At the Sony PlayStation event in New York, it was announced that Diablo III would be made available for the PS3 and PS4.
Diablo III was released last June and is only available for Windows and Mac. That's going to change however, as Blizzard Entertainment's VP of development, Chris Metzen, said that they had teamed up with Sony to take over the world.
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They sniff the console market pie, or more specifically the profits to be had from that lucrative pie.
I was a loyal blizzard fan right up through Diablo II and its expansion set, Lord of Destruction, and to a lesser extent Warcraft III. (Of course the original Starcraft is still a masterpiece).
That's pretty much when Activision started imposing it's "vision" (of $$$ signs) on its employees, and everything became about profit.
And we have craptacular games like Diablo III to thank for it. If I had to point out one saving grace from this debacle, it's that it's a PC game being ported to the consoles, and not vice versa. Still, I've lost much respect for a once amazing PC games publisher, and even more faith that they will ever again put out anything half way decent.
