You don't need to pretend I didn't read the other posts, I didn't.

Anyways it doesn't bother my they choose to take the easy route and develop for 360 and PC. I have both a PC (obviously) and a 360 so I could buy their games if I wanted. I just don't find their games that great anyways, Half life was real good but Left 4 dead was a pretty basic FPS.

You'd better use Mercedes or Lexus instead of BMW in the comparison: 143CV BMW 118d does 22.2km/l average, while comparable 140CV Honda Civic 2.2 i-CDTi does a good, but worse anyway, 19.6km/l (averages calculated as set by EU regulations for vehicles homologation). And BMW engine complies with newer and stricter Euro 5 for emissions, while Honda one is still only Euro 4. Oh, yes, I'm talking about diesel engines, but latest gasoline engines still have BMW ranking better than Honda for fuel economy, excluded hybrid gasoline-electric Hondas.  

As a car guy, I feel compelled to say your analogy is beyond terrible.  This is more like Lotus saying, "We're going to make a car with only on-the-track performance in mind."  Then, this forum responds by saying, "You're just being lazy!  You should make it a track god and a perfect daily driver.  REAL companies don't have to sacrifice any performance to do it, either."

Actually, I'd say it's more like Saleen not making a right hand drive car because they don't want to distract their engineers and don't think the market is viable.

In some respects, yes.  The situation more directly translates (porting something to another format for increased sales), but I think my analogy gets at the heart of the issue more.  There'd actually be a market for a more DD friendly Lotus (see: Evora), but whether there'd be many RHD Saleen sales is questionable.  Likewise, L4D2 would probably sell pretty decently on the PS3.  Also, the amount of work involved in making something like making an Elise more DD friendly more closely resembles the amount of work necessary to port L4D2, in my opinion.  But, whatever, they're both pretty good analogies.

I think from now on every single PS3 exclusive thread will have someone say that the developers were lazy. You should have been prepared for unforeseen consequences.

I don't see the problem here. Valve is still first and foremost a PC developer, and has a heavily vested interest in that platform.

Valve has realized that porting their games to the x360 simply makes good business sense. It's similar enough to the PC to make porting relatively easy, and pushes enough software to make their minimal porting effort worthwhile. I'd also expect there to be very little overlap between x360 and pc gamers, so Valve is reaching a large audience without going through the hassle of developing for the ps3. For Valve, the ps3 is neither easy to port to, nor does it push enough software for them to consider it worthwhile.

Pure genius! It could become the first internet fad "made in VGC", defying the notorious Badger Song and Llama Song!   

Valve's just not PS or Sony fans, that's all there is to it. In addition, they like the ease of PC like developing, and not something new and totally out of their realms of perception.

Oh no...not that thread again.