| heruamon said: @ Reasonable.... I agree with 100% of your post. Wrt to Valve's comments on the PS3...I think they are uncalled for, but one thing I will point out is the continuing nagging that Valve has to deal with on why they don't support the PS3. NO OTHER developer has faced this much heat...There have been muliple PS3 developers who have made statements like this: "This game could only be made on the PS3,”...so while there's no mention of the 360 or Wii, the statements are cheered by Sony fans as YEAH...it's the power of the Cell and BRD...heck, they even plugged it in the Metal Gear. It seems like all of Pitchford's pandering to PS3 fans didn't work...sales numbers rarely lie. |
Yeah, Valve have faced a real grilling, plus the strange outbursts from Gearbox, which I think has made them efensive over their position. I think Gabe made some unfortunate comments early on, reagrding how the architecture of PS3 was nothing but a pain for him and Valve (which I can understand to an extent, as Valve are sitting on a PC centric engine). Since then, and particularly as PS3 install base has grown, the question of 'why not?' has grown in urgency with media.
I think they should simply say our engine doesn't support PS3 well enough, we have no plans to spend the money to correct that right now, nor do we have the desire, our primary focus is PC with 360 as an profitable side line, and that's the end of it.
Try to be reasonable... its easier than you think...
