MS sells a major stake in Xbox and is bought and run by idiots. The Xbox platform goes up in flames and after a fling with failed 3rd party releases of Halo and Gears, the Xbox brand goes the way of Atari
Sony's next console has PSNow requirement and other weird stuff. Due to pressures of other failed business ventures, Sony can't produce as many great games. Failed triple A titles. Failed VR initiatives.
EA, Activision, Ubisoft, Square, and Capcom produce triple A titles that don't sell well. The business model becomes fundamentally broken because gamers don't want to pay for full retail or DLC. Key staff leave to join indie studios, but fail to garner the attention of gamers.
Retailers begin to diminish the market presence of Nintendo by allocating less and less store space. Co-branding for Nintendo no longer is a successful venture for other companies. Nintendo and it's brands fade into niche obscurity.
Kim Kardashian iPad game reaches 1 billion in revenue.
I predict NX launches in 2017 - not 2016
