Console Diablo 3 given unprecedented Blizzard commitment

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Blizzard has never committed to a console project as it is, now, with Diablo 3 - the days of out-sourced and eventually scrapped last-gen project StarCraft Ghost (http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/news270306ghost) should be forgotten."People don't believe us when we say we're going to make a console game - flat out," Diablo 3 director Jay Wilson told Game Informer (http://www.gameinformer.com/mag/default.aspx) magazine (reported by VG247 (http://www.vg247.com/2011/11/19/blizzard-has-never-invested-in-consoles-to-the-degree-we-are-doing-now-with-diablo-iii/))."I understand why they don't believe us," he said, "because we've tried this before."We've also never invested in it to the degree that we are doing now, and we've never had a product we felt was appropriate for it."Despite Wilson's candid remarks, Diablo 3 on console (http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-08-17-blizzard-serious-about-console-diablo-3) hasn't officially been announced - although the developer has been not-so-secretly building a console development team for it."We are still in active exploring mode," explained Wilson. "We haven't officially announced a product.

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