When Diablo III was officially announced at Blizzard’s 2008 Worldwide Invitational last week, it was stated that the long-awaited sequel was in development exclusively for the PC -- to the surprise of absolutely no one. Well, maybe some people were surprised, as Blizzard COO Paul Sams was immediately questioned if we could expect to see a console port at some point down the line. Sams was quick to shoot the idea down, stating that Blizzard has no intention to “compromise ... the game experience.”
While Blizzard may not have any plans to bring the hell spawn-slaying action RPG to consoles, that hasn’t stopped vice president of game design Rob Pardo from dangling a tiny slimmer of hope in front of console gamers.
"I think it's theoretically possible. It would have some control changes that I think you'd have to make... But it's probably, of our major franchises, the one that's most console friendly, for sure."
"You'd need to think about a lot of the point-and-click spells, like point to area-of-effect, or things like line-damage in this direction," Pardo said. "Target selection is something you're going to lose on console, you're really going to be able to do targeting direction, but not specific targeting. Out of StarCraft, Warcraft or WOW, Diablo would be the easiest game to translate. But it would still take a bit of work."
So Blizzard could bring Diablo III to consoles, but they just don’t want to. Seeing as how they’ve only been developing PC games for the past thirteen years, I can certainly understand the urge to stick with what’s familiar, but then, I have a PC that can play Diablo III. Are those of you that lack said gaming PC disappointed by this news?
[Via Eurogamer]
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11:17 AM on 07.04.2008
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If if works for Tomb Raider: Underworld and Star Wars:The Ford Unleashed, why not Diablo III?
I just don't get Blizzard.
I could see most of the mechanics working on console, but there is stuff like ranged spells that just wouldn't work. I'm sure they could manage to have a 'playable' version, but nothing that would be on par with the PC, unfortunately.
They ported the original Diablo game to Playstation, so I'm pretty sure they have already tried toying with the idea.
What's so hard about taking that concept and multiplying it by three?
Interesting, or perhaps I'm reading it wrong.
Also: FAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAILFAIL
HA HA.
Blizzard has always been a PC/Mac centered developer, not to mention their recent console venture failed.
It's not like you'll need an uber machine to play the damn thing anyway. Blizzard is known for creating "old hardware" friendly games. Besides a good PC exclusive will be met with much rejoice in the PC Gaming community.
I mean if an RTS like Command And Conquer 3 was on the 360 and it came out pretty well. I guess anything is possible, well almost.
Yes, I know Diablo isn't an RTS, just an example.
As far as having a gaming PC, I don't think it will be a huge deal. As long as your computer isn't ancient, this game isn't going to be Crysis or something. I'll prob just turn down the settings, I mean, anything is a graphical upgrade from D2.
A console port would be great for those that aren't fortunate enough to have a PC capable of running it. No arguing that. The more people playing it the better, imo, "PC series" or not.
Plus, the face of the games industry has seen a vast change from when Diable and Diablo 2 were released. It would only make sense for Blizzard financially to release the game on consoles so they can maximize profits (assuming they don't spend too many millions porting it, obviously, but that's highly unlikely).
im a console gamer and i dont think pc gaming is dead, i can care less. blizzard has always done most of their business only on the pc and i still can care less. true they will make loads of cash, but they would make much more if they outsourced it and released it on 360/ps3, even though i stil wouldnt buy the game. not my style.
it would probably be more intuitive than the PC controls in some aspects.
I have a 3.0 Ghz single core processor, 1.5 gigs of RAM, and a Radeon 9800 XT (a 4 generation old AGP card) and I run TF2 at 30fps.
They don't even make these parts anymore and I can run the games that people would actually WANT to play (ie. NOT Crysis) at decent frame-rates.