Rumor: Trioxide brings 360, Wii, PS3 games to PC

It is mainly for people in College who can't afford a decent TV. I think.

Well, I'm not interested in spending $500 for a TV that I'm only going to use for playing Wii games on, but being able to use my laptop's widescreen for that is something I've been hoping to do for a while now.

Rob,

Reasoning, please?

HDTVs have the ability to scale far better than PC monitors - case in point, a game at 640p (GTA IV on the PS3) looks far better on a 22" HDTV than a PC game at 800x640 on a 22" PC monitor.

This is not an anti-PC comment, I'm a massive PC gamer myself, but a mere statement of fact on the quality of screens.

As for what Number_Zero said, it's probably for people who primarily use a PC monitor (like college students), but if that's the case, then shouldn't a VGA cable do the job? Most college students I see carry a mid-size or larger laptop, and those usually have some sort of display jack for input, and those with much smaller laptops probably don't care about playing console games anyway. Others usually have a regular PC and either use a splitter for the VGA or a separate input on their monitor.

Maybe this is a USB jack or something that allows video signals to travel from the console to the PC screen, and you use software on the PC to display the game.

Other than that, I really don't see the point either.

Who actually turns their computer off these days? Mine has been on for, like, a month.

HDTV == Monitor.

Fixed.

Sorry, imo, it's still HD TV > PC Monitor.

You can buy computer monitors these days that are full HD in resolution so in that case an HDTV is the same as a computer monitor and a lot of the time you can get the monitor cheaper than the TV, from some of the research I've done. I know my friends have HD monitors and use them as a TV also because its a lot more convenient. Plus having the monitor is real nice for LANs because when you're waiting for a tournament to get started or when youre not in a certain round you can just swap over to your Xbox 360 or whatever and not have to worry about missing a round or someone playing you're game as you can pause it when you need to switch back to the computer. So I'd have to say that the computer monitor makes things a bit nicer for us gamer types which use PCs and consoles. Putting a console through a computer can make things a lot easier if you cant get to the back of your TV but your computer is right there making things a lot easier and quicker to do. This isn't a bad idea imo

Well, I'm living in a small apartment in Tokyo, and I don't have a TV. But I do have a laptop.. so being able to buy a Wii and play it on my laptop would be sweet.

I can probably do it already though, I'm sure I've seen several devices over here that claim to allow you to play console games on your PC monitor.
(I just haven't trusted my japanese translation abilities enough to buy one and try it yet...)

(PS/ most laptops don't have a video in, they have a spare vga-OUT incase you want to plug in an external monitor).

how is the sensor bar hooked up? there's no sensor bar port in the macbook pro.

btw why does that macbook pro not have an isight in the top middle of the screen?

and if it's for pc only then this computer is running parallels or boot camp or something.

but in any case, something to look forward to.

@calvin: The sensor bar has a very long cable, and obviously its hooked into the Wii, where the computer is also hooked into.

The photo is not the Trioxide thing... its the EyeTV, which is a Mac only product. Read the whole story before making stupid comments

I totally agree that it's definitely not a cable for hooking your consoles up to your computer screen... unless the $49.99 unit would be for one system, maybe a Component-HDMI/VGA or HDMI-VGA and the $299.99 unit would be some sort of HDMI/VGA/Component switch box complete with three sets of cables for each system. Look it up, HDMI switch boxes are expensive, add in the fact that the Wii only does component at best, you'd have to have some sort of HDMI and Component combo switch box that outputs to either HDMI, DVI, or VGA for PC input. The price would add up. Also, HDMI-VGA converters are also expensive as it has to convert from analog to digital, so it's not just an average cable.

But, what I really think it is (and what I hope it is) is an emulator along the lines of Bleem! If they could some how write an emulator for all three systems in assembly language, like Bleem! was written, then you'd have as damn close to a 1:1 ratio of performance on console to PC emulation. Granted, it would also be extremely difficult (read near impossible? especially converting the multi-core optimization of 360 and PS3 games) to write those emulators in assembly, but if it could be pulled off, it would be expected that most PCs that could run modern games smoothly could also run 360/PS3 games almost as easily.
Also, that whole "any games played using Trioxide utilize their original game controllers, rather than the PC's keyboard or mouse" does nothing to prove that it's simply a way to hook up video/audio to your PC. Wouldn't it say "utilize their original game controllers and consoles"? I have a wired 360 controller hooked up to my PC right now, I've connected my Wii remote to my PC over bluetooth, and I'm pretty sure you can do the same with a Sixaxis too (and a wireless 360 controller using an RF dongle). I'm sure they could easily write drivers that could make Wii/360/PS3 controllers a breeze to connect and use on your PC, especially if they have the talent to write an emulator for "now-gen" systems.
I'm thinking the $49.99 product will include just the software, where as the $299.99 might include a Bluray drive for PS3 games as well as other hardware, like maybe a controller or two (or maybe just the drive, who knows).

That's what I think/am hoping.

Also the 360 controller already works on the PC and can be used for quite a few PC games already. I read somewhere about the Sixaxis working too.

The wii would probably require a few peripherals though.

Also the 360 controller already works on the PC and can be used for quite a few PC games already. I read somewhere about the Sixaxis working too.

The wii would probably require a few peripherals though.

Wii controllers can run a pc
http://www.joystiq.com/2007/06/14/how-to-control-a-pc-with-a-wii-remote/

And that post was supposed to be a reply to my post of a reply to Haggards post a few posts above these two posts that I just posted in the wrong spot because this posting system is as bad as the US postal service is at making sure your postage gets to the postmarked address.