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History
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Form factor
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Components
Printed circuit boardIntegrated circuitsErasable programmable read-only memoryProcessor registersVideo game development
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Market
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Key facts & relationships
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Topics to explore
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Overview
- Electronic device
- Outputs Input/output
- Video signal
- Video game
- Game controller
- Home consoles Home video game console
- Handheld consoles Handheld game console
- Home computer
- Accessibility
- Game cartridges Game cartridge
- Proprietary formats Proprietary format
- Media players Digital media player
- Razor and blades model
- Planned obsolescence
- Sony Sony Interactive Entertainment
- PlayStation
- Microsoft
- Xbox
- Nintendo
- Switch 2 Nintendo Switch 2
- Switch Nintendo Switch
- Sega
- Atari
- Coleco
- Mattel
- NEC
- SNK
- Magnavox
- Philips
- Panasonic
History
- Ralph H. Baer
- Magnavox Odyssey
- Nolan Bushnell
- Ted Dabney
- Allan Alcorn
- Atari, Inc.
- Arcade game
- Pong
- ROM cartridges ROM cartridge
- Fairchild Channel F
- Atari 2600 Atari Video Computer System
- Handheld electronic games Handheld electronic game
- Light-emitting diode
- Liquid-crystal displays Liquid-crystal display
- Microvision
- Game & Watch
- Game Boy
- Moore's law
- Processor word size Word (computer architecture)
Form factor
- Xbox 360
- PlayStation Vita
- Television Television set
- Atari 2600
- Nintendo Entertainment System
- Sega Genesis
- Wii U
- PlayStation 5
- Xbox Series X
- Microconsole
- PlayStation TV
- OnLive Game System OnLive
- Android Android (operating system)
- Google Play
- PlayStation Portable
- Nintendo 3DS
- Docking station
- Sega Nomad
- Shield Portable
- Shield Tablet
- Joy-Con
Functionality
- Optical media
- Digital distribution Digital distribution of video games
- Dedicated consoles Dedicated console
- Games Game
- NES Classic Edition
- Sega Genesis Mini
- First generation First generation of video game consoles
- Second generation Second generation of video game consoles
- Fourth generation Fourth generation of video game consoles
- Hack Hacker
- Retro games Retrogaming
- Atari Flashback series
- Game & Watch color screen Game & Watch: Super Mario Bros.
Components
- Printed circuit board
- Integrated circuits Integrated circuit
- Erasable programmable read-only memory EPROM
- Processor registers Processor register
- Video game development
- Semiconductor device fabrication
- Nanometers
- Transistors Transistor
- Clock speed or frequency Clock rate
- Thermal dissipation Thermal management (electronics)
- Dies Die (integrated circuit)
- Random-access memory
- Address the correct blocks of memory Memory address
- Bandwidth Bandwidth (computing)
- System on a chip
- Value chain
- AMD
- NVidia
- Contract manufacturers Contract manufacturer
- Electronics manufacturing services
- Foxconn
- Flextronics
- Motherboard
- Daughterboard
- Central processing unit
- 8-bit 8-bit computing
- 64-bit 64-bit computing
- Hertz
- Instruction set architecture
- Machine code
Game development
- Programming languages Game programming
- MegaDrive
- Software development kits Software development kit
- Xbox One
- Royalty Royalty payment
- Tengen Tengen (company)
- Indie game development
- ID@Xbox
Emulation and backward compatibility
- Preservation Video game preservation
- Copyrights Copyright
- Firmware
- ROM image
- Digital Millennium Copyright Act
- PlayStation 2
- PlayStation PlayStation (console)
- Virtual Console
- PlayStation Now
Market
- Pack-in game
- Stock keeping unit
- Mascot characters Video game mascot
- PlayStation 3 PlayStation 3 technical specifications
- Xbox One X
- Xbox One S
- New Nintendo 3DS
- Wii Mini
- Wii
- New-Style NES
- United States Census
- Xbox Live
- Product lifetime
- The Coleco Telstar Coleco Telstar series
- General Instruments General Instrument
- Video game crash of 1983
- Activision
- Checking Integrated Circuit CIC (Nintendo)
- Console exclusivity Platform exclusivity
- Mario
- Pac-Man
- Sonic the Hedgehog Sonic the Hedgehog (character)
- Oligopoly
- Manufacturer's suggested retail price
- Network effects Network effect
- First-mover advantage
- "blue ocean" strategy Blue Ocean Strategy
- Nintendo DS
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Map overview Semantic statistics
Number of nodes, edges, triples, density and central hubs. Use it to gauge the size and connectivity of the map.Video game console
Nodes260
Edges259
Triples127
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.007692
Components1
How this topic connects Entity context
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Video game console
Top relations
related to history · 23
Video game console → Allan Alcorn, Atari, Baer, Early, Fairchild Channel, Game, Game Boy, Handheld, Inc, Inspired, LCD, LED, Magnavox Odyssey, Microvision, Nolan Bushnell, Odyssey, Pong, Programmable, Ralph, ROM
related to Competition · 16
Video game console → Activision, As, Atari, Atari's, Checking Integrated Circuit, Coleco Telstar, Effects, General Instruments, Intellivision, Magnavox Odyssey, Nintendo, Nintendo Entertainment System, Pong, The, This, Western
related to Licensing · 13
Video game console → Atari, Developers, In, NES, Nintendo, Nintendo Entertainment System, Nintendo Famicom, Since, Tengen, The, This, US, With
related to Hybrid video game console · 11
Video game console → Handhelds, Hybrid, In, Joy-Con, Nvidia's Shield Portable, PlayStation Portable, Sega Nomad, Shield Tablet, The, The Nintendo Switch, Wii
related to Home video game console · 10
Video game console → Atari, Early, Home, Nintendo Entertainment System, PlayStation, Sega Genesis, Separate, This, Wii, Xbox Series
related to Microconsole · 6
Video game console → Android-based, Google Play, OnLive Game System, PlayStation TV, Such, The
is a · 1
Video game console → electronic device that outputs a video signal or image to display a video game that can typically be played with a game controller
Important terminology Word statistics
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Important terminology
consoles console game games nintendo hardware manufacturers video home include use developers unit development also generally computers generation system playstation
Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Video game console | is a | electronic device that outputs a video signal or image to display a video game that can typically be played with a game controller | 0.90 | text |
| the Internet | instance of | digital communications | 0.80 | text |
| wireless networking | instance of | digital communications | 0.80 | text |
| Bluetooth | instance of | digital communications | 0.80 | text |
| and larger | instance of | digital communications | 0.80 | text |
| denser media formats as well as digital distribution.Following the same type of Moore's law progression | instance of | digital communications | 0.80 | text |
| home consoles are grouped into generations | instance of | digital communications | 0.80 | text |
| the PlayStation TV | instance of | with a few exceptions | 0.80 | text |
| OnLive Game System | instance of | with a few exceptions | 0.80 | text |
| are Android-based digital media players that are bundled with gamepads | instance of | with a few exceptions | 0.80 | text |
| marketed as gaming devices | instance of | with a few exceptions | 0.80 | text |
| Google Play.Handheld game consoleHandheld game consoles are devices that typically include a built-in screen | instance of | Such microconsoles can be connected to the television to play video games downloaded from an application store | 0.80 | text |
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Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges
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