{"id":26599,"date":"2011-11-20T08:00:38","date_gmt":"2011-11-20T06:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=26599"},"modified":"2011-11-21T14:36:38","modified_gmt":"2011-11-21T12:36:38","slug":"blizzard-wants-diablo-3-on-console-to-feel-natively-made-for-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/26599-blizzard-wants-diablo-3-on-console-to-feel-natively-made-for-it","title":{"rendered":"Blizzard wants Diablo 3 on console to feel “natively made” for it"},"content":{"rendered":"

Blizzard<\/a> has long been a maker of PC<\/a> games, generally ignoring the other platforms. While some of this is down to the nature of their games not working on other platforms, such as RTS, their more RPG style games could easily find a place on a console.<\/p>\n

While other developers are happy to simply port their games for the extra income, Blizzard isn\u2019t one to do things half-heartedly. Now, with the possibility Diablo 3 coming to console, Blizzard assures fans that the game will be built specifically for that console, and not merely a port.<\/p>\n

Talking to Game Informer, Jay Wilson says, \u201cWe don\u2019t want to port it,\u201d said Wilson, Diablo III\u2019s director. \u201cWe want to build it for console. There\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur goal is to make a game that feels like it\u2019s natively 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Wilson says the hardest part of doing this was finding a good team, as they had to bring in a whole new load of developers to work on it.\u00a0 After a few months of hard searching however Blizzard feels they have a \u201creally great team\u201d, and will also make use of their own art department to help out.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe lead designer, Joshua Mosquiera was the leader designer of Company of Heroes and a former creative director at Ubisoft<\/a> with a lot of console experience,\u201d Wilson said. \u201cWe are starting to fill the team out with new hires and some core members of the Diablo III team. Because we are close to done with [the PC version], some groups finish before others, mostly the art group. We\u2019re able to ferry over some art talent to the console group.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are still in active exploring mode; we haven\u2019t officially announced a product. We say that because we like our product announcements to be a big deal. We haven\u2019t been as secretive about this one because our biggest barrier is actually getting a console team.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople don\u2019t believe us when we say we\u2019re going to make a console game \u2013 flat out. I understand why they don\u2019t believe us, because we\u2019ve tried this before. We\u2019ve also never invested in it to the degree that we are doing now, and we\u2019ve never had a product we felt was appropriate for it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Source: VG 24\/7<\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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