While it's impossible to say for certain, so many things have been "the future"
for everyone who says streaming is the future, note that at one point PCs we're going to kill consoles, consoles kill PCs, mobile kill consoles, etc. not everything will end up like Arcades. VR has been "5 mins to midnight" for like a decade, whose to say streaming won't be the same (as in makes a sizable chunk of the market but by no means is the main way games are experienced)
there are similar roadblocks for streaming (what controller? ISP price/speed? Price of game access? No used games?) like VR experiences.
of course consoles haven't been around for 50 years, but also nothing has really been viable threat to consoles for what, NES in 1985? So for 35 years consoles have evolved and maintained relevancy, I find it hard to doubt them even if they have peaks and valleys, for another 20-30 years. Anything can happen of course.
and technically, consoles have been around since early 70s, with the market getting bigger and bigger until I believe the Fairchild Channel F in 1976 which had swappable carts. But more or less, console gaming is 40ish years old in the form we know today and almost 50 years old dating back to the originals that didn't have changeable games
for everyone who says streaming is the future, note that at one point PCs we're going to kill consoles, consoles kill PCs, mobile kill consoles, etc. not everything will end up like Arcades. VR has been "5 mins to midnight" for like a decade, whose to say streaming won't be the same (as in makes a sizable chunk of the market but by no means is the main way games are experienced)
there are similar roadblocks for streaming (what controller? ISP price/speed? Price of game access? No used games?) like VR experiences.
of course consoles haven't been around for 50 years, but also nothing has really been viable threat to consoles for what, NES in 1985? So for 35 years consoles have evolved and maintained relevancy, I find it hard to doubt them even if they have peaks and valleys, for another 20-30 years. Anything can happen of course.
and technically, consoles have been around since early 70s, with the market getting bigger and bigger until I believe the Fairchild Channel F in 1976 which had swappable carts. But more or less, console gaming is 40ish years old in the form we know today and almost 50 years old dating back to the originals that didn't have changeable games