These guys should just expand their studio, hire some skilled PS3 devs and go full multiplatform. They'd probably make more money, and these annoying articles about Valve would stop popping up every month.

Gabe is spreading all over the place.

still talking about how hard it is todevelop for. thats all i got out of that. but then again i do alot of half ass reading so?

Didnt Steam just come out for Mac's recently while Macs were out way before PS3?

I think he's talking about the first-third party ecosystem. Apple doesn't make games, Sony is trying to have the best games of the platform as 1st party, a la Nintendo. If Sony competes fierly with their 3rd parties, it makes harder for those third parties to have profits in their platform.

Edit: There is a big niche in the Mac platform, and with more PC like Macs, it's easier to cross develop. Valve only wants to earn money, and I'm sure that the cost/benefit ratio is bigger in Mac than in PS3.

Stealth troll lol

What does this even mean??

I've only had the pleasure of recently hearing about Valves derogetory attitude to PS3. no offense to the 360 fans around here, but Sony have always endorsed the 10 year lifecycle of their consoles. especailly with PS3, which has blu ray, upcoming 3D etc. microsoft have only recently done this with natal, but even then the 360 has never been seen as a 10 year console.

so to me its obvious where Sony want their console in 10 years and M$ have never been clear until recenly about where they want their console to be. in my opinion they've actully insulted M$ who they clearly support.

just out of interest does valve carry any weight in the gaming community, i mean half-life is really old and i've never heard of portal until now??

I don't even know what this sentence means:

"We need to target platforms that do a better job of looking like where we want to be in a few years,”

So what is he saying? Sony needs to be open to listening to developers about what they want in the next PS console? Well if they listen to Valve, Valve will tell them to make their console more like the XBox or PC, when clearly Sony have gone down a different hardware route.

Sony might listen to developers who actively develop for its platform in terms of future hardware direction, but they're unlikely to court Valve's opinion. The Playstation platform gets enough FPS as it is thanks.