As far as I know every 1.5th household in German already has a PC AND internet connection and girls are also since long time already not in the behind ranks of PC gamers. Comparing that to the tendency of consoles to gain some functionalities of PC's like internet connection or multiplay ability or playing video or audio and more and more people being able to use PC's well or adapting to use it well because others do, I'm sure that consoles won't last for that long anymore, although probably still longer than until 2010.
What do consoles have after all that is better than PC? Better graphics? No. Easier to use than PC? Maybe, but still many tend rather to use the PC as it's not that difficult to learn it, either. And just look at many such people who post here and have only the most basic knowledge of PC. Still they're using it. The tendency is clearly in the direction of PC's and laptops as there's far wider range of usability than on the consoles.
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