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Shadow1980 said:
Chazore said:

Who said that?

A lot of people did, actually, ranging from analysts to gaming website authors to a few people in the industry to regular folks on discussions boards:

http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/09/tech/gaming-gadgets/console-gaming-dead/
http://www.seattlepi.com/business/fool/article/How-the-Gaming-Industry-Is-Getting-its-Head-4620642.php
http://kotaku.com/5973498/weapons-of-mass-disruption-3-how-and-why-consoles-will-die
http://www.techradar.com/us/news/gaming/consoles/console-gaming-is-dead-everything-good-is-happening-on-pc-right-now-1260162
http://www.gamespot.com/forums/system-wars-314159282/console-gaming-is-actually-what-s-dying-ironic-isn-31086566/
http://toucharcade.com/2015/07/07/tv-sucks/
http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidthier/2016/03/07/xbox-one-and-ps4-is-the-death-of-consoles-inevitable/#9240b5a7be19
http://www.pcworld.com/article/222153/angry_birds_exec_rip_console_gaming.html
http://tsl.news/articles/2014/2/14/lifeandstyle/4736-video-games-the-dying-age-of-the-home-console
http://www.examiner.com/article/are-console-games-a-dying-breed

Et cetera, et cetera. Just Google "consoles are dying."

and in the end is essentially just blah blah blah, articles about the same subject have been circulating for like what more than 10 years now? and everything is still the same, even there you have the ps4 selling even faster and better at launch than the ps2 at its launch and the same thing while comparing it to last gen consoles, if they were dying should be the other way around, just like the exact same many articles that said that the xbox one will be the one dominating this generation, etc  just pure speculation.

if consoles are still being so successful right now after nearly 30 years is because there are so many people who prefers something more simple like for example putting a disk inside your console and play rather than having to worry about system requirements or having to pay more money and upgrade it to make sure newer games works properly on it, because lets face it the majority percentage of the gaming community as a whole likes things simple so they don't have the time and money or doesn't even care about that, and people who plays on pc who actually cares about doing that are also in the minority of the gaming community.

if it also had something to do with console exclusives for example i don't see why multi platform games are the ones with generally the most sales on them, it should be the other way around then, if everyone has probably a proper decent pc to make them run you'd expect them to play them on there and only play exclusives on consoles, and sales say that isn't the case.

i'm not saying they won't evolve in some way in the future, being able to play with them in a more digital form instead of buying them as hardware, but implying that they will "die" and that people will only play on pc on the future is just very unlikely to happen in my opinion.