Over the twentyfour years that i have lived this life. One thing always kept me busy, Gaming. Almost everybody is doing it these days, whethere it is in the train, airplane, bus or just at home. Gaming has grow to multibillion dollar industrie. Even your grandma is playing games these days. but how did it all become like this.

Let's start with the first game ever made by men. it was a tennis game on a radar device from WWII, this was back in 1958 called Tennis for Two. A simple dot was the tennis ball with a small opsticle in the middle of the radar as the net. and with two analog devices you could move the ball from one side to the other. But that was in the very beginning and started to become the game we now know as Pong. Everybody who has been playing games over the last twenty years knows the game Pong. a simple black screen with some white objects on the screen wich was released on the Magnavox. it did not take long for the people who created this to make other type of games like basketball or bowling.

But the gaming hype did not really start untill Nintendo & Atari came along. With the Nintendo 8-Bit and the Atari 2600 as they launched titels like Super Mario Brothers and Space Invaders. This was like the first console wars back in the day. and sadly Atari lost this fight very fast with the uprising of the NES. Many games where created on the NES and over 61 million units where sold worldwide. Nintendo Made a name for itself. But it wasnt untill 1990 that Sega came allong with their consoles to shake things up a bit for Nintendo. And as whe now all know Sega did not make it al the way to this day as a console manufacture. But the team still makes alot of games under the name Sega.

In 1994 a new company try's there luck at gaming consoles, Sony Computer Entertainment. With the arrival of the Playstation. As seen on the Sega Mega drive they use CD's with much more storage of gaming fun. In the same time nintendo wanted to be on top of the market, and with the NES and the SNES already released, they try there luck to keep beating Sony. This time it was the Virtual Boy. But things did not go like Nintendo wanted it to be. The system did not lived up to the hype and Sony was still on top of things.

In 1996 Nintendo Launched there new Console the Nintendo 64. This console had more power than the Playstation and was better looking at the time. the only problem was they where still putting the games on Microchips. 4 Years after that Sony released there new Console, The Playstation 2. This was a far more powerfull system with 128bit graphics and dvd drive. Many people bought the playstation 2 at that time because it was the best there was at the time. It did not take long for Nintendo to make a good comeback with the Gamecube. But at the same time another player joins the party, Microsoft. With there Xbox they showed the people how games should be played. alltough not many people where listening at the time to this new console. they stuck to what they know and that was the Playstation. Nintendo was loosing the battle of the consoles.

And that brings us the present. whe now have got the Playstation 3 the Xbox 360 and the Nintendo Wii. As the Battle for the best has going on for 25 years. Nintendo always kept a spot in the top 3. Gaming also has changed over these years. almost everyone has played a game in there live. whether it is on a console, handheld or the internet. Everybody has been caught by the hype of Gaming.

The main question is what will this do for the future. well you will see all these console will focus on a complete package like you already seeing now. Gaming and Multimedia together on one system. and also a easy and fun way to play games like Nintendo is doing on the Wii. Microsoft and Sony will also go in the same direction as this makes more money. After all more people playing on your system is more money. In the next 5 to 10 years there will not be any new next gen console. Basicly because it's too expensive and the technology isnt here. And still the consoles that we now use have still along way to go till they are maxed out. So will there be a Xbox 720 or a Playstation 4. well maybe they will give it that name but it will only be an upgraded version of the one you have in you home now. it will basicly be the same as Sony does now with the PSP upgrades. Psp 1000, 2000, and now 3000. this will flow over into the new consoles. my guess whe will see an upgrade of the consoles every year. whether it's a hard drive upgrade or some chip that needs to be replaced. But as long as the games are good it's all good.