Answer:
Old game consoles
New game consoles
Old games consoles like the NES, SNES, the SEGA Genesis were manufactured during the 1970's This generation started in the first and ends in the fifth
New game 3-D consoles like the PS3, X-Box 360 and the Wii U were manufactured during the late 90s to right now. This generation started in the sixth and ends at the eighth.
Facts
They have introduce a lot of game genres and characters like the Mario bros, The Legend of Zelda series, The Tetris game, and Sonic the Hedgehog series.
Genres like platformers and side scrollers were introduced in the 2-D era
New game consoles has introduce game genres like First Person Shooters. Games like Call of Duty and Halo are examples
The answer
The differences between an old console and a new console is not only the modeling of either the game console, but the functional properties and the way it operates. From each generation , there are about eight generations of consoles right now
The difference between an old generation of consoles and a new genration of console
Sources
http://www.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_difference_between_the_old_games_consoles_and_the_new_games_consoles
Pictures and more facts
The X-Box sucessor, the X-Box 360 was released in November 22, 2005 in the United States. Games like Halo and Call of Duty are the games that introduced really good First-Person Shooters
The Playstation 1, PSx, or the PS1 was made in September 9th 1995 in North America. The games that was in for the playstation is the famous Crash Bandicoot and Spyro the Dragon series and a few 2-d games.
The second picture the Super Nintendo Entertainment System or the SNES, was release to America in 1991 and is the sucessor of the NES
The games that was in the system was Super Mario World 1-2, The legend of zelda 3, which were one of the best selling games on the system
The first picture the Nintendo Entertainment System or the NES, that was released to America in 1985 and it was the best selling console at its time.
The games it introduce was of course Super Mario Bros 1-3, The Legend of Zelda 1-2
The third and last picture is the SEGA Overdrive or SEGA Genesis was releases to America in 1989 and rivaled with the SNES during the time.
Games that was with the system was SEGA's blue mascot Sonic the Hedgehog 1-3 and Knuckles, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
PS1 fact
Even though the PS1 has its 2-D games, it also has 3-D games like the Crash Bandicoot and Spyro series made by Naughty Dog, who also did the Last of us game
Explanation:
the similarities are they both play games they both load some type of disk etc.
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