Arcades were superior tech-wise and offered games that weren't possible on consoles, handhelds, PC visually and gameplay-wise. Yes, you had the lightgun shooter on your NES to Dreamcast as well but it wasn't the same.
Arcades lived from that and probably the fact that people wanted to spend time there.
With games everywhere and great tech at home if mobile isn't satisfying, arcades are just overpriced clouds that you can't access from anywhere. They would have to offer superior tech, interesting new ideas and beat prices of Steam and mobile apps which isn't happening. Nobody needs a special place to meet anymore, just a messenger and the scattered place to eat/drink for meet-ups.
Of course, if you'd really want to, you could push a running arcade and keep it popular with proper marketing, events and things that make it special. But only few arcades will do that because it's hard work and doesn't look very promising.
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