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  2. Eighth generation of video game consoles - Wikipedia

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    The eighth generation of video game consoles began in 2012, and consists of four home video game consoles: the Wii U released in 2012, the PlayStation 4 family in 2013, the Xbox One family in 2013, and the Nintendo Switch family in 2017. The generation offered few signature hardware innovations. Sony and Microsoft continued to produce new ...

  3. History of video game consoles - Wikipedia

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    The history of video game consoles, both home and handheld, began in the 1970s. The first console that played games on a television set was the 1972 Magnavox Odyssey, first conceived by Ralph H. Baer in 1966. Handheld consoles originated from electro-mechanical games that used mechanical controls and light-emitting diodes (LED) as visual ...

  4. Third generation of video game consoles - Wikipedia

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    In the history of video games, the third generation of video game consoles, commonly referred to as the 8-bit era, began on July 15, 1983, with the Japanese release of two systems: Nintendo 's Family Computer (commonly abbreviated to Famicom) and Sega 's SG-1000. [1][2] When the Famicom was released outside of Japan, it was remodeled and ...

  5. History of video games - Wikipedia

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    e. The history of video games began in the 1950s and 1960s as computer scientists began designing simple games and simulations on minicomputers and mainframes. Spacewar! was developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) student hobbyists in 1962 as one of the first such games on a video display. The first consumer video game hardware ...

  6. Lists of video game consoles - Wikipedia

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    The list of video game consoles is split into the following articles: List of dedicated video game consoles. List of handheld game consoles. List of home video game consoles. List of video game consoles by generation. List of first generation home video game consoles. List of microconsoles. List of video game console emulators.

  7. Category:Eighth-generation video game consoles - Wikipedia

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    Nintendo 2DS. Nintendo 3DS. Nintendo Switch. Nintendo Switch (OLED model) Nvidia Shield Portable. Nvidia Shield Tablet. Nvidia Shield TV.

  8. Home video game console - Wikipedia

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    A home video game console is a predesigned piece of electronic hardware that is meant to be placed at a fixed location at one's home, connected to a display like a television screen or computer monitor, and to an external power source, to play video games on using one or more video game controllers. This differs from a handheld game console ...

  9. Category:Games on eighth-generation consoles - Wikipedia

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    Xbox One games (8 C, 2,397 P) Categories: Eighth-generation video game consoles. Console games by platform generation. 2010s video games. 2020s video games. Categories requiring diffusion.