Mon, Aug 17, 2009 | 09:35 BST

Pardo: A Blizzard console game could “dominate”

Blizzard design boss Rob Pardo has said that should the company ever decide to enter the console space, he’d be looking at the same sort of leadership Blizzard games have achieved on PC.

” If we wanted to make a good console game, I’d hope that we could dominate there too,” he said, speaking at Blizzard’s HQ in California last month.

Don’t hold your breath though, console fans.

“No, not today,” Pardo said when asked if Blizzard has plans to create console games.

“It’s something that we always think about, because we’re all big console gamers.

“I play tons of console games, and I would love to make a console game, but we really try to come up with games that we really want to make, and then try to find out if it makes any sense to put them on console versus PC.”

And it clearly doesn’t.

Pardo was talking at a StarCraft II single-player event. Impressions here, Rob Pardo interview here, Campaign screens here.

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9 comments

Blerk
17/08/09, 8:41 am

You were doing a console game before and it never came out! Possibly because it was rubbish!

Patrick Garratt
17/08/09, 8:44 am

He mentions Ghost in the interview. He still reckons the concept would work if they had the right people.

jeremycafe
17/08/09, 9:10 am

“You were doing a console game before and it never came out! Possibly because it was rubbish!”

Would have made a difference if Blizzard was actually developing it. So no, they were not doing a console game. They simply leased out the starcraft franchise and failed to get a team that could deliver.

rrod360lol
17/08/09, 9:18 am

“I’d hope that we could dominate their too”

I reckon he probably said

“I’d hope that we could dominate there too”

Don’t you ?

DrDamn
17/08/09, 9:22 am

@rrod360lol
My money is on “I’d hope that Wii could dominate their two”.