http://www.tomshardware.com/news/consoles-tv-modern-warfare-mw2,10804.html

Activision Wants Consoles to be Replaced by PCs

So basically, he just wants to make games for PC that will be played from the couch.

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Today, we live in a multiplatform world. Many games that hit the PlayStation 3 are also on the Xbox 360, and some of those even make it to the PC. Due to hardware constraints, the Wii may get a watered down version of the software.

Activision, one of the leading cross platform publishers, wishes to move away from the "walled gardens" set by the likes of Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo.

Bobby Kotick, Activision CEO, told the Financial Times that it believes that the majority of Xbox Live subscribers pay Microsoft for the Xbox 360 online service just to play Modern Warfare – a subscription fee that Activision doesn't get any share of.

"We've heard that 60 per cent of [Microsoft's] subscribers are principally on Live because of Call of Duty," Kotick told FT. "We don't really participate financially in that income stream. We would really like to be able to provide much more value to those millions of players playing on Live, but it's not our network."

Of course, Activision has still made a tidy sum from the sales of Modern Warfare 2 and the $15 map packs that it inevitably sells millions of.

Kotick's solution to this is simply to turn to the PC, where it can set its own model for pricing – not unlike what Blizzard has done with World of Warcraft and Battle.net. 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.

Oh, the irony...

Well, we can at least hope he's finished exploiting the movie games and is moving on to exploit something else.

LOL.

I've heard that 60% of VGChartz visitors are principally on here because of my awesomeness. Cough it up, ioi!

These third party publishers are amazing. You can see just how much they despise the hardware manufacturers, even though their business is utterly dependant on them. They've spent the past decade migrating away from PC development because there was more money to be made on consoles, and now they're whining about how little control they have in their gilded cage.

Is it really worth it for the big three to bend over backwards to court these backstabbers?

Hypocrisy at its best.

"Activision, one of the leading cross platform publishers, wishes to move away from the "walled gardens" set by the likes of Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo."

untrue - activision still wants a walled garden, bobby just wants to be the gatekeeper.

hey PC gamers, FU we'll remove dedicated servers and change your games to make them more like consoles....

... We really want the market to move thowards PC.

DOH! if bliz wasn't there I wouldn't buy games from that company... oh wait, now bliz wants every player to be publicly known... that's gonna fair very well in some sectors....

Hey! why was my employee online playing starcraft 2 when he should have been preparing for the meeting... yay for privacy!

Thus the part about the likes of Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo.

if you want to play PC games on your TV just hook your PC to the TV and buy wireless keyboard and mouse.