Remember back in the old days when everybody and their dog thought that console gaming would make PC gaming completely obsolete? Well, in part one of a two-part interview with Itzik Ben Bassat, Blizzard's Vice President of Business Development, Gamesindustry.biz says that he feels the exact opposite, stating that consoles are becoming more and more like glorified PCs.
Of course, that's all well and good when you have one of the most successful video game franchises of all time notched on your belt.
"Consoles are becoming sophisticated PCs which sit in the living room... We'll have to see how all this develops," Ben Bassat states. Maybe in five years you won't need a console because you'll have one PC which delivers content all over your house."
He added that Blizzard has no immediate plans to create console versions of World of Warcraft, the company's tremendously popular MMORPG series. He did not rule out the possibility, however, stating that Blizzard is keeping an eye on the new wave of next-gen consoles and will pay particularly close attention to their usage of online space.
"Online console gaming is still in its very early stages, and it needs to be developed further to provide opportunities of a scale which will be interesting to us," he further elaborated. "So when we come to develop a new game we will look at the kind of opportunities that exist out there and what we want to develop, and if it could be interesting on console."
"We should remember that a 360 is just a sophisticated PC," he added.
As for his opinions on Sony's online service for the PS3, he admits that he hasn't seen enough of it to make a judgment. He did, however, express his praise for Xbox Live Arcade, citing its ease and intuitiveness.
We'll have more on part two of the story as soon as it becomes available.
Source: Gametrailers
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