Console Gaming is NOT Dead.

[LivingMetal]

RolStoppable said:
Badly written thread. "Console gaming is not dead" isn't hard to support, but eventually you switch to argue against a decline. There is a clear decline in numbers though.

Xbox One won't reach the lifetime sales of the 360, Wii U lost to Wii, 3DS to DS and PSV to PSP. The only one of the five systems that will see growth gen over gen is the PS4, but it doesn't look like it will be by a huge amount, rather more along the lines of 25-35%.

Much of the overall decline is masked by higher individual spendings while the number of consumers decreases, so revenue is less of a concern.

I believe I read somewhere that Sony said that the PS4 will earn them more profit than the PS2, and profit are more important that units sold.  That's very understandable.  And even though I posted a recent article of Xbox One with a slight decline in hardware sales year over year, it's still doing better than the Xbox 360.  And look how far the Xbox One has come after their first year long debacle.  Now, I wouldn't say I have high hopes for the Xbox One, but like the past year, Microsoft is going to do what they can to make the Xbox One stay revelant.  And I personally see handhelds and home consoles very differently from an aesthetical pov.  So any decline in the handheld market I've always seen as separate from consoles.