While Blizzard has remained infuriatingly coy about console versions of Diablo III, it’s probably about 99.9% unofficially official by now, and really just a matter of time until they announce that ‘yes, lol, it’s totally happening’, and everybody pretends to be really, really surprised.<\/p>\n
In the meantime then, we’ll just play along while Blizzard talks about the “idea of Diablo III on console”, instead of the much less subtle “Diablo III on console”.<\/p>\n
For the moment, it’s all about how well the game might, hypothetically, play with a controller.<\/p>\n
“One of the reasons why we’re exploring the idea of a console version of Diablo III [is] because we feel that the controls and the style of the game lend itself to a console”, game director Jay Wilson told PC Gamer<\/a>.<\/p>\n “With some of our early experiments in putting a direct control scheme into the game via a 360-like analogue controller, I’ve been ‘Oh this feels even better, with direct control…'”<\/p>\n Hey, and it’s not just for console gamers either.<\/p>\n “I can pretty much guarantee that if we decide to do a console version that we will look to support a pad on the PC,” he adds. “But initially with release I don’t think we’ll be ready.”<\/p>\n