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Ohio Joe

(21,894 posts)
Tue Jan 10, 2012, 08:08 PM Jan 2012

Diablo III Confirmed for consoles

No word on the Blizzard website that I can find but there is this:

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-01-10-diablo-3-console-release-confirmed

The twitter post referred to is from Bashiok, Blizzards "Community Manager", in the old days that was the guy they had post announcements, answer questions and perform mod duties in their Forum. I know he does a lot of that, you can see his posts over there so I expect this is legit news even though Blizzard has not confirmed it yet. It will be interesting to see which platforms they go with... I would expect Xbox to be a given but PS3 and Wii I don't know about. It should not be a problem to get the Xbox to be able to play it on Battlenet but I don't know about Wii or PS3 and I don't see them doing it if they can't control it over Battlenet.

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Diablo III Confirmed for consoles (Original Post) Ohio Joe Jan 2012 OP
Sweet mother of god.... Broken_Hero Jan 2012 #1
i look forward to this. NuttyFluffers Jan 2012 #2
good news for you - simultaneous release Whisp Jan 2012 #4
make this true Whisp Jan 2012 #3
Glad I'm not the only one Aerows Jan 2012 #6
Release date? Aerows Jan 2012 #5
last I heard was second quarter this year Whisp Jan 2012 #7
next year? eShirl Jan 2012 #8
edited to this year. Whisp Jan 2012 #9

Broken_Hero

(59,305 posts)
1. Sweet mother of god....
Wed Jan 11, 2012, 12:38 AM
Jan 2012

thats good news! I loved Diablo on the ps1, never cared for the pc version. I wish Star Wars the New Republic was on console as well....

NuttyFluffers

(6,811 posts)
2. i look forward to this.
Fri Jan 13, 2012, 02:20 PM
Jan 2012

too bad i won't have anything that can play it for quite a while. i'll have to wait for a mac OS X version to come out...

 

Whisp

(24,096 posts)
4. good news for you - simultaneous release
Sat Jan 14, 2012, 04:24 PM
Jan 2012

Will Diablo III be available on Windows and Mac simultaneously?

Yes. As with all of Blizzard Entertainment's recent releases, Diablo III will ship for both Windows and Mac simultaneously.

http://us.blizzard.com/diablo3/faq/#1_11

 

Aerows

(39,961 posts)
6. Glad I'm not the only one
Tue Jan 17, 2012, 10:01 PM
Jan 2012

God, I can't wait for it, period. On PC I will just sit here drooling like a madwoman.

 

Aerows

(39,961 posts)
5. Release date?
Tue Jan 17, 2012, 10:00 PM
Jan 2012

It's like all of them are coming together. The last book of the Wheel of Time series, Memory of Light, and Diablo III.

This just is NOT going to be a productive year for me, and I'm quivering in anticipation

 

Whisp

(24,096 posts)
7. last I heard was second quarter this year
Sun Jan 22, 2012, 06:11 PM
Jan 2012

Last edited Tue Jan 24, 2012, 09:48 AM - Edit history (1)

but we always hear things and we know they won't release til they are darned ready and rumour wants it to be ready sooner.

I think I will reconsider from getting xBox version to getting Comp version. I'm not too dextrous and the controllers are still from the 1990's on consoles imho. My daughter can play Halo and stuff like that like a Navy Seal, but I'm the slow one in the family when it comes to that. ha.

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