Good points. Everyone points to power, but to me aspects such controls, storage space, game selection and pricing models are all big parts of gaming.

Ignoring game exclusivity for a second. Go ahead and try to play Skyrim on a ipad. You'll get fed up charging the device, leaving it plugged in. Making it stuck at home in the first place. Awkward controls, and annoying table placement. If you plug it into a TV it turns into a home console. Defeating the benefits in the first place. Are you willing to do a 12 hr game marathon on your 500$ iPad? Wearing out the device thats really for medium work load faster. Not to mention a 20-50GB game on a portible device. That's only one game avabile if you dump everything off it. IF you own the 64GB version. Let alone the $1000 128 GB iPad. You'll be syncing like crazy.

There is no viaiblity to modern games. Ports of decade old games, yes. But games of now. Forget that.

Never totally, games need something more tactile than a touch screen and more real estate than 11 inches once you reach a certain level of depth. If, hell when tablets match console power however soon that may be, covering half the screen to press vauge buttons is gonna hide those lovely graphics. If a tablet ships with a controller and they push the fact it can plug into a TV then it's just a console anyway and you've gone full circle. Sitting infront of a fifty inch LED with a controller that fits firmly in your hand, or with your VR headset on ;p it's just a more fulfilling experience, plus that same box can stream Netflix and the like to your big screen, they just fill different slots.

This pretty much sums it up. Tablet gamers aren't even interested in these giant AAA games anyways. They're casuals that just wait to kill a few minutes playing temple run or something. I think mobile gaming should just be treated as casual entertainment or a gate way to consoles and PC.

So, what your saying is that if a tablet with the power of a PS4 and the ability to connect to any tv and use a wireless controller was available, you as a gamer would shun it just because it's a tablet?  At some point, tablets will be capable(really expensive tablets are almost there now) of matching the power of a console.  Why will people buy a console when they can get the ability with something they will be buying for all of it's other uses too?

Mobile will catch the current consoles in graphical power as soon as the new generation is released.