People have been predicting the death of console gaming for decades. Console games were supposed to have been dead in the early 1980s, replaced by the explosive

People have been predicting the death of console gaming for decades. Console games were supposed to have been dead in the early 1980s, replaced by the explosive growth of affordable home computers. Then Nintendo released the NES. Everything has its place and function. Specialized gaming hardware will likely outperform general mobile platforms for years to come. I think either our friends at Rovio expressed a simplistic view of gaming, or the nuances Vesterbacka and Co. expressed were lost in translation. Or, the author of the article removed any nuance that was expressed to make his job of writing an article with a clear theme easier.