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Casual gaming to kill consoles

Ben Parfitt

by Ben Parfitt
Monday, November 10th 2008 at 3:12PM GMT

Digital marketing site ClickZ has made a bold claim about the future of gaming by claiming that the games console is heading to extinction thanks to the rise of casual gaming.

The site reads: “We are watching the icon of gaming, the console, quickly and ungraciously bow to the internet. As difficult as it may be to lose our cultural icon of game play, we must. The consoles are facing competition and extinction."

To read the piece in full, head over to the internet's only choice for casual gaming business news, CasualGaming.biz.

Tags: gaming , casual , console , next , year , cycle , five , gen extinction

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