Valve & EA are just ignoring PS3 owners! :(

Reports: The Orange Box PS3 Inferior

Okay, that's it. We've officially lost patience with EA, provided the following report is accurate.

According to early feedback concerning the PS3 version of The Orange Box and an article by pspsps.tv, it seems PS3 owners are going to get shafted once again with an inferior multiplatform title. 1Up recently did a preview on the game and said that not only will the title run at a relatively pathetic 30 frames per second, but even that doesn't work very well. Now, why would Valve do something like this? Well, they didn't (at least, not really). It seems Valve dumped the PS3 development off on an internal EA team so Valve could focus more closely on the Xbox 360 version. This isn't really surprising, considering Gabe Newell has been slamming the PS3 all year...which apparently gives Valve license to slack off and essentially ignore PS3 owners.

Now, bear in mind we're only speaking on secondary information; we don't have the game in front of us just yet. But it should be arriving very soon (December), and it doesn't seem as if the team has enough time to iron out these major kinks. And if it is true that Valve relied almost entirely on EA for development, and the game turns out to be poor in comparison to the 360 and PC versions, than that's it. We just can't handle this anymore. Evidently, the world's biggest video game publisher simply isn't interested in producing quality products for the PlayStation 3. It can be done, as Infinity Ward (Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare), Ubisoft (Rainbow Six Vegas and Assassin's Creed) and many others have already proven.

We've seen great examples of accomplishment and achievement on the PS3 already, so in all honesty, we're just sick of the whiners who can't step up to the plate. But hey, we could be wrong. The Orange Box PS3 could be fantastic. If it's not, and EA is the primary culprit (as if Valve's any better in this scenario), than we will not be happy.

Source

http://www.ps3fanboy.com/2007/11/22/ps3-orange-box-the-slideshow-version/

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At this point, you're probably wondering what the deal is and why can't such a great development company like Valve get one of their shining jewels up to snuff, right? Well, one reason is probably because Valve isn't behind the PS3 port like it was for the other versions. Yeah, we're being serious. An unspecified internal EA development team is responsible for the PS3 version."

http://www.ps3fanboy.com/2007/11/22/ps3-orange-box-the-slideshow-version/

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At this point, you're probably wondering what the deal is and why can't such a great development company like Valve get one of their shining jewels up to snuff, right? Well, one reason is probably because Valve isn't behind the PS3 port like it was for the other versions. Yeah, we're being serious. An unspecified internal EA development team is responsible for the PS3 version."

Shakti_020

not sure if vale is graet at developing though... they delay everything they make
they maybe one of the most creative or innovative though

You're telling me to boycott my most anticipated game?GIJesse77

Please boycott this game. Don't buy it!!!thb_da_one01

Please boycott EA, they are awful in every way possible.

You're telling me to boycott my most anticipated game?GIJesse77

I'd advise you to "anticipate" it on PC! :P

what a joke that is, doesn't make sense to me why they would do something like this... anyway its too bad because I've been playing orange box on 360 and it really is one of the best games ever made, especially portal and Episode 2

You guys are harsh. How about someone gives you a game you know nothing about the coding for and tells you to port it to a different system. Stop complaining about stuff you don't know about.ocelotcougar

EA already proved (many times) his lack of skill developing games for PS3, they do not have a team for that. EA works only with games for PC, easily adapted for the XBOX (which is a lightweight PC). So while a team of developers PS3 is not formed by EA wait only by horrible games.

Please boycott this game. Don't buy it!!!thb_da_one01

I think I'm going to get it anyway. I have a high tolerance for framerate issues, and this is the only way I'll ever get to play this game. I'd like to send the message that their is enough interested gamers out there on PS3 that if other Valve projects come to it, it should be taken more seriously.

If this orange box game is a lazy port i wont be buying this, i mean whats the point in buying an inferior game because developers didnt spend time on it.

you only have to look at how resistance and cod4 look, especially the last few levels on resistance look amazing perfectly smooth and solid grafix.

why orange box wont be the same as the 360 game is beyond me.

i really do feel its gonna be rubbish and if thats the case i wont be spending my hard earned cash on a new tea coaster:)

bring on HAZE and KILLZONE 2

they must be really stupid. at least when you make a **** game dont go around telling customers look we made **** game for you go buy it lol

Same if you go to grocery store and the cassier gonna scream "todays bread wasnt baked good they put to much water and someone spit in it I think, so go buy it everyone!"

haha it would suck to be a cow and have developers shaft it but you cant blame them....there is more profit to be made on a system thats way easier to develop for....and also cows shouldnt use ubisoft as an example of a company that makes good multiplats, as i have experienced that their titles in particular are of lower quality. The ceiling for the ps3 is alot higher, but perhaps the basement is lower...its a shame

HungryLikeAMug

System Wars Forums is down the hall to the right, spare us with kiddo cow comment on this forums kid.

Nobody cares about Orange Box anymore. Vavle made it sound like they spent all year carefully crafting a nextgen shooter and didn't have enough time to optimize it for the PS3. Thats totally BS. Lets not forget that HL2 is TWO YEARS OLD. I guess it illustrate the tangent PC gaming have over the consoles when an ancient shooter like HL 2 must be "optimzied" (scale down) for a pair of consoles that are so called nextgen. It seems the 360 and PS3 isn't so nextgen after all.

But getting back to my first point. After all this fuss about Orange Box being one of the best PC shooter about to make a big waves on the console...and it totally bombed. Not too many Xbox 360 owners bought it and Team Fortress failed to impress the Halo 3 fans. In other words it was a bust on the Xbox 360 and considering the lousy port from EA...it will be promptly ignored by many PS3 owners who are too busy drooling over CoD 4 and Uncharted to notice.

You guys are harsh. How about someone gives you a game you know nothing about the coding for and tells you to port it to a different system. Stop complaining about stuff you don't know about.ocelotcougar

Wow, I think you missed the entire point of this thread.

I used to think that Valve was one of the greatest if not the best game developers around.. until now...... to hell with them, they are not getting my money for that pice of s***, if they want to sell it they better remake it even better than the pc and xbox360 version.

man i read in a news article that at the beggining they lied and said that they decided to improve the ps3 version because of its hardware and that was the reason that they would make it come out later... all lies.. they dont care about ps3 owners.. so why should we care about them. they can keep the orange box. I've got COD4.. now infinity ward those are serious developers they care about every single version of the game and try to make it the best for every console including the pc.

You guys are harsh. How about someone gives you a game you know nothing about the coding for and tells you to port it to a different system. Stop complaining about stuff you don't know about.ocelotcougar

Nobody cares about Orange Box anymore. Vavle made it sound like they spent all year carefully crafting a nextgen shooter and didn't have enough time to optimize it for the PS3. Thats totally BS. Lets not forget that HL2 is TWO YEARS OLD. I guess it illustrate the tangent PC gaming have over the consoles when an ancient shooter like HL 2 must be "optimzied" (scale down) for a pair of consoles that are so called nextgen. It seems the 360 and PS3 isn't so nextgen after all.

But getting back to my first point. After all this fuss about Orange Box being one of the best PC shooter about to make a big waves on the console...and it totally bombed. Not too many Xbox 360 owners bought it and Team Fortress failed to impress the Halo 3 fans. In other words it was a bust on the Xbox 360 and considering the lousy port from EA...it will be promptly ignored by many PS3 owners who are too busy drooling over CoD 4 and Uncharted to notice.

Zetler

you dont know what your talking about, have you even played orange box on 360? TF2 is awsome, just ask everyone who plays it on live, its way better then halo, and were are you getting the orange box bombed? it sold pretty well