videogame console

videogame console (plural videogame consoles)

1. Alternative form of video game console.
   • 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 2023-10-10:

     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.

   • 2003, EQUIP: The Insider’s Guide to the Future of… PlayStation®2, Bath, Somerset: Future Publishing Ltd, pages 1 and 6:

     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.

   • 2011, Ernest Cline, Ready Player One, New York, N.Y.: Crown Publishers, →ISBN, pages 37, 57, and 218:

     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.

   • 2012 November 6, The Experts at Microsoft, “Entertainment Tech Trends: The Future Looks... Familiar”, in HuffPost‎, archived from the original on 2023-10-10:

     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.