Reasonable said:
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. |
I was thinking of when he was complaining about multi-core systems being to hard to develop for. After he used them, he was fine with them. It goes to show you that after you get past the learning curve, developers are fine with a new technology. We are seeing this for the PS3 now.