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WiiBox3 on 23 December 2011

Nintendo had the NES, SNES, Gameboy, and Virtual boy at the same time. That's 4.

If you start counting the Experia Play, then you might as well includ Sony's Tablet, their Vaio PCs, etc and Microsoft's Window's phone 7.



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Lord Ciansworth on 23 December 2011
WiiBox3 said:
Nintendo had the NES, SNES, Gameboy, and Virtual boy at the same time. That's 4.

If you start counting the Experia Play, then you might as well includ Sony's Tablet, their Vaio PCs, etc and Microsoft's Window's phone 7.

Agreed. If you started counting non-dedicated gaming hardware, or systems that are not primarily intended as gaming hardware, then you would have to include every PC manufacturer in history. My definition does run into difficulty, however, when you consider these f*cking things: http://images.addoway.com/items/2062/1364081/2062_1_e99c28.jpg . I guess, techincally, they're dedicated gaming hardware.



Xenostar on 23 December 2011

I see why people are saying some things are addons, there are Move only games, does that mean their an ecosystem as well and Sony now has 6 gaming systems on the market? I dont think so.



kain_kusanagi on 23 December 2011
VMEfinn said:
kain_kusanagi said:
VMEfinn said:

 

Sony:

PS2, PSP, PSP GO, PS3, PS Vita, Playstation Phone.   (Sony has at least 5 seperate gaming platforms as the PSP go is well...)

 


I don't consider the PSP and PSP Go seperate platforms. But I don't consider the DS DSi and DSi XL seperat either. PS Phone is debatable. I wouldn't count Windows Phone 7 as a Microsoft platform along with Xbox 360 even though it plays games too.

The way I see it Sony has 4, Nintendo has 3, and Microsoft has 1.

Sony still has 5 then.  PS2, PS3, PSP, Vita and Experia play (Playstation Phone)

I don't count phones. I just don't consider Windows Phone 7, Experia Play, or iOS devices to be gaming platforms worthy of discussions. They are phones with games, not gaming machines with phone functionality.



chapset on 23 December 2011

Microsoft: Kinect, xbox 360, windows 7 phones, pc



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Degausser on 23 December 2011

In terms of manufacturing hardware i think they might be. Maybe there was a short period where Nintendo were making both Gamecubes and Wii's (On top of DS & GBA) but I'm not sure. Just cause a system still have software released doesn't mean it's still being manufactured.

SEGA might have but again I'd assume the 4 listed weren't still in production at the same time.



Degausser on 23 December 2011
disolitude said:
sethnintendo said:

I'd still consider Sega CD and 32X as add ons even if they used different formats. They still needed to be docked to the Genesis. Also, they would be listed in wikipedia under the the 5th generation if they weren't considered add ons. The successor to the Genesis is listed as the Saturn. Just two ways of thinking about it but I am going to stick with how it is listed.

I don't see how you guys are getting stuck ont his "add-on" word.  Genesis, sega cd, and 32X are 3 full blown consoles that sega decided to bundle together in hopes that they would get people to buy all 3.

Gaming console is an ecosystem. Games available define that ecosystem.

If an "addon" has completely different games which are not found anywhere else, it has its own ecosystem and hence should be considered a console. This is why Nintendo DSi, XL, Sega Nomad...etc... aren't standalone consoles. They all just play other console games.

And they would be considered the 5th gen as Sega decided to support 3 different consoles the same generation...

 So the Eyetoy, a piece of hardware which plays its own games - but needs another console to play them - is also it's own console just like the 32X. No different between the two in reality. IT's a piece of hardware you attatch to another console to play unique games on, no?



Tridrakious on 23 December 2011
disolitude said:
Year 1995 - Sega Saturn, Sega Genesis, Sega Game Gear, Sega CD, Sega 32X.

If its got its own game format and a separate AC adapter, its a standalone game system.


Exactly. I also thought Sega was the first and that didn't turn out to well.



Tridrakious on 23 December 2011
chapset said:
Microsoft: Kinect, xbox 360, windows 7 phones, pc


Kinect can not function without and Xbox 360 or a PC. Therefore cannot be considered a "game system". Windows PHONE 7 is not a game system either. The primary function of a PC is not gaming either.

PC's having gaming capabilites, but are not game systems.



TWRoO on 23 December 2011

Depends what you count as "on the go"

I mean Sony has only published 1 game for the PS2 this year, so it's not exactly supported by them anymore.

If you mean they are still producing hardware, well Nintendo was still producing the NES and SNES into 2003, which means in 2001 when the GC launched the NES, SNES, N64, GC and GBA at the minimum. Probably GBC as well (and  if you count it seperately from GBC maybe the original GB too)