I don't know exactly what MS have in their mind, but Consoles will be more alive than ever, no way PCs will replace them, for definition. Consoles offer everything to hardcore gamers, casual-hardcore and casual gamers, easy to play, small and cool devices, and multiplatform games which basicly compare well with the PC version running on PCs which has 4 times the raw power and cost so much more. There could be a change in MS strategy, a different XBox, different life cycle, but I don't see XBox dying as a gaming console!

"let alone 2K which is the bare minimum for VR"

Says who? Your Oculus PR master? People who have previewed PSVR says it's good and there's even less of a screen door effect than the others due to the superior Sony optics and screen.

The whole article is embarrassing and reads like a 16 year olds blog post. Why did you have to make a thread about an obviously clickbait article? Where do you even find these no name websites, N4G?

Between the 6th gen and this one, console gaming has been a brutally competitive market. Due to the dominance of the PS2 back in the day, the effords of the PS360 twins to outsell eachother and ending with losses, or once again having to fight the market dominane of the PS4, I think Microsoft is just wondering how much is that market woth for them, specially when there's a whole world of possibilities out there (mobile, tablets, the revival of PC gaming...). If anything, we are going to see the console market becoming less and less competitive: Nintendo is trying their hybrid project with the NX, Microsoft is trying to mix the Xbox with W10, and no other company seems to care about entering the market.

Didn't you know that the Virtual Boy was capable of 2k gaming? I'm guessing that K is somehow short for color and the 2 of them were red and black though....

Digital sales are by far the largest on PC with retail sales being so minimal these days thanks to the advent of Steam and digital stores. Plenty people still like gaming on PC though.

Mostly in Asia though, especially China where the government gave gamers no other choice but PC.

I'd be overjoyed if they did.

Microsoft should be the driving force behind PC gaming. Playstation isn't going to disrupt that market. They don't have any reason to stay anymore.

Good riddance it will be for Windows ultimately.

Well tread carefully. PS is PS and it has come a long way. It'll still remain a threat to the PC market with gems from 1st party studios.

The PlayStation 2 situation, which btw is my fave console ever, had a few bad effects in the market too, but they are hard to dicern due to the PS2 mass appeal. Before I go any further, know that Im not saying it was the PS2 or Sony's fault, I'm simply pointing out the problems that resulted from It's domination in that generation regardless of whos to blame. Like anything else I claim, I have no proof that these problems were real and are based on conjecture.

The biggest problem being a lack of development effort for competing platforms which stopped them from reaching their full potential. As good as the PS2 games were, how good could the Xbox, GC and even Dreamcast games had been if their platforms were allowed to flourish? I'm not saying their games would have been better than the PS2 games, but could have been just as good in a different way. After all, back then, all consoles had their own unique hardware that would have inspired different development aproaches and opportunities. Also, all platform holders had their own philosophy and would have followed their visions when aproaching development venues with third parties.

Thing is that many people want all games only on their platform, that might be the desire behind the OP, but it is selfish and in the grand scheme of things, not a good thing.