Well, here’s a shocker for you. During Blizzcon’s Opening Ceremony it was indeed confirmed that Overwatch was coming to the Xbox One, and is now available to pre-purchse. The game is expected to release in the Spring of 2016, and is definitely looking incredibly interesting if any of the gameplay is anything to go by. The decision for Blizzard to release Overwatch simultaneously on the consoles, as well as PC, came from the popularity of Diablo 3’s Ultimate Evil Edition on the consoles. This probably means we can expect more console support from Blizzard going forward, which is always a good thing.
The version you can grab on your console is dubbed the Origins Edition, and it comes with some swanky stuff. Including within the game are 5 Hero Skins for the characters Bastion, Tracer, Reyes, Pharrah and Morrison, with Pre-Purchasers also getting access to a Noire Widowmaker skin at Launch. You also get a bunch of stuff for other Blizzard games, though it’s unsure how this will work specifically for the Diablo 4 item. You get Tracer for Heroes of the Storm, a Baby Winston Pet for World of Warcraft, a special Overwatch themed Card Back for Hearthstone, Mercy Wings for Diablo and 6 player portraits for StarCraft 2. That’s a lot of free stuff just for getting this initial run of the game.
The good news is that buying Overwatch means you get access to all 21 characters at the launch of the game, meaning that if you need to switch up in the middle of a game, you can. It puts all players on equal footing, and according to them, the ability to change heroes during games are a vital part of what makes the game unique. It’ll be interesting going forward to see whether or not new heroes created will be paid DLC or just added in via patches for the game. Diablo 3 (even on consoles) gets a hefty amount of content via patches, so it wouldn’t be out of the realm of possibility that they could offer heroes for free and keep unique skins as paid DLC for those who wish to pay a bit extra to look cool.
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Source: Battle.net
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