Learning to control this brain activity, the thinking goes, will allow the player to apply the same technique away from the game machine.

And there is talk that perhaps the new game machine will add voice recognition.

The current generation of game machines use chips that process information in 64-bit chunks.

A $199 game machine, for instance, performs just one task, but does it extremely well.

How can it convince the masses to pay $500 or $600, depending on the model, for a game machine?

There are now more than 122,000 electronic game machines statewide.

Parents may balk at new game machines that cost up to $200.

But few industry analysts expect consumers to buy the game machine just to watch movies.

As the technology advanced, the quality of sound and music these game machines could produce increased dramatically.

In fact, the world's most popular game machine is the personal computer.