14 DAY TRIAL // Alienware, one of the biggest companies in terms of PC gaming, believes that the new PlayStation 4 and Xbox One next-gen consoles, by adopting a PC-like hardware strategy, are admitting that the PC is the best type of gaming experience out there.
Alienware made a name for itself by creating custom PCs and laptops that are geared towards gaming and performance.
Now, seeing as how both the PlayStation 4 from Sony and the Xbox One from Microsoft are adopting a more PC-like hardware configuration, including x86 architecture, Alienware's Frank Azor told PCGamesN that the next-gen consoles are finally starting to adopt things that were basic in terms of PC gaming for at least a few years.
"If you look at what Sony and Microsoft are doing, they're taking PCs and putting them into the living room. It's an AMD CPU, it's an AMD graphics card, it's a standard desktop hard drive. It's unbelievable," he said.
"You're installing games now instead of running them off the disc, because that's the right thing to do; you're downloading games digitally, which we've been doing on PC for years; they're integrating certain TV aspects and stuff, well, ten years ago we started experimenting with media center."
According to Azor, the next-gen consoles are practically admitting, through these new features and configurations, that the PC is the best platform out there.
"That tells you that the PC is the gaming platform of choice out there, there is nothing out there that's better. You look at what they're [consoles] trying to do and they're becoming more and more like PCs," he added.
"Look at the most widely played games out there, League of Legends, World Of Tanks, I mean these are the most widely played games in terms of hours played in the industry. And up until this week those were exclusive PC titles."
World of Tanks is going to appear for the Xbox 360 this summer, while League of Legends is also rumored to launch on consoles soon.