Ultimately, the Xbox 360, the PS3, and the Wii may be irrelevant given the emergence of connected televisions, thin devices, and cloud-based gaming. This doesn

Ultimately, the Xbox 360, the PS3, and the Wii may be irrelevant given the emergence of connected televisions, thin devices, and cloud-based gaming. This doesn't make sense. Why would they become irrelevant? I presume we're also talking about future generations of said consoles. Even if, by some magical miracle, computational needs of those consoles push onto the cloud (like Gaikai and OnLive), they'll still be a platform, and developers and publishers will still make games for them - and player will buy games for them because games are on those platforms.