Blizzard is undoubtedly the king of the PC gaming world, with titles like World of Warcraft and Starcraft remaining untouched successes. The RPG and strategy specialist doesn’t want to just rule the PC world, however, as it has stated that console games will “definitely” be worked on in the future.
“Some real-time strategy games have tried to happen on the console,” explains director J. Allen Brack. “Some of those have been successful, but overall, our experience is that it’s going to be a better game on the PC, ergo it’s developed on the PC.
“But we’re a company of gamers. I have two consoles at home. Sam has consoles. We’re a culture of gamers. We will definitely work on a console game at some point. I have no doubt about that. It’s just [a matter of] what game. What makes the most sense?”
There has been talk of Diablo III coming to consoles, and I think that titles like Oblivion and Sacred 2 have demonstrated that Western RPGs can work very well on a PS3 or 360. If you ask me, it seems that if any game will mark Blizzard’s current-gen console debut, it’d be that one.
Published: Dec 19, 2009 05:00 am