According to Ars Technica, and twitter. A Diablo III community manager for the game gave a resounding yes to the console question, even sighting the lead developer in his reply. Is this a community manager speaking out of turn? Or is this a possibly awesome truth?! The quote from Ars reads
In response to an inquiry from a fan via Twitter, which asked simply “can you confirm or deny Diablo 3 coming to consoles?” community manager “Bashiok” responded “Yup. Josh Mosqueira is lead designer for the Diablo console project.” More specific details have yet to be announced.
My mind snaps instantly back to the painful tragedy that was Diablo on the Playstation. I have to hope, however, that Blizzard being the prolific developer they are will learn from it’s mistakes. We could see a completely different version of the game for console similar to the Dragon Age differences. We can also find ourselves playing the exact same title with a modified control scheme. I can’t find myself believing that they’d release a mouse/keyboard combo strictly for this game. If released, it would be yet another quickly discontinued accessory sought after for years to come by the seven people that didn’t buy it at launch.
Unless I find no possible way to play this on a PC methinks the elitist route will stay on this one. True blue, PC or bust.
How about your fine internet selves?