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In the history of video games, the eighth generation is the next iteration of video game consoles expected to follow the current seventh generation: Microsoft’s Xbox 360, Sony’s PlayStation 3, and Nintendo’s Wii. This includes handheld game units released in a similar timeframe. The Nintendo 3DS was released on March 27, 2011 and Sony’s PlayStation Vita was released on February 22, 2012 in North America.
Nintendo has announced its home console successor, the Wii U, to be released in November 2012 in North America,Europe and Australia and December 2012 in Japan. Several journalists have classified the system as the first eighth generation home console. Meanwhile, the multi-million dollar pre-sale success of Ouya through crowdfunding has raised open-source development and the free-to-play model as key issues to be addressed by 8th generation consoles. The successors to the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 are expected in 2013 or 2014; they have been reportedly codenamed Orbis and Durango,…