What I thought was great about the Baldur's gate series was that they made the PC game, the full on, awesome D&D experience. And then they made console spinoff ARPG games (Dark Alliance), which are great in themselves, and offered totally different, but no less fun experiences.I absolutely loved Dark Alliance 1 and 2, and I love Baldur's Gate too.
I think that sort of scheme should be adopted for a lot more game series. e.g. don't put Starcraft II on console (as if that would ever happen), but make a Starcraft spin off game for consoles.
I do like Dragon Age Origins on PS3, and with trophies it really incentivises multiple plays though. And for a new IP it was probably better to put the same game on all platforms. But with established and well loved PC franchises I reckon the spinoff game approach would be successful. After all people who are both PC and console gamers will buy a great console spin off game, as well as the main PC game, which means 2 sales. But how many people are going to by the game for PC and for console? No one.
I certainly think console spin off games of PC franchises are more likely to be good quality games and sell well than movie spinoff games.
I have no particular opinion on Diablo III being on console.
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