Activision Blizzard will pass by consoles

I already wrote about Activision Blizzard and their new upcoming MMO, but they have even more ideas to share. How about a future without consoles? They do acknowledge the fact that consoles are a big part of the business, but services like OnLive make a console-less future very possible!

Aside from hinting on a day that players’ Facebook profiles will be integrated in Guitar Hero, he also expected many of his now console based games to be playable independent of a console!

“I think what the untethered Guitar Hero does is equal the playing field a little more and give you some leverage with first parties when it comes to downloadable content and the business model,”

So aside from integrating all his PC games into one platform (Battle.net 2.0) he will also be able to bring games to your living room regardless of your ownership of one of the consoles.  The argument he makes for this is that he hasn’t seen any plans of any new console, so it must be more than 2 years away for new consoles to be launched, allowing him to explore all the options the current hardware environment has to give.