the windows makes no profit off steamlol 

windos game service is so poor , well was but theyve turned off the community 

so its steam winning

STEAM

Its honestly just an opinion. I think streaming won't be the answer because unlike movie streaming.... game streaming requires a lot more hardware muscle than what is required to handle a movie stream. Significantly more. 

And I didn't go onto details on that because thats not what this thread is about. This thread is about a simple theory that consoles won't be where or how we are playing our games in 20/30yrs. 

Feel free to make your cse for streaming.

This isn't about windows making a profit off games. Or windows community whatever. You are taking this to where it doesn't need to go.

Bottom line is that right now, probably over 80% of everyone using steam is using it on a windows operating system. 

Oh I am not saying this is going o happen in the next gen.... or even the one after that, or after that.

I am saying that eventually, say in the next 25-30 years. It will happen.

And the accessibility thing you are talking about? Thats really all just down to EoA that can be coded into any operating system. Nothing stops a laptop or PC or windows media box from detecting via USB C 5.0 that its been connected to a HDTV and switching to a completely different UI.

Yeah, that's what I would say if I was on the "losing" side of console gaming.

It is potentially very easy imagine only buying a controller a decent TV hook it up to a LAN connection and play games. Internet will be much faster in 30 years and the level of fidelity in games will be high enough for most people even when streaming. The average consolegamer doesn't give a damn about specs and just want to plug in and play games. A streaming service can provide better in that than most pc's which are still to complicated and incovinient for most consumers. Convinience has beaten specs in other media formats like movies and music (optical media is quality wise better than streaming or mp3).

power means nothing when it has no games. games sell consoles, and exclusives give incentive to own any particular platform.  in the end gamers win.

I wonder how much business Google can take away from MS Office. Ever since I discovered Google Drive, sheets, docs etc I've not bothered going back to office. It's easy to use at home and in the go and best of all its free.

Sony has already lost to competition on the TV, portable music and laptop front. It will be interesting to see how MS react if Office took a hit.

As for battle and war on the console side of things, MS has pretty much most every battle since they entered the war. Their war on the PC front again is going bad against Steam.

Of you are talking about their OS then it's began Linux, MAC and Windows more so than Sony and MS.

If the things will go like they do now, then yes.  PS4 already is a branded PC.

Well a shitload can happen in 20-30 years, I'm sure alot of things that we currently take for granted were considered nearly impossible in the late 80s & early 90s.

Go back in time to 1987 and show people smartphones/tablets, social media, digital stores, VR headsets, 70" 4K TVs, self driving cars, music/video streaming, movies/games with cutting edge visuals.

You would absolutely blow their minds so it doesnt make much sense to say what can or cant happen 30 years from now.