Blizzard to make Diablo III for PS3?

By Robert Purchese Published 6 June, 2011

Job advert has explicit requirements.

Blizzard appears to want to adapt Diablo III for PlayStation 3.

A vacancy for a "PlayStation 3 Specialist" on the Diablo III team appeared on Blizzard's job website.

"Blizzard Entertainment is seeking an enthusiastic senior software engineer to be a key contributor on the Diablo team," the job posting read. "This position is responsible for overseeing PlayStation 3 (PS3) architecture design as well as other PS3-specific game code development to maximise platform performance.

Responsibilities are to "design, implement, and maintain game systems to work on the Playstation 3".

In November 2011, Blizzard stressed that console chatter was for a "Diablo-related concept" and not necessarily a version of Diablo III.

Blizzard CEO Mike Morhaime said the team was "working hard to try and launch Diablo III this year", but the PC and Mac action RPG still has no official release date. An external beta test is scheduled for Q3 this year.

It's unlikely Blizzard will make waves at E3 this year, the company preferring instead its own BlizzCon conference in the autumn for headline announcements.

Diablo III followers.

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Comments (29) Latest comment 12 months ago

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  • Vedfolner #1 12 months ago

    Let it be so.

  • lucifonz #2 12 months ago

    Remember Blizzard is part of Activision, and as such there's no way in hell (no pun intended) that they'd make it exclusive to one console. A console port of the game has been rumored for quite some time though, it's certainly possible but PC will come first.

  • Yuroko #3 12 months ago

    Yes please.

  • Ahskay #4 12 months ago

    It is written in stone tablets that Blizzard will make a lot of money next year!

  • Eraysor #5 12 months ago

    Sounds good to me, especially when you consider how well Torchlight plays on the 360. Hopefully Diablo 3 will surface on the Microsoft console too.

  • Dismiss #6 12 months ago

    Who cares, bring back the Champions of Norrath series. And give them back to Snowblind Studios, please.

  • nobloodyname #7 12 months ago

    Wow, Blizzard is so omniscient these days that they're commenting from the future and, even more amazingly, Eurogamer is apparently there to report, too!

  • geeza2020 #8 12 months ago

    Good news, though hopefully its on 360 as well. I'm sure I've heard people saying it would be "impossible" to bring Diablo to consoles on these pages before though.... obviously not, eh?

  • Inmediasress #9 12 months ago

    The only reason that's in the way of things is that M$ may not allow bnet on their xbox.

    Then again I certainly don't have high expectations to Diablo3 as far as what I have seen from it.
    Could be like any other generic hack&slash out there without the Diablo name, as far as I can tell they lost their touch with this one. F
    rom the videos it looks somehow generic it doesn't have that certain something can't put my finger on it. Honestly some of the upcoming hack&slash titles look way more interesting.
    Then again people buy up anythign blizzard makes so it will be a succes naturally.

  • 43n1m4 #10 12 months ago

    Make it a multiplat for all three relevant platforms, and all is well.

  • Gambit1977 #11 12 months ago

    "in November 2011 Blizzard..."
    EG got access to a time machine then? Cool!!! What's the new Nintendo thing like?

  • Xardan #12 12 months ago

    I think Torchlight 2 has more promise than Diablo 3 in my opinion.

  • YenooR #13 12 months ago

    God knows when this is coming out.

  • NorUraeus #14 12 months ago

    The PS Move should make a port easy as it should be able to map the PC mouse+keyboard controls very well.

  • Widge #15 12 months ago

    An interpretation I read on here was Blizzard already know how to treat 360 architecture and need PS3 skills for multiplat.

  • Rack #16 12 months ago

    And all of a sudden the value of Move controllers quadrupled.

  • RandomTerrain #17 12 months ago

    I really really really hope that this happens. It's about time we have a game that beats Baldurs Gate: Dark Alliance back on the PS2. Loved that game.

  • SlapDashDapps #18 12 months ago

    this could be easily be one of Sonys aces up their sleeves, Sony become friends with Blizzard and ........WOW comes to PS3/PS4/Vita

  • SlapDashDapps #19 12 months ago

    this could be easily be one of Sonys aces up their sleeves, Sony become friends with Blizzard and ........WOW comes to PS3/PS4/Vita

  • sweatyBallacks #20 12 months ago

    I think making it console exclusive to the PS3 would be the most sensible decision boys and girls.

  • Spekingur #21 12 months ago

    Didn't Blizzard make a statement some time ago that they would only be developing for the PC?
    Or am I remembering wrong?

  • UncleLou #22 12 months ago

    This might just be the first game ever where I'll buy a console version additionally to the PC version (if there's local coop in the former).

    Who cares, bring back the Champions of Norrath series. And give them back to Snowblind Studios, please.

    The Snowblind loot-em-ups last gen were good, shame they've vanished. Balancing and replayability weren't anywhere near Blizzard's standard, though.

  • Inmediasress #23 12 months ago

    @Fobsy

    Actually it proves that M$ and Sony pumped billions of dollars into their respective consoles and not that they are soo good but that they are made relevant by the pressure of that amount of money so they can make console exclusive deals.

  • Lord_BeeJee #24 12 months ago

    @fobsy Being sour because other people can play great games is a console fanboy reaction, I can't see most pc gamers having a problem with that. Actually you are just fishing for a reaction and i gave you attention... ah well, go enjoy your console

  • Dismiss #25 12 months ago

    @UncleLou Well, that's probably because they employed some decent combo and blocking mechanics, clicking your finger off wasn't enough. Not that I don't like the Diablo series but I consider Diablo 2 a very stagnant, repetitive game that just happened to push all the right buttons.

  • taurus82 #26 12 months ago

    Get It Done!!
    I really feel that twin-stick gameplay would work well here (judging by the vid), not unlike Dead Nation.

  • UncleLou #27 12 months ago

    but I consider Diablo 2 a very stagnant, repetitive game that just happened to push all the right buttons.

    I think you might be confusing cause and effect, to be honest. Diablo pushed all the right buttons because it was repetitive. Not that the Snowblind games weren't, but you could tell from the skilltrees, to the loot, to the mechanics that they weren't as polished and well thought out as in Diablo. Neither do i agree that all you need to do in Diablo is click the mouse button, I'd argue Diablo 2 is a much harder game with more "tactical" options than Snowblind's games ever were. But like I said, I enjoyed them a lot, and as far as Diablo clones go, they were up there with the best of them.

    What's Snowblind doing, anyway, are they still working on that LotR game?

  • Lemming81 #28 12 months ago

    "Remember Blizzard is part of Activision, and as such there's no way in hell (no pun intended) that they'd make it exclusive to one console."

    Don't know how you can assume this. Remember Battle.net? Yeah, like MS is going to allow that.
    Edited by Lemming81 at 06/06/11 @ 15:40

  • geeza2020 #29 12 months ago

    ^^ Has obviously never played a Diablo game ever