Blizzard’s PC titles don’t port well to consoles.  Diablo and Warcraft II for Playstation weren’t terrible games, but the PC versions of each were far better and much more prefered.  Since then Blizzard has been reluctant to develop for anything other than PC, but will things change with Diablo 3?  When asked if there were any plans to bring Diablo 3 to consoles in a recent interview, Blizzard COO Paul Sams didn’t rule out the possibility,

“I don’t know yet. A lot of it depends on whether we think the gameplay experience will be the same on console, especially regarding the controls. Also I’d like to keep our audience together. One question mark I have is whether the console owners would allow PC players to play against console gamers. I think the answer gets a lot easier if the console owners say yes. But at the moment they do like to have closed systems. But you know, I think what it really it comes down to is the game itself. We want to deliver what is the best experience possible so the controls and everything else have to be perfect. When you are developing for multiple platforms you sometimes have to compromise. We aren’t willing to compromise. We have relationships with all the console manufacturers. I know they would love to have us on their platforms, ideally on their own and not their competitor! But it’s all about the game experience.”

So there’s no apparent console prejudice over at Blizzard, just matter of what platform the game will be best played on.  Though times have changed since Blizzard last attempted the console jump.  Baldur’s Gate proved that the dungeon crawler could perform perfectly fine on consoles, but I guess we’ll have to let Blizzard be the judge of that.

Those still hoping for a World of Warcraft console port can dream on.

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