In a recent interview with Polygon (thanks VG247), Blizzard executive Rob Pardo has confirmed that their action-RPG Diablo 3 is still being explored on consoles, with "builds up and running on it", however nothing set in stone has been revealed yet. In the interview, Rob reveals that while they are hoping it can be made into an official project, it isn't quite there yet, though it's apparently "looking pretty cool".

While Blizzard Entertainment has been toying at the release of Diablo 3 on consoles, there has only ever been one game in the franchise that has seen the light of console days, the infamous Diablo on PlayStation which was published by EA in 1998.

Lead Designer of Diablo 3 Jay Wilson also stated in the Polygon interview that Blizzard are still exploring console options and continuing to "expand and add onto the game."

The whole team is essentially working on the next big Diablo thing," Wilson told Polygon during an interview this weekend. "A lot of that stuff will show up next year at some point."

Hopefully if a console version of Diablo 3 ever makes the light of day, it will be just as feature rich as the PC version is. For now though, it's simply a Blizzard trademark Soon.

This thread made me fire up D3 for the first time in ~2 or so months.

Server was down for maint.

Awesome.

They need to give the game some replayability first.

This.

I feel like the correlation between gold to progression was too direct and there was no real gamble lucky wins which kept the whole thing light and you knew that your time was mostly for playing the game..

Then the direct relation that gold = real money killed all motivation.

Due to three little words it doesn't matter what Blizzard does; Path of Exile.