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Valve co-founder, Gabe Newell is known for his elitist remarks about developing for the difficult architecture of the PS3. His arrogant and often smug demeanor when talking about anything not branded with a Microsoft logo has left PS3 gamers loving Valve games, but hating the man behind them. Today is a new day though and with it brings the possibility of Valve developing their IPs for Sony’s black box. Looks like the upward sales trend the PS3 has been producing has caused even the most die hard Xbox fanboy to have a change of heart.

This glimmer of hope was sparked during an interview EDGE magazine conducted with Left 4 Dead writer Chet Faliszek. When Falliszek was asked whether or not PS3 gamers would ever see L4D on a Blu-ray disc he responded with, “I’m sure down the road we’ll do it.”


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Only because the PS3 lost a whole bunch of Sony-exclusive titles over the last few years :D

Everything you’ve said is correct but that doesn’t make it any less frustrating for gamers who only have a PS3. And Newell does come off as a jerk, even if what he’s doing is financially sensible.

Two things.

a) The PS3 *does* have consistantly different internal architecture for the PS3. When it comes to Valve, who work mainly on their PC-based, self-distributed, high-profit-margin games, it makes little to no sense to bother porting their games over the PS3 for a much smaller fanbase, licencing/distribution deals with EA, etc, etc, especially when they’re raking in ridiculous profits through Steam and picking up a little from the highly-compatible 360 market on the side. It’s not ‘elitist’ to be financially sensible.

b) Bill Watterson never licenced or drew Calvin peeing on anything. Just thought you should know.

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