The future is unknowable and unpredictable. The last console generation really dragged on because there was concern that consoles were dying. Well, this generat

The future is unknowable and unpredictable. The last console generation really dragged on because there was concern that consoles were dying. Well, this generation is selling better than ever. PC gaming is exploding in popularity too. The Switch is a sensation. All the cloud gaming predictions haven't happened. Mobile gaming hasn't killed traditional gaming either. In fact, it turns out that all those precautions were largely wrong. There is a huge market for high-quality games you play on local hardware for maximum visual and input fidelity. I too find it very dangerous for government regulators to be predicting a future that industry can't themselves predict. They are not experts on this industry and don't conduct user and market research. They are literally just guessing. It is equally likely that cloud gaming never becomes a thing because phones keep getting more powerful and eventually they take the place of the future that cloud gaming was supposed to represent. Apple could eventually allow you to hook/locally stream an iPhone to a TV to use it as a console. There will always be a market for hardcore hardware like consoles and PCs, but who is to say that the more casual option will be cloud gaming and not some world in which mobile devices can be used as less-powerful home gaming machines?