Activision Wants Consoles to be Replaced by PCs
So basically, he just wants to make games for PC that will be played from the couch.
Today, we live in a multiplatform world. Many games that hit the PlayStation 3 are also on the Xbox 360, and some of those even make it to the PC. Due to hardware constraints, the Wii may get a watered down version of the software.
Activision, one of the leading cross platform publishers, wishes to move away from the "walled gardens" set by the likes of Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo.
Bobby Kotick, Activision CEO, told the Financial Times that it believes that the majority of Xbox Live subscribers pay Microsoft for the Xbox 360 online service just to play Modern Warfare – a subscription fee that Activision doesn't get any share of.
"We've heard that 60 per cent of [Microsoft's] subscribers are principally on Live because of Call of Duty," Kotick told FT. "We don't really participate financially in that income stream. We would really like to be able to provide much more value to those millions of players playing on Live, but it's not our network."
Of course, Activision has still made a tidy sum from the sales of Modern Warfare 2 and the $15 map packs that it inevitably sells millions of.
Kotick's solution to this is simply to turn to the PC, where it can set its own model for pricing – not unlike what Blizzard has done with World of Warcraft and Battle.net. He added that Activision would "very aggressively" support the likes of HP and Dell in any effort of making an easy 'plug-and-play' PC that would hook up directly to the TV.
(via GameSpot.)

So he wants a PC that plays like a console so Activision can charge its own subscription fee for games that have been deteriorating in quality for some time now...
Maybe if you just made good games, you could sell a lot of them rather than trying to squeeze money out of every point in the system. I mean, I bought BFBC2 JUST because it had dedicated servers and it was Modern Warfare-ish. Thats a lot of extra sales Activision could have made.
Well, as long as it benefits us, the consumers, I'm ok with it.
So he wants a PC that plays like a console so Activision can charge its own subscription fee for games that have been deteriorating in quality for some time now...
Maybe if you just made good games, you could sell a lot of them rather than trying to squeeze money out of every point in the system. I mean, I bought BFBC2 JUST because it had dedicated servers and it was Modern Warfare-ish. Thats a lot of extra sales Activision could have made.
Why so they can charge you 60 for a game, 15 for a map pack, and now they want to charge a subscription fee on top of it. Hey activision make a game that is fun. Like MW2 was for the first 5 minutes before everyone started cheating.
Solution: PC with HDMI out and a controller... this has been available for quite some time
They should also look into PC designs like iBuyPower's LAN Warrior PC
Translate: we are greedy rich bastards and want your money no matter how. We, like Apple, care not of you, only your money.
Equates to -> "We saw the announcement by EA with the intention of charging a fee for their used games to be played online, then we got to looking at our cash-cow and started thinking of how to come up with a way to cash in ourselves."
Without reading between the lines: For many months now Activision is preparing gamers for a pay-to-play model for CoD. Good thing they killed IW because it is all down hill from here and I have no interest. I am going to enjoy this blowing up in his face
Are you crazy sir?