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videogame console en · NOUN

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1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of video game console.
   alt of video game console
   • Sony remains No. 1 in videogame-console sales, and it promises its new Playstation^([sic]) II will deliver movie-like graphics, thanks to a processing chip that Sony designed itself and that offers performance formerly found only in supercomputers. 1999 September 4, Lauren Klein, “A Precocious Portfolio: Companies Kids Know, Stocks They Can Love”, in International Herald Tribune; republished in The New York Times, archived from the original on 10 Oct 2023:
   • A vintage RCA television stood in the center of the room, hooked up to a Betamax VCR, a LaserDisc player, and several vintage videogame consoles. […] Halliday and Morrow referred to the OASIS as an “open-source reality,” a malleable online universe that anyone could access via the Internet, using their existing home computer or videogame console. […] By that era, home videogame consoles had already made most coin-op games obsolete. 2011, Ernest Cline, Ready Player One, New York, N.Y.: Crown Publishers, →ISBN, pages 37, 57, and 218:
   • And The Best Handheld Videogame Console Is Now… Your Phone? […] Rogers has its own take on Netflix with Anyplace TV which allows users to stream shows and movies to tablets, smart phones or videogame consoles. 2012 November 6, The Experts at Microsoft, “Entertainment Tech Trends: The Future Looks... Familiar”, in HuffPost, archived from the original on 10 Oct 2023:
   • Its ‘difficult second console’ has been misunderstood, maligned, even mauled at various points throughout its life, but it is the undisputed, runaway leader in the videogame console market – a space also occupied by two of the most serious players in the electronic entertainment sector. […] I want to argue that PlayStation2’s greatest success has been as a first step in the necessary anonymisation of the videogame console, a process in which hardware itself begins to fade into the background. 2003, EQUIP: The Insider’s Guide to the Future of… PlayStation®2, Bath, Somerset: Future Publishing Ltd, pages 1 and 6:

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