Comments on: Will PC’s and Consoles Merge?

By: D. Woods

D. Woods — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 03:00:50 +0000

It almost happened. Anybody remember the “ApeXTREME” and “DISCover” and “Phantom” Pc consoles ways back? A console designed to run ALL PC games’ simplified drop and play tech. But something happened an the projects were scraped, but the tech still lives in most popular brands PC’s. such as DELL, Alienware, and HP.

By: Eric Ball

Eric Ball — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 19:57:49 +0000

With an emulator I can run a variety of older consoles on my PC – no additional hardware required. And people have ported Linux, along with various user applications, to consoles. Not to mention both the PS3 and Xbox360 can be used as “Media Extenders” and play music and videos off a PC.

I do think Microsoft missed an opportunity with the original XBox to make it into a real PC alternative. I doubt it would have taken much effort to port home user applications like Works and IE to the XBox.

By: Mukhtar

Mukhtar — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 02:25:55 +0000

Hmmmmmm.
Who wants PS4 running on windows?
They will make a bad chip on it to send a virus and ruin all ur saves and ur psn so HELL NO!

By: The Kiss

The Kiss — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 01:29:35 +0000

@Paul: I couldn’t say it any better that how you did. If we’re already seeing higher developing costs and time with just the raw powers of the machines being built now, how are we and the devs going to deal with accounting for such variables?

Also, who would like to upgrade every now and a then to cover for developer messes such as system requirements? Yeah, the more they add, the more power a machine needs. At least with consoles there is a level cap to such matter.

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 00:09:35 +0000

I can’t ever see this happening personally! I think the nature of cnsoles is similar that of an Apple Mac. The software developers know exactly what is inside a PS4 hardware wise, and therefore development is much easier. By introducing too many variables, such as graphics cards, memory etc the developer suddenly has to develop PC style, where every possibility must be designed for. This would lead to longer lead times on games, which nobody wants!

While a nice idea in some ways, I can’t see it happening. And like you said, I like having a seperate games console regardless of my PC.