Jim Crowley, Chief Executive of Turbine, thinks the MMOs should not just be limited to appearing on PCs and should also be available on consoles too.

Turbine specialise in MMO games, with their most recent work being the popular Lord of the Rings: Shadows of Angmar, and their top guy wanted to let the world know his thoughts on console-based MMOs at the recent Tokyo Game Show Forum.

“The MMO needs to become a multi-platform tool. The view of Turbine is that MMOs necessarily need to be on consoles.”

Crowley sees MMOs running side-by-side on PC, PS3, Xbox 360 and eventually Wii, although he admits that getting each platform to talk to each other might prove tricky, and in some way unnecessary.

“There are uniquenesses to each platform that suggest that the actual gameplay needs to be optimised for each platform, so cross-platform play becomes a challenge. It’s not clear to us that cross-platform play is necessary, or even desirable.”

Lets home that this means Turbine are currently looking into bringing a fantastic MMO to all consoles sometime in the near future, and here’s hoping that includes the Wii and possibly DS!

MMOs “need to be on consoles” - Turbine [Eurogamer]