Gamers with a few years of community activity under their belts will remember the era when PC gaming "died" every year or so - things are very different now, and even the publisher of Grand Theft Auto 6 recognizes this. Strauss Zelnick, CEO of Take-Two Interactive, shared his thoughts during a recent interview on CNBC's Squawk Box program. The irony, however, is that his company's biggest upcoming release isn't confirmed for the platform he's championing.
I think it's moving towards PC and business is moving towards open rather than closed. But if you define console as the property, not the system, then the notion of a very rich game that you engage in for many hours that you play on a big screen—that's never going away
Zelnick's comments come at an interesting time. Microsoft, despite insisting it's developing new Xbox hardware, has simultaneously declared that everything is an Xbox now. If Xbox games run on various devices, including PCs, and those devices can access broader libraries than the Xbox console itself, what's the value proposition for dedicated hardware?
