Resident Evil 5 dev: PS3 is not hard to develop for

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WiiStation360 said:

Asmo said:

V-r0cK said:

Agreed. Didnt valve complain with the Orange Box?..tsk tsk weak.

 

Valve didn't make the PS3 version of the Orange Box, it was an EA internal dev.

 

Gabe Newell from Valve just said that the PS3 was a waste of time.

 

Gabe Newell also complained about the 360 being to hard to develop for when it came out.  He is fine with it now.

It takes a while for developers to become comfortable with a new hardware architecture, especially one as different as the Cell.  Once the learning curve is done, developers are fine with it.

 

If I remember rightly he disliked the lack of HDD in the 360 as standard and felt it was a serious flaw.  The PS3 though he outright hated in terms of its architecture.  Mind you given the 360 customer base suits Valve games and their Source engine and the PS3 doesn't as well I suspect this also influenced his thoughts in terms of which console was more relevant to him and Valve as a whole.

In some ways I can't blame him, even as a PS3 owner (who plays Valve games on PC just to be clear).  I believe some assume that if Orange Box was better ported it would have sold better, but I'm not too convinced myself.  I believe only a small minority of purchasers even knew the port had some issues here and there anyway.  Most go to a store, browse the shelves, etc. and clearly the average PS3 owner wasn't that interested in the title vs 360 / PC owners.