In School Essay

This is an essay that I wrote for school. Since its about video games, I thought I might as well put it on here. Oh, and by the way, if you have read this essay before, but haven't read THIS TEXT, then that means that you saw the un-edited version. This version right here is better. Trust me.

Michael Whitlock
Intro to Writing
Three Point Essay Revised Copy
The Video Gaming Competition

The competition between video game companies is gruesome and exciting. If you have an opinion about a favorite company, this essay might change your mind. The three companies competing at the moment are Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft Xbox.
The Sony video game systems are well balanced and quite popular in the gaming world. The PlayStation 2, or PS2, is their second system and is still being sold today. PS2 brought a different view of gaming and was the turning point for Sony’s popularity. The system released after the well-accepted PS2 was the PSP, also known as the PlayStation Portable. The PSP includes internet access, movies, pictures, music, and games and has increased Sony’s status in the great competition. The latest, and some people consider greatest, system from Sony is the new and oversized PS3. This expensive system has the best graphics known today. Out of the three companies in video gaming, Sony is in third place, according to user ratings and merchandise sales.
Nintendo, the oldest gaming company around, is still on a roll with their systems. Now I have to warn you, Nintendo is my favorite company, so the way I write may be biased toward Nintendo. This favoritism is caused mostly by the fact that Nintendo has produced my favorite system, the Gamecube. The Gamecube is a system that has all but lost popularity. The Gamecube was probably the lowest point for sales of Nintendo, but the fame of the 100 something better Gamecube games, made the system popular enough, that Nintendo decided to let the games also be played on the newest system, the Wii. The Wii’s unique controller allows you to feel like you’re in the game. Nintendo has achieved this almost virtual reality by departing from the joy-pads, which use only thumbs and index fingers; they introduced a Wii-mote and Nunchuck controller, which requires you to move your body to control the game. As popular as the Wii is, Nintendo’s top seller is the handheld, double screen, laptop design, Nintendo DS. The DS has two screens, a standard LCD gaming screen and an amazing touch screen, which gives casual and hard-core gamers new ways to play, just like the Wii. Nintendo’s current placing in the gaming competition is first place.
The newest addition to the video gaming competition is the Microsoft Xbox. Their first system was just the regular Xbox. This changed the way everyone looked at the importance of graphics, combined with the fun of hard-core gaming. The second system unleashed from the lairs of the Xbox headquarters, was the huge Xbox 360. This system competes on a regular basis in graphics with the PS3, and is quite popular in the United States. The Xbox placement in the competition currently is second, and not any further. Microsoft mostly only has a strong foundation in the United States, but has a few systems sold elsewhere. Xbox is a respectable system, but cannot stand up to standards in the rest of the world (Europe, Asia, etc.).
This essay is not to force you to any particular company, just to show the facts that stand at the moment. The Video Game world of Nintendo, Sony, and XBOX can be confusing and fun. Or it can just be a nuisance that drives some people crazy because of the passion that goes into it. It is true, that Xbox does not have a strong foundation anywhere but America. In fact, Sony’s strongest foundation is also in America. These two companies do not have very strong foundations in other parts of the globe, because the user ratings-along with the sales-are much smaller than here. Even before the WII and the DS, Nintendo still had the strongest foundations worldwide. Nintendo is on top because of years of experience, and it will be nice to see what will happen in years to come, to see what skill, trial and error, along with correction, goes into the minds of those who control Sony and Microsoft. Maybe the competition will be more gruesome in years to come.