A brief history of the video game industry, the rise of Nintendo, the dominance of Sony, and what Microsoft's Activision deal means for competition (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)

Ben Thompson / Stratechery:

A brief history of the video game industry, the rise of Nintendo, the dominance of Sony, and what Microsoft’s Activision deal means for competition  —  The first video game was a 1952 research product called OXO — tic-tac-toe played on a computer the size of a large room:

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