I don't check my console 75 times a day. There are no studies that demonstrate the absolute ubiquity and irreplaceable nature of a gaming console; there are fo

I don't check my console 75 times a day. There are no studies that demonstrate the absolute ubiquity and irreplaceable nature of a gaming console; there are for phones. I don't order a pizza with it. Or check my email. Or call Uber. Or read HN. Or take pictures of my kids. Or make phone calls. Or check social media (well... I don't... but over 3 billion do). Or... There's a way that a "smart phone" (more accurately, a palm-sized computer that happens to make phone calls) is a general computing device - and a critical component of modern life in Western civilization -- that a gaming console is not.