You realize developers can only discuss what makes sense at the time. Obviously Sony wanted Zeni to not announce anything so they can bring up the special beta in their E3 news conference. It really is a good idea to not be emotionally attached to business decisions.

The did say it would not be on Xbox 360 or PS3. And that is true.

http://teso.mmorpg-life.com/teso-will-be-playable-on-pc-and-mac/

yes they did. Consoles is plural it doesn't say Just the PS3 or Xbox360 it says Consoles.

I will admit, I have been one of those people and denounced the game early because I thought it would have button timers like almost every other MMO out there, even recent ones. I was wrong.

That does not say what you think it says.

I am really excited about it porting to console. Now I don't have to buy or get someone to build a computer for me just to play ESO and I am a controller in hands player. Clicking and pointing isn't really my go to play style.

Well considering how they decided to do combat, this actually makes sense.

The game has been in development for many years, waaay before consoles were even announced to developers, before dev kits even shipped to them. They had this laid out beforehand, so what you're saying is true that it would have been "perfect" for a console (which if you follow the bits about controllers already being used for MMO's with lots of hotkeys), then it is by sheer coincidence.

To quote from the article:

They didn't give their word not to do it, they just said they didn't have plans for it. Doesn't mean that it wasn't in the discussion or consideration. Plans means it is more definite (but no plan is 100%).

There were probably a hundred things to consider...

things like:

• subscription structures for the consoles that already have a subscription service to play online (which the PS4 will have, albiet cheaper I think than Live...not sure).
• Update and patches structure: on pc it's easy to pump these out every week. How would that work with consoles? If they do the every once in a great while updates for all platforms, that is hugely screwing over PC players and I will be the first pro-console ESO guy here to say it. They could though do a thing where they update the PC regularly, and update the consoles every once a while that includes all the assets from all patches released on PC that haven't come to the console yet
• Servers? One big one? PC seperate but Sony/MS the same? All seperate? What about Mac? (This has been decided and we know about it)
• Getting the work done to port the games, as well as continue polishing the PC version

These are just a few.

Why not? It's pretty straightforward. You can't put it more clear than that.

There isn't even a modifier like "currently" or "this generation of consoles".

Plans obviously changed when they got a good look at the next gen consoles. When that was written new gen consoles were not even announced.

I didn't have plans of discussing any of this today. No clue. My plans obviously changed as well. Being fickle probably helped me this time.

this is bad news for pc players. this means that the game will be dumped down so that a few buttons are sufficient to play. when i think about the skyrim port... that was plainly cr.ap, sorry. yes other company and so on blabla - i don't believe a word. skyrim ui was by far worst ui that i ever used on a pc.

and then of course the technical restriction to consoles. in about 5 years they will be outdated and zenimax will not bother doing advanced stuff for the pc because it's only... pc. all seen before.

Yep welcome to pre-launch MMO. Anything can and will change. Best advice is to roll with it and not take it personally.

Just saying, the PS4 was announced but the XB1 was not.