Speaking at the Casual Connect conference in Seattle, as reported by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, St. John labeled the console market an "extremely fragile business".
“I am going to predict to you that the PS3, the Wii and the Xbox are the last generation of consoles that you either see or that anybody regards as successful in the market,” he said.
St. John made similar remarks in a recent interview with Edge, telling us, “I’m going to say something heretical now: that old notion of the console wired to the big TV – its time is up.
“Consider how laptops have changed the market. You have PCs now that can compete graphically with consoles, if not yet with 360 and PS3 then with Wii. So kids can play anywhere, or they plug in a gamepad and plug into a TV for that ‘immersive’ experience. People in our generation might cling to that idea of the console running BioShock, but laptop gaming is going to dominate the market for this next generation.
“The console era is fading rapidly because graphics are no longer the differentiator: people are looking for other things like community or new types of input.”