Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick said on Monday that although gaming consoles are not going away, the industry is moving toward PCs in the next decade.
“I think it’s moving towards PC and business is moving towards open rather than closed,” Zelnick told CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” “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 said the current split between console and mobile is about even in the market, but mobile is growing more rapidly than consoles.
Although gaming giants like
Sony’s PlayStation and
Nintendo have remained focused on traditional consoles to
major success, rivals like
Microsoft’s Xbox have hinted at more PC-based gaming for the next generation of hardware.
“It’s kind of funny that people think about the console and PC as two different things,” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella recently said in an interview with
TBPN. “We built the console because we wanted to build a better PC, which could then perform for gaming. I kind of want to revisit some of that conventional wisdom.”
Gaming company Valve garnered significant buzz last week after announcing its new Steam Machine, a console-PC hybrid that can run PC games on a television or as a normal gaming computer.
“Expanding access across PC, console, and handheld devices reflects a future built on choice, core values that have guided Xbox’s vision from the start,” Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer
wrote in an X post congratulating Valve.
