{"id":6894,"date":"2010-07-27T14:09:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-27T12:09:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"blizzard-calls-itself-platform-agnostic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/6894-blizzard-calls-itself-platform-agnostic","title":{"rendered":"Blizzard calls itself \u201cplatform agnostic\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world\u2019s most successful PC game developer Blizzard has told<a href=\" http:\/\/www.computerandvideogames.com\/article.php?id=257157\" mce_href=\" http:\/\/www.computerandvideogames.com\/article.php?id=257157\" target=\"_blank\"> CVG<\/a>&nbsp;that when they start a new title, they go into development as platform agnostics. Despite this approach, everything of note that the company has made has been exclusive to the PC.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t focus on the platforms so much, especially in the early stages of creating a game, we really focus on what the game experience ought to be, what the gameplay should be. Once we&#8217;re inspired about what we want the game to be, we think about what&#8217;s going to be the best platform for it,\u201d said Blizzard\u2019s VP Michael Ryder.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As it happens, that the games we&#8217;ve done in recent years have been on the PC and the Mac because we&#8217;ve just genuinely felt that for the game experience we want to create, they&#8217;re the best platform.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When asked about developing for consoles, Ryder said, &#8220;we&#8217;re very aware of the consoles, we look at other platforms and we give thought to those things. We think about it, it&#8217;s something that could happen at some point, but we don&#8217;t really have anything to announce at this point.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite what some may think, Blizzard is not bound to PC gaming<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}