I don't particulary see a major reason for a crash, but there are a lot of signs already (AAA games that can't get half of their costs and bankrupt studios, mobile gaming growing as fast and with poor quality as the market before 83, overuse of IPs new and old alike, too many machines competing, major investors deciding on abandoning the videogame market for safer and more profitable business, overreliance on practices like free to pay or pay to win, growing costs of games, companies like King or Zynga being the rol model for new studios...).

If the economy suffers a crysis for some reason (I bet on the prices of oil, with all the problems on Middle East it's going to happen) in an environment already fragile (all the reasons stated above) one of the console manufacturers will stop producing machines. My money is on Microsoft, Playstation is too profitable to Sony and Nintendo has a good money reserve, and there were rumors of MS investors talking about selling the XBox brand. Most tablets and phones manufacturers will go out as well, that market is also crowded, but no before most mobile developers start absorbing each other, until a big mobile company stands above the rest and practically monopolizes the market. Investors will abandon giant publishers like EA or Activision and, with hundreds of game developers without job and a very reduced market, other companies will panic too, and the snowball will get bigger and bigger.

PC gaming will be able to survive thanks to low prices, but physical releases will be a thing of the past. No AAA and no giant franchises, just cheap small-medium games.

I don't know what will happen to the handheld market. It has shrunk a lot already, but when the tablet and phone bubble burst it could see an improvement. Only one handheld console on the market though.

The only thing that passes me off is the phablet casual gamers who don't see themselves as video gamers and who continue to disdain videogames as a giant waste of time. I have family members who play candy crush, jetpack joyride and such quite a lot. Yet will act like hard core gamers are inferior for enjoying gaming as a principle past time instead of a thing you do if there is nothing else to do or only a little time.

I'm more than happy for gaming to go in all sorts of directions. I have fun at the core and casual end.

EA listen to new ways of robbing your wallet, that is a way of listening to customers... maybe they think WiiU owners wallet is to filthy or the WiiU owners are too smart to fall in their trap. I know the WiiU customers is too smart to EA, but being EA such a idiotic company I don't doubt they think the former is real.

Pretty much this...

Core gamers wouldn't care if they release farmville or candy crush on PS4/X1/WiiU, but when they decide to put elements of dumbed down games on our core games than we get pissed of. Or when they just abandon all core games of previous generations to just release the trash aiming casuals.

As long as they continue to make horrible DLC's and terrible decisions for us gamers, I dont care what they say.

That's big talk for a publisher well known for only chasing the fast buck, EA.