In this in-depth editorial feature Krisse asks whether non-portable game systems are doomed? Home consoles and home computers have played such a big part in the history of gaming, it seems inconceivable that they would ever disappear. But is gaming about to become 100% mobile?

In 1956, a British comedy musical double act called Flanders & Swann wrote and performed "A Song Of Reproduction". Despite what you might think, it wasn't a song about about sex but about the bold new world of High Fidelity home music systems. Technology enthusiasts of the 1950s and 1960s were obsessed with Hi-Fi, they wanted to do everything possible (as Flanders put it) "to get the exact effect of an orchestra actually playing in their sitting room". This obsession continued in the mainstream for decades, with every trick in the book deployed to hone the home stereo system into a perfect device for reproducing sound realistically.

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