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Too much focus on consoles?

It'd seem the article completely ignores computer games on and around the second half. This is supposed to be history of video games, not history of console video games. --Shadow86 (talk) 00:22, 7 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thats true, but if you read the entire article, you can see that he/she is geared more towards consoles, not because they are better, but becasue there is more to cover at the moment on console games. PCs do have a lot of selections and come out with a good number of games, but other thatn landmark titles such as World of Warcraft, Crysis, WCIII and other games such as Half Life, there really isnt anything that the console playing gamer will recognize immeditely upon reading. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.104.146.56 (talk • contribs)
Well, there's things like Games For Windows, and PC gaming hardware. Progress on nVidia's GeForce and ATI's Radeon graphics card ranges could go in. -- Sabre (talk) 20:04, 26 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Advance of 3d gaming

Needs to be researched and added to the article. In 1992, Wolfenstein 3D and Ultima Underworld were full pseudo-three dimensional first person games. In 1994 System Shock 1, a fully polygonal game (with sprite-based enemies) was released, and Descent, which is widely known and remembered as "one of the first" 100% polygonal 3d games, was released. Console gaming was introduced to 3d games with Tomb Raider and Mario 64 as the two most iconic titles in 1996. 71.126.104.9 (talk) 20:15, 25 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

8th generation and the Pandora console?

Which generation does the upcoming Pandora console belong to? Out of laziness you could say that the 7th generation isn't over at all, but when you look at it, 7th generation handhelds (GP2X, DS and PSP) all came out in 2004, as the Pandora is bound to come out in summer 2008, 4 years later, when a generation is easily considered to be roughly 5 years (and the Xbox 360 came out exactly 4 years and 1 week after the Xbox), and also considered its vast technical superiority (and developer has reported running the console stably at 900 MHz, which is a few times more than the PSP could, also it has a 800x480 screen which is 3 times the PSP's 480x272 screen resolution), sounds like you just can't put it in the same category as the DS, GP2X or PSP. Besides a generation doesn't hav to end for another one to begin.

So, is the Pandora the first 8th generation console to (soon) be, and shall 2008 be marked as the beginning of this generation? --89.127.175.78 (talk) 11:20, 15 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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