Valve still undecided on PS3 development
- Posted February 22nd, 2010 at 16:28 EDT by Mike Harradence
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Valve Corporation still hasn’t made up its mind on whether or not to pursue development on Sony’s PlayStation 3, though admits the firm will likely do something later down the line.
"Before we do anything on the PS3 we need to be able to support it in the right way,” said Valve’s Chet Faliszek, during a chinwag with the folks at EDGE magazine. "But we’ll look at it, and I'm sure down the road we'll do it."
Valve has remained fairly critical of Sony’s black box in recent years; though last summer company bigwig Gabe Newell offered his apologies to PS3 owners over the firm’s shoddy treatment of the PS3 port of The Orange Box.
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Spartan_R7
- 4:31pm GMT - February 22nd, 2010
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Honstly I hope that they do start working on PS3 again, it be nice to play L4D without some annoying little kid yelling in to the mic every game.
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NotoriousBOB
- 4:36pm GMT - February 22nd, 2010
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Undecided?? I thought Valve said they'd never make games on the PS3.
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iberianpower
- 5:00pm GMT - February 22nd, 2010
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I wonder how is it that even small development teams as Mercury Steam (spanish team behind Castlevania) can do multiplattform aiming for plattform parity and "mighty" Valve just cant and struggles for years because of that ...
PD:Valve arent mighty but in Gabe Newell overweight ,thats what I am saying...even very small development teams can do what they cant.
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XxTheReaperxX
- 5:06pm GMT - February 22nd, 2010
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Laziness has kept them from it up till now; they really don't have a good reason to skip the PS3 (especially now that it's pulling ahead in sales worldwide). Somehow, I doubt that they will start developing for the PS3 soon. Let's hope I'm wrong.
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coverton341
- 5:18pm GMT - February 22nd, 2010
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@iberianpower
True words fellow gamer. There are tiny development teams that are making outstanding games on both systems and pulling off identical efforts on PS3 and the 360 but Valve can't? And I thought this was a company that revolutionised the FPS genre oh so many years ago with Half-Life...
What I honestly think happened was they got a lucky break with their engine and just are sitting back now riding the waze of their previous acheivements.
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6toes
- 5:18pm GMT - February 22nd, 2010
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I love Valve's games on PC (HL2...mmm....) but if they're so against developing on PS3, really don't bother. I'd rather not get crap ports from a developer who doesn't care enough to familiarize itself with the system. Stick to PC games, and when I finally upgrade my PC I'll see you then Valve.
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iplayonlysony
- 5:28pm GMT - February 22nd, 2010
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yay, the PSU background has been changed!
I'm not holding my breath, but an Orange Box 2 from Valve would be nice.
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Olly1234
- 6:02pm GMT - February 22nd, 2010
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So they will sink or swim on ps3 if they finally make up their minds. Some will be happy and others won't care, what's so different about them than any other game developer in that sense. I think they will only do well if their next game that comes to ps3 is new to both it and the 360. Why on earth should anyone buy L4D of all games at this point? And L4d2 on the other hand, it really isn't worth buying either. Just download it from steam.
Also Valve, possibly microsoft's fault, has been ignoring 360 fans for a long time when it comes to updating their games on the 360. They can anytime on PC but the 360 has not had an update for TF (needs one) in a long time, L4d needs one and it's bugged-to-death dlc CC needs help badly, L4D2 needed one too the last time I knew. I heard many games have been screwed by the 360 arcade models (360's with no HDD) but why would valve update the ps3 before it updates 360 games? They wouldn't. My point is, they have gone down in PR over the last year. The PC and 360 can keep their garbage.
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bluesuedeshoes
- 6:25pm GMT - February 22nd, 2010
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Sadly I think Valve have kind of lost the plot over the last few years. They were once a very accomplished developer but they've slowly been overtaken by quite a few teams most notably Crytek in the game Engine department and Isuspect ID will be back bang on form with Rage when that's released (looks gorgeous). So what have Valve done lately of note? Half life 2 was released 6 years ago now wasn't it? In that time they've released some episodes for that game a mod in the shape of portal, Team Fortress 2 and the L4D games. Don't get me wrong L4D was fun but like most 360 games online now I just don't bother with it, my Live Gold membership lapsed about 8 months ago now and I never renewed because of foul mouthed spoilt little brats who think they're Mike Tyson when they're on a mic. lol. L4D2 was a cheap update offering nothing new a was shoddy lazy game development but you can't blame them because plenty of mugs rushed out to splash their cash on the product... minimum effort maximum yield its a good business model but not one thats going to endear them to the gaming community. As for their views towards the PS3, lets be honest here its been shoddy, no representative of any corporation should run their collective mouths off quite like Gabe Newell has about Sony, the PS3 and PS3 owners. If Sony's momentum continues they'll be regretting massively not investing R&D time into the platform, but for 6 years now I'll say Valve haven't done anything to make PS3 fans lament that decision either.
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badz_ps3
- 6:26pm GMT - February 22nd, 2010
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I don't want their games on PS3. They are a bunch of babies... They cry about the architecture being so different than PC like no other dev's had to go through the learning curve. I love HL2 and the episodes and Portal, but their PR is terrible and I don't think I'll be supporting them anymore because of this.
