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The official story: "Microsoft does not comment on rumors or speculation."--Microsoft spokesperson; Blizzard Entertainment reps declined requests for comment.

What we heard: Part gossip, part geek-fantasy, the World of Warcraft Xbox 360 rumor has been around for a while. Prior to E3 2005 in May, scuttlebutt was rampant that Microsoft would announce the massively multiplayer role-playing game was coming to its next-gen console at its press conference. The company did indeed announce a 360 MMORPG...problem was it was Final Fantasy XI, which is already available for both the PC and PlayStation 2--hardly a system-selling title.

Were WOW to become available for the 360, though, it would be a much different story. Given World of Warcraft's popularity--it already has over 4.5 million subscribers and has been among the top five top-selling PC titles since its 2004 release--many gamers would gladly buy a 360 just to get in on the Azeroth action. Also, the PC hardware required to run the game costs several times the hard-drive enabled 360's $399 sticker price.

Enthusiasm for a 360 WOW was flared up with the recent discovery of several Blizzard job listings for next-generation console positions. The site has positions for next-gen engine programmers, next-gen tools programmers, and next-gen game physics/collision programmers.

So will the Xbox 360 be WoW-ed? It is a possibility. However, a more likely scenario was outlined this past February, when Blizzard sent out a product catalog which announced that Starcraft: Ghost was "coming soon to next generation consoles." Though a rep said the ad was a misprint and denied the long-delayed console game was in development for next-gen platforms, the game's current release window, Q2 2006, is the same as that of the PlayStation 3. Mere coincidence, perchance?

Bogus or not bogus?: Not enough information to say either way, but we're hoping not bogus.

No there is almost a zero percent chance this will happen. This is because all art would have to be ported. The game would have to be written and the bugs would be enormous. And where the hell did you hear this. I think you just made it up. The work for this would be 2 much and blizzard isnt a console developer. They dont make them at all. Even starcraft ghost is being made by another company. SC: Ghost is a huge letdown. It was due out at the start of last year. I hope blizzard just waits for all 3 new systems to come out and puts it on those. The move would make a lot more business sense at the time being.

i heard it from blizzard...well from gamespot that go it from blizzard

Quote your stuff if you copy and paste them.

This is probably not going to happen. But if it did, I would not really care since I don't play Worl of Warcraft.

or since Im not going to get an xbox or any other console. I got my trusty DS with like 3 of the best games and thats it.

An RPG like that would be hard to play on a console unless you ported it with a different interface. Not only that, but patches would take up your hard-drive space.

I really don't think it'll happen.

Wasn't Starcraft ported to the N64?
And I've heard they are making a version for the DS, too.

the ds has a stylus, which is reasonable...and yeh, it is hard to play world of warcraft on a console, i guess...

WoW, in my opinion is far too big of a game for the Xbox 360 or ant next-gen console. My WoW folder stands at a Whooping 5 GB. Thats just the game, patches and about 25~50 MB's of my Custom User Interface. Many more patches are coming out, I expect next patch to be around 100MB and the expansion, another 2GB's.

MMORPG's are meant to always be growing so do expect the game to be in 4 discs and another one just for patches. (The game is already on version 1.8, by the time the 360 comes out we may well be on 1.10). Also there is a huge problem with the way in which you will play. You would move your character around quite easily, just use the joysticks on your controller just like any other game, but how would you click your spell icons to play? How yould you select a specific item in your inventory?
Some people say that it will be played on keyboard and mouse, if this is true then we are looking at your regular PC desk with a 360 isntead of your desktop, and a TV instead of monitor.

Um, right.
Since when is 1.10 bigger than 1.8?



And they did an okay job porting Morrowind to Xbox. Except, you chose your spells/items, the game paused. So....

Since the idea of math has existed. You know, the numbers go 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, etc...

Maybe I'm wrong?

If they port it, it may be just as difficult as SC was on the N64

In the math world, 1.10 or 1.1 is less than 1.8.

In the version numbers world, One Point Ten (1.10) is greater than One Point Eight (1.8). Get the logic?

Which is the entire reason it is written as 1.10 and not 1.1.

1.10 and 1.1 are the same number.
How did you pass 6th grade, man??

Try re-reading some posts here.

Shape changer, stop argueing. You know they are right about 1.10 in the PATCHING WORLD is greater than 1.8.

That's why starcraft is on patch 1.12 and not 2.02

But StarCraft's patches went 1.00, 1.01, 1.02...

And SC64 wasn't actually done by Blizzard. Nintendo handled all the porting.

Yes, thats how Starcrafts patches count up. All the way to 1.12, not 2.02.

But 1.01 + 0.09 actually IS 1.10
1.1 + 0.9 is 2.0

See the difference?

This whole time I'm thinking people are typing 1.08 and not 1.8. Since Blizzard happens to use the patching sequence of 1.01 1.02 ... then you are correct but in normal version notation if someone were to count up version numbers 1.1 1.2 etc they might continue going 1.10 1.11 as long as they please. It's not math we're working with here so it doesn't really matter how it's displayed, the only thing that does matter is that 1.10 would be more up to date than 1.8 and that 1.80 would be more up to date than 1.10 or 1.1. As long as the notation stays consistant.

Just to fill you in guys:
"We heard some talk of WoW moving to the Xbox360, any chances of that happening?
-Absoulty not, it'd be a great installment, but it'd take forever to make"
GameInformer this month, when interviewing one of the main designers of SC: BW, WoW, Diablo 2, and WC Frozen Throne.