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Phrancheyez on 05 February 2009
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richardhutnik said:

Why does anyone care what Gabe thinks or what is company does or doesn't want to do?  Doesn't the PS3 have enough stuff?   Whining about Gabe and Valve is like whining about Kojima not wanting to bring MGS to the 360.  It is his choice, so be it. 

Also, how do we know it is "guaranteed money"?  Was Bioshock on the PS3 "guaranteed money"?  Did they even break even with it?  How about The Orange Box?  Was that "guaranteed money"?

A "few million extra sales"?  Did Bioshock on the PS3 do this?  Anyone know what The Orange Box did on the PS3?

http://www.vgchartz.com/games/game.php?id=13320

It didn't even sell 200,000 copies (according to this site).   It did 850,000 copies (according to this site) on the 360.

 

If doing a port doesn't even cover the costs of development for a system, why should a company do it?  There are VERY FEW titles that break into multimillion copies on the PS3.   There are times when games need to NOT be multiplatform.

 

 

Ok, I'm going to have fun with this..

I never once said I give a rats ass what Gabe thinks or what his company wants to do.  If he doesn't port to the PS3 or any other platform for that matter, I'm not going to bat an eye.  "It's his choice, so be it."  - that's exactly what I said, you're completely out of context here.

It's garunteed money.  I garuntee that.  If they released Left 4 Dead on 360 and PS3 at the same time, it would have sold at least a million units on the PS3.  What's 1 million x $60?  A lot of damn money.

Bioshock is the worst possible example you could have used.  Explain to me, and please take your time, why any PS3 owner would want to pay $60 for a game that's a year old?  Especially when it's 360 counterpart was something like $40 when the PS3 version released.  If you release any game a year late on any platform, unless it's a huge game in the likes of, say, GTA or Final Fantasy, it's not going to sell well.  Period.  

As far as Orange Box, yeah, Ok...except that's a niche title.  I see what you're saying here, but the game didn't even sell a million on the 360, so using that as a comparison is not a good idea.  Had it sold, say, 2 million on 360 and 500k on PS3, point taken.  Left 4 Dead would have sold more, that should be generally accepted by most here.