The start of the 21st century brought about the biggest developments in gaming history, There were many different types of developments from a variety of companies.
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| Nokia N-Gage |
Moblie gaming was the forefront of these new gaming advancements with the launch of the Nokia N-gage in 2003, with its superior graphics to its previous competition, the mobile phone, it was a great success. Other smart phones were released by competition that played video games with similar standards to the N-Gage, Apple released their product, the iPhone in 2007, this only strengthened the appeal of mobile gaming even further.
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| Apple's iPhone |
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| Sony Playstation 2 |
Sixth generation consoles were the next big development of the twenty-first century. The Nintendo giants fell behind, this made way for the Sony Playstation 2 to top the market before 2001 when Microsoft released the xbox. The xbox, based on the pc’s intel Pentium III cpu to provide it’s power. This brought around a huge increase in the popularity of ‘open world’ genre, massively influenced by the announcement of ‘Grand theft auto III’ rocketing the market further. There was also higher demand for ‘Mature’ rated games like Halo and resident evil.
The alternate controller phase took the industry by force with the introduction of such games as ’Dance Dance revolution’ with the soft foot mat controller and Sony’s ‘Guitar Hero’ using the novelty guitar-shaped controller on the Playstation 2.
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| Original XBox |
Also, the cheaper, and more affordable broadband connections boosted the online using of games to an all time high. This increase mainly contributed to the pc games, with the pc possessing an integrated modem along with the accessibility of the pc at this time, world of warcraft, just one of the pc’s massive array of online games. Secondly to the scene was Sega with the dreamcast, which also contained a modem. Next in line were Sony and their answer to the dreamcast, an attachable modem to be used with ‘Final fantasy XI’ along with the launch of Microsoft xbox live, these left the dreamcast’s popularity at a low and so Sega retired to a 3rd party company.
Casual pc gaming on the increase, small puzzle games were on the menu for pc games and influenced a massive game that hit the market big and took it by storm, ‘the sims’. The popularity of this genre brought about opportunities for casual pc gaming to advance the market yet again.
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| Nintendo DS |
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| Microsoft XBox 360 |
The seventh generation console release could probably be said to be a milestone in technological achievement throughout the world and the big giants were launching consoles to keep with this generation, the Nintendo DS and the Sony PSP were hugely sold, DS attracting younger and mid-aged consumers with the interactive capabilities, whilst the PSP was a hit with the veteran gamers because of the superior graphics and power. Consoles were not that far behind, in 2005 Microsoft launch the xbox 360 to have Sony follow up in 2007 with the PS3, both these consoles almost matching the processing power of the high ranged pcs at that time. This was nintendo’s comeback and they released the Wii just after the PS3, this really put them back on the map with it’s revolutional motion sensor remote controls. In 2009 Microsoft and Sony release their reply to Nintendo with their own sensors, xbox kinect and PS3 move.
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| Sony Playstation 3 |
The start of the twenty-first century was a great contribute to the future of the gaming industry and will continue to inspire for years ahead.
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