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I don't know. I'd have to play it to come to a conclusion, but I think (I might be wrong) that people playing on consoles would be kind of technically limited. I feel it's not the same to play on a computer where you have dozens of buttons and mouse-fast turning, than on a controller with few buttons and stuff. Now, would they create a separate server for console players? That is a different story.

I would say somewhere on april or may. Sadly. I really don't know about Blizzard's beta testing record with other games but patch 13 just came out for Diablo 3 Beta and well, who knows, maybe well get another 20 and this guess will fail, or we'll hopefully get it sooner than that. Plus, they've already got all the content page completed.

You really should try Diablo 2. It really gets you into the Diablo scheme and lore, and there's a lot of lore there that will surely be on Diablo 3. It is a very good game also, I mean, even if it's an old one, I started playing it about a year ago and finished it in 2 months or so, and I also played the expansion which is also really good. I have never played Torchlight so I'm afraid I can't give a point there, but perhaps I will try it out someday. Anyways, playing Diablo 2 will surely get you to have a different view of Diablo 3 - a deeper one.