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subwaydesign
- 6:40pm GMT - February 22nd, 2010
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let's sing to valve, a little known queen song:
WEEEEEEE don't
WEEEEEEE don't
NEED YOUWEEEEEEE don't
WEEEEEEE don't
NEED YOU -
area51employee
- 6:45pm GMT - February 22nd, 2010
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@1: i couildn't agree more. i'm not against little kids playing, but when all they do is run their mouths and be obnoxious, it really ruins the game. yeah, they should be sorry. as they see now that the PS3 is far superior to the white box (it is white because it is dead!).
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FLTURNPIKE
- 6:46pm GMT - February 22nd, 2010
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I won't buy any of there games due to the fact of how they ac about it in the first place. Now that they arenot making as much money and thre fact of PS3 fan base has grown over the past year, they see dollar signs. They get nothing from me.
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bplewis24
- 6:57pm GMT - February 22nd, 2010
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Translation: "We made some very foolish, unprofessional and short-sighted comments about the PS3 before, and now that we see we were wrong and the PS3 has a strong stable of games and much more long-term viability in the marketplace than the other consoles, we are backing off of those earlier statements. However, we won't come flat out and say we are going to develop anything just yet so as to keep some of the egg from falling squarely on our face."
-Faliszek
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dc89
- 6:59pm GMT - February 22nd, 2010
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Valve need to take a look at what Naughty Dog, GG and Konami (well Kojima) all have achieved on the PS3.
If they aren't man enough to get behind it properly and give it a go I say good riddance.
Valve are a good dev, but the PS3 needs committed dev's not someone who is frightened of a little bit of hard work. They are potentially a great dev for the PS3 if they learn how to utilise the resources.
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SilentNoise
- 7:36pm GMT - February 22nd, 2010
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Valve can go back to the small, dark basement from whence they came. If you're still ignorant - and that is the propper word: IGNORANT - enough to ignore what has been the fastest rising piece of the gaming market in the last 2 years, don't bother. Leave the real game development to real companies that won't go into it hesitantly because that isn't going to result in a quality game because all that's going to do is give us yet another crappy XBox port. How is it that little no name compaines like Hothead Games (Braid) can figure out how to make decent games yet the so-called "mighty" Valve still has major issues?
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Petra_Kalbrain1
- 7:45pm GMT - February 22nd, 2010
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@3 - I like the idea of having a solid Portal sequel made for the PS3. Have it be a large and detailed enough game to sell all on its own. Make it a game worthy of a $60 price tag all its own.
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headstrong24
- 7:56pm GMT - February 22nd, 2010
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These guys are idiots. They are just too stupid to put time into working with ps3 and making great games.
I have never tried L4D tho and it looks pretty good. What a shame
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O_G_H
- 8:41pm GMT - February 22nd, 2010
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At this point, I'd boycott this company out of principle alone after all the petty quotes and sound bites since 2007. I don't care if they release the next Game of the Year, they vicioulsy attacked my then-$600.00 investment CONSTANTLY (like everyone else then), doing their best to make me lose my money back then. Now that they can make money off the PS3, they are now thinking about it? To little too late. You will never get my money, Valve. Ever. Eff you, seriously.
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bigCman123
- 9:27pm GMT - February 22nd, 2010
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As long as we get episode 3, and it's not glitchy like The Orange Box, then I'll be happy. I love Half-Life, but Valve needs to stop being so lazy.
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12mikenuge21
- 11:24pm GMT - February 22nd, 2010
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L4D is poor so is Valve.... Naughty Dog is putting them to shame
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Doaner1985
- 11:49pm GMT - February 22nd, 2010
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@6
actually i heared it wasnt Valve that ported it to PS3
but it was an EA internal studio
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Nakatomi Uk
- 12:09am GMT - February 23rd, 2010
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I need to go around with my monkey wrench and shut them up for good because I get fed up of hearing about them either whinning or complaing about something this is the same "Either create a game for PS3 or not" just don't bother and stay to your precious 360/PC kits.
I mean games development is all about challenging yourself to new heights at Valve it seems it's not.
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zombieking36
- 12:54am GMT - February 23rd, 2010
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Cue the Sony E3 conference
Right at the end, everything goes silent and dark... A man walks onto stage, but its too dark to see him... On the screen a trailer rolls... An area is shown in Crysis 2 level graphics, everyone is stunned... Then Gordon Freemen shows up, epic trailer goes, then it says: Half Life 3, exclusive for the PS3. The lights come up and Gabe Newell says: The PS3 and MAC will be the only ways to play Half Life 3.
Unlikly, but that would be an awesome slap at MS!
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juanvaldez
- 1:41am GMT - February 23rd, 2010
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Hey valve, I dont want your stuff on my ps3, I love that since our bed-buddy microsoft didnt work out so good, your are coming around to the ps3, When you say something on the internet, its there forever
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/25317/Valve-boss-blows-a-gasket-over-PS3
http://www.joystiq.com/2007/10/11/valves-gabe-newell-says-ps3-a-waste-of-time/
Basically you said the console sucks, and now your not making any money on the xbox, so you'll come begging to the ps3. I dont want your stuff on my console, go back the pc market. I love that you were so sure the ps3 would fail, and now that its potential is being realized you guys look like the no talent idiots that just live off your half life reputation.
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irtz09
- 11:00am GMT - February 23rd, 2010
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"Before we do anything on the PS3 we need to be able to support it in the right way,” said Valve’s Chet Faliszek ir meaNs valve needs cash as microsoft does which means if sony doesnt pay them they wont make a game on ps3 hmm stupid comany just after cash it hink ms$ r nt enough 4 them keep ur games in ur azz
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