Mobile gaming: Is the ceiling reached; killing console games...forever?

[SaviorX]

OK.

So ever since my flip phone was able to play Tetris, people have been advocating the decline and imminent death of console gaming while Mobile/iOS/Android reign supreme. The market is increasing no doubt for these things, but if we were to hear an article about it in passing, you'd figure 90% of games were selling like Angry Birds.

The decline of consoles is being attributed to the rise of mobiles as opposed the extended length of the generation. They are two unrelated statistics being being correlated to one another. With the 3DS/Vita this makes more sense because they are in the same mobile arena, but even the 3DS is trending higher than its predecessor, and is on track for at least 90 million in 4 years.

Now I'm not informed too much about mobile gaming; I am not interested in any of the non-free ones. However I am skeptical as to if they can really have any bigger of an impact on gaming as they do now.  If it hasn't killed consoles by now, what will happen in the next 5 years to make it more  likely?

If you thought the Wii's market was fickle about software support, you'd laugh at the loyalty of a mobile gamer. Ask anyone who Rovio is, they probably won't know until they load their Angry Birds screen.