The numbers are there and they don´t lie.
Console business have been in decline for some years, and it continues to be. The new devices are failing in bringing new consumers to the market.
I don´t believe in a premature ending of the console market this generation (for the next gen, maybe, that would be in a decade or so), but business overall will surely be smaller this time and all the three console makers will have to come with creative solutions and paradigms breaks to keep this business profitable, specially considering development costs.
We will see the market going back to similar numbers to the GC/PS2/Xbox/GBAdvance era, naturally divided differently, as we have 5 main devices this time instead of 4, and also an still increasing interest in mobile/tablet/PC Gaming - a trend that has been going for quite some time and right now doesn´t seem to go down soon.
Maybe for the 9th generation we will be playing of a different type of console. One that will be more similar to a PC than a dedicated game machine, that we will be using for full home entertainment, but who knows?
