Consoles continue to try and provide gimped PC gaming.

Smartphones/tablets cotinue to grow in strength by providing arcade gaming experiences.

When will Nintendo wake up???

maybe because its really really late here that im not making any sense of this. but im going to say what the fuck are you saying?

Trying to achieve success by pretending to be a PC (singleplayer/level-up/pay2win gaming) is not how consoles kept videogames alive.

Thats not PC gaming.

My mistake, I forgot 'always connected'.

And tablet games don't have more than their fair share of 'always connected' games??  I can't play a lot of them just for that reason (doesn't work in subway).

They're a successor in terms of many being built around getting people to pay as much as possible. Indeed, free-to-play/pay-to-win as a whole is essentially an evolution of the arcade machine; rather than paying to play the game at all, you have to pay to get the most out of it.

Quarters and tokens: the original microtransactions. XD