World of Warcraft Console Version Update

GameDaily BIZ brings us an update from Blizzard’s Rob Pardo about the possibility of a console version of World of Warcraft. The bottom line? It’s not going to happen anytime soon, if ever:

“I think you’ll see a console MMO that’s popular one of these days. It’s quite likely, not going to be WoW. WoW was really never designed for the console experience and for us to try and put it on a console would be a Herculean effort that would only take away from our ability to serve our current customers,” he said. “I also kinda disagree with the ‘theoretical ceiling’ comment on PC games. I mean, what’s the PC install base in this day in age around the world? It’s got to dwarf the install base for any of the consoles or all them combined for that matter. It’s just that a lot of people don’t necessarily use their PC as a gaming machine and PCs themselves… you just have to jump through a lot more hoops to install and play PC games, whereas consoles are just dedicated gaming machines.”