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Valve Hoping For 360/PC Play, Scared of PS3 Online

Posted by Zonk on from the weird-thing-to-be-scare-of dept.

Valve's movement to the console space has been slow, but this year will see the release of Half-Life 2 on both the 360 and PS3. They seem to be having mixed reactions to that move. On the one hand (according to CVG), they're very much hoping that 360/PC crossplay will be possible for their upcoming Team Fortress 2. On the other hand (according to Game Informer and 1up), their reaction to the PS3's online component is one of fear. Valve's Marketing representative Doug Lombardi: "PS3 is brand new and PS3's online is kind of scary so we're hoping that EA is going to be a strong partner for us. (laughs) It's always the scariest thing when it's not all yours. With the PC it's all ours, Steam is all ours, code's ours, game's ours. On 360 we're making it, we've made it before, we know what the Live thing is, although it's Microsoft's so we kind of know it. PS3 we're not building it, we haven't made a PS3 title before, and we don't really know what PS3 online really is. It's always the devil you don't know that you're the most scared of."

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  1. I'd Be Terrified Having To Compete With Resistance by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=14065 7

    40 Players
    No Lag
    Dedicated Servers
    Clans
    Huge Maps (that can adjust to team size)
    Ranked Team Play - PARTIES!!
    Variety of Game Modes
    Rankings - Higher Ranking = More Skins
    Medals
    Stats GALORE
    MyResistance website
    Squads with squad chat or team chat if you press L3. And Icons to let you know who is chatting.
    Weapons with great secondary functions
    'Two different races with different play styles and racial skills.'

    Resistance is the Gold Standard in console gaming.

    If I was a pc developer trying to get out of the dying pc gaming market and move into the very competitive and lucrative console game world I would be terrified if I going up against Resistance too.

    But then again, Valve are one of those pc developers who have public cried about their inability to handle modern multi-core chips like Cell. And cried about how all of their old directx code wasn't any use on the PS3.

    Poor babies.

    If you can't handle the competition Valve, stay out of the console market...