Reads reply.  Realizes that response is from someone who either did not read the post or didn't comprehend what they did read.

I did not say the WiiU is being discontinued this year(only a matter of when for any console), as I indicated that it would be 5 years old when it went away(Wii was only 6 years old).  I also did not say that the XB1 or PS4 will dominate this year or next.  When the console space does go away, what will take it's place??  Do you think it is going to be room sized servers?

I am not high, but obviously you have either not yet attended grade school or were high when you did.

2018 and beyond – Console wars?  Why bother?  Consoles are still used, but only by the hard core gamers and the poor nations that lack technology to support the smartphone and tablet environment.  The only thing we will be discussing here is which OS is leading and which games are tops on which OS.  Will it be the Game Wars???

The idea that mobile/tablet gaming is competing with console & PC gaming is just asinine. It's like arguing that bicycle manufacturers are competing directly with automobile manufacturers, or that TV is directly competing with the feature film industry. Video didn't kill the radio star, the small screen didn't kill the big screen, and mobile gaming isn't killing console gaming. The pricing, business models, revenue generation, development, and the consumer's reasons for buying are all different, and the two fill different roles. Phones & tablets will always have limitations that keep them from offering the same kinds of experiences that consoles offer, just like how network & cable TV cannot offer experiences like the movie theater does.

Besides, people aren't exactly ditching Call of Duty, Grand Theft Auto, Mario, and so forth to exclusively play Angry Birds, Candy Crush, Plants vs. Zombies, and so forth on their smartphones. Those games are piddling little distractions. They're to AAA games like what Syfy original movies are to The Avengers and Avatar. Everybody knowns about Angry Birds, but everybody knows about Sharknado, too. They generate a lot of revenue because over half the country has a smartphone these days and these games only cost a buck or two, so it's not a big deal when 150 million Americans plunk down $2 every few weeks for something to play when they're sitting in a waiting room or in a fast food joint or on a bus or train. According to a recent NPD report, video game software sales in America totaled $14.8 billion in 2012. Of that total, $5.92 billion came from digitally distributed content, including mobile games, DLC, and miscellaneous other content. So, most non-hardware spending on video games is still for non-digital content, and of the digital content sales, not all of that was mobile games, and that's in a year where we're transitioning between generations, which is when console hardware & software sales are always at their nadir. Yes, sales are down, but they're always down at this part in the cycle, and even at the current nadir sales are still bigger than they were in all but two years prior to the beginning of the seventh generation.