Why Valve will never develop for PS3
Despite not being tied to any exclusivity deals as a developer Valve has yet to produce any titles for the PlayStation 3, describing the platform as “obscure.”
It’s no secret that some developers have had a hard time getting the best out of the Sony console, but it seems Valve has been put off entirely according to Valve game designer Tom Leonard.
“The PC and the 360 are just more straightforward. We can focus on what we want to do, which is make game experiences, instead of sweating bullets over obscure architectural decisions they make with their platform. [...] I didn’t come into this business in the 90s because of some technical fetish. I came in because I wanted to give people experiences that made them have fun.”
Harsh maybe, but Sony itself did say in the past that the PS3 was intentionally hard to develop for so that we would gradually see the best that the console had to offer, something which arguably is turning out to be true.
For example Uncharted 2: Among Thieves is arguably the best looking title around, it would seem that developer Naughty Dog has gotten used to developing for the console. Something Sony hopes will happen with more developers.
Just don’t bet on any games from Valve appearing on the console in the near future.
Via [Loot Ninja, thanks Kotaku]
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who cares about Valve.
Valve if you are listening I own all the next gen consoles and couldnt care less about you and your games. There is no room for you on the ps3 side and by the looks of it there wont be much call for you the way things are going. In my opinion your days are already numbered………
Sounds like really good business sense to me… Let cut millions of potential customers off because we are too lazy to code for a particular consoles, the share holders must be really proud of this guy!
Sounds like this is a pathetic attempt to counter the EA vice presidents claims that “We’ve maxed out the 360, but we haven’t maxed out the PS3?
Develope for the PS3 or don’t, doesn’t really matter to me. Your games are all free on my PC. Hey, if developers can be lazy, so can I.
Morne
A lot of ignorant comments on here.
@DA 1
Dont be an idiot. Valve is one of the most successful developers on the scene right now.
@James, do you even know what you’re talking about. Valve doesnt have shareholders.
@THC
Uh, what?
@Mornelithe
Then your comments and opinion are worthless since you are bottom of the barrel scum.
valve makes FPS games (the best FPS games ever, i might add)… FPS games are to be played with a mouse and keyboard.
I’d say Valve’s days are as numbered as Blizzard’s. Valve is a private company, and you really can’t pirate the games anyway, thanks to Steam. Most Valve games, at least the ones produced by Valve, not just distributed over Steam, are essentially entirely multi-player. And you have to log in to use them. So good luck pirating them.
The sad part is, this console generation has already been going for a so long that the next generation of consoles should be starting development soon. The ps3 has been so hard to develop for that the next iteration of microsoft’s console will launch before a reasonable user base builds for the ps3. Making an integrated development environment for your proprietary console so hard to use that one one wants to use is so counter intuitive sony has effectively become their own worst enemy.
Very few people want to make content for your platform when it is, least adopted, hardest to develop for, longest time to market, and has a cost per delivery fee along the lines of ps3. The entire console has been a giant mismanaged blunder. When the best selling point you have is by holding your brand name up and shouting it out loud you have something so wrong it dilutes your branding.
You all have no idea what you are talking about, PS3 is far from a failure, any PC game can & Will be pirated, steam is inferior when todays hackers & homebrewers are concerned, and Valve while an ok dev really does’t hurt the PS3 any as barely any console gamers know or even give a crap about them, I wonder if Valve’s payout was worth neglecting 24 million PS3 owners
Who cares about the PS3? They should befriend developers rather than alienating both then and their customers by pulling this obfuscatory bullshit. There’s little room for them in a competitive marketplace. In my opinion their days are already numbered…
So Valve don’t have shareholders, the point is still valid… Whom ever owns the company and makes money from it must be really impressed with this guy. If other developers can code for the PS3 why not Valve? Also to all those commenting that Valve/Steam games can’t be pirated, you are completely wrong, not only have I seen pirated single player steam games available on torrent sites but also multiplayer games as well. Steam need to reevaluate their prices too, DOW 2 amongst others is almost double the retail price from online stores. I don’t have any bad feelings towards valve, I will continue to play their games on my PC, I just find their policy to be silly in the context of a commercial business.
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@m’ FPS games are best played on the platform they were designed for. COD4 console > COD4 PC. On the other hand, TF2 is unplayable on PS3, and only slightly better on 360 for anyone with any experience of the PC version.
@Kevin How does their games being harder to pirate (and it is just that, people have released pirated versions of them, so it’s not impossible) make their days numbered? Pirated games cost them money (in server bandwidth) and make them nothing, so help in no way whatsoever.
@James Valve are a PC developer. End of story. They happen to do 360 games as the platform is similar, but if it was as much effort as PS3 to port to, there would be no 360 versions either. I agree that they need to re-evaluate their prices. I can go 5 minutes up the road to gamestop, get the game for less, install it in 10 minutes and play away. Or I can pay more, spend days downloading it, hope steam’s servers are up to activate it, them play it.
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Valve is so full of shit. they just dont wanna devevolp for the ps3 because its a microsoft company.