Valve didn't make the PS3 version of the Orange Box, it was an EA internal dev.

Gabe Newell from Valve just said that the PS3 was a waste of time.

It's down to your toolset as he pointed out. If the game toolset/engine is heavily optimized for PC it will go okay to PC but struggle with PS3 without additional overhead - this was the problem with the Orange Box, for example. The Source engine (no relation I'm sure) was built for PC and moved easily enough to 360 but struggled on PS3.

Unreal games are the same although I think recently this has improved a lot. But the engine was initially built for PC only which gave PS3 development issues.

Here we have generic tools on PC designed to support multiplatform - a big difference. If ID are correct then they too have a good set of true multiplatform tools.

While they're not identical the PC/360 are close enough to allow easy ports/toolsets. The PS3 is different enough you either need to put in extra effort, use true multi-platform tools or develop specifically for it.

At least... that's what I read on the internet. So it must be true.

Does that mean that Valve was just lazy from the get-go and didnt even bother trying? lol

Thank goodness. I can't tell you how many sleepless nights I had worrying about how hard the PS3 was to develop for!

Seriously, though, development challenge is often used to try and determine how likely it will be for a system to get third party support, but at the end of the day, publishers choose based on where they think a game will sell. If anything the big problem in development currently is not the programming challenges but the sheer amount of resources required for a large-scale game.

Yes it was.

In the Kotaku article, the person wrote that the PS3 version looked inferior. Near the end of the article, it was clarified that what was shown on the PS3 was an older build and when the more recent build was played, it looked just like the 360 version.

Gametrailers did a comparison video with both consoles and they both look pretty much the same.

Some devs are simply not lazy unlike others *cough*valve*cough*

Exactly!

RE5's engine was developed for the next-gen consoles? So there is a Wii version coming!

he got his ass kicked in high school though, now hes all tough and shit

Gabe Newell also complained about the 360 being to hard to develop for when it came out.  He is fine with it now.

It takes a while for developers to become comfortable with a new hardware architecture, especially one as different as the Cell.  Once the learning curve is done, developers are fine with it.