“PC Has Won” Alienware Co-founder Says, Console Architecture More PC-like Than Ever Before

According to Alienware co-founder and vice president, Frank Azor, consoles are more like PC'southward than e'er earlier, and this is a testament that PC has won.

Gamespot sat down with Azor during PAX Commonwealth of australia 2022 to talk about the PC and panel market place, and how the console platforms affected the position of Alienware in the market.

Due to the mid-gen panel refreshments, new consoles are being released on a more frequent basis. Sony already released its enhanced PS4 console, the PS4 Pro, and Microsoft will release its Xbox Scorpio somewhere in 2022. Consoles are becoming more and more PC-like to go on up with the insane innovation in the tech and gaming industry.

"The console market and the PC market have converged in ways that we've never really seen before. Consoles expect more like PCs, and PCs are starting to look more like consoles", Azur told Gamespot.

The Alienware co-founder points out that consoles need to evolve in order to survive in the current industry. "The panel guys take realised they tin't operate on seven year cadences anymore, because they tin't proceed upwardly with the amount of innovation that'due south going on in the industry, with HDR, 4K, VR, and the long path we accept ahead of us in VR evolution", he said.

"They're having to evolve in order to survive, to be a lot more than like the PC side, where they can't come in with a $300 or $400 piece of subsidised hardware. They can peradventure only beget to subsidise for $l or $100, because the lifecycle they're going to have to recoup that investment over the lifecycle or the client's journey is going to be two or iii years, not the vii years they had before."

According to Azur, the fact that consoles are becoming more PC-like than ever before, is proof that PC has won.

"Panel compages, funnily enough, is more than PC-similar than always before, so I think that'south a existent testament that PC has won," Azur claimed.

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