Newsgrounds and Kongregate was &quot;web casual games platforms&quot; not &quot;casual games companies&quot; like King or Zynga. Notch (Minecraft) worked as a programmer at King between 2005 and 2009. The app store didn&#x27;t exist until mid 2008. Minecraft is in many ways a casual game.<p>WebTV is in that case not a good &quot;prediction&quot;. You have to look at what the premise is and if the product fits the premise. Cheap and easy access to the web is failing because of it&#x27;s hard to build an ecosystem. Most people don&#x27;t want to buy, say a chromebook, if something else with the full ecosystem is available at a similar price point.