Update: Yakuza creator Toshihiro Nagoshi believes mobiles and PC will become bigger than consoles for gaming

In a recent interview with PSM3, Yakuza creator Toshihiro Nagoshi shared his belief that the next generation of home consoles won't hold the same kind of market share as their current-gen counterparts.

Instead, PC and mobiles will eventually rise to the top of the current gaming hierarchy.

"Well, the first thing is that consoles - PS3, PS4, Xbox 360-2 - the market for those will get smaller, and the main market will become portable games," Nagoshi said.

"I don't think consoles will disappear, but more and more people will use home PCs for gaming, and a long time in the future it will just be PCs and mobile phones, and eventually mobiles will become just as powerful as games consoles."

Nagoshi also believes that the complexity of modern-day controllers, especially when compared to iOS's buttonless approach, may push consumers away from consoles.

"The most important and unavoidable thing is the interface. Right now, that means either buttons or touchscreens. Those are the only two interfaces we have. I think it's strange the number of buttons has increased and never decreased. So that means we need to reset things, somehow," he stated.

"Like I was saying earlier, I think the answer lies in some as-yet unknown third type of interface."

Nagoshi's opinions on the future of gaming are a stark contrast to Jagex CEO Mark Gerhard's dire warnings at a recent BAFTA-chaired Games Question Time.

According to Gerhard, "the mobile bubble will burst this year", simply because the cost of developing a highly polished iPhone or iPad game doesn't justify the return.

Finally, Gerhard believes that the forthcoming iPhone 5 and iPad 3 could potentially "kill the App Store".