Last week’s announcement of Diablo 3 absolutely set the game community on fire. Some folks rejoiced, others complained, and still more began wondering if the title would follow in the footsteps of most other PC franchises and make the leap to consoles. At the time, Blizzard announced there were no plans for a console version, seemingly putting the issue to rest.

I say "seemingly" because now, Rob Pardo, Blizzards Vice President of Game Design, has said that a console version of Diablo would be "theoretically possible."

"I think it’s theoretically possible," he told Eurogamer. "It would have some control changes that I think you’d have to make... But it’s probably, of our major franchises, the one that’s most console friendly, for sure."

And now the speculation begins anew. Just remember PC gamers, just because Pardo said this "could" happen doesn’t mean it "will" happen. I’m sure if you relentlessly grief every Blizzard message board then they’ll become so fed up with it all that they’ll just skip the console version just so you’ll leave them alone.

We’d love to ask Blizzard about console Diablo plans at E3, but they aren’t going to E3, so we can’t. Sometimes life is cruel.