[QUOTE="killerfox39967"]
Valve doesn't like the ps3 because, as someone stated before, it would cost a lot to learn thearchitecture, and would not make that much money anyway. Valve is clearly not biased toward microsoft or the 360 because they are now bringing steam to macs. The ps3 architecture is just unnecessarily complicated and to difficult to work with.
No it's not difficult. Valve has enough resources to:
1. Hire a couple employess with their SPITLOADS of money to port games themselves.
2. Get someone to do it for them like Gearbox used to do, like they did for Left 4 Dead's XBOX Version
3. Get EA to do it because EA is always desperate to put games on as many systems as possible.
The train of thought you are putting forth doesn't add up, killerfox39967. Left 4 Dead 2 would have sold 1 million units minimum on the PS3...that's 30 million dollars in revenue. Since when does any business say, "nah, we don't want to make an extra 20-30 million dollars...no thanks, extra money is whack"
Don't you understand there is more going on here?
because they care about the quality of their game, and instead of letting a sub par game come out from someone else doing it, or spending millions to get a proper engine built for the ps3 would also be too time consuming, they need to finish episode 3 before we all murder them so they can't do anything else that takes to much time also. And left 4 dead is an incredibly multiplayer centric game, live has had since 2005 to build a really strong gaming community online, psn is still rather bare bone and its up to devs to create that kind of community right now. I mean you really think valve just wrote off 30 million? They don't have to make games for it, they are probably sitting comfortably with xbox and pc, and don't really feel the need to expand their company to dev on the ps3 also.
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