If you’re even remotely interested in games, chances are by now that you know Blizzard has announced Diablo III. Like any Blizzard announcement, this is of course, GIANT FREAKING NEWS (I give due credit to Chris Remo for the best headline of the day). If you haven’t seen it yet, here’s the announcement trailer, which is typically Blizzard-awesome:




(Incidentally, it’s a shame Frank Gorshin isn’t still with us…his narration in Diablo II pretty much made the game for me)

Yes, I’m totally excited about this game. I mean, it’s more Diablo! What’s not to love? But here’s the funny thing about this announcement…why in god’s name is it PC-only?

I say this, not as someone who hates PC games — on the contrary, I love PC games! But Diablo? Diablo ain’t StarCraft. There’s no good reason why this has to be PC-only. Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance, Champions of Norrath, X-Men: Legends, etc, etc, etc, etc. All those games have proven conclusively that this type of action-RPG works on consoles, and works really, really well on console systems. All I can think of is that someone at Blizzard is content with the moneybags they have now, and doesn’t want the extra gobs of cash they’ll get from PS3/360 versions of the game.

You have to figure that someone at the new Activision-Blizzard is scratching their head about it, but I suppose when you’re bringing in the same amount as Iron Man every month with WoW, you have the right to turn down a hundred million dollars in profit.

Still, I’d be lying through my teeth if I said I wouldn’t rather play this game on my couch over Xbox Live. That would just rock.

But I’ll still play it on PC. I’ll play the hell out of this game. And there’s a lot of hell to play out of Diablo. Bring it on.