You don't need a three thousand dollar machine to play it on. But I don't think that will supplant comics, it will just be another form. So far cover prices have risen so high that the young audience for comics is being choked off. They'd rather drop quarters into a machine. And there's no plot or characters to muddy their little blank minds up with, just action.
Comics have a lot to compete with in very glamorous types of media.
Like all static art they're slowly being marginalized culturally. It's getting like Fine Art in a museum. There is an element of that. You could say that everything in the 90's is an extension of the 60's. It wasn't just the government we were going after.