gabe can go smoke a limp one for all i care, what a tool... we can all get in here and talk a little sh!t to one another, and that's ok to a certain point because we are "enthusiasts" ;) but for someone in a position like his to be that outwardly negative was just idiotic from a business standpoint... oh well I don't know what game this is and don't really care anyways.

If it comes to developers I really picked the wrong console. The classic PC developers obviously love the 360 because its essentially a low-powered PC with DirectX and the developing tools they know.

Bah they better stop whining and come to grips with it.

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While it seems unlikely Valve would release a new Wii specific IP, I could easily see something like Portal on the platform, or even a collection of smaller games like Peggle, reworked to take advantage of the controls. 50/50 odds on that as well.

As for LFD, seeing as how there aren't any clear indicators of whether the game will be a hit, it's premature to be making any assumptions on whether the game will expand to the PS3 in the first place.

If it does well, then odds of a PS3 port go up. Once confirmed, one of two things most likely happen. Valve hands it off to the same team at EA that did Orange Box, assuming they aren't working on something else, or they do it themselves.

The decision would likely be based upon how well Valve thinks it can sell on the PS3 (a lot of speculation here since there aren't any clear indicators on how well it will sell on PC or 360). If they really think it's going to sell well, they'll want to do the port themselves to receive a direct cut of sales rather than a smaller licensing fee.

It also depends on whether Valve is planning on publishing on the PS3 in the future. If so (they are still evaluating the platform's commercial performance), they have to start somewhere. Until Episode 3 is released, LFD is their interim project. If they want to do Episode 3 on the PS3, depending on the platform's user base by that time (more speculation), is that really where they're going to start?

2) Sure there was. It takes PC developers twice as much time and effort to work on PS3 develoment then 360. That's a lof ot extra development money. That and reason 3.

I don't know where you're getting "twice as much time and effort to work on PS3 development" from. Twice? That's claiming it takes 100% more time to code for the PS3. Are you sure about that?

Initially, it's more as learning to optimize the CBE architecture is different from porting an Intel multi-core/GPU set up from PC to 360 (more similar than not), but you seem to be implying that this makes games on the PS3, what; twice as expensive to develop unless they're completed in half the time? Or would that be, it takes twice as long to write CBE optimized code? 

Again, a lot of speculation being thrown around.  

Currently, no decision has been made, and as far as anyone outside of the offices of Valve knows, not a line of PS3 specific code has been written for the platform.

So, "a dev" would be claiming that a game like R&C or Resistance 2 having been developed in about 12 months -could- have been developed in 6 months at half the cost for the Xbox 360.

If you think"a dev" is right, then ^ would not be some magical game developing fairy world where magical pixie dust and a standard PC based CPU/GPU architecture would make this possible.

Or maybe Insomniac is currently employing magical fairies with pixie dust to make PS3 development faster and easier.

Infinity Storm must be practicing similar employment practices since they went on record as saying it wasn't any harder, and CoD4 was released on time, with virtually identical results relative to the 360.

fixed =)

Thanks.

The point still stands though.

1. Insomniac is Sony's 2nd party. Thery have access to all first party developments and tools. The have access to instant assistance from Naughty Dog, Incognito, etc. 3rd parties don't have that much access. Look at how poor the first Madden game on the PS3 was.

2. Infinity Ward managed because they had two separate teams working on both games at the same time.

Don't worry, I've never to this date posted about concepts I didn't understand. Including these posts.

But then, if you knew what all that GFX-mumbo-jumbo meant you'd have known that already and not posted this silly reply of yours.