Activision Wants Consoles to be Replaced by PCs

Im A PC guy no doubt about it.... just wish they would do cross platform video game so that I could own console players .

But I hope for him that the games are good because he won't sell any.

I haven't played a Activision game for a while.

[citation]He added that Activision would "very aggressively" support the likes of HP and Dell in any effort of making an easy 'plug-and-play' PC that would hook up directly to the TV.[/citation]

doesn't any PC with DVI or HDMI already do this?

Put things into other tighter things to make them bigger.

Heck, my pc is connected 24/7 to my projector that sits behind the couch. Plug and play? What is he going on about?

If they want PC gaming to become the norm, they need to encourage better basic Graphics from companies like Intel. Most people who buy a PC don't know much about how they work, and buy them from utterly unhelpful sales staff who don't either. As such, when they buy their $500 PC with integrated graphics and find out it can't play games well/at all, they don't think anymore about it and go to play a console they know will work without any thought.

PC gaming needs a higher uptake at the lower price brackets and the only way that'll happen is with much improved graphics in the budget computer range. The performance Nvidia's Ion chipset for the Atom 330s for instance should be the minimum expectation on computers, as it allows Windows Aero to run much more smoothly and play most games, at a minimal level at least.

And why is he telling this to us? Simply release only fr PC and that's that... of course he won't be selling so many copies, but he just might because pc games are cheaper.

It must be so very hard to get into the PC market. I don't know how a big company like Activision will be able to do it? If only we had some sort of console so they don't have to worry about all the PC set ups.


Guy talks out his Arrrrrse.

Basically he's saying that microsoft and sony make profits from his company's games, they also make profits from people playing online and he wants a piece of the pie but the PC is the only platform his company could profit from online gaming but he needs a dummies gaming PC platform that is designed AND marketed to plug into the TV to do this.

The PC is more powerful than any console but it's historically been complicated to use and set up and people still see it this way. Most off us here know the PC can easily be plugged into a HDTV but it's not common knowledge like it is that consoles do. Also Gaming spec PC's are still WAY too expensive for the mainstream.

What a pack of crap. Activision (including IW) milk us for £11.00 for a map pack (2 x £11.00 for MW2) as well as charging £40.00 for the game. Then they advertise the maps are now available to download (PS3) and I will be buggered if I could find them last night or this morning.

Activision need a reality check - we dont all earn mega bucks to buy new maps every other month and we certainly dont want recycled crap in their games

why dont they just work together to create a new open source operating system that you can install on a pc or dual boot with that works the same as the console varient ware it only keeps running what it needs

this would allow companise to make consoles/mini computers
using mini-atx boards and mainstream processors and graphics cards

look at the ee pc for example using that form factor for a pc with a custom os would let them sell millions and it would allow people to play games cheaply

and some people could just upgrade there curent consoels every few years to keep up with the latest games for arround £2-300 for a graphics card and proccesor/ (maybe a new motherboard every couple more years)

and you have a fully upgradeable console that is cheaper than the likes of the 360 and ps3 becasue of the upgradeability

Asking the average/casual console gamer to do more then plug the console in, turn it on, load a disc and pressing a button means less and less people who use consoles now would ever consider switching over.

Why? because it would be alot less fast/convenient to use than any console currently on the market.

If you really want to make a worthy pc alternative, you'll need to come up with just 1-2 models, standardize every component to meet minimum system requirements for the next 3-5 years, and come up with an OS (probably a variation of windows) capable of running atleast every game that already runs on the latest versions of windows.

Oh, and make it cost way less than 500$ to make so you can sell the damn thing.

This is too much trouble to go through if you ask me. This is why consoles will stay for a long time to come.

no, not windows

windows is rubbish, i say that as mainly a windows 7 usser

the problem is you dont have root access and it is buggy, i know linux is buggy but there are certain versions like puppy linux whihc are very easy to use for the average usser

nah, what i ment to add for the upgradable cosole bit is, you can either take it to a computer shop or do it yourself

i dont know about you but it only took me 1-2 hours to build/start setting up my current pc that is only £10-20 or arround $15-25

then all we need is for the developers to auto set the settings based on the hardware and with a small number of differnet hardware manufactorers it would not be difficult

what are consoles now anyway?
answer: they are just computers with limited functionality

another bonus for this would be that poorer people could still play the games and the people with deep pockets can get great graphics and better images

I think what he means by plug and play pc is something like a console but with pc parts

Ya, easy for the noob to set up.
But critically, charge you for the priviledge to play online on your PC! Screw Kotick, Im all for wiping out consoles, but not on his plans, he will still screw us all over.

I support the death of consoles, but surely no other game makers would follow suit, not after how easy it is to pirate games. Unless they have new plans for DRM.

Steam has basically rendered the whole "console gaming is so much simpler than PC gaming" argument moot. It's still niche, but people are increasingly using media extenders to play videos/music/photos from their PCs to their home entertainment setups, just need to add games to that list, and you're done.

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