Every single thing the "general consumer public" do on Windows they can do on Ubuntu. I'd even argue that it's a better looking and more user friendly OS. 

Ubuntu is for anyone including your grandma.

So stop being lazy, download and install it  ;)

I know all that, what i'm saying is that that is turning it essentially a console, as that is the only way to play deeper games on the device, espeically if they sell it as such. Having one single device seems like it would work on paper, but having more than one is well within most peoples budgets and can be fare more convinent. Are you a ipad fad or did you just not read thoughly?

as long as there is no physical buttons to play the games on the mobile,, then it will never happen.

Even though I quoted an article related to ipads, I really think that storage is going to explode in the next 2-3 years.  Cloud storage prices have dropped to almost nothing.  THat will force these devices to come with much larger storage options. The makers of SSD will have to keep up price wise and so will the Apple/Microsoft/Amazon/Samsung's of the world.  With game streaming being a likely future for games that will be gobbled up by the casuals (COD/HALO/GTA), the expectation of graphics will be lower than the AAA high end titles on PC or consoles.  Every time one of these games(COD) comes out, everyone(mostly game forum dwellers) moans about how unimpressive the graphics and gameplay are.  THe casuals love them.  If you took all of the Assasins Creed and COD and GTA games and made them available to consumers on their tablets, the sales of the consoles would be crushed.

Not a snowflakes chance in hell.

Mobile gaming is like fast food.

It's technically food but you couldn't live on the shit.

Try loading a 30gig game on to your little iPad memory. How much room would you have left? Are you going to re-download a game and delete another one every time you want to play more than 2 games? Hell the Battlefield 4 patches and extra maps are worth almost 10gig alone.

Now how many iPad games have sold at full retail price? Who is going to fund the triple A blockbusters when most of the mobile "gamers" won't spend more than $2 for their crap like flappy birds and candy crush.

The proper gaming industry would fold faster than superman on laundry day.

That's the whole popint.  Why would you need to go buy a console if the tablet that you own already can do what a console does.  Why have another "special" device to just play games (console) if you already have a tablet that can do it?

Today, that isn't practical yet, as the tablets(whether its an ipad or Samsung or Surface) aren't there technically.  But in a few years, they will be close enough for MOST people.  That will be the point where consoles will meet their demise.  Sure, maybe 1 company or 2 will produce a console, but the whole console market will be 20-30 million buyers.  The rest will be the casuals that find the "close enough" is fine by them...

Yes you make a reasonable point, that makes logical sense, and who knows it may happen. I think nintendo's future is tied to making a cross handheld device like that but you are thinking way to logically about this, dealing in certainties and estimating sales numbers? Come on. I'm going by how people actually act, what has happened in the past and where we are now. The current gen has already sold 20 million, each gen has been bigger than the last, and people love buying devices for what they think it represent (i.e games) rather than what it can technically do, for pities sake who really even needs a tablet, its just, more fun than a laptop. If you ignore this perfect casual user your talking about, that you're imagining and look beyond the technical, I think consoles will be fine for, hell if you want a prediction decades as the two keep going forwards at the same rate on that less important technical front.

All the shit mainstreamers will move on to the phones etc and gaming will be as great as it was in the late 80's early 90's.

It will be niche but thats the best that can happen to gaming.

So it will actually get a renaissance and not die because right now it is dying (quality wise etc)

As long as the big 3 publish their own games on their consoles. Never. I will always buy a PS for the first party games regardless of power.Gaming on a tablet is crap anyway as I have tried.

I've used Steam In-Home Streaming on my Windows 8 tablet before, with a controller plugged in. It works pretty well, but it still requires a computer to use.