To squash the hopes of MMO fans

Blizzard, in an interview, stated that World of Warcraft will not be coming to next-gen consoles. “We do not have any plans to take World of Warcraft to Xbox 360, World of Warcraft is built as a PC gaming experience. Porting PC games to console often compromises games, and we’d never allow the World of Warcraft gameplay experience to suffer." There goes my dream of a next-gen Gnome assasin.

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