Alienware Blurs the Line Between Console and PC

[Treblaine]

People who are taking to the approach to gaming where it should just "plug it in and bloody work as however you deem fit" will always lose out to Xbox or Playstation. And the PC trying to compete for slots in the HDTV I think it a bad room. That is spatial competition where it is not strong.

This trend is not going to last for long. Computing power is becoming more and more compact.

Within the decade I predict every electronic devise we own will be able to access every rectangle-shaped piece of glass in our house seamlessly, or at least nearly. That concept is already starting to gain momentum, in fact.

Its just the logical extreme of browsers on phones and game consoles, or console controllers plugged into PCs, or PCs plugged into TV screens.

Compactness ain't the issue. It's a matter of ergonomics of interface.

PC distinguishes itself from console with more choice but greater complexity in use, chocie in rendering settings, hardware and mods.

With console games ALL you have to do to get a game "running" is match the console name to the name at the top of the box. I.e. don't try to play PS3 games in an Xbox 360. But the system requirements for PC requires a depth of knowledge and then you have to know the appropriate settings if your system isn't good enough to max out.

PC is - inherently - not a plug and play experience, and the existence of browsers and console controllers won't change that.

PC gaming is fiddling with settings and hardware configuration, not web browsing or gamepads or mouse+KB. Mouse+KB on console doesn't make it a PC and Gamepad on PC doesn't make it a console.

PC won't be console till you have a "Set" hardware standard and games released for it have fixed rending settings.