Sony Responds to Activision Threat

[heruamon]

Ail said:

heruamon said:
The problem is that Activision is the biggest developer, and with Diablo 3 a nice title to port to consoles...the threat is very real. If i was M$, I would glad throw some $$$ the way of Activision-Blizzard to get the game on the 360...it's already been stated how easy it is to port Pc games to the 360 anyway.

very very unlikely that D3 is going to come to console..

It's been developed with mouse in mind and Blizzard have stated several times they have no project to do this.

They did...I missed that news.  Blizzard is pretty independent of Activision, so if they said no consoles for Diablo 3...guess it must be true.  Diablo 3 seems like a game that could be translated to consoles without too much difficulty, but I'm not a developer.  I DO remember this article from last year, and if they really wanted to, it seemed possible that it could happen:

http://www.joystiq.com/2008/07/05/diablo-3-theoretically-possible-for-console-port/

"In our interview with Diablo 3 lead designer Jay Wilson, it was explained that there were no plans to bring the long-awaited title to any platform other than PC and Mac. However, in the six days that have passed since said interview, a couple of Blizzard higher-ups weren't quite as dismissive of the possibility of the dungeon crawler making an appearance on our primitive gameboxes -- though the language used to describe this possibility hasn't exactly given us high-apple-pie-in-the-sky hopes.

When asked about a console rendition of the third entry in the Lord of Terror-slaying franchise, Blizzard COO Paul Sams gave an inconclusive "I don't know yet," though Vice President of Game Design Rob Pardo suggested a console port was "theoretically possible," as out of all of Blizzard's franchises, Diablo would be the most console-friendly. We guess a theoretical "yes" is better than an actual "no", or a metaphorical "maybe", but we're still not holding our bated breath for a non-compy version of Diablo the Third. "