shio on 05 July 2008
| quaiky said: for such a big title as diablo 3 i am sure that blizzard will do some calculations and statistics to see how much a console port would cost them and how much players would get it on the consoles. With pc gaming market beeing very focused on mmos (and mmo players not buying that much new games regulary), and a lot other games moving more and more to consoles, the questions will be if diablo3 on pc only will be able to sell as good as diablo 2? I personally think that its very possible that they port diablo3 to the consoles, but it will most likely be a later release. its also true that diablo doesn't need that much keyboard controlls (its mainly mouse controll + a few keys) which means that controlls might not need that big changes as you usually expect for a pc to console conversion. |
Online PC games sell well on PC. Infact, it's rare for an online-oriented game selling better on consoles than the PC version.
And with the Blizzard's better-than-ever popularity, I am confident Diablo 3 will sell over 10 millions copies on PC/MAC.
And the controls would be very, very hard to port.. especially now on Diablo 3, which seems to have a more WoW-ish approach to hotkeys and spell combos, and an even faster combat than Diablo 2.
