NEXT GENERATION GAMING

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NEXT GENERATION GAMING

• EDG 100 Section 11
• Peter Paul Bumbarger

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WHERE WE WERE

• First Video Game Console
• - Ralph Baer (the Father of Video Games)
• - Sold idea (The Brown Box 1966) to Magnavox
• -Released the Magnavox Odyssey in 1972
• Predecessors
• - Atari 2600 1977
• - Atari 5400 1982
• - Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) 1983

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WHERE WE ARE

• Sixth Generation Gaming Consoles
• -Sega Dreamcast 1998
• -Sony PlayStation 2 2000
• -Microsoft XBOX 2001
• -Nintendo GameCube 2001

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WHERE WE ARE GOING

• NEXT GENERATION OF GAMING
• -XBOX 360 November 2005
• 399.99, 299.99 for core system
• -PlayStation 3 November 2006 (Originally Spring
  2006)
  
• Price to be determined
• Release date delayed due to finalization of
  Blu-ray disc copy protection technology
  
• -Nintendo Revolution ??? 2006
• Price to be determined

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MARKETING/ TRENDS

• XBOX 360 (only console currently on the market)
• High Demand, Low Supply
• Microsoft sold 1.5 million consoles
• - 900,000 in North America
• - Slowly increasing supply to match demand
• Sonys Delay for the PS3
• - Could go either way..
• Nintendo
• - Can Nintendo revive a dying name?
• Top notch hardware
• - HD Graphics
• - High Power performance
• Market Dominance
• - Software
• - Hardware

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XBOX 360 VS PlayStation 3
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TRADE-OFFS AND THE FUTURE

• XBOX 360
• Here now with solid games
• (Call of Duty 2)
• Maybe cheaper than the PS3

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References

• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Baer
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/xbox_360
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Revolution
• All pictures from Wikipedia