Blizz already said they have been experimenting with Console release.
If you read the news article you will see that.

Also it just makes sense for this game to be on a console.
It's nothing like D2 at all.

Everything has been dumbed down and gold pickups automatically so you dont need a mouse to click anymore.

Alot of people believe this is true. Not just some conspiracy theory.

There was posts about it on the Bnet forums too.

Here is another thread on the Official Bnet forums talking about the same subject.

Saying that the game was made for consoles primarily, ported to PC aftermath.

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/5568803830?page=1

gold pickup is not a good piece of evidence...
items still need mouse-over

I am not saying it isn't possible, just that the article you posted is speculating completely.

But I kind of do hope they go console with this.

Anyone who doesn't believe this is pretty dense, everything that Blizz has changed from D2 to D3 has been to make it console viable. And then the intense dumbing down of everything from skill runes to Non-Elective mode just confirms it

hope it aint true but damn alot of it makes sense well idc about it all aslong as they make the pc version how it should be

Also I forgot to mention the use of achievements is very big among Console freaks.
Like COD players and such

Also your passives are like "perks" in the COD series.

It's all a big console scam.

Any moron with a brain could pick up on this stuff.

You guys didn't see the Blizzard Job listing a few years ago?

A job listing has appeared on Gamasutra’s Job Connect website and Blizzard’s own job section looking for a “Senior Producer, Console Diablo III.”

If the job title wasn’t enough to convince you, the description adds:

The ideal candidate has prior experience in console game development and has a keen knowledge of how each discipline operates and interacts.

source: google it multiple links

Just added another topic.

The reason you auto party with people. it's to make joining easy for console users.

Just like the fact you cant create your own game names

WIN! I actually never knew of this.

Just added to main page.
Thanks for more information

Lets keep this topic going and see how JSP feels about Diablo going console.