Valve: 'We messed up on PS3'

[Twistedpixel]

BMaker11 said:

Twistedpixel said:

So what if they crapped on the PS3. Pretty much every Sony developer has talked shit about other consoles too. Do you give them crap for it?

Well...for the most part, you're wrong. Didn't one of the guys at Insomniac say they would love to make a Wii game at some time?

Valve, on the other hand? Without even developing for the PS3 "it's shit, not worth it, too hard, too many resources needed"....for THREE YEARS!

Now they want to retract their statement (still not having developed a PS3 game yet) and say it's a viable platform? Because it's selling more now? MGS4 has sold more than any of their games on the 360, and cost more than any of their games. But when it released, Konami was rolling in money afterwards. And that was in 2008 when the PS3 had a userbase of like 12M. So to say that it wasn't worth it, and that their input would eclipse their return was just ignorant. 

But I already know what's going to happen. They've done this before. The 360 is going to get another price later this year, and the US media is gonna be all like "PS3 is doomed again, because the 360 outsells it by 9k each week", and Valve will hop back on their original bandwagon and say PS3 sucks again

So? Pretty much every Sony game developer has mentioned the Xbox 360 in some negative fashion. Why don't you condemn them or something? If you cannot condemn them then anything you say about Valve is irrelevant as you'd be a hypocrite. Sony talks smack all the time, Sony gets their developers or lets them talk smack all the time. Its only fair in a fair world that Sony gets blasted in return.

For very little effort they have created 3 very profitable games and sold them on the Xbox 360. Effort vs reward is extremely good for them. For less effort than it took to make one single average PS3 game they have reeled in over 6 million units of sales. Sony hasn't even approached this ROI for anything they have done.