How long does it take to read Console Wars?
Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation
Blake J. Harris
Console Wars by Blake J. Harris takes about 10 hours 14 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 10 hours 14 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2014. 558 pages, about 153,450 words.
21 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 17 hours 3 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 14 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 24 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
From the Forward... Nintendo was king of home videogame entertainment systems, then Sega came in and was a contender for the crown. Sega almost toppled Nintendo with their subversive and more adult-oriented games, and these games have led us to a world where GTA and Call of Duty are the top games, and the next step is to have the games incorporate stuff about us and our personal lives, and then sentient technology will inevitably disassociate from mankind and some robot like Skynet will rise up and destroy us all. Hence: the “Console Wars” between Nintendo and Sega is what began a series of events that will lead to the end of humanity as we know it.
Subjects: Barbie, Hot Wheels, business, entertainment, Mattel, Atari
