Date: 08-28-2008
KeyWord: Blizzard, WoW, MMO, PS3
Summary: J. Allen Brack and Tom Chilton of Blizzard both agree that WoW was always intended to be played on the PC, reported by Qj.net. Chilton explained that it\'s not a worthwhile endeavor to bring WoW to consoles.


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J. Allen Brack and Tom Chilton of Blizzard both negate he viability of having World of Warcraft on the PS3 and Xbox 360, reported by Qj.net. Chilton explained that it\'s not a worthwhile endeavor to bring WoW to consoles.

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However, running parallel to Hideo Kojima\'s statement yesterday (about MGS4 being impossible for the Xbox 360 because the game wasn\'t designed for the 360 in the first place), J. Allen Brack and Tom Chilton of Blizzard both agree that WoW was always intended to be played on the PC.

In a recent interview with Videogamer, they both reiterated the fact that WoW won\'t be heading for consoles.

Brack says that WoW was \"designed to have a keyboard and a mouse\" and that the controls are really, to use Kojima\'s word from yesterday, optimized for a PC control scheme. Brack continues: \"If you think about mapping those controls and all those different type of buttons that you have to a console without a keyboard for chatting, it\'s a very challenging proposition.\"

Chilton, likewise, explained that it\'s not a worthwhile endeavor to bring WoW to consoles;

It\'s really not that we have anything against consoles,\" Chilton said. \"I mean we love console games also. And I\'m sure there will be a successful MMO sometime on a console. So it has nothing to do with that. It\'s just more like a square peg round hole thing for our game. It just wasn\'t designed with that in mind.