Generations.

Game play and consoles are sometimes divided into generations. The Video game console section of Wikipedia was established at noon on 19 October 2001, when it stated that the generation name was created mainly by the market strategy department of home console manufacturers.At that time, the names of the generations were mainly created by the market strategy departments of home console manufacturers, and the content differs slightly from what is widely known today, but they are classified as 8-bit, 16-bit, etc. The classification was unstable, as there were some generations in the bit-based classification and some classifications that did not use bits. On 21 August 2003 at midday, a new classification based on bit was introduced, stating that it has been increasingly irrelevant in distinguishing capabilities since 1980.The unstable classification was largely based on generational classification. The generational classification was largely consistent throughout from the bit-based classification categories. The first Odyssey game was not included in the generation classification, but Odyssey 2 and Atari 2600 were classified as the first generation, and Atari 5200 as the second generation. The description was deleted and replaced by other notations, but on 7 August 2006, the generation description was added and the first Odyssey game was classified as the first generation, while the Odyssey 2, Atari 2600 and Atari 5200 were classified as the second generation. The Japanese version of Wikipedia provides an explanation based on the 20 June 2003(Heisei 15) bit-based classification, but on 2 December 2005(Heisei 17) a classification based on the main machines of each period, such as the Famicom generation, was made, and the contents differ from both the English version of Wikipedia and the current Japanese generation classification.The content of the classification was unique to Japan and different from both the English Wikipedia and the current Japanese generation classification. However, on 9 August 2006(Heisei 18) the classification was changed to a generational classification, with the names replaced and the content retained. On 12 January 2007(Heisei 19), the current generation classification was adopted by adding the zeroth generation, and on 13 January 2007(Heisei 19), the classification was changed to the original generation classification.

The generation of game play and consoles was generally established between 2001 and 2003, and between 2003 (Heisei 15) and 2006 (Heisei 18) in Japan.

List of Consoles

Nintendo

Console

Handheld

Sega

Console

Handheld

NEC

Console

Handheld

Sony (Sony Computer Entertainment)

Console

Handheld

Microconsole

Microsoft

Atari

Console

Handheld

Panasonic/Sanyo

SNK

Console

Handheld

Bandai Namco Games (Formerly Bandai and Namco)

Console

Handheld

Nvidia

Others

PC Hardware

MSX

PC-88

PC-98

X68000

FM Towns

Operation Systems

MS-DOS

Windows

Mac OS X

Linux

Android

SteamOS

API

OpenGL

DirectX

Mantle

Mobile devices

Smartphone

iPhone

iPad

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