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Consoles and Competition – Stratechery by Ben Thompson

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Reviewing the history of video games explains why Sony is dominant today, and why Microsoft is actually introducing competition, not limiting it.

Consoles and Competition – Stratechery by Ben Thompson Skip to content Consoles and Competition Monday, December 12, 2022 This Article is available as a video essay on YouTube The first video game was a 1952 research product called OXO — tic-tac-toe played on a computer the size of a large room: Copyright Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, CC BY 2.0 Fifteen years later Ralph Baer produced “The Brown Box”; Magnavox licensed Baer’s device and released it as the Odyssey five years later — it was the first home video game console: The Odyssey made Magnavox a lot

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