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Jackson50 on 22 August 2008
markers said:
it will make it to the ps3 and when it does gabe newell will either issue an apology statement or leave valve and be hired by microsoft studios

 

 He could do either of those two things...or Valve can make the game for the PS3, and Gabe will say or do nothing whilst the company makes more money.



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blazinhead89 on 23 August 2008

^lol, Money talks



starcraft on 23 August 2008
KBG29 said:
Well at least someone at valve has their hear out of the ass. These PC 360 centric devs are funny in my mind. They have been given an oppertunity to learn how to program games on PS3 which will transition directly into future products, as Cell like architectures are the future of the PC market, yet they are continually hesitent on PS3 cause of that achitecture. Valve had better get the ball rolling or they will find them selves far behind many of their competitors that are already begining to understand development in a parrallel processing enviornment.

I thought Sony was getting out of the Cell business in many respects because they and their fans seem to have been the only ones that ever thought Cell-like architectures are where the PC market is going.............

At the end of the day there is no spinning it.  Superior versions of, and in this case exclusive versions of Valve games are just another by-product of Microsoft's intelligent decision to make the Xbox 360 PC developer friendly.

 



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KBG29 on 23 August 2008

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You should look at the new chips coming from Intel and AMD, unless you are just kidding, then sorry I didn't catch that.



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outlawauron on 23 August 2008

I thought they'd change their tune sooner than later.



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cwbys21 on 23 August 2008

I would be interested in this if me and my friend were not going to get it on release for PC to slaughter zombies co-op style.



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ssj12 on 23 August 2008
blazinhead89 said:
Skeeuk said:

LGC: "50-50" chance of Left 4 Dead PS3

Friday 22-Aug-2008 6:35 PM PS3 success forces Valve to "re-evaluate" support for Sony's box

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/

Valve doesn't do PS3. The company's co-founder Gabe Newell isn't a fan, and hasn't been afraid to say so. But Valve's Doug Lombardi has told CVG today that PS3 support could be on the cards as the platforms recent success has raised some eyebrows.

"We're always evaluating what's happening in the marketplace and certainly something that's happening in the last couple of months is that Sony's managed to sell some boxes," said Lombardi.

"So whether or not you like developing for that platform, if they've got millions of people connected to that platform and buying their games you have to take it seriously."

He went on: "They're in the race now, so we've got to re-evaluate that for what it is."

PC is still its primary format, reaffirmed Lombardi, explaining that hardware similarities makes 360 its second choice.

But what are the chances of Valve opening its arms to PS3 and showing it some Left 4 Dead love? "50-50 right now," said Lombardi.

"There's zero chance of it happening this year. It's something that's being talked about right now as the game is gaining popularity and looking like it's going to be a hit."

A 50 percent chance one of the most highly respected PC developers will work on PS3? We'll take those odds.

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if left for dead turns out to be a good ip, then i feel valve will have to get the game over to ps3, even though big-fat-gabe doesnt like sony.

i predict left for dead is almost confirmed for ps3, providing left for dead is success on 360.

 

lol, so true man, He is truly an idiot for trashing PS3, Just as anyone is with trashing any platform. I see he likes eating crow also because of the money situation

whart money situation? Valve runs the most successful Digital Distribution ring on the planet. I'm sure they do not have a single money problem.

 



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Sri Lumpa on 23 August 2008
KBG29 said:
Well at least someone at valve has their hear out of the ass. These PC 360 centric devs are funny in my mind. They have been given an oppertunity to learn how to program games on PS3 which will transition directly into future products, as Cell like architectures are the future of the PC market, yet they are continually hesitent on PS3 cause of that achitecture. Valve had better get the ball rolling or they will find them selves far behind many of their competitors that are already begining to understand development in a parrallel processing enviornment.

Would you care to expound on that as from my understanding the Xbox 360 architecture is more likely to be the future of the PC than the PS3 architecture.

The PS3 has an asymmetric parallel architecture (1 PPC core + many SPEs) with a divided main-RAM/Video-RAM while the 360 has a symmetric parallel architecture (3 PPC cores) with a shared main-RAM/Video-RAM.

For the first part the 360 is more like current PC's already are (multi-core but each core is the same like the 360 cores are and unlike the PS3 cores are) while for the latter the PS3 is more like (gaming) PC's are (except for low-end PC with onboard graphics) though it might change in the future (with the integration of 3D hardware on the CPU die they might use a common memory as well as the graphic part will not have a performance penalty to read or write the system RAM but I do not know if it is going to play out that way).

Now I do not follow PC hardware that much so I could be wrong but if so  would like you (or SSJ12 as I see he entered the thread and knows quite a bit about PC hardware) to explain what it is I either don't know or understand that may make my impression wrong.



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Kasz216 on 23 August 2008

50% chance of some L4D loving?

Sounds like a 50% chance they get the deal done with EA.

I doubt they have the manpower to be wasting on PS3 development.



Kasz216 on 23 August 2008
markers said:
it will make it to the ps3 and when it does gabe newell will either issue an apology statement or leave valve and be hired by microsoft studios

You don't seem to know anything about valve.

Gabe is a co-founder and the company is privately owned. The co-founder left.

In otherwords he is valve.  Owns the company lock, stock and barrel as far as i know.

Also... why would he want to be hired by microsoft. He left there to form Valve in the first place.