Think about the vibration found in some videogame console controllers, but even more intense.
FORBES: CES: Immerz Lets You Literally Feel Videogames And Movies
Sega, the world's third-largest videogame console manufacturer, is creating Sega.com, a new firm dedicated to Internet gaming.
Tech pundits weren't surprised when Nintendo 's Wii videogame console became an instant hit with kids last year.
Lots of people have complained about the "silly" name of Nintendo 's Nintendo new videogame console, the Wii.
But in this new virtual gold rush, a more traditional competitor has been overlooked by many: the videogame console.
FORBES: Microsoft's Xbox Live Is Making Boatloads Of Money On Virtual Goods
The Japanese company emphasized family-friendly games in popularizing its original Wii videogame console.
When the original PlayStation videogame console launched back in 1995, many had doubts.
FORBES: On PlayStation's 15th Anniversary, Sony Plays The Underdog Once More, With Feeling
There were 40 million television sets in the U.S. alone when I invented the first videogame console in 1966.
It's suddenly more immersive, more compelling and potentially more appealing to consumers who have never considered buying a videogame console before.
Turned playing card company Nintendo into world's most successful videogame console maker.
Ralph Baer is an engineer and inventor, and the creator of the first videogame console, which was marketed as the Magnavox Odyssey.
In May Microsoft effectively stopped treating Live like an add-on for a videogame console and started pricing the console as a loss leader for an entertainment platform.
The typical American couch spud already has a number of "boxes" attached to his television set: A VCR, a cable-TV decoder box and perhaps a videogame console like a Sony PlayStation.
Yet the current generation of videogame console has been dominated not by Sony or Microsoft but by the Wii, Nintendo's modest machine that relies on an older, cheaper and less powerful chip.
While the world waits to find out the facts about Microsoft's next videogame console, new rumors have popped up suggesting what its plans to go all-in on the Xbox-as-media center concept entail.
The company said it has also created new connections between the PlayStation 4 and its handheld videogame console, the PlayStation Vita, allowing customers to play games running on the PlayStation 4 on the mobile device.
According to recent report from Knowledge Networks, 21% of consumers in the U.S., age 13 to 54, watch TV and movies on a videogame console at least once a month (including DVDs, Blu-ray discs and via Internet connection).
FORBES: Users Spend 1 Billion Hours On Xbox Live Per Month, At Least 15% Of That On Video
That means that Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) is building consumer electronics devices (most spectacularly, the Xbox videogame console), while Sony (nyse: SNE - news - people ) is working on an operating system.
But it does not seem to have occurred to Sony that IBM would sell key parts of the Cell before it was complete and to Sony's primary videogame-console competitor.
With more than 100 songs3 on the Rock Band 2 Wii soundtrack, Rock Band 2 Wii owners have access to the most impressive music catalogue for a music-based videogame on the console.
ENGADGET: SanDisk releases 2GB Rock Band 2 SD card for all your downloadable content
"A year or two ago, many people thought Xbox Live and other console networks were mostly a way to connect gamers with other gamers, and an online store for videogame content, " says Guzman.
If anything, PETA proved their "console-cred" on their blog, stating that they usually side with gamers against anti-videogame mogul Jack Thompson, who most recently condemned Wendy's for releasing Nintendo Wii toys.
应用推荐