wait Valve ownes Steam?
| ThePS3News said: I have a dream. That one day. PS3 owners and PC owners will be able to play all of there favorite multiplats together online. I hope valve makes this dream a reality. If so the Online community for PC & PS3 will have a huge surge. :) |
It wouldn't work in a competitive environment. Keyboard and mouse users would destroy gamepad users.
| HairlessHenry said: wait Valve ownes Steam? |
Serious? Yes, not only that it is owned privatley too. I think Gabe owns it all, maybe he has a few partners, but its not publicly traded
These guys are supporting the PS3 really well. I hope this game actually sells good on the PS3. I have my doubts though...
It's funny how Gabe has gone from a fat bastard lazy developer, to a great developer.
| Kynes said: It's funny how Gabe has gone from a fat bastard lazy developer, to a great developer. |
His treatment of the console changes, and so does ours of him ;)
Xen said:
His treatment of the console changes, and so does ours of him ;) |
So do you agree with the majority here which thinks that a Microsoft centric developer is a lazy developer, but a Sony centric developer is a great, praise deserving developer?
Kynes said:
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Not really.
I'm just expressing that this is the general mindset about Valve within the PS3 lover group.
| Reasonable said: I can't imagine Valve putting in the time/effort to get Steamworks on PS3 just so Portal 2 can update itself. The only reason I can see for adding Steamworks to the equation is as the prelude for a major Valve presence on PS3. It's clear that Valve initially favoured MS& Live until it became clear MS only wanted their games and had no interest in allowing Valve to penetrate their own digital gaming infrastructure. I doubt they're swinging this effort behind PS3 - and Gabe basically eating crow in public on a platform - just for Portal 2. However it was agreed Sony have clearly decided to share their PSN infrastructure with Valve's Steamworks for Valve titles - and I'm very interested to see where that goes post Portal 2. Of course, Portal 2 selling well on PS3 would help. |
You couldn't be further from the truth. PS3 still has all the problems that Gabe pointed out and criticised, the main problem being that the PS3 is the hardest to develop for.
The reason that Valve are only now touching the PS3 is that they waited for outside developers to gain experience in PS3 development and hire them, which meant they could add PS3 support to the Source engine at a fraction of the cost than if they had gone with inexperienced devs at the beginning of the generation.
Valve's focus is PC and Steam, consoles are only extra, as Gabe has stated many times before. Gabe himself said that they only develop on Xbox 360 because it's so easy to port from PC to X360, easy money.
Xen said:
Not really. I'm just expressing that this is the general mindset about Valve within the PS3 lover group. |
I'm glad to see there are still sane persons here :)
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