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A Blizzard developer has suggested massively popular MMO World of Warcraft would not translate well to the Nintendo Wii.
Speaking to Pro-G at the launch of the game’s first expansion, The Burning Crusade, Blizzard game designer Jonathan LeCraft said using the Wii Remote wouldn’t work with the PC hit.
A number of user generated videos have appeared on the internet showing gamers playing World of Warcraft with a Wii remote, but LeCraft poured scorn on the possibility.
“You really do need a keyboard to play WoW,” he said. “I’ve seen some mods where people have hooked up WoW to their Wii. When I saw that I was like, well, that’s got to be pretty easy to PVP against, honestly. It’s not something we’re looking at right now.”
The aptly named LeCraft also revealed Blizzard currently has no plans to port the game to the Xbox 360 or PS3, despite the success of Xbox Live and the development of the PS3’s online service.
“We don’t have any plans for it specifically,” noted LeCraft. “We always keep all our options on the radar, but there are no plans for the immediate future.”
Adding fuel to the fire of speculation about where Blizzard will take their other popular franchises, Starcraft and Diablo, LeCraft didn’t rule out the possibility of the studio hosting another huge MMO alongside World of Warcraft.
He said: “I think we have the capacity for another one [MMO]. It [World of Warcraft] means that there’s going to be some other cool games coming from the studio because we’re very successful. And I think they’re even going to be a step above what people expect.
“We’re always considering our licenses when we think about our next product. They are really strong, well known licenses. We own them completely so we can do whatever we want. We can take the fiction in whatever direction or apply whatever gameplay we want.”
However, LeCraft wouldn’t budge when pressed on whether work on other titles had already begun, with a “Maybe” being all he’d say on the subject.
For more World of Warcraft info, head over to the full Burning Crusade interview.
