ROFL. I will bet any sum of money that you can afford to pay that Diablo 3 won't make it out in 2009. I don't know why anyone expected SC2 this year. Blizzard takes a long long long time making a game. The wait is always worth it of course, but I do hate their game announcements a bit because it means the game is years off still.

Same with SC2, D3 is also said to be 1/3rd complete, so what makes it not possible?

I know it is probably wishful thinking, but hey, I can dream can't I?

Worst case.... Diablo III GOTY 2010!!!

damn but predictable. Blizzard takes huge amounts of time finetuning the balancing.

 Because Blizzard announced it this year. I don't care how far along in development they claim to be, they will take their sweet time making a game. They didn't have a reason to rush development before WoW startted giving them billions of dollars in revenue every month. And no, your worst case scenario is 2011 or 2012. They take a long long long time to finish a game. Once it is 100% perfectly playable by almost any other developers standard they will start their final round of bug testing and release it 4-5 months later.

For financial reasons I highly doubt Blizzard would release both SC2 and D3 in the same fiscal year.
So my guess is SC2 2009, D3 2010.

At least we know that the games are on there way. I would rather be able to go to their website and know that it is being worked on that to just speculate.

2009- SC2

2010-D3

2011- SC2:??? (xpac)

2012- D3:??? (xpac)

Thats my guess at Blizzard's next few years (not to mention WoW xpacs and... WoW2?)

Expansions usually come the following year because a lot of it is usually stuff that got cut for one reason or another. And with WoW over 10 million and climbing, don't be expecting WoW2 for a long time. Blizzard could lose 10% of their player base every year for the next 5 years and still be the market leader.

This. Blizzard's release list would be more like:

2008 - World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King

2009 - Starcraft 2

2010 - Diablo 3, Starcraft 2 Expansion

2011 - Diablo 3 Expansion

Ofcourse we could still add 1 or 2 WoW expansions there too, but nothing's been announced yet, apart from the Wrath of the Lich King. There might also be an announcement of a new game before 2011, especially since we don't know what that Evil Penguin image that Blizzard teased was about (a new Ip?)

Anyway, the good news we will atleast see 1 Blizzard title being released every year.

They probably put the flag at half staff when they heard this news in Korea.