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Game on
May 21st 2013, 13:58 by Economist.com
The most successful video-games consoles
VIDEO games are big business. The industry is worth around $80 billion, and although games can be played on PCs and phones, the industry is still dominated by dedicated consoles. A good candidate for the earliest games console is the Magnavox Odyssey, released in 1972, predating the home version of Atari’s early blockbuster “Pong” by three years and selling 300,000 units—an impressive tally for something which could not even generate sound. With every “generation” of consoles (a somewhat abitrary system for grouping machines with similar release dates and roughly equivalent power) total sales rose steadily.