Video game Gaming console is an electronic device that outputs a video signal or image to display a video game that can be played with a game controller.
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10 Facts About Gaming console
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Early Gaming console hardware was designed as customized printed circuit boards s, selecting existing integrated circuit chips that performed known functions, or programmable chips like erasable programmable read-only memory chips that could perform certain functions.
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Improvements in Gaming console hardware followed with improvements in microprocessor technology and semiconductor device fabrication.
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Consoles of the 1980s to 1990s, these improvements were evident in the marketing in the late 1980s to 1990s during the "bit wars", where Gaming console manufacturers had focused on their Gaming console's processor's word size as a selling point.
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The confluence with personal computers eased software development for both computer and Gaming console games, allowing developers to target both platforms.
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The development of software emulators of Gaming console hardware is established to be legal, but there are unanswered legal questions surrounding copyrights, including acquiring a Gaming console's firmware and copies of a game's ROM image, which laws such as the United States' Digital Millennium Copyright Act make illegal save for certain archival purposes.
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Competition within the video game Gaming console market as subset of the video game industry is an area of interest to economics with its relatively modern history, its rapid growth to rival that of the film industry, and frequent changes compared to other sectors.
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The TurboGrafx-16 was the first Gaming console to push on its bit-size, advertising itself as a "16-bit" Gaming console, though this only referred to part of its architecture while its CPU was still an 8-bit unit.
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Generally, increased Gaming console numbers gives rise to more consumer options and better competition, but the exclusivity of titles made the choice of Gaming console for consumers an "all-or-nothing" decision for most.
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Effectively, each Gaming console generation was shown to have two or three dominant players.
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