Valve shuts out "Too Complicated" PS3

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Destroyer_of_knights said:
"I didn’t come into this business in the 90s because of some technical fetish"

Hmmm, I'd say creating your own graphics engine is pretty technical, and so is setting up a whole system like steam, I mean if they didn't get into the business because a tech fetish, then why not simply use a licensed graphics engine form epic, or ID, hell why not also use xbox live instead of creating your own system, clearly they're full of shit.

I reckon it's damage control, they'll come off looking stupid if they admitted to making a mistake by not developing for the PS3, so they came up with this story and of course the PS3 is an easy scape goat.

Your conclusion does not follow from them creating an engine. They didn't make an engine to satisfy some tech fetish. They did it to make development more affordable by reusing their engine, and to allow their game developers more flexibility. If you listen to the developer commentary in Portal, they had to make a lot of changes to the engine to handle the portals, surely that would have been harder if they did it with an unfamiliar 3rd party engine.

Yes, Valve has technically capable developers who are perfectly capable of handling the tech behind games. No, that's not the main focus of Valve as a whole, their main focus is to create good games.