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GDC 09: Blizzard talking to Microsoft about new Xbox

Posted Mar 26, 2009 at 3:33AM EST by QJ Staff

Listed in: Xbox 360 Tags: Blizzard, GDC, Junction Point, Microsoft, Rob Pardo, Warren Spector, xbox 360 titles

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Lots of rings to rule all living rooms

At the ongoing GDC event, Rob Pardo of World of Warcraft studio Blizzard has confirmed that they are in talks with Microsoft over the next iteration of the Xbox console. He doesn't elaborate on the matter, only saying that they are actively talking about it with Microsoft. May still be too early to expect a new console in the near future though.

If they are in the process of developing a new console, developers seem to be in the dark about it, worrying some people that the next generation of consoles might be more focused on "owning the living room" rather than actually putting out games. Says Disney's Junction Point Studios' Warren Spector:

I get the impression they're focusing on owning the living room. One device that lets you watch movies, television and play games and music and all that stuff. They're so focused on that that I'm not even sure they're thinking about the games that are going to come out. Which is kind of crazy.

Pardo suggested that Blizzard may be vying for a more RTS-friendly console, possibly looking into possibilities to bringing their popular but console-unfriendly games like Starcraft outside of PC gaming:

There are are so many games like we make at Blizzard that we don't take to consoles because they don't support the input device and you end up with crappy ports. That's why RTS games never do well on consoles.

If I was them, I'd be sitting around trying to figure out what's a cool input device that supports all types of new kinds of games.

Via GamesIndustry.biz

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"The current xbox can do everything the ps3 can besides bluray" I'd like to see your 360 play killzone 2, lbp, or mgs4 and cheap blue ray player are 200 not 100. Blue Ray disks are very hard to scratch, a lot of people picked the ps2 over dreamcast because of dvds and it was a lot of people first dvd player, I'm not even sure why you got so offended by narutosaiyans comment but maybe you should get your facts straight

# Cool it — Guest 2009-03-26 08:08

No more flame wars. Any more like that and this thread will be deleted.

# You know what you can do with a PS3? — poopoopilot 2009-03-26 08:25

Google up "one guy one cup".

He cooks a PS3.

# Re: Yamagushi — poopoopilot 2009-03-26 08:33

Yeah, the mods are a bunch of queers. That's the problem with QJ is a little healthy ribbing which might masquerade as content gets deleted. QJ is like a low quality gamespy with this kind of moderation.

# Hm — Guest 2009-03-26 08:56

Ok you guys, you can go at it all you want, just keep-it-clean and respect each other's views.

# Bull — hush404 2009-03-26 08:57

RTS friendly? The PS3 has support for keyboard and mouse controls and yet the RTS games don't seem to take advantage of it. So I highly doubt it's about making a console RTS friendly.

# Though the PS3 does support Mouse and Keyboard — phiyuku 2009-03-26 12:08

which is a great feature that the 360 should have also and is the perfect console for a port at this moment. I think Blizzard wants something like an all new controller that would be perfect for it rather than the mouse and keyboard. Or else the talk would be simple.

Blizzard: I want you to support Mouse and Keyboards on the next generation of consoles.

MS: Okay... It's not that hard since its definitely going to have USB Ports.

As for the owning the living room. Both Xbox 360 and PS3 support movie playback and both can stream movies on a home network. PS3 having support for more formats and fully backed by DivX and the XBox 360 Media Center which makes it relatively easy to set up. The thing the PS3 has that the 360 doesn't is Blu Ray Playback and in Europe only the PlayTV so you can watch TV on your console. Both support music playback as well. Though sadly your not allowed to move music in an mp3 format straight to your 360. You have to burn it as an audio cd and then have the 360 rip it out of the cd. Now the PS3 I'm not sure since I never tried.

# wait a minute....... — Retrohelix 2009-03-26 17:55

Does this mean blizzard will develop exclusively for the next microsoft console?

# Owning the living room — Diablith 2009-03-26 18:57

I have to say, if there's one company that want's to own the living room would be Sony. Now they've always been a home entertainment company so it's only natural. With the PS3, Sony really focused too much on it media functions and not enough on its gaming prowess. I think Microsoft is more interested in making the Xbox work with Windows more than the living room.

# ... — Justingraziano 2009-03-27 05:22

***** YOU BLIZZARD YOU HOMOPHOBIC PILE OF ***** COMPANY. I HOPE YOU ALL ROT IN A BLIZZARD YOU SCUMBAG *****S. *****ING PILE OF ABSOLUTE ***** COMPANY WONT LET YOU HAVE GAY MARRIAGE IN WoW. *****ING CATHOSIC SCUMBAGS *****ING THINK OF MAGICAL CREATURES LIVING IN THE SKY. ***** YOU I HOPE YOU DIE.

# Owning the living room — icypsp 2009-03-29 06:38

They've mastered gaming!!!!!!!!

what else could you want???

so ..... why not add in all of these FEATURESSSSS.....

Technology is so advance it would be crazy not to add random features. music, video, photo, DLC, internet,etc

PLEASE REMEMBER THO!!!

Focus on gaming

we really dont care about this other stuff, we do but dont get sidetracked.

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