Diablo III: Ultimate Evil Edition Is In Development For Xbox One As Well As PS4

<p>Last year it was revealed  that <a class&equals;"zem&lowbar;slink" title&equals;"Diablo III" href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;blizzard&period;com&sol;diablo3&sol;&quest;rhtml&equals;y" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"homepage">Diablo III<&sol;a>  and its expansion Reaper of Souls would be<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;diablo-iii-reaper-souls-coming-ps4-playable-blizzcon&sol;"> launching on PS4 in 2014<&sol;a>&period; Both the game and the expansion pack will be sold together as Diablo III&colon; Ultimate Evil Edition&period; However whilst the PS4 is the only next gen version announced&comma;  the game&&num;8217&semi;s lead designer Alex Mayberry has revealed to <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;videogamer&period;com&sol;ps4&sol;diablo&lowbar;3&sol;news&sol;diablo&lowbar;3&lowbar;is&lowbar;in&lowbar;development&lowbar;for&lowbar;xbox&lowbar;one&period;html">Videogamer&period;com<&sol;a> that his team is also developing the game for the Xbox One&period; This matches with a<a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;uk&period;ign&period;com&sol;articles&sol;2014&sol;01&sol;14&sol;diablo-3-listed-by-best-buy-canada"> leaked<&sol;a> listing from Best Buy Canada that showed a Diablo III game for Microsoft&&num;8217&semi;s next gen console&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;03&sol;05121749&sol;Diablo-3-Reaper-of-Souls-Wallpaper-6&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"alignnone size-large wp-image-59638" alt&equals;"Diablo-3-Reaper-of-Souls-Wallpaper-6" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;03&sol;05121749&sol;Diablo-3-Reaper-of-Souls-Wallpaper-6-1024x576&period;jpg" width&equals;"750" height&equals;"421" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Yet whilst he can confirm that he is developing it&comma; he cannot confirm if the Xbox One version will ever be released&period; &&num;8221&semi;I don&&num;8217&semi;t know where we are with Microsoft right now so I can&&num;8217&semi;t really comment on what that contract looks likes&&num;8221&semi; said Mayberry&period; &&num;8220&semi;The point is we are developing for Xbox &lbrack;One&rsqb; and PS4 simultaneously&period; We hit those major platforms and then our goal as a development team is to make them run&period;&&num;8221&semi; Whilst it may seem odd to us to develop a game that you&&num;8217&semi;re not sure you&&num;8217&semi;re ever going to release&comma; Mayberry said that it makes sense from a developer viewpoint&period; &&num;8220&semi;We have that pipeline worked out&comma;&&num;8221&semi; he continued&period; &&num;8220&semi;We&&num;8217&semi;ve already done it with the 360 and PS3&comma; so that team knows how to develop at the same time for both of those platforms&period; That&&num;8217&semi;s just what we do&period; And then Blizzard and Microsoft can work out whatever they work out&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;03&sol;05121741&sol;diablo-3&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"alignnone size-large wp-image-59640" alt&equals;"diablo 3" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;03&sol;05121741&sol;diablo-3&period;jpg" width&equals;"750" height&equals;"421" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>We&&num;8217&semi;re unsure of when exactly the PS4 version of  Diablo III&colon; Ultimate Evil Edition will be released but we do know that it will not simply be a lazy port&period; Speaking to<a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;uk&period;ign&period;com&sol;articles&sol;2014&sol;03&sol;24&sol;diablo-3-being-developed-for-both-ps4-and-xbox-one"> IGN<&sol;a>&comma; Mayberry emphasised that&comma; &&num;8220&semi;Our goal when developing on the console side is to not just port the game over&period; We want it to feel crafted for that console&period; Certainly the user interface will be completely retooled for the console side of things&comma; but their also looking at a number of features that’d be different from the PC side&period; I can’t go into details though&period;&&num;8221&semi; What we do know from <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;polygon&period;com&sol;2013&sol;11&sol;8&sol;5082890&sol;diablo-3-for-ps4-has-exclusive-features-not-available-on-pc-ps3">Polygon<&sol;a> is that the PS4 game can output natively at a 1080p resolution and will run at 60 frames per second&period; Characters from Diablo III for the PS3  will be able to be transferred across to the next gen version&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In the meantime&comma; Diablo fans can look forward to Diablo III&colon; Reaper of Souls when it launches on PC and Mac tomorrow&comma; March 25&period; You can check out Blizzard&&num;8217&semi;s very own launch day guide right <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;us&period;battle&period;net&sol;d3&sol;en&sol;blog&sol;13407839&num;blog">here<&sol;a>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Via <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;videogamer&period;com&sol;ps4&sol;diablo&lowbar;3&sol;news&sol;diablo&lowbar;3&lowbar;is&lowbar;in&lowbar;development&lowbar;for&lowbar;xbox&lowbar;one&period;html">Videogamer&period;com<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;