I think mobile gaming is just trimming away the fat of dedicated portables. Real gamers will still play on a handheld over a smart device any day of the week.

I don't think the concept of hooking something up to a screen in the living room to play games is dying but I think the hardware is. PS Now is the future model for all of gaming whether we like it or not. I think it's going to be streaming services vs streaming services.

PS Now, MS Anywhere and Nintendo Go. Games on any device anywhere, anytime you want them.

So? 

Lets wait a couple of years before we declare the doom of consoles...

Well in terms of strickly hardware PCs are more powerful there's no debate, but I've never bought any gaming device for the hardware, I mean obviously it has to work properly, but I buy it for the software.  I suppose some people can bring up the gimmicky hardware that consoles have like kinect, ps move, and morpheus, but those aren't for me. 

There are still a huge amount of gamers that prefer physical releases. MS, Sony and Nintendo will not be the first to go all digital...

Its not that simple..... at the end of the day, its still cheaper and more marketably viable to sell a box that runs games than to have those "boxes" on a server somewhere. Besides, even if the world has a high enough internet bandwith to support it, the whole set up will pretty much make certain genres impossible to work consistently. Games have a hard enough time running netcode right now, which is basically control input. Add a video and audio stream to that and then competitive multiplayer then you have all sorts of problems.

There were still people who liked floppy drives and CD's when Apple decided to kill them both. In the end, tech moves forward. It doesn't matter if some of us don't like it. 

Personally, I'd rather the internet not even be a THING. It's killed physical music, books, news papers, magazines...it's killing TV and soon, physical games. But hey, you have to accept change. 

Yeah, still physical...

I think consoles as a standalone product is gone in a few years, replaced by streaming services through dedicated machines, tablets, PCs and so on. The need to play high profile games like Halo or Uncharted will not disappear though, just the medium through which they are played.

I've recently started playing PC games but if I had a choice I'll choose to play on console every time despite the extra fuel PC games get from mods. I don't think I'll ever get comfortable playing video games with a keyboard and mouse. It doesn't help that I can't type.