers that keep preferring Xbox 360, or at least that was the case until the Xbox franchise gave an announcement stating that Xbox 360 will not be longer have any new videogames and therefore it will become discontinued and obsolete. Nevertheless, people that are used to the previous console know all the new things that next generation has to offer regarding design, graphics and potency.…
Ever since the dawn of the first Xbox, also known as “the original xbox”, console gamers have been arguing with each other as to whose console is truly supreme. All while those who play PC games have hidden in their respective corner, Xbox fanboys and PlayStation geeks have been at a non-stop battle; attempting to prove that their consoles are superior. In the recent installment of the console wars, Xbox One players argue that they take the lead in the battle due to the Xbox having backwards compatibility. Meanwhile, PlayStation 4 (PS4) players argue that they are in the lead because of the vast amount of prestigious exclusive games their console has. Despite the rugged good looks of the two systems, the gamer community is not only worried…
Ever since I was a child I have been interested in video games. I don’t know why or how I started to like it. I suspect it was probably because of my friends, they always played them. However, once I found them, I never let go. Gaming for me, puts me in a whole new universe, a place where I would be able to do anything I pleased without any major consequences. It’s an escape from reality.…
As an avid game enthusiast myself, I see video games as another dimension of worlds we can escape to in the comfort of our own home. As Kyle Chayka strongly notes in his…
Based on the statistics taken by Online Gaming Industry Stats, there are 217 million online gamers worldwide in 2007 and 62% of all gamers report playing games online. The highest-ranking genres of games played online were card, puzzle, arcade and word games (44%), family-oriented games (25%) and RPG/MMOGs (19%), casual, family oriented and gambling games (17%) were generally favored by PC online gamers while console/portable online gamers were more inclined to prefer non-casual game genres such as shooting and racing games. According to them, PC/Mac users spent 5.8 hours a week on online gaming.…
In primary school, I was interested on playing cards such as Yu-Gi-Oh, and learned how card trading works. Enough of toys back then I was interested in bicycle mainly because it is the only transport I can use that time. We had a race every evening when going back from school. When my bicycle broke down, I remembered the time when I had to collect every bicycle part from junk and make a new one by myself and that was so satisfying. Next I was into games. I started playing it on pc until it broke down. Then I was so passionate of having a console so I decided to score in my exams to earn them by asking my parents. At that time I have owned collections of console such as Game Tape, Playstation 1, Playstation 2 and the last one Xbox360 and until now I played games on my laptop.…