Forbes - Is the death of consoles inevitable?

[bunchanumbers]

AlfredoTurkey said:

bunchanumbers said:
The last traditional console maker will be Nintendo. MS will be the first one gone followed by Sony. The last years will be pretty sad. The big yearly AAA franchises will be gone. Nintendo will be bravely moving forward with their first party IPs and some indies. The gaming industry will shrink back down to the pre AAA explosion days. Pretty much it will return to being a niche group again.

That actually doesn't sound like such a bad thing when you think about it lol

It won't be. At least for Nintendo. But the shrinking and the fallout of the AAA publishers will be really ugly. There will be massive layoffs and many shutdowns. Many will be trying to sell their wares on mobile. Some devs and publishers won't be recognizable. Nintendo is the only one who is self sustainable so they will end up being the last one standing. But the gaming market will be a shell of itself.