With Diablo III making its way to the PS3/PS4, you have to wonder if the existence of the game on consoles will affect anything about the PC version of the game. Well, a member of Blizzard’s Battle.net asked this very question, going so far as to include controller and mouse/keyboard support and cross-platform play, and even got a response from a representative:
“While we think cross-platform play would be awesome, there are currently no plans to allow connectivity between PlayStation Network and Battle.net (this is pretty standard for most games that have PC and console support). As a result, the characters on your Battle.net account and PlayStation account will also remain separate.”
On the subject of adding controller support to the PC version of the game and mouse/keyboard to the PS3/PS4, the Battle.net rep stated that, due to Diablo III on consoles being ‘designed with a controller in mind, the PlayStation version of Diablo III will not support USB mice or keyboards.’
It kinda sucks that the option isn’t there to play with your controls of choice, but not supporting cross-platform play doesn’t feel like a huge lose. Could you imagine PC and PS3/4 Diablo III players getting along together? Madness.