Console Wars

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Of
you readers, the ones using gaming consoles should find this article
interesting, it will answer much asked questions and for those know not much
should find it interesting nonetheless. The warring factions are the
Playstation 3, Microsoft Xbox and the Nintendo wii. It is worth mentioning the
personal computing gamers are a large bunch as well. So how this works is these
console manufacturers tie up with game production houses. These production
houses then release blockbuster titles exclusively for the respective consoles
only, hence getting gamers to buy these consoles for those games. Each console
is popularized by exclusive runaway success games and has subsequently drawn
their own console gamer following.

The
Sony Playstation had ruled the market for recent times, the Nintendo had its
own following but all that changed with Microsoft entering the gaming market.
Microsoft upped the notch, released its console earlier than the Sony Playstation
with some good games and made headway before the releases of Nintendo Wii and
Playstation 3.

Today
there is a lot of speculation about which console will come out on top. That
depends on the content. Gamers want good games to play on their consoles. Aside
from consoles only appealing to gamers these consoles today aim to be the
center of digital entertainment systems. They are high-quality movie players.
One can use them to access online content such as on-demand TV shows, movie
previews and everything else the World Wide Web has to offer. For gamer son by
day and sports highlights archive for dad by night. Or for that matter anyone,
on-demand TV is now the most convenient and best way to watch TV.

Take
this to thought, some approximate stats, 13 million Sony Playstation 3 units
were sold, 19 million Xbox units have been sold. Now will any gaming production
house restrict themselves to 19 million or be open to over 40 million potential
users?? Enter: Multi-Platform Gaming. It has begun; the biggest gaming houses
have started releasing games Multi-Platform.