| HoloDust said: Wrong battlefield. The war will be waged around digital marketplaces, actual hardware on which your game library will be running in the future is irrelevant. |
This.
Its gonna be between eShop (Nintendo), PSN (Playstation), and PC (Steam, Xbox, GOG and whatever's left of EGS and your small form PC gaming hubs like Ubisoft Connect, battle net, etc).
There's gonna be a lot of hardware options to play PC options as more portable and more stationary hardware comes out - you wont even need to buy the latest Nvidia or AMD GPU or CPU, those will be reserved for those who can afford them for ultra high end gaming while there will be plenty of hardware options that will run games as good as the consoles.
Nintendo and Sony will continue to make more hardware until the leadership changes in the future to people who follow a similar ideology that favors digital licenses/hubs that will be playable across multiple devices (computers such as laptops/desktops, AIOs) , tablets and even phones).
Cant say it'll never happen because no one expected any of these companies to charge for online, DLC practices, etc. They'll go wherever the money flows at.
