Blizzard still 'serious' about Diablo 3 for consoles

Blizzard reconfirms its intentions to bring Diablo 3 to consoles.

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Back in November of 2010, Blizzard began posting job listings for a "Diablo-related project for consoles," and speculated about the possibility of developing a console version of Diablo 3 in its community forums. Today, at a Gamescom press conference, Blizzard all but confirmed that such a version of the game is in the works.

Diablo 3 lead designer Josh Mosqueira asserted that Blizzard "is very, very serious about bringing the Diablo 3 experience to the console," adding that the developer is currently recruiting a team to handle the initiative.

"We're looking for programmers, designers, artists who think their dream job would be to bring Diablo to the console. Trust me, it is a dream job," Mosqueria said, according to a report by Eurogamer. "All I can say is it's going to be awesome. Stay tuned."

Based on that statement, it sounds like console gamers can start to get cautiously excited. However, a console version does raise questions about how things like the PC version's real money auction house would work in that environment, if at all.

If you haven't already, be sure to check out our preview of Diablo 3, as well as our interview with lead designer Leonard Boyarsky.

The PC version of Diablo 3 still doesn't have a firm release date yet, though beta is still expected sometime in Q3 2011. (That's, like, now!)

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    August 17, 2011 4:30 PM

    Jeff Mattas posted a new article, Blizzard still 'serious' about Diablo 3 for consoles.

    Blizzard reconfirms its intentions to bring Diablo 3 to consoles.

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      August 17, 2011 4:41 PM

      i would definitely get this if i had the choice between 2 versions but as it stands now, the PC version will come out first and I won't be able to wait :)

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        August 17, 2011 4:42 PM

        it'd be interesting if they did something with the PS3 like valve did and have cross platform play on battle.net

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      August 17, 2011 4:48 PM

      it would work, i hope they do it.

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      August 17, 2011 6:00 PM

      With the characters being stored online, it would make sense if Blizzard tried to allow for players to log onto their account using either a console or a PC (i.e., you would be able to play the same characters on either platform and from any PC/console you could log in from). That would also be amazingly bad ass.

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        August 17, 2011 7:23 PM

        Wrong.
        Because probably both versions will be radically diferent in some points.
        Not doing so will be kicking pc gamers in the nuts, because if they did difficulty of the game will be lowered to make the console player able to handle it with a gamepad.

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          August 18, 2011 8:23 AM

          diablo 3 will be radically different from diablo 2 in the way you use skills and the number of buttons you use on your keyboard.

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      August 18, 2011 1:01 AM

      I can't wait for this game to come out but Im not much of an online player, I wish youd make it an offline game as well and then if I or anyone else did decide to play online I could understand having to make a completely new character for that use. I love both the diablo games and have several characters just not online .... I'm lame I know but it would just be cool to still have that option

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        August 18, 2011 1:04 AM

        You're free to be as solitary as you need. There's still a single player option where no other person but you will be in the game, it's just hosted on Blizzard servers for various reasons.

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      August 18, 2011 6:21 AM

      Man, this would be great. I much prefer the action-rpg controls on a console (and I know my macbook can't run D III anyway.)

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      August 18, 2011 8:21 AM

      they clearly are designing the way skills will be used (limitation of active skills) to lead into being able to play effectively with a gamepad. If you have 9 skills + physical attacks and other menu and camera buttons...you have a hard time fitting everything on the controller. They see how much money can be made from a console port with a good experience, and are going to lean in that direction.

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      August 18, 2011 8:25 AM

      I would buy this.

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