Game consoles can get pretty pricey, especially expensive at launch. Here's how these consoles compare in their launch price.

A Reader’s Feature argues that the current generation is the worst there’s ever been and that Microsoft and Sony are neglecting their duties.

Among the plethora of video game consoles ever released, five have stood out as the best-sellers, racking up a combined total of nearly 700 million units sold. Let’s take a look at these record-breaking consoles and what made them such monumental successes.

Nowadays, video game consoles are a ubiquitous piece of hardware in many households. Maybe you have a Switch hooked up in the living room, an Xbox sitting beside your PC, a PlayStation standing menacingly waiting for games.

It quickly emerges that people have very different tastes, with some favouring the brutalist retro sci-fi look, while others prefer the shiny Y2K CD player look of the Panasonic Q and others like the 1970s living room aesthetic of the Atari 2600 (see our Atari 2600+ review ).

Italian police have broken up a gang trafficking fake retro video games from China, seizing a haul that they claimed was worth £40 million. Around 12,000 consoles holding 47 million counterfeit versions of classic titles such as Super Mario Bros,

Italian police have busted up a retro game trafficking ring worth an estimated $52.5 million USD, and now nine pirates are facing up to eight years in prison. "Around 12,000 consoles on which more than 47 million pirated video games were illegally stored were seized,

Nine people have been arrested in Italy for their connection to a trafficking ring dealing in fake retro video game consoles, in an operation that seized more than $50 million in counterfeit goods. Italy’s Guardia di Finanza — a militarized police force that deals with economic and financial crimes — announced Friday that it had arrested the Italian nationals and confiscated their collection of fake video game goods.