Talk:Video game console/Archive 1

message: Much of the information in this article's "List of game consoles" is duplicated in the List of video game consoles. I suggest we merge data from this articles list to it, then just link to it.  The seperate list could really benefit from the extra information. —Frecklefoot 16:30, May 7, 2004 (UTC)
:Done. Paranoid 15:38, 12 Jun 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: List of video game      consoles

message: Does someone else agree with me that putting a GameCube image at the top of the article may give the impression of favoritism? Just wanted to know. – DarkEvil 17:48, July 25, 2005 (UTC)
I'd rather have any pictures displaying examples of game systems being the most successful and prominent ones. NES/Famicom, Super Nintendo/Famicom, or original PlayStation come to mind. Smoove K 07:48, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  GameCube image 

message: One point this article completely ignores is whether Gaming Consoles hold any advantages or disadvantages over PC games. Surely a PC has far more capable processor, more RAM, more VRAM, more verything. So it should be able to support greater quality and performance. Why does anyone us e a console? What is the situation PC vs Console? Some help here will be apreciated.
:Request that this post be archived as an example of why we don't do the "Consoles vs PCs" thing on the wikipedia.Sockatume 23:36, 15 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why Consoles? 

message: The one sentence in this article is all I have found on this entire site on this subject.  all the 'next-gen' consoles use 64-bit processors like the PowerPC from IBM, but they won't be called 64-bit consoles, that is what the PS1 and N64 were.  Can someone who knows why this is explain this phenomenon, ie why are consoles quoted as being higher bit than they actually are?  This is my first post ever, let me know if I went about this the right way, if not, sorry.
Beardedfish 21:13, 17 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Where is this stated? All I see is "Note that the advertised bits of current generation (32-bit, 64-bit and 128-bit) consoles were in large part created by the console makers' marketing departments" - this, although not written that great, I think is referring to the current generation (Xbox, GameCube, PS2) as being the 128-bit era. Only the PS2 is technically a 128-bit system. See more on the subject at Sixth generation era. K1Bond007 01:07, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

text: Bits really don't mean much. Increasing from 8-bit to 16, then eventually 32 was a big deal, but not until recently (which is arguable) has there been any sort of worthwhile reason to really go beyond that. It really depends on what the processor is used for. We're just now seeing a leap from 32-bit to 64-bit processors on the PC, but most of what is released are still 32-bit. Just because a processor may be 128-bit doesn't make it better. K1Bond007 03:36, 18 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Even if they don't mean much, to which I agree, a bit of clarification could fit in the article quite well. Consoles have been referred often by the number of bits (at least up to the 6th gen, I'm not seeing this so much on the 7th gen). --Outlyer 12:27, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  bits in consoles vs computers 

message: The state of the images in this article is ridiculous. We have a currently have a stack of 4 Nintendo consoles followed by an Atari 2600 along the side of the page. The reason that stack started was that there was concern (above) that any single console would show favoritism toward that platform. Even if the latest edits were reverted, there would still be a big ugly stack of only partially representive consoles. With the addition of the future Nintendo console we have even bigger problems - are we going to have pictures of every single major present and future console in this article? And if we do, are we also going to have any past consoles, or are we just going to forget about them? It seems to me that we should have one solid picture to demonstrate the concept of a video game console, instead of trying to show all consoles at once. People can click through to the individual console articles, after all. - RedWordSmith 20:40, 25 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image sillyness 

message: Does anyone have a source for the approximate lifespans of consoles in Europe? Especially release/discontinuation dates for systems unique to the market.--24.114.252.183 04:01, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Europe is often overlooked, as releases of consoles distribution and names of games is often different. I think that this article and the timeline would benifit from additional information about video games consoles in Europe. Also I'm interested in the whole 50hz thing that we have in Europe causing games to usually have narrow black bars at the top and bottom of the screen. Y control 19:05, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  European dates? 

message: Neo-Geo is currently missing from the timelines. It should be added, since it was also available as a home console. Shawnc 02:41, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I would, if I could find reliable dates for its lifespan. --72.137.173.201 04:10, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Neo Geo 

message: Since we have the numbers for most consoles, what about a list of best-selling video games?
igordebraga ≠ 13:21, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This article is about the hardware, not the software. --72.137.173.201 01:29, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggested list 

message: I found Game Wave via randompage. Maybe someone could plug it in here? --Snargle 21:03, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Another new console

message: Hello, I've written the majority of the content in this article, and sadly it's not quite what it could be.  In the next few weeks I'll have the time to flesh it out more.  If you want to help improve the article that's awesome!  Go ahead.  If you're not sure where to start I've decided to make a todo  list of some important things the article needs.TheAltarbo (talk) 05:33, 2 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  To Do List 

message: I came across https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_video_games.  It seems, at least from the 3rd Generation, it is just another iteration of what is posted here.  Always rough to edit one for a while, then find out there's another place with similar info... and both seem to be linked in quite a few places.  Seems that page is rather excessively long, and this one need a little more filling out.  I have no history with merging and such, but it would seem everyone would be benefited with some kind of merging\upgrading organization between these two articles? JeopardyTempest (talk) 09:02, 30 May 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Are you suggesting merge Video game console with History of video games? If so, I'm not sure that's going to fly. That's a pretty big action you'll need to have some group input over (more than just a couple of other editors). Maybe take the question over to the Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject Video games if you don't get any discussion here. BcRIPster (talk) 16:32, 30 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Some kind of merge needed? 

message: I check pages listed in :Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of :Video game console's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.
Reference named "gamepro2":
From History of video game consoles (fifth generation): 
From History of video game consoles (fourth generation): 
I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 21:20, 31 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Orphaned references in [[:Video game console]] 

message: Game console bundles shipped worldwide in 2012 was about 33 million
- does that mean that there were about 33 million game consoles sold in the world in 2012? Or "Game console bundles" may include packages of games, without consoles included?
By game bundle, many people mean game plus console, and there can be a number of these available too. - 
—  Ark25  (talk) 14:16, 27 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sales question 

message: Game Boy is mentioned in both sections, it's not very clear which generation it belongs to. Perhaps the handheld consoles in general did not follow the generations used for larger video game consoles?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.33.162.27 (talk) 16:14, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is the Game Boy handheld console from the Third Generation or Fourth Generation? 

message: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSX_(video_game_console)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.21.202.236 (talk) 23:10, 12 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  no mention about the PSX sony console, DVR released in 2003?