Valve's Newell Thinks PS3 Needs To Be "Open Like a Mac"

Eraesr writes "Apparently Valve boss Gabe Newell thinks the PS3 needs to be more of an open platform, drawing a comparison to Apple's Mac platform. In an interview with 5BY5.TV, he said he would like to see the PS3 be 'open like a Mac' instead of being 'more closed like a Gamecube.' 'Platform investments, like the Mac, are difficult because you have to be aware of what direction that platform is moving,' Newell said, referring to the firm's recent move onto Macs with its titles and distribution service Steam. 'We need to target platforms that do a better job of looking like where we want to be in a few years.'"

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Re:His assesment is accurate...

[unix1]

OSX is the most open platform that runs Microsoft Windows. I could make up about 100 other items.

For arbitrary values of "open" and "runs."

How about these:

OSX is the most closed desktop OS platform Steam currently delivers software for. OSX is the most closed of the operating systems with a measurable desktop market share. OSX is the most closed platform that runs Microsoft Windows. I could make 100 other items too; including this one:

OSX is the most closed desktop platform any commercial software companies are writing consumer applications for.

Re:Apple isn't really open source.

[h4rr4r]

Linux.

Here is a list of software I compiled for another mac dummy. This is the list of commercial software I bought in the past couple years for linux.

Quake 4
Doom 3
Vmware Workstation
Nero
UT2004
Postal 2 (will soon be getting Postal 3)

Re:His assesment is accurate...

[h4rr4r]

Workstation is not free you tard. Nero was bought by work, as I explained. I also mentioned the fairly recent penny-arcade games. You are wrong and need to cope with that. Go cry into your iPhone.

I actually run linux exclusively and have had no problem using it for a desktop for many years.

Re:Gabe blowing smoke again

[Bigjeff5]

Rather than admit that his company is too small to devote the resources to develop on PS3

From what I've heard, almost all companies are too small to devote the resources to develop on PS3. Why do you think there are so few games for it? It's complete shit.

I don't know if you know this, but Valve is a heavy-hitter in the video game world. They aren't near as big as EA, but they are big enough you'd expect them to produce games on all platforms. In fact, they do on all platforms that can handle their games - including playstations before the PS3. Now they are pretty much left with Xbox360 and the PC, which really makes their dev process easier, but still leaves out a chunk of the market.