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Hearthstone isn't coming to console, Switch or Steam Deck just yet, but Blizzard is definitely thinking about it

Hearthstone isn't coming to console, Switch or Steam Deck just yet, but Blizzard is definitely thinking about it "Certainly we have a different owner now than we did three years ago..." Blizzard has explained why Warcraft-based collectible card game, Hearthstone, still isn't available on console, 12 years after release. The game is available on handheld devices like tablets and mobile, but has never made the jump to the likes of Switch 2 or Steam Deck. In explaining its thinking, the developer suggested that belonging to Microsoft and Xbox means these console conversions are now more of a priority than ever. "There's a level of investment that we need to make to make that happen," explained Hearthstone executive producer Nathan Lyons-Smith during a group interview I was a part of at Blizzard recently, "primarily in terms of UI and UX and making sure that it's very natural to go and play a card game on those platforms.