Video Game Ideas

Racing

          Ideas

Start off as a young teenager, who has just passed his driving test. Scout the websites and pick your first car. Start street racing and progress earning more money and better cars. Eventually taking on the best street racer, before settling down with all the cash you have earned.

First Cars

Reliant Robin

Vauxhall Nova

Citroen Saxo

Peugeot 106

Volkswagen Rabbit MK2

Vauxhall Corsa MK2

Daewoo Matiz

MG Maestro

Honda Civic MK6

Ford Escort MK2

          Pros

Large market for racing games

First real street racing game in a while

          Cons

Similar to previous ideas

Open World

          Ideas

Third person. Start off as a business employee that goes to work everyday in the massive open world map, before everything turns against him as a gang is against him! Fight against them or hide from them, that's your decision.

          Pros

Wide target audience

          Cons

Very good competitors

Puzzle

          Ideas

A game that tests the way you think to see if you can take necessary puzzles to complete the game.

          Pros

There are wide range of things you can do.

          Cons

There are millions of puzzle games in the internet so there would a wide range of competition.

Comparing consoles

Xbox

The Xbox's GPU was co-developed by Microsoft and NVidia. The height is 4 inches and it is 12.5 inches in width and has a depth of 10.5 inches. The console weighs 3.86 pounds. It has a clock speed of 233 MHz, 932 megapixels/second and 485,416 triangles per frame at 60 frame/s, 970,833 triangles per frame at 30 frame/s.

The Xbox has a 32 bit custom Pentium 3 CPU with a clock speed of 733 MHz’s. The Xbox has 64 MB of DDR memory that runs at 200 MHz in dual-channel configuration giving a total of 6400 MB/the Xbox has 8 or 10 GB hard drive. This was available also with an optional 32 MB memory card for transferring files or extra storage.

This Xbox is the first in the series of the Xbox consoles.

 

 

Xbox 360

 

The height of the Xbox 360 is 3.27 inches, the width is 10.4 inches and has a depth of 12.15 inches. The console weighs 7.72 pounds.

 

The CPU is a Xenon and has 3 64 bit cores. Each CPU core is capable of simultaneous multi-threading and has a core clock of 3.2 GHz. The heat sink used to cool the CPU had aluminum fins with a copper base and a heat pipe. The later version of Xbox 360 which had a smaller core clock did not have a heat pipe and instead had two 70 mm fans at the rear of the case cooling the heat sink.

The Xbox 360 had 512 megabytes of GDDR3 RAM this ran at a clock speed of 700 MHz’s

The storage on the Xbox 360 varied as it had a removable hard drive allowing the consumer to buy bigger hard drives, which could be added to the console very easily, just clicking the new hard drive into place, however they were very costly. Available hard drive sizes were 4GB, 20GB, 60GB, 120GB, 250GB and the biggest being 320GB. The larger the hard drive, the more expensive it was to purchase.

There are currently 1,137 games (multiplatform: 936; exclusive: 187; console exclusive: 74) on the Xbox 360. This is Xbox's second console in the franchise.

 

Xbox One

 

 

The Xbox one console has a height of 2.97 inches, has a width of 13.18 inches and has a depth of 10.86 inches. The Xbox one has an APU which is a GPU and CPU combined, the GPU has a clock speed of 853 MHz and 768 shadier cores and the CPU is an AMD Jaguar which has 8 cores clocked at 1.75 GHz.

The console has 8GB of DDR3 that runs at 2133 MHz with a bit rate of 256. The Xbox one comes with a standard 500 GB hard drive, 362 GB of that storage is free space for the consumer to use and the remaining 138 GB is used to store the operating system and other Xbox one software.

 

There are currently 348 games on the Xbox one. This is Xbox's third console and this is also their most recent and current generation.

 

The console is 2.97 inches in height, 13.18 inches in width and has a depth of 10.86 inches.

 

 

 

 

PlayStation 1

 

 

The PlayStation 1 console was manufactured by LSI Logic Corp. The PlayStation 1 console has a height of 1.77 inches, has a width of 10.24 inches and has a depth of 7.28 inches. The PlayStation 1 has a 32 bit CPU with 5kb L1 cache, running at 33.8688 MHz’s. 90,000 with texture mapping, lighting and Gourmand shading 180,000 with texture mapping 360,000 with flat shading. 

2GB of DRAM. The PlayStation uses memory cards that the player would save the game to and the size of the memory card varies. Without these memory cards you could not save any game progress.

 

This is Sony's 1st console. 

PlayStation 2

 

The PlayStation 2 console has a height of 1.1 inches, has a width of 9.1 inches and has a depth of 6 inches. The PlayStation 2's graphics synthesizer is clocked at 147.456 MHz’s and 4MB of embedded DRAM with 48 gigabytes of bandwidth per second.

The PlayStation 2 has a 64 bit R5900 clocked at 294.912 MHz,   It also has a 32 bit FPU clocked at 147.546, this deals with the game physics. 32 MB of RDRAM/VRAM.

 

This is PlayStation's second console.

PlayStation 3

 

The PlayStation 3 console has a height of 3.86 inches, has a width of 12.75 inches and has a depth of 10.79 inches. The PlayStation 3 weighs approximately 10.6 pounds. The PlayStation 3's GPU is a RSX which is based on the NVidia G70 clocked at 500 MHZ. The PlayStation 3 has a cell microprocessor clocked at 3.2 GHz.

 

The PlayStation has 256 MB of GDDR3 RAM clocked at 650 MHz and comes with a 120 GB hard drive.  There are 812 games on the PlayStation 3.

 

This is PlayStation's third console.

PlayStation 4

 

The PlayStation 4 console has a height of 53 mm, has a width of 305mm and has a depth of 53mm. The total weight is 2.8 kg.The PlayStation 4 has the same APU as the Xbox one, the GPU has a clock speed of 853 MHz and 768 shadier cores and the CPU is an AMD Jaguar which has 8 cores clocked at 1.75 GHz.

The PlayStation 4 has 8GB of GDDR5 clocked at 2.75 GHz. The PlayStation has a standard 500GB hard drive.

 

This is PlayStation's forth console.