I have always, and will always, be a console gamer, unless PCs find a more layman-friendly approach to gaming. I just hate that whenever I buy a new PC game, it's going to take advantage of the highest end hardware available, so I'll either have to upgrade my hardware or it won't work right. I like being able to just buy a game, pop it in, and then sit back on my couch and play with a controller. Plus, local multi-player isn't exactly ideal with a PC, whereas consoles are designed for it, and local multi-player is about the only multi-player I take part in anymore. I'm not knocking PC gaming by any means, these are just my personal preferences.

As far as consoles dying? No, I don't think so. I think we will see consoles mutate into something radically different than they are now (hell, think about what they were before this gen? First they were strictly game boxes, then game boxes with CD playing capabilities, then game boxes with CD and DVD playing capabilities, now they're full on entertainment centers complete with Netflix and web browsers), but I don't see them going away.

I just don't see PC gaming ever becoming mainstream, and handheld gaming will always have it's market, but I don't see it replacing a sit down big screen experience. I don't see all the Halo fratboy tournaments on XBOX that regularly took place in my dorm hall being replaced by PCs.

If consoles were to die, I think we'd see a huge decline in the video game industry altogether. Like it or not, consoles made video games the medium to be reckoned with it is today. In the same token, it also brought it to the state of shameless capitalistic rape that it's currently at right now, too.