Blizzard: We Want To Build Diablo III For Consoles

Blizzard's made its ambitions to put Diablo III on consoles clear already, but in an interview with Game Informer, director Jay Wilson has explained that the company wants to go one step further than simply porting the title

by Sammy Barker Tue 22nd Nov 2011

Blizarrd wants to build Diablo III for consoles rather than simply port it.

We dont want to port it, he said, We want to build it for console. Theres a key difference. Certainly, a lot of things get brought over, but a port is trying to take a PC game and graft it onto a console.

Our goal, is to make a game that feels like its natively made made for a console. If we make it, we want it to feel like a Blizzard game and that we built it for that platform from the ground up.

We are still in active exploring mode; we havent officially announced a product. We say that because we like our product announcements to be a big deal. We havent been as secretive about this one because our biggest barrier is actually getting a console team.

People dont believe us when we say were going to make a console game flat out. I understand why they dont believe us, because weve tried this before. Weve also never invested in it to the degree that we are doing now, and weve never had a product we felt was appropriate for it.

Diablo's made its way onto PlayStation before, so we wouldn't be surprised to see the latest in the series brought to PS3. And its reassuring to learn that Blizzard's going about things in the right away. The problem is: we just don't like Diablo.