VG247
Blizzard has apparently confirmed it’s working on a console port of Diablo III, having posted an ad for a senior producer on Gamasutra specifically for the game.
The job requires “a minimum of 4 years experience in the video game industry” and the successful candidate “must have shipped at least one AAA console title in a senior producer role.”
This is the first time Blizzard has explicity said Diablo III is being worked on as a console game.
The news will come as little surprise. Blizzard has talked relatively openly about the possibility of a console port of the hugely anticipated action-RPG for at least six months.
Blizzard CEO Mike Morhaime said at DICE earlier this month that, “I think you could make an argument that a game like Diablo might play very well on a console. It’s something that we’re actually doing an investigation into to see if that could make sense.”
The company said in November last year that it was hiring for a “Diablo-related concept” for consoles, but failed to say what the project actually was.
In October last year, Blizzard’s Jason Bender told VG247 at Blizzcon that Diablo III was “suited” to consoles.
Diablo III was originally announced at Blizzard’s Worldwide Invitational in Paris in 2008.
The game’s never been dated, but Activision said recently that it doesn’t expect a Blizzard title to release in 2011, but that two games will arrive from the company in 2012.
http://www.vg247.com/2011/02/17/no-more-riddles-blizard-hiring-for-console-diablo-iii/
