StarCraft 2 for Consoles "Not on the Radar" But "Possible"

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Could StarCraft II eventually find a home on consoles? Lead designer Chris Sigaty hinted that Blizzard is growing more and more open to the idea as developers tinker with new methods for playing real-time strategy games using a controller.

"Console is not on the radar for us right now, but there have been a lot of interesting moves in that direction -- taking RTS to consoles -- and there's been some pretty cool things on the control side," the Blizzard designer said in an interview with CVG.

"I still think that at least from our perspective it feels like the mouse and keyboard just lends itself to this style -- but you know we're getting closer and closer all the time," he clarified. "So when we see that optimum moment I think it's certainly possible that we'll explore that junction as well. It's just not on the radar right now."

A Blizzard game reaching consoles wouldn't be totally unprecedented; it just hasn't happened in a very, very long time. Back in the early '90s, the company made a name for itself with games like The Lost Vikings, Blackthorne, and Rock N' Roll Racing -- all of which turned up on at least one of the 16-bit platforms. The PlayStation also played host to ports of Diablo and WarCraft II; even the original StarCraft released on the Nintendo 64 at one point.