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Herman, Leonard; Horwitz, Jer; Kent, Steve; Miller, Skyler (2002). "The History of Video Games". Gamespot. CNET. Archived from the original on June 9, 2009. Retrieved September 24, 2009.
Ars Technica's The evolution of gaming: computers, consoles, and arcade

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Yarwood, Jack (December 12, 2022). "Is Wikipedia Really To Blame For Video Game Console Generations?". Time Extension. Hookshot Media. Retrieved December 13, 2022.

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Virtual Reality and motion capture

This article will need to be updated with the recent growing trends in vitual reality (including the HTC vive, oculus rift, playstation vr) and with motion capture technology (microsoft kinect, playstation move, HTC vive motion capture, etc).— Preceding unsigned comment added by 186.155.50.27 (talk) 03:01, 10 May 2016‎ (UTC)[reply]

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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 18 January 2022 and 29 April 2022. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): IAutumnl (article contribs). Peer reviewers: Chloe Alexandria.

new gen consoles

during these new years of groundbreaking tech new gen consoles have come out such as PS5 X Box series S 2605:59C8:F0:6210:53D:43CF:921E:9F02 (talk) 00:17, 4 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Those are discussed in the article in the second last section Masem (t) 00:37, 4 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Africa and Latin America, revisited

A decade ago, I added a few paragraphs to this article regarding Africa and Latin America (as a whole), regions that were and are completely absent in this article. These paragraphs have both been removed (Latin America, and Africa see bottom), because these regions have very low sales numbers compared to the US, Europe, and eastern Asia. They may not be considered "large enough markets" to require coverage in our top-level article on the subject. However, I would like to reinstate some text about these regions if possible. I do not believe the argument of market-share particularly holds water, as video games are likely experienced by hundreds of millions of people in these regions even if they are not buying them or paying for them. Currently, we do not describe the role video games have in the lives of perhaps over a billion people, which seems odd even if they are financially insignificant. I would not want to do research on this if it is likely to be reverted again, however, so I figured I'd ask for thoughts and input here first. (btw, India, the Arab world, and Indonesia also seem like candidates for a similar discussion) ~Maplestrip/Mable (chat) 15:37, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]