My 3 sons had consoles growing up, that’s how I was introduced to them, you have to be careful though, children can become quite addicted to playing them.
it was from my son playing that i got in to it , he would ask me to get him to the next level while he was at school. I think a lot of school children had playstation , and would compete with each other at what level they were at .
Edit to say we still have the playstation 1 , but newer models came out and each new one would not play the last video games .It was a way of making you spend more
My son had XBox Kinect now he has the PlayStation console.
The only games I ever played were the XBox games with the motion detector- usually motion sports eg sking and my favourite JUST DANCE! So motion detector games a big thumbs up!