The successor to the Microsoft Xbox 360 could feature a new “cool input device” (controller), if hints from Rob Pardo of World Of Warcraft creators Blizzard are to be believed. Pardo, speaking at a lunch at the Game Developers Conference, San Francisco, confirmed Blizzard had held talks with Microsoft on possible directions for the replacement to the Xbox 360.
According to Pardo, Blizzard had never brought the massively successful “massively multi-player online” game World Of Warcraft (or Blizzard’s other titles) to the Microsoft Xbox 360 or Sony PS3 because: “They don’t support the input device, and you end up with crappy ports. That’s why [strategy] 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.”
Given that Pardo admits Blizzard has discussed the successor to the Xbox 360 with Microsoft, then either this is Pardo trying to put more pressure on the corporation to sort out a controller that works with strategy and massively multi-player online titles. Or he’s dropping a hint about the direction Microsoft is already thinking of going in with its replacement to the Xbox 360.
At the same lunch, other developers said they had not yet spoken to either Microsoft or Sony about any future replacements to either the Xbox 360 or the PS3.
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