8 Terrifying Facts & Predictions About The Future Of Gaming

6. Prediction: No More Consoles

For Sony and Microsoft, the former have stated there is a need for one more generation of hardware, whereas Microsoft are investing heavily in cloud streaming technology for the future beyond that, to bring you the "Xbox brand" anywhere from phones to Smart TVs.

Ubisoft's Yves Guillermot spelt this out, noting that “There will be one more console generation and then after that, we will be streaming, all of us.”

Personally I can't see Nintendo going down this road. They started out making playing cards, and have long held true to the fundamental mentality that video games are to be thought of almost as "toys" or interactive entertainment, with a necessary part of that being controllers and other hands-on methods. The Switch is something no one saw coming, and Nintendo Labo is the latest example of that mentality.

It's great to see.

Large problems also exist in an infrastructural sense i.e. if your respective country has the WiFi bandwidth/capacity to stream titles from a cloud server to whichever device is at hand, but the seeds for all of this are already planted...