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marciosmg on 05 July 2008

I, personally, would like it very much. I´ve being a console gamer all my life, and I simply cannot use keyboard and muse without looking like a 5 year old with a severe lack of motor skills. Couldn´t they just port and try to make a nice scheme for the controller. That way, I would be able to enjoy it a lot more.
I know it will probably be not as good as the PC version. But I don´t care.



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KZ2 on 05 July 2008

The system RAM required for RTS games is like 2GB. PS3 only has half a GB of system RAM.



ksv on 05 July 2008

I cannot see how you could possibly play Diablo without a mouse. Well, I guess you could play it with the Wiimote; but a dual analog? Forget it, Diablo is click-click-click-click-click-click-click-click-click-click-click-click-click.



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.



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whacker41 on 05 July 2008

I really don't see it happening on consoles. With all the hype it's getting, it's sure to sell well enough on PC anyway, so there will be no need to port it. I just hope my computer can handle the game.



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Garcian Smith on 05 July 2008

What about the Wii? Use the Wiimote as a pointer, A to attack, B to use skill/spell, nunchuk analog stick to cycle through skills, D-pad to rotate camera, C for health potion, Z for mana potion, + to activate inventory/equipment/status menu. Bingo, perfect Diablo controls. :)



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alpha_dk on 05 July 2008
Garcian Smith said:
What about the Wii? Use the Wiimote as a pointer, A to attack, B to use skill/spell, nunchuk analog stick to cycle through skills, D-pad to rotate camera, C for health potion, Z for mana potion, + to activate inventory/equipment/status menu. Bingo, perfect Diablo controls. :)

 

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Seriously though, that would probably work much better than any of the other options.  And instead of rotating the camera, you could use the D-Pad as the spell hotkeys instead of 1-6 on the keyboard; you get fewer of them, but hey - it's something.

EDIT: Also, either C or Z should be reserved for the "shift" equivalent (Action without moving)... otherwise, casters and whatever the Amazon equivalent ends up being would fail miserably against anything offscreen... You could always make - be health, + be mana, and then use 1+2 for the inventory menu, freeing up either C or Z to do something else...



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the_bloodwalker on 05 July 2008

Diablo 3 with wii controls seems very possible. And the "everyone" approach is like a perfect fit for they both share it.

But it's up to them, to Blizzard



dib8rman on 05 July 2008

It's more than just mouse and keyboard that makes PC better for Diablo >.>, Alt+Tab - Immediate Printer access outside of the games GUI - windowed gaming (in case your muling or on AIM or seting up skype.



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memory2zack on 05 July 2008

They said they would remap the game for consoles, which means the gameplay experience wouldn´t be inferior to the PC version or equal to that of a console port. There would be no need for mouse+keyboard. But Blizzard won´t bring it to consoles, they said they never had plans for it.