Blog post#10 Diffusion of innovaton

 Through the history of video games there are many companies that made games with many successes and failures. I will be using the diffusion of innovation theory to explain the history of video games the pioneers were William Higinbotham with his creation of tennis for two, Steve Russell with his creation of  Spacewar!,  and Ralph Baer with his creation of the "Brown Box".

They were pioneers because this started the history of video games with a game made on an analog computer and an oscilloscope in 1958. A game made on a PDP-1 computer and being the first game with multiple computer installations made in 1962. Lastly a game console made for local multiplayer gameplay called the brown box in 1967 before being licensed and renamed the
Odyssey in 1972.

the companies Magnavox, Atari and Nintendo were the early adopters. Magnavox was the first of the early adopters licensing the Brown box from Baer in 1972 however the Odyssey would end up failing. Atari was the second early adopter with their home version of pong which was successful but because they got sued by Magnavox and Sanders Associates they became an odyssey licensee Atari however continued to make video games. Nintendo was the final early adopter with the creation of Donkey Kong introducing people to the world of Mario.

the early majority would be Sega. Sega is the only early majority because it started being popular after the video game crash in 1983. Sega started to compete with Nintendo the company that Brought the video game industry from the video game crash. Sega released the Sega genesis to compete with Nintendo's NES. Sega's wealth grew in the early to mid 1900s.

the late majority would be Sony and Microsoft. Sony with the release of the PlayStation in 1995 and continue to release the PlayStation 2 in 2000, the PlayStation 3 in 2006 and the consoles released presently. Microsoft with the release of the Xbox in 2001, the release of the Xbox 360 in 2005, the release of the Xbox one in 2013 and the consoles released presently.