PS3 Orange Box “Nearly Unplayable”?
- Scribbled on November 25th, 2007 by Jonah Falcon
- Filed in Shooter, Sony PlayStation 3, WTF
Gabe Newell once called the PlayStation 3 “a waste of everybody’s time”. It seems The Orange Box may be a waste of every PS3 owner’s time, too. According to Joystiq, the EA (not Valve) developed version
has led to a number of framerate hiccups and other technical issues which “at best merely hinder game play and at worst make the experience downright unplayable.”
The question is – why was The Orange Box farmed out to a minor in-house EA development team instead of Valve? Conspiracy theorists may claim that Peter Moore had a hand in it – but more likely, Electronic Arts didn’t make any money with the console, and therefore a low priority with the publisher.
(Thanks, Joystiq.)
August 5th, 2008 at 10:36 am
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