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Discontinuations and revisions

  • The PlayStation 3 20 GB has been discontinued in North America and Japan.
  • The PlayStation 3 60 GB has been discontinued for NTSC territories. When the remaining stock in stores is sold, the 80 GB version will serve as its replacement.
  • The PlayStation 3 60 GB has been effectively discontinued for PAL territories. When the remaining stock in stores is sold, the 40 GB version will serve as its replacement.
  • Sony announced before the PS3 launch in Europe that the Emotion Engine would be removed from it for cost savings, and all backwards compatibility would be software-based. It is also the same for the 80 GB launching in the North American market.
  • An HDMI out port was added to the Premium Xbox 360 in August 2007.
  • The Xbox 360 Core system has been discontinued and replaced with the "Arcade" version at a price of US$279.99.

Backwards compatibility

As of November 19, 2006, the Xbox 360, Playstation 3, and Wii have all been released. This new generation for the first time has all of the major consoles focusing on online integration and wireless controllers. Initially only the Wii was fully backwards compatible with its previous counterpart with the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 only offering partial support, until online updates gave them full support too. The European PlayStation 3's firmware is constantly being updated to give better backwards compatibility with both PlayStation and PlayStation 2 titles, but is available for download over the internet (via broadband connection) and may possibly be added onto a disk in the future. The PS3's "PS2 on a chip" solution used on the North American console has been taken out of the European release and is done through less-perfect but cheaper software emulation. Newer PS3 Sku's however, have taken out PS2 backwards compatibility all together, to help lower prices. The Xbox 360 uses software emulation for backwards compatibility via game-specific patches automatically downloaded via Xbox Live or downloaded and burned to a CD or DVD from the Xbox website. Some titles are now available for download via Xbox live, eliminating the need for the original Xbox disc. The Wii is fully backwards-compatible with the GameCube and has backwards-compatibility via the Virtual Console, which provides the ability to emulate various older gaming platforms, though each game has to be repurchased and saved to the console's internal memory.

High definition video

Both PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 support 1080p full high definition video (Full HD) output. However, the output signal may be protected by digital rights management and may require an HDCP-compliant display if HDMI is used. The PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Marketplace services offer HD movies, TV shows, movie trailers and clips for download to their respective consoles.

While there is only a limited number of games available which render the picture in 1080p, all games can be automatically scaled to this resolution. Both PlayStation 3 games and Xbox 360 games are labeled with their rendering resolution on games' packages.

Sales standings

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Milestone titles

  • BioShock (Xbox 360, PC) is considered a major influential and artistic game of this generation with a plot that quickly created controversy with the decisions the player makes during the game.
  • Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Xbox 360, PC, PS3), At Game Rankings, Oblivion holds an average review score of 94% for the Xbox 360, 93% for the PC, and 93% for the PlayStation 3 version. In general, most reviewers praised the game for its immersiveness and scope, winning the game awards from various outlets. The television program X-Play , citing similar reasons, awarded the game a 5/5, with Eurogamer stating that the game "successfully unites some of the best elements of RPG, adventure and action games and fuses them into a relentlessly immersive and intoxicating whole". In Japan, game magazine Famitsu awarding it a 38/40, giving it their "Platinum award". GameSpot called the game "simply one of the best role-playing games ever,".
  • Gears of War (Xbox 360, PC) preorder sales were second only to Halo 2 in the studio's history. Gears of War was also the first Xbox or Xbox 360 game to sell out and reach the top ten charts in Japan. On November 7, 2006—the day that it was released—it became the most popular game on the Xbox Live service, overtaking Halo 2 , which had held the spot since its launch in November 2004. By January 19, 2007, just ten weeks after its debut, over three million units of the game had been sold.
  • Halo 3 (Xbox 360) broke many first day records, including preorders (1.7 million+), and first day sales (US$170 million+), surpassing its predecessor, Halo 2 , in both of these fields. It created a breakthrough in artificial intelligence technology, making the enemy, Al, a formidable figure. However, the player's allies could easily be considered to be far poorer in intelligence quality.
  • Mass Effect (Xbox 360) advanced the single player narrative in games with an evolving storytelling system. Sold over a million copies a month after the release. Further sales were spurred by controversy when FOX news mistakenly reported the game contained explicit sex scenes between the characters.
  • "GTA IV" (Xbox 360, PS3)
  • Super Mario Galaxy (Wii), currently one of the most critically acclaimed titles of the seventh generation, sold more copies in its first week, including over 500,000 in the US, than any other game for the Mario title in the history of the franchise. It is second only to The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time as the overall best-reviewed game of all-time, as listed on Game Rankings, along with being the recipient of many game of the year awards.
  • Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Wii) is a product of a landmark joint cooperation between former rival companies, Nintendo and Sega , along with the help of Konami . It is the third in a series of cross-over fighting game and is the first Wii game to strongly support online play. It dominated sales during both Japan and North American release dates, selling 850,000 in its first week in Japan and 1.4 million in North America.
  • Wii Sports (Wii) has been attributed as a major factor in the Wii's worldwide success. The game, along with Wii Fit , has been cited as attracting more casual, female, and elderly gamers. This is a rarity among seventh generation games, as developers tend to try and attract young males. It has also been cited as one game that can provide a bonding experience among family members, and as a means of exercising and losing weight when played regularly. As of March 31, 2008, the game has sold 21.56 million copies worldwide—including bundled copies, making it the best-selling Wii game published by Nintendo.

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