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Developers: A developer is a software developer that specializes in video game development and process that it takes to create the video game. Game companies can own other sub companies within which can work on their own games. For example, Rockstar games own other sub-companies such as Rockstar North which is called vertical integration.
Platform Holders: Platform Holders are companies such as Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo , who own the platforms such as Xbox (Microsoft) PlayStation (Sony) and WII (Nintendo). Platform holders will compete and bring out the newest version's of their consoles to beat the other platform holders.
Xbox One: The Xbox One is a game console which was developed by Microsoft. It was announced in May 2013 and released 22nd November 2013 and was the third console in the Xbox family. Microsoft marketed the console as a 'All in one entertainment system'. The Xbox competes with Sony's PlayStation and Nintendo's WII.
The Xbox One has an upgraded Kinect is more accurate than ever before. The Kinect 2.0 features a wide angle camera and a 1080p camera. It was redesigned and created to provide motion-tracking and voice commands for the Xbox One. It can also perform heart rate tracking, re QR codes to redeem Xbox Live gift cards. You can also wake the console up by commanding it to and the Kinect 2.0 hears it. The console as a whole appeals to all ages and back grounds as there is a large variety of games to play on it and the design of the Xbox One is fairly simple to use.
The console can monitor its internal temperature and adjust to prevent overheating.
The memory that the Xbox One holds is either a 500GB console or a 1000GB console, the higher GB console costs more and with more GB more things can be saved and downloaded like pictures, games and videos.
PS4- The home video console; The PlayStation 4 is developed by Sony. It was released 29th November 2013. It is built upon the x86-64 architecture and AMD said it was the 'most powerful' APU it has developed to date. The PlayStation 4 has more of a 'social' element to it as it has a feature were you can play 'off console' called 'remote play' which is the ability to steam gameplay online or to friends.
Also, the console's controller is improved since the PlayStation 3 with an integrated touchpad and analog sticks.
Sony were praised by critics who said that the PlayStation 4 listened to consumers needs.
September 7, 2016, Sony produced two hardware revisions of PlayStation 4, a slim version of the console and a upgraded version with a upgraded GPU and CPU clockrate.
WII U: The WII U is a home video console device which was developed by Nintendo, it was released in November 2012. The WII U has HD graphics and is the first Nintendo system to have this. The controller (Wii U gamepad) has a touchscreen and action buttons. The Wii U was met with postitive reception, praising the controller, graphics and improvements from the Wii. The Wii U has a custom multi-chip (MCM) which also has a memory chip within it. The console contains two GB of memory. Of this, one GB is reserved for the operating system and is unavailable to games. There is online services available on the Wii U, which enables each online multiplayer to video chat, and use the Wii U chat, while also being able to access the Wii U eshop, up to twelve accounts can be made per console.
iPhone 6- The iPhone 6 and 6 Plus are smartphones and they are designed by Apple and marketed by them also. The devices are part of the iPhone series and released 19th September 2014. The iPhone Six includes a 4.7 inch display which is bigger than the iPhone 5, a upgraded camera and a faster connection and also improved Wi-Fi connectivity.
When the iPhone 6 was released, it was already preloaded with the most modern software to date; IOS 8. Apple announced that within the first 24 hours of sales over 4 million orders for the iPhone 6 were made.
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