Diablo 3 to consoles - would Blizzard shun the PS3?

So a few weeks back I read where Diablo 3's likely heading to consoles...

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Diablo-3-Might-Be-Coming-to-Consoles-95532.shtml

Makes sense, as the PS3 and 360 are essentially stripped down PCs and it would be easy to port over.

But then i saw box art showing 360 exclusivity, with M$ as the publisher?? WTH Blizzard?

http://diablothree.ytmnd.com/

I know Blizzards WoW competes against Sony Online Entertainment, which has EQ/EQ2/Vanguard and a half dozen other MMOs. But would they withhold D3 from the PS3 because they view Sony as their main competitor in the MMO market?

That box art is BS, so far there are no plans for console Diablo3. And if they would eventualy make it, if they would do it only for one console, it's 360 that would be more likely to be ignored, not PS3AdrianWerner

[QUOTE="AdrianWerner"]That box art is BS, so far there are no plans for console Diablo3. And if they would eventualy make it, if they would do it only for one console, it's 360 that would be more likely to be ignored, not PS3MarloStanfield

on 360 Blizzard would have to give up Battle.net, that makes 360 more likely console to abaddon than PS3 in this particular casewAdrianWerner

Pre-purchased for 360 so I'm good. :P j/k but I think a 360 ver. will happen, PS3, not so much.SecretPolice

I can see the conflict of interest becasue D3 online is a stripped down version of MMO, albeit a 'free' one. But if D3 online pulls away subscriptions away from EQ2 or Vanguard, Sonys still making bank because they sell moar PS3s.

Whats the music playing in the 360 box art link? Cool Theremin!

[QUOTE="SecretPolice"]Pre-purchased for 360 so I'm good. :P j/k but I think a 360 ver. will happen, PS3, not so much.MarloStanfield

The game needs a strong online infrastruce, the diffulty of porting to the PS3 and writing all that again from scratch might prove quite a bit of trouble and so they might pull a ValveFirstDiscovery

[QUOTE="FirstDiscovery"]The game needs a strong online infrastruce, the diffulty of porting to the PS3 and writing all that again from scratch might prove quite a bit of trouble and so they might pull a Valvedarklord888

[QUOTE="darklord888"][QUOTE="FirstDiscovery"]The game needs a strong online infrastruce, the diffulty of porting to the PS3 and writing all that again from scratch might prove quite a bit of trouble and so they might pull a ValveFirstDiscovery

Anyone who played Diablo 2 knows that a console Version would totally blow. I can't imagine my 96 Sorc wiping Chaos Sanct on Hell with a Controller. If they make a console version im def gonna buy it for PC anyway so i don't really care.PurpleHaze89

There's no 'would' about it. They already did a console version of Diablo, and it was horrible.

[QUOTE="PurpleHaze89"]Anyone who played Diablo 2 knows that a console Version would totally blow. I can't imagine my 96 Sorc wiping Chaos Sanct on Hell with a Controller. If they make a console version im def gonna buy it for PC anyway so i don't really care.ANeuralPathway

There's no 'would' about it. They already did a console version of Diablo, and it was horrible.

[QUOTE="ANeuralPathway"]

[QUOTE="PurpleHaze89"]Anyone who played Diablo 2 knows that a console Version would totally blow. I can't imagine my 96 Sorc wiping Chaos Sanct on Hell with a Controller. If they make a console version im def gonna buy it for PC anyway so i don't really care.asylumni

There's no 'would' about it. They already did a console version of Diablo, and it was horrible.

Not clouded, biased. The controls on the PSX version were some of the worst I have ever dealt with, and Diablo is one of my favorite(and most played, probably even above II) games of all time, so it was hard for me to be that openminded towards it(coop was fun on the PSX though)

I love this board and it's reactions to news. First it might be ported, then it is going to be ported, now we're discussing whether or not it's going to PS3 and what needs to be done to make a good 360 port? You guys move fast.0bscurity

:D !! Next up for discussion: "Will GS automatically knock .5 off the score because its the console version?" , followed by "Is the PS3 version development the reason for pushing back the release date?" speculations.

this waht blizzard had to say

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/best-of-08-paul-sams

Not clouded, biased. The controls on the PSX version were some of the worst I have ever dealt with, and Diablo is one of my favorite(and most played, probably even above II) games of all time, so it was hard for me to be that openminded towards it(coop was fun on the PSX though)ANeuralPathway

this waht blizzard had to say

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/best-of-08-paul-sams

blackdreamhunk

Um thats what they had to say 6 months ago. Here's what they had to say last month (from original link)

Jay Wilson, who is the director of Diablo 3, also said that "We've really come to the conclusion that is probably the best fit because the control scheme is actually not that incompatible. So ...Diablo would be the natural choice".

I agree ... Silicon Knights proved with Too Human that hack and slash can be done, at least on the 360. Too Human was a decent hack and slash, it just had terrible game design and story IMO.