Generations of Consoles

The first console was the Magnavox Odyssey. This console played games like Pong and were not very high tech but, were revolutionary since it was the start of a new age of home entertainment. After a few years or so consoles enter a new generation ending up at the eighth generation of consoles entered less than five months ago. Many companies have risen and faded trying to play the console game and only three now stand with a possible fourth coming to play. The altercations that have come along are incredible. Consoles brought gaming out of the arcades and brought it home in a compact size.
The first two generations were the start of home consoles and had very simple graphics and played games like pong. This age brought forth Atari in 1972 which because a supreme leader in consoles but slowly ended up going out of business. The first console however was the Magnavox Odyssey. It had various games but was largely made up of sports games. The true first pong game was on the Magnavox Odyssey. Pong was actually a rip-off that Atari made is considered the first game. This led to a lawsuit when Atari made a pong console that every game was played the same way but the customer had to buy covers to put over the screen to “change” the game. The first generation included only two more consoles the Coleco Telstar and Nintendo’s Color TV Games. The second generation contained the largest amount of consoles with eleven with ten being from different companies. This was more likely due to wanting to join the great success potential. All but three failed to become highly successful. Sega joined Atari and Nintendo as successful companies. Atari had its most successful console named Atari 2600 with about 30 million systems sold total. Ga...

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...tions. Xbox invested enough money on Titanfall to keep it off PlayStation that Titanfall’s developers were given more money than they would make putting the game on the PlayStation 4.
In conclusion, each generation learned from each other. With technology development becoming more rapid every year, innovations are happening all the time. The eighth generation brought forth by PlayStation 4, a removable hard drive that can be upgraded to hold more files up to about four terabytes. Someday consoles may work like computers, to upgrade it buy a better part. However, if predictors are correct consoles are a dying age and will be replaced by mobile gaming and PC gaming that many believe is more convenient to own. Consoles however, turned gaming into something nearly anyone can enjoy from sports games like Wii bowling to games that thrive on chaos like Grand Theft Auto V.