While shouting hoarse about the earth being flat, claiming the existence of the tooth fairy to be true and screeching his belief that babies come from storks, Alex St. John, one of the creators of DirectX managed to slip in a fact (from his twisted view on things) that consoles are dead.

Beginning one of several brazen claims in his keynote, St. John spoke of the death of video game consoles: “Nobody needs a console when a game’s value and DRM is defined by community or an input device. Consoles just serve to keep you from playing a game you didn’t pay for.”

He asked, “What’s Sony and Microsoft’s motivation to make another console? It’s been so rocky, and it’s not about the pretty graphics anymore.” According to St. John, spectacular graphics have become a commodity, and not the platform for games to differentiate themselves. “The Wii is the exception that proves the rule — it’s not about the graphics, it’s about the input device.

You heard it folks, throw away consoles. All of the odd 30 million of them. They’re redundant. Like common sense.

Via, Gamasutra