We all know that the beta for Diablo III has started (look for our impressions early next week). There are videos of gameplay popping up all around the net showing off Blizzard’s new title, and it looks amazing. There’s one thing that Blizzard has always been good at, and that’s innovation within their games. They have never been satisfied with just pumping out the same game with a different numerical value at the end of its title. Every new release is adventurous and brave and the same goes for their latest installment of the Diablo series, Diablo 3.
While a PC game at heart, it’s been no secret that Blizzard has been eyeing consoles as a release platform for Diablo 3 and now they’re setting gamers up for that reality by preaching about how well it plays on an Xbox 360 controller.
Addressing this Diablo 3’s game director Jay Wilson said that they’ve tested the PC version with controllers and that it works very well.
“With some of our early experiments in putting a direct control scheme into the game via a 360-like analogue controller, I’ve been ‘Oh this feels even better, with direct control…’”.
“One of the reasons why we’re exploring the idea of a console version of Diablo 3 because we feel that the controls and the style of the game lend itself to a console. I can pretty much guarantee that if we decide to do a console version that we will look to support a pad on the PC. But initially with release I don’t think we’ll be ready.”
