This was an issue when I was younger. Today, despite having bills and monthly expenses, gaming is not too expensive on my average salary. Like any hobby, it's more about priority, I choose this over lots of other things I could be doing or buying.

Most of the posts I see disagree with you but I'd love to see that happen. Maybe upgraded or scalable versions for different hardware but yeah.

As for those who say accessibility caused shovelware, you're looking at gaming history through rose colored glasses. Popularity = Abundance of shovelware.

Cloud gaming will do it. I believe by 2030 more people will be playing games in the cloud than in their local rigs.

Amazon is already posed to launch a cloud service code named Project Tempo. Google is already in the process of opening their third 1st party studio. They already have 2 studios working in Montreal and Playa Vista and bought Typhoon Studios.

Isn't that like mobile phone games? Was the first thing I thought of when I read the first part of the OP.
Nice to see you included it as well.

"more accessible" = every damn body has a mobile phone, and theres a ton of free  to play games there.

How does it get even "more" accessible than that?

We've "seen" what accessible gameing looks like (cheap f2p games), and most of us are like "im happy with my console/pc, thanks".

Mobile phone gameing is way more popular than "cloud gameing" will ever be.
It is very accesible, so no reason to think things will look very differnt in the future. Super accessbile gameing is already here.

Their called free to play, mobile games.

Playing AAA games with high fidelity without having to invest in any gaming hardware will make AAA gaming more accessible than ever.

That's one of my main issues with Ninty, in that their games are always expensive, more so than other systems, they hold little decent deep discounts and their trade in value for physical is really bad.

If you know it's a dumb question.... why ask? Phones cost just as much as a PC does. I just got a lot of FREE games on PC, like Division 2, Watch Dogs, and World War Z, and of course Fornite is free. There's also free-to-play weekends games do sometimes. Recently, that's been overwatch, Mortal Kombat 11, and Street Fighter V.

PCs cost more because they're not inherently gaming consoles. They're personal computers.

I've seen disabled players enter fighting game tournaments, and play with his mouth, and people claim they can't do simple stuff fighting games ask of you.

And you talk about going to the theater. Like that's any different than going to a friend's place who already has a console. People without functioning hands can compete, and you don't need a big gaming budget to play. The only barriers in life are the ones you put for yourself.

That covers everything.  What part of gaming isn't accessible?

Sounds like a future ad for xCloud/PSNow

Several high quality games go on several discount while even not that good Nintendo games don't. It is just how Nintendo manage their games.

Not really. Gaming is also a lot more involved than reading a book or watching a movie. There isn't much you can do about that. As far as accessible, you have three major consoles to choose from plus Steam and GOG. There's nothing especially difficult about using any of these platforms. If you don't like involved games you can download "free" (emphasis on quotes) 5 minute time wasters on your mobile phone with just a couple finger taps. It's not like you need a federal background check and a 5 day waiting period to game.

Gaming is as accessible as anything else out there. The question is whether someone considers gaming a hobby worth investing time and money in at the expense of other hobbies. If yes, they'll invest it. If no, they'll invest the time and money in something that is more to their tastes.