Alienware: Next-gen consoles becoming more like PCs

The next-gen consoles are basically PCs 'for the living room', according to Alienware general manager Frank Azor.

The PlayStation 4 and Xbox One will be packed with technology to make console games look even better over the next few years, but Azor said the advancements have already been made on PC.

"A lot of the innovations and things that are proven on the PC are making their ways onto consoles," he told PCGamesN. "The consoles are looking more and more like PCs every day.

"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.

"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 trying to do and they're becoming more and more like PCs."

Azor added that PCs were ahead in terms of innovative moves such as game installations as well.

"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 centre."