Certainly the near-future. It's way too limited in scope to be the entirety of the future.

They're not satifisfied, so they go, where? The industry massively retracts and the flagship franchises just dissapear? Sony and to a lesser extent Xbox are the home of third party games, they are the chain stores that reach the masses . Third parties will follow them, because although you mention Sony needing third parties, the reality is third parties at present, given the direction the industry has taken, also need Sony and MS, or a similar version of them, to reach their audience. They are the safe bet.

By juggling you mean, like the Switch, the future of consoles? And 3 years on, with market trends and comparable hardware to analyse, it will end up being half-baked?

While I don't agree with a lot of what was said, he is right in that regard. However in a gaming contest I imagine PC being more popular than Laptop. I do not follow/like tablets. 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2017/01/11/tablet-sales-fall-third-successive-year-pc-market-stabilises/

Interesting article. If it is anything to go by, it seems tablets fell to smart phones which are, in a way, tablets except smaller.

"Sales of tablets rose rapidly just as those of PCs started to decline after Apple’s first iPad was released seven years ago, leading some pundits to suggest the world was entering a “Post-PC” era.

But sales flatlined and then fell as users switched to smartphones with bigger screens as well as holding on to older tablets for longer than expected."

Good to know...

Ya I picked that article because I want tablets to fail and they have started. Smartphones should really crush them. However Laptops have been over PC this decade. 

Yeah, I think the Switch is pretty much the future of gaming. No one ever thought smartphones would overtake dedicated cameras. No one ever thought the house phone would disappear. No one ever thought people would want to watch movies and tv shows on the go, yet look what happened.

Graphics and power will always be number 1, right? Gamers will always want power first and that will never change! There's no way hardcore gamers will sacrifice power for portability, right? Just watch.

Dammit, read the whole OP.

Tablets haven't really died though... They've just been taken over by smartphones. Smartphones are small tablets in a way.

Plenty of gens where the best-selling hardware was NOT the one with the best graphics and power.

Switch can act as 3 portable systems and a home system.

Gaming tablet
Traditional handheld console
Mini-gaming laptop/tabletop
Traditional home console

Add in off screen/joycon only mode and Switch is set for wherever gaming is heading. If touchscreen only games are the future then Nintendo has their own dedicated, higher quality device/games. If smartphones/tablets with blutooth controllers and docks are the future, Nintendo has a head start. If gaming laptops get smaller and built around local multiplayer, Nintendo's only behind on power. If more powerful home-only consoles are the future then Nintendo can lag behind graphically while adding a non-power gimmick to compete, like they're currently doing.

I fear that won't be the case, we already have 8k, who know what will be next after 8k..

We already have before planty cases where graphics and power are not most important, latest ones are Wii and 3DS, actually this is only generation where power and graphics are important but that just because PS4 offers better power and graphics over XB1 for same price, while in all other things they are identical. Power and graphics are not so important if you have different product that gives you different possibilities and experience.

Nintendo is dont right thing with Switch, in modern age people have less and less time to play at home home console for couple hours, while Switch offers plenty of possibilities of play that suits to different lifestyles of people, and thats future for gaming market (at least for Nintendo).
There is reason why mobile phones and tablets are so much popular while PCs and laptops are in decline.

4K already reaches that with around 8 million pixels. Human eyes have around 4-5 million cone cells, which can detect color. We have more rod cells (90 million), but these cannot see color (or not much) - the reason we don't see much colors at night. Still, human eyes move around to cover bigger areas. Also the cells aren't distributed uniform, as the pixels on a screen are, they are concentrated in a small area. So, we can still get more from higher resolution - if we pay attention to pixels. The main reason though higher resolutions are made in screens is, that it makes a good advertisment argument: "Buy now the new screen - it has more pixels. And more is always better. "