Valve Leaves PS3 4 Dead
- Scribbled on May 5th, 2008 by Jonah Falcon
- Filed in Interviews, Shooter, Sony PlayStation 3, WTF
Those of you hoping Left 4 Dead will be a PlayStation 3 game, you can forget it. Valve has basically said it develops for the PC and the Xbox 360 (which both use DirectX) and have relegated the PS3 to “only if the game makes a ton of money” status.
According to Doug Lombardi:
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?’…Left 4 Dead doesn’t have that guaranteed appeal yet - it’s a new IP…If you mention a new Half-Life, people want to make as many versions of it as possible. If Left 4 Dead is big, then we may see a PS3 version later, or if and when we do a sequel, people may be more interested in that…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.
This comes as no surprise, as Gabe Newell famously trashed the PS3 as “a waste of everybody’s time.”
(Thanks, CVG.)
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