Looks like console MMOs are becoming the trend. Electronic Arts has confirmed that console versions of Warhammer Online and the recently-announced Star Wars: The Old Republic are under consideration.

Says EA's Frank Gibeau:

We're definitely looking at the opportunity to bring the MMO experience to console, without question. We've got this product, and we've got Warhammer at play.

So we're trying to look at the primary research required to understand how would you deploy it, what the client size looks like, how big is the back-end, what the play experience looks like... Once we've got some of those questions answered, we'll be able to decide which is the right play to go after.

However, he did end with: "We're not really in a place to commit or announce anything specific with regards to those."

So it sounds like the ports stand at a very solid "maybe." It would be sweet, though.

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