Discuss what is okay and not okay to use it for and look at the possible risks. This could be to turn off the screen and tell an adult. Will it be in a shared family space or in a bedroom? Think about: setting time limits; reminding your child about the risks of communicating online with people that they do not know; and encouraging them to come to you with any worries. Take a look at the controls available both on the games console itself and on your home Wi-Fi.
Talk these through with your child too. Parental controls are a helpful tool, but an open conversation with your child is the most important thing. Some connect to a television; others are handheld with the screens built into them. There is no official or recommended age for a child to have or use a games console. However, like films, video games are given age ratings.
They can be rated as suitable for 3, 7, 12, 16 or 18 years old. Read more about age ratings on the PEGI website. Ofcom As with any piece of technology, use your judgement to decide if you are happy for your child to use it. Use the games console with your child as a fun way to familiarise yourself with the device, how it works and how they like to use it. This can be a great way to model responsible and positive use of technology and show your child you are interested in how they use it.
Explore the parental controls on offer and set up boundaries with your child around how you expect them to use the console. A family agreement can help you to set out your expectations with your child whether you are getting a new device or have been using one for a while.
Make sure you give them the confidence to talk to you if anything worries or upset them while using it. Ensure that any second hand games console has been restored to its factory settings before your child uses it.
This means deleting all data on the console and returning it to the state it would have been in if purchased brand new. It will also allow you to set up parental controls that are most suitable for your child. Games consoles are mainly used to play video games, either by yourself or with others. Playing with Multiple people can play in person using several controllers plugged into the same console, or from different locations by using an internet connection.
Games consoles can also be used to browse the internet, stream videos and music, store and access photos and files, and more. Gaming also has a social element and provides a virtual space where young people can spend time chatting with friends. Like any piece of technology, games consoles have both benefits and risks.
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Nintendo's somewhat delayed response to the Mega Drive was the Super Nintendo Entertainment System SNES , which also had a bit architecture and advanced sound and graphics capabilities. Worldwide, the SNES became the best-selling console of the bit era. The next generation of game consoles included the Sony PlayStation which first appeared in , the Nintendo 64 released in the US in , and the Dreamcast from Sega released in , this was to be Sega's last game console.
Although the N64 was the first commercially successful bit console system, it was the PlayStation which dominated the market, and which became the first game console to achieve sales of over one million units.
The dominance of the PlayStation may, in hindsight, be attributed to the fact that CD-ROM-based software, although more vulnerable to software piracy, was both cheaper to produce and overcame the size limitations inherent in cartridge-based media. The internal architecture of the game console began now to resemble that of the personal computer, and there was a shift towards DVD-ROM media as games became more sophisticated and game graphics involved more and more photo-realistic images.
Both flash drives and hard disk drives also began to be employed for the storage of games, and interest in online gaming was growing. To date, sales of the PlayStation 2 have been well in excess of a hundred million units, making it the best selling console yet. Nintendo countered with the GameCube , which first appeared in and used a proprietary DVD format it was the first Nintendo console not to use cartridges. By its discontinuation in , the GameCube had sold just under twenty-two million units.
Microsoft now entered the game console market for the first time with the Xbox , the first game console to be equipped with an internal hard drive. The Xbox gained a significant market share despite being somewhat bulky and having controls that were awkward to use, no doubt aided by the popularity of the Halo series of first-person shooter games published by Microsoft and hailed as one of the best console games of its type. The current generation of game consoles as of late include support for high-definition media formats such as Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD.
More sophisticated input methods have been introduced, such as player motion input and infra-red tracking, and wireless controllers are becoming the norm. Microsoft's follow-up to the Xbox was the Xbox released in The console's built-in Ethernet port or an external USB wireless adapter can be used to connect to Microsoft's Xbox Live service for online gaming. Currently, the versions available are the Xbox Arcade and the Xbox Elite. The main difference is that the Elite version has a GB internal hard drive.
Sony released the PlayStation 3 PS3 in , complete with an internal hard drive and a Blu-ray Disc drive that can play both Blu-ray movies and games. It was the first console to provide support for HDMI output.
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