Development of gaming platforms

Development of gaming platforms by Keaton Bradley

Unit 14 PR1

Arcade games

• They came out in the late 1970’s• Famous game son them are Pac-Man, space

invaders and computer space.• the newer arcade games are the racing

simulators like fast and furious.• They have 1080p display capability's, the

processor used is the Intel core i3.• To control this you use a steering wheel and

pedals.

Gaming consoles

• The Magnavox Odyssey was the first gaming console.

• The famous consoles are Xbox and play station, the famous games are GTA V , call of duty, battlefield and assassins creed.

• The Xbox 360 uses a tipple core xenon CPU, and the GPU is the ATI xenon.

Gaming PC’S• They were first introduced in the 1980’s• There isn’t really a famous pc because they are usually

custom built, but company's like razor and Alienware build them and sell them, some famous games on pc are Minecraft, Skyrim, League of Legends and World of Warcraft.

• The processor capabilities can range from bad to amazingly good, its also the same whit the display it all depends on what you buy for the PC.

• With the PC you can play online with friends or play offline by your self, the controls used are the keyboard and mouse but with some games you can connect controllers to play with.

Hand held devices (apple)

• The display capabilities of the apple devises are LED-backlit IPS LCD, capacitive touchscreen, 16M colours.

• The processor capability’s are not listed but it runs at 1.65 ghz.

• The iPhone has 3 different memory phones he 16G 32G and 64G.

• The connectivity on iPhones are Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and normal phone.

Hand held devices (android)

• Android are mainly Samsung phones and they are linked with Microsoft.

• Android have the same way as iPhone to download apps, android are also a open source and Google backed them up in October 2012, there was approximately 700,00 apps.

• The processor is quad-core 2.3GHz Krait Snapdragon 800 processor.

• The GPU is PoweVR SGX 544MP3