Do you expect the 8th Gen to be smaller than the 7th?

[Kantor]

MontanaHatchet said:

Kantor said:
The market has grown pretty much every single generation, and I see no reason why it would stop doing so now. The crash of 2008 didn't stop people from buying games, and so I don't see any event in the future that would stop people from buying games.

The cost of games has been steady for quite a while and doesn't show any signs of increasing.

I don't see anything replacing video games, since nothing has replaced film, music or literature (well, maybe literature, but that's too much effort for many people.)

And, since the market isn't shrinking, nobody is going to drop out.

Stop being apocalyptic. Gaming isn't going anywhere, and next gen will almost certainly be bigger than this one.

B-B-But no one is going to want to play Mario Kart/Halo/Call of Duty when they can play Angry Birds on their phone!

Indeed. I don't think I've ever met anyone who can play Angry Birds for more than 20 minutes at a stretch.

Of course, the only people making such ludicrous claims are the people who work for Zynga, who hope to such an extent that it will happen, that I think they've managed to convince themselves.

For want of a proper control system, enough battery life, and enough processing power, hardcore (by which I mean, non-casual) phone gaming is never going to take off. There's nothing wrong with casual phone gaming - I enjoy it myself as a brief distraction - but it is no substitute for a properly fleshed out PC/console/even handheld gaming experience.