OK.

So ever since my flip phone was able to play Tetris, people have been advocating the decline and imminent death of console gaming while Mobile/iOS/Android reign supreme. The market is increasing no doubt for these things, but if we were to hear an article about it in passing, you'd figure 90% of games were selling like Angry Birds.

The decline of consoles is being attributed to the rise of mobiles as opposed the extended length of the generation. They are two unrelated statistics being being correlated to one another. With the 3DS/Vita this makes more sense because they are in the same mobile arena, but even the 3DS is trending higher than its predecessor, and is on track for at least 90 million in 4 years.

Now I'm not informed too much about mobile gaming; I am not interested in any of the non-free ones. However I am skeptical as to if they can really have any bigger of an impact on gaming as they do now.  If it hasn't killed consoles by now, what will happen in the next 5 years to make it more  likely?

If you thought the Wii's market was fickle about software support, you'd laugh at the loyalty of a mobile gamer. Ask anyone who Rovio is, they probably won't know until they load their Angry Birds screen.

Its just a bunch of reporters with nothing better to do.

Quick Edit: It might affect The Vita and 3DS but until you can get PC gaming on a phone thats pocket sized I wouldnt pay to much attention to it. A phone like that would probably give your leg cancer.

Gaming will expand into new media forms and areas, and traditional console gaming as we know it will probably die someday, but that doesn't mean technically impressive AAA games with high power behind them will ever disappear. There is a large market for these dedicated high-end games that exists.

If anything, in 10 years I can see a widely successful streaming plan. Users won't need to upgrade their hardware to play these high-end games, so developers can make high-end games even more accessible.

Analysts can't analyst for shit...

Easiest puzzle ever.

LULZ

Actually, the Wii U is coming out later this year and is a more traditional gaming console. So this next gen will at least have one of them. Also, by traditional gaming, do you mean traditional controls that offer traditional gameplay, or traditional consoles? Because consoles haven't really been strictly "traditional" for a while now. It's called evolution of design and I don't think in any way spells some sort of doom for traditional gaming.