You want it. I want it. God, anyone with a brain should want it, because Diablo III is going to be the hottest thing for PC gamers to hit in some time, and I can't wait to mindlessly kill things again in true Diablo style. We've all been wondering when we might get our hands on it, and Kaputik had rumored news on it this morning: not just dates, but specs as well! This information was from "associates working on a Diablo 3 game design", so it's hard to say if it's reliable ... but I'd guess it likely has some truth to it.
According to this source, a September 11th release has been set for the online multiplayer beta trial version, while the game itself will be released on December 24th -- Christmas Eve! Hey mom, I'm not coming home this year for Christmas, just so you know. Sorry!
You can find the specs after the jump, which aren't quite as extreme as I was originally fearing. I know my poor little laptop won't run the game, but if these rumors hold any truth, I'll have plenty of time to build something that will before December. As soon as we hear official word from Blizzard confirming these dates, we'll be sure to keep you informed. Excited yet?
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Operating System: Windows XP/ Vista
Processor: 1.4GHz or higher CPU.
RAM: 1Gb or more.
Video: 128Mb video card Dx9
Hard Drive Space: 4-8GB Mac:
Operating System: MacOS X 10.3 (Panther) or better.
Processor:1.6GHz or higher.
RAM: 1Gb or higher, DDR RAM recommended.
Video: 128mb ATI or NVIDIA video card
Hard Drive Space: 4-8 GB
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11:40 AM on 03.09.2009
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PLEASE NO PAY TO PLAY BLIZZARD!
I wonder what the recomended specs will be.
Also: like Drach said-- for the love of all that's holy, please PLEASE no pay to play.
-RE: Blizzard Rep.
It sounds like the Christmas Eve release statement might've been more along of the lines of, "In time for Christmas Eve." It'd be pretty screwed up of them to do it on that date. That is, unless they're digitally distributing it on that date. That wouldn't be too far out there considering their use of battle.net as a distribution service already.
The specs do seem pretty low though.
@Chronic Logic - Seconded!
Come on guys, does no one remember the travesty that was the Diablo 2 release date. It got pushed back time after time after time, for almost 2 freaking years. No offense Colette, but I just have an incredibly hard time believing this.
Dx9 is important if you want yo be winXP friendly.
3 words - Open Graphics Library
I think those are sexy Minimum specs, in case they're the actual specs.
Blizzard has said that SC2 is definitely coming before Diablo III, which would mean they had not only nailed down the Diablo release date but the SC2 release date as well.
They've also said that (in a conference call) they expect one mainline release per year for the forseeable future. Since they could WoW expansions as "mainline" this likely means Diablo II will come in 2010 or 2011.
Not to mention that we only know about three of five classes right now, which would mean we would need two unveils, an alpha, and a beta in nine months.
Minimum: Intel Pentium 4 1.3 GHz or AMD Athlon XP 1500+; 512 MB RAM (1GB for Vista users; 3D graphics processor with Hardware Transform and Lighting with 32 MB VRAM Such as an ATI Radeon 7200 or NVIDIA GeForce 2 class card or better
If they can run WoW with that, I wouldn't be surprised if you could run Diablo 3 with these specs. After all, from the screens I've seen (which are presumably the best possible screens that Blizzard can render at this time) Diablo 3 doesn't look that much better than WoW
Even if they aren't quite that low I will be a very happy bunny indeed if this hunk of junk can run it and I don't have to speed up my buying a new PC.
ELEVEN YEARS BLIZZARD!!! WAITED ELEVEN YEARS FOR A NEW STARCRAFT DAMN YOU!