From the old times to now Games are always popular. So if we think when the first game was release then we have to went to in the 1958. Yes almost 67 years ago. It was created by ...
OXO (also known as Noughts and Crosses or tic-tac-toe) in 1952.
Spacewar! in 1962 (the first widely shared computer game).
The first commercial arcade video game, Computer Space, was launched in 1971.
The first successful arcade game, Pong, was launched in 1972
Now to think of that in that time Computer was very much expensive and it was unable to afford by normal people. So how the people can afford it ?
The answer is simple It was played in a arcade. So what is an arcade ? The arcade was a console and it can played games. The problem for arcade was it was a size of freeze and it cost more than a normal people can afford.
Since the popularity of games keep rising the company thought the game and the console should be accessible for all kind of people.
After Intel launch the microprocessor and when it started to get accessible for normal consumer they started investing on them and then they released it
the first console was Magnavox Odyssey and later SEGA, Atari & Nintendo launch their first console and both were affordable for normal consumer. later Sony launch their Playstation & Microsoft their DirectX Box later Xbox 360. At present SEGA , Atari & Odyssey lost the market but Sony, Microsoft & Nintendo win the market and started to dominant. Later in Valve Corporation the owner of Steam and popular games launch Handheld console name Steam Deck. after that Asus & Lenovo join the market. In the 90's , 80s & the early 2000's the console wasn't too expensive rather than sometime in some country it was cheap but at present it is become expensive to play games on console.
After Computer become affordable. In 2002 many popular games like Mafia and Call of duty 2 was launch in PC.