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Valve’s Doug Lombardi has told CVG that the company is not a PS3 developer, but has instead decided to focus on the PC and Xbox 360 platforms.
“We’re not PS3 developers - we’re doing PC and 360 like with Orange Box. EA came to us and said ‘Wow, Orange box was an incredible project, can we do a PS3 version?”
He also mentioned that it is not entirely impossible that PS3 owners will be getting their hands on Left 4 Dead in the future, however it would in any case not be released simultaneously with an Xbox 360/PC version.
“We’re only 150 people, so there’s only so many things we can do. But it’s one of those things with partners, wanting to take on that investment and risk. I think until L4D is proven, you’ll probably just see what we make in that franchise.”
Could we be seeing Valve developed software on the Wii in the upcoming days ahead? Not any time soon, at least according to Doug Lombardi in a recent interview with CVG. He expressed the company’s desire to develop something innovative on the Wii for children, but clearly denies such a project actually exists.
“We all play the Wii a lot and we think that the proper way for Valve to approach the Wii would be to make something cool designed specifically for it.”
“I mean, I’m not making any announcements”, he continued, “but there’s a lot of desire internally to do something for kids, do something on the Wii.”
One of the most innovative developers of all time creating a game on the most innovative console? It seems like a perfect match. I hope these denials are as substantial as Orange Box’s initial release dates.
Believe it or not, the idea that eventually turned into the ever successful Steam platform was shopped around to the likes of Microsoft and Yahoo before Valve decided to develop it themselves.
“We went around to everybody and asked ‘Are you guys doing anything like this?’ And everyone was like ‘That’s a million miles in the future…We can’t help you.’”
Steam now serves as a digital distribution platform selling over 300 titles and hosts a gaming community with over 14 million accounts.
I still don’t think this shocking revelation has dawned upon Microsoft yet since they are still unsuccessfully trying to redefine PC gaming with Games For Windows.
Source - Gameindustry.biz
Valve has now confirmed that it has no plans for a PS3 version of the upcoming title Left 4 Dead.
Spokesperson Doug Lombardi stated that the studio had “limited interest” in developing for the console, and claimed that Orange Box was released on the platform only because Electronic Arts wanted it to be.
“EA wanted to do Orange Box on PS3 and they handled it,” Doug Lombardi said in an interview with videogaming247.
“Left 4 Dead isn’t coming out on PS3 because we’ve not had that call. If the phone rang we would have the conversation, certainly, but it hasn’t happened.”
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