Why I think this could be the last console gen. Has nothing to do with sales

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pokoko said:
I think you somewhat underestimate the desire of children to move on to bigger and cooler experiences. Let's say you have a boy playing on his iPhone when a Battlefield 7 video comes on the television. He will want that. Explosions, tanks, machine guns--he's going to want that. Angry Birds Zeta isn't going to replicate that.

There will be customers lost, no doubt. I think Nintendo, because their style of game is generally less complex, will see the biggest falloff, but even then their depth and quality will still brings in an audience.

If home consoles go away, it will be because of technological developments, not a lack of interest. One day people might be able to hook their phones to a tv and a controller and stream games, for example. However, I just can't see the audience for experiences like Halo, CoD, or Uncharted just disappearing.

Maybe, but I think this is where marketing has to play the biggest role. Gaming companies that make AAA games need the show the consumers that paying $60 (maybe even more in the future) is worth it and is much better than the free or $15 game. Most humas are cheap by nature, if they can get something for free, they will gladly take it.

And as I mentioned in the OP, mobile and web games will slowly get bigger and better, technology is moving at an incredible speed, so the day when we can play a full Battlefield game on a web browser might be closer than we think. When/if that day comes, consoles will basically become obsolete (to the mass market at least).