Game Consoles Are Already Dead — And Developers Know It

Yup. The $50 price-tag for console games isn't enough to pay for their bloated $200 million budgets. At best, the big studios make a very small margin of profit. Most of those big budget games put the studio in debt (or transfer the debt to the third party developers who actually create the game). This is why they're bankrupt and dissolving.

I'm glad to see the game industry stretching to accommodate more indie developers. It's about time.

No they're not - PS4 is to be 'PC-based' amd everyone and their uncle now appreciates the value of the Indie movement, so any gains made on PC will regurgitate back on to consoles.

Author seems to conflate fad, fashion and hazy cylicity with epoch-trashing existentialism.

Unless mobile gaming comes up with some seriously Wii-like interaction shift over the next generation or two, it'll mire itself in the limitations of the platform - at best being a satellite to a central home entertainment system (choose your flavour—they're all the same).

Author moans that all console games are sequals conviently mass misses the new ips that happened in last 2 years whilst goign on to praise mobile gaming market which if anything is just cut down rehashes of console games along with angry <insert> birds games that are not generic at all...