Kasz216 said:
1) The port was the worst but in no way damaging in reputation... as it's still one of the very best games in the PS3's library and the PS3 is damn lucky to have that bad port. 2) Sure there was. It takes PC developers twice as much time and effort to work on PS3 develoment then 360. That's a lof ot extra development money. That and reason 3. 3) As Gabe said himself recently. There is a lot of stuff they want to do. However they don't do most of it as they have only 150 employees. Every bit of time they spend on a port or some other idea, the less time is spent on their known ideas. The longer it is for HL E3 to come out and other bigger more money making games people are looking for on PC.
He was asked two questions. Did you rethink your position on the PS3. (That they should stop makign it!) Is there a chance LFD will come out on PS3. (Not if they would make it.)
I mean they've also said they want to make Wii games. My money is on them doing neither. |
While it seems unlikely Valve would release a new Wii specific IP, I could easily see something like Portal on the platform, or even a collection of smaller games like Peggle, reworked to take advantage of the controls. 50/50 odds on that as well.
As for LFD, seeing as how there aren't any clear indicators of whether the game will be a hit, it's premature to be making any assumptions on whether the game will expand to the PS3 in the first place.
If it does well, then odds of a PS3 port go up. Once confirmed, one of two things most likely happen. Valve hands it off to the same team at EA that did Orange Box, assuming they aren't working on something else, or they do it themselves.
The decision would likely be based upon how well Valve thinks it can sell on the PS3 (a lot of speculation here since there aren't any clear indicators on how well it will sell on PC or 360). If they really think it's going to sell well, they'll want to do the port themselves to receive a direct cut of sales rather than a smaller licensing fee.
It also depends on whether Valve is planning on publishing on the PS3 in the future. If so (they are still evaluating the platform's commercial performance), they have to start somewhere. Until Episode 3 is released, LFD is their interim project. If they want to do Episode 3 on the PS3, depending on the platform's user base by that time (more speculation), is that really where they're going to start?
2) Sure there was. It takes PC developers twice as much time and effort to work on PS3 develoment then 360. That's a lof ot extra development money. That and reason 3.
I don't know where you're getting "twice as much time and effort to work on PS3 development" from. Twice? That's claiming it takes 100% more time to code for the PS3. Are you sure about that?
Initially, it's more as learning to optimize the CBE architecture is different from porting an Intel multi-core/GPU set up from PC to 360 (more similar than not), but you seem to be implying that this makes games on the PS3, what; twice as expensive to develop unless they're completed in half the time? Or would that be, it takes twice as long to write CBE optimized code?
Again, a lot of speculation being thrown around.
Currently, no decision has been made, and as far as anyone outside of the offices of Valve knows, not a line of PS3 specific code has been written for the platform.
