Valve Chooses to Avoid Challenge of PS3 Development
Valve, the developers of the Half-Life series and Left 4 Dead, never intended to become PS3 developers. Despite going on a limb and admitting to possibly reevaluate PlayStation 3 development, it looks like the PC developers are again showing even more disdain for the PS3′s architecture.
According to Tom Leonard:
“The PC and the 360 are just more straightforward. We can focus on what we want to do, which is make game experiences, instead of sweating bullets over obscure architectural decisions [Sony] make[s] with their platform.
I didn’t come into this business in the 90s because of some technical fetish. I came in because I wanted to give people experiences that made them have fun.”
Alright Valve, we can understand when a developer finds the PlayStation 3′s architecture too difficult and costly to develop for, but when your reasoning for not developing for the PS3 is that you want to “give people experiences that made them have fun”, are you implying that it is impossible for the PS3 to support a fun game or are you saying that you’re too lazy to make a fun game for the platform?
The latter can be justifiable by putting the blame on developmental costs and time constraints–understandable reasoning–but that is not the same thing as a developer saying they want to “make game experiences” rather than learning to develop for an “obscure” platform. But then again, Valve has been using the same game engine for five years, so they’re probably not in the mood to learn anything new.
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24 Responses to “Valve Chooses to Avoid Challenge of PS3 Development”
what the hell valve. there are tons of developers for the ps3, it cant be that hard to develop for. why dont you ask insomiac, sucker punchm guerrila, kojima, and nuaghty dog if the ps3 is hard to develop for?
i read an article about his fat ass being a computer genius at programming…
genius’s don’t avoid challengs…
also that excuse is old, no one says the same anymore.
i’ve hated Valve ever sense the Orange Box fiasco. i actually felt bad for EA for about a month or two over the whole raw deal. now i couldn’t care less about either company. although… EA has been showing signs of intelligence since just before Dead Space (which i totally loved) so i haven’t completely ruled them out, but Valve is dead to me.
valve= weak sauce
Jesus what a bunch of pussies!!
Thank fuck people even on their own little platform for PC and Xbox are even getting pissed off with them over the whole L4D 2 fiasco.
All I can say is at least we still have Crytek and Crysis 2 coming our way which will be miles better than any piece of crap Valve have produced.
If Naughty Dog, Konami, Ubisoft, Infinity Ward, Capcom, and SO MANY OTHER developers can program amazing games for PS3, then Valve constantly bitching and whining about it being too complex only makes them look THAT MUCH MORE STUPID…..idiots.
If you don’t expand on what you all ready know, you will never grow – saw it on a poster ^^
I think they’re trying to say they wanted to make fun games, not have to learn a new architecture. I don’t think they were trying to say the ps3 can’t have fun games.
@ GhostNate
No. there trying to say that instead of learning and devoting time towards learning a new type of programming, they would rather focus on delivering content. since to them the PS3 would cause set backs since its ‘hard to program for”. its an old excuse.
I’ll never buy a valve product again! I did buy the Orange Box for the PS3, but I picked it up used.. something I do not do anymore *buying used games, but i’m glad I did this one time, they lost out on my cold hard cash!
L4D waz gay anyways……..
Did you expect any less from “former MS employee” Gabe Newell’s company? They still have tight ties to MS (one being that Gabe claims MS made him a millionaire before he left).
Either it’s corporate speak to make MS look good or they are a bunch of idiots that can’t tie their own shoes without help. The people I have known in the industry are always excited about new hardware and how they can exploit it to share their vision…..these guys are not like that. The mighty MS dollar will keep them in the past until they’re stagnant. More proof that they care more about money than giving “experiences that made them have fun”.
what a bunch of babies.. i wonder if they are good enough to step away from their 1990′s tech and develop new stuff
I bet if the PS3 was easier to develop for VALVE would of ported Left 4 Dead to PS3 heck they would of even develop games for the PS3 exclusively just like they do for Microsoft. VALVE should just go ahead and say it that they are Xbox 360 fanboys and that M$ pays them money to develop for them. Why does VALVE hire a group of programmers who have experience with the PS3?
Why are people so hooked up with L4D ??
I don’t see anything special about this game , it’s boring as HELL .
there’s enough great stuff coming out w/o Valve, so I don’t care.
Maybe if the did learn how to program for a complicated platform like the PS3 their games might look better and play better…
Since the PS3 and the 360 are kissing cousins on the CPU side…
I love how all or most of you are reacting to this by saying ‘zomgzorz i h8 valvel’, ‘wow l4d wuz shit anywai’, ‘fukk valev dey use da old tecnhologiez PS3 ALL DA WAY MANNNNN’, ‘WOWZORZ DEY IS STOOPID DEY CANT USE OUR AMAZIN PS3 TECH NOOOBOBOOBOBOBS’.
Yeah, keep crying PS3 users.
So they are too lazy to get around these obsticles the PS3 presents and make a “great experience” but because its so easy to make these “great experiences” on 360 they wont work on the PS3…I think I’m ok with that, the PS3 doesnt need a shitty ass developer making a shitty ass experience cause they arent up to the challenge. I think what valve should’ve said is “we’re money whores and we’d rather stick with 360 cause we get more money from them and do half the work we’d have to do on PS3, hell if our jobs required we be given a difficult task and we showed we could live up to that and over come obsticles I think non of us would be programmers.” L4D was a neat game but certainly not ground breaking. They need to get with it and step up.
oh and to Ih8valev, isnt being a fanboy just the coolest, put your big girl panties on and grow up dumb fuck. anyone can type like a retard but you are the real deal.
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stfu qyueef sistrs. u don no wut ur talkin about noob….!1
fukk man. fukk valvel. ps3 is DA BEST
“what the hell valve. there are tons of developers for the ps3, it cant be that hard to develop for. why dont you ask insomiac, sucker punchm guerrila, kojima, and nuaghty dog if the ps3 is hard to develop for?” – and how many of them developers work on the PC and Xbox in addition to the PS3 for every release hmmm?
“All I can say is at least we still have Crytek and Crysis 2 coming our way which will be miles better than any piece of crap Valve have produced.2 – While I loved Crysis it was in no way superior to Half Life 1 or 2 for the single player or Counterstrike/L4D for pure MP fun.
Personally a lot of this whining seems very hypocritical. Do you lot notice when a PS game is ported poorly, if at all, to the PC? I doubt it.
Face it guys the PC is the home of FPS, you can naver be as accurate with the analog joystick as you will be with a mouse without some kin of ‘assistance’ from the game. Racing games and Beat ‘Em Ups however are much better on consoles due to the control system. Horses for courses people