Gabe Newell: PS3 “A Waste of Everybody’s Time”
- Scribbled on October 11th, 2007 by Jonah Falcon
- Filed in Industry News, Interviews, Shooter, Sony PlayStation 3, WTF
Gabe Newell, who’s Valve Software is struggling with the PlayStation 3 version of The Orange Box, laid the smackdown on the embattled system in an interview the new issue of Edge magazine, calling it “a waste of everybody’s time”:
Investing in the Cell, investing in the SPE gives you no long-term benefits. There’s nothing there that you’re going to apply to anything else. You’re not going to gain anything except a hatred of the architecture they’ve created…I don’t think they’re going to make money off their box. I don’t think it’s a good solution.
This is not the first time Newell slammed the PS3. In January, he stated:
a total disaster on so many levels… I think it’s really clear that Sony lost track of what customers and what developers wanted
The Orange Box is due sometime in November for the PlayStation 3.
(Thanks, CVG.)
October 11th, 2007 at 12:06 pm
I lol’d at this, but then recalled how you said “TF2 [on 360] is the biggest piece of shit I’ve ever played”
October 11th, 2007 at 12:20 pm
Gabe is my hero.
October 11th, 2007 at 6:16 pm
I said it had the shittiest lag. Keep up, Mitchell.
Gabe is a BIG hero. Well, he likes big heroes, especially BLTs.
October 12th, 2007 at 2:42 am
I’ll keep up by quoting you verbatim. Like I did.
Also, there’s NO lag.
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