The president of Gearbox, the guys who made Borderlands, has called out Valve for ignoring the PS3 as a viable platform,
“Valve think their own stuff is the only stuff that matters, to the point where they have their own distribution platform. It’s like, I don’t care about retail, about Marketplace, or PSN, I’m going to have Steam.â€
He then rightly points out that while Valve are doing a great job with Steam in the PC market they had to fall back onto EA Games to get Left 4 Dead out into the world on the Xbox 360 market.
“It’s cool, it’s good, and they’re doing a good job but at the same time they’re reliant on the rest of the world. They had to do that [Left 4 Dead] deal with EA. When I see the L4D ad on the television I don’t see a Valve logo, I see an EA logo, and when I bought it, I bought it at a storeâ€
Now I have a lot of respect for Gearbox after what they have done with Borderlands but I don’t think it’s the most intelligent idea trashing Valve at this time. While I agree with them that Valve should get over their anti-PS3 standpoint I don’t think it’s got anything to do with Borderlands and we don’t need to fragment the industry in this way.
Valve’s Gabe Newell isn’t know as a quiet unassuming person though so I expect something will be said in the coming days.
Source: VG247
Last Updated: November 6, 2009
facepalm101
November 6, 2009 at 10:12
This guy is an idiot. Its like calling naughty dog fan boys for only releasing the game on the PS3.
Karl
November 6, 2009 at 10:28
Naughty Dog is owned by Sony…
Flake
November 6, 2009 at 10:22
I disagree with him. Valve are idiot tossers AND fanboys. Gabe and his bro’s are overweight slugs.
WingNut
November 6, 2009 at 10:23
Eh? Where would Gearbox be today if Valve didn’t give them their big break with HL:Opposing Force and porting HL to consoles back in the day? Stank vir dank!
Dark
November 6, 2009 at 10:45
Who cares … really hope they both keep making good games. Smack talk always results in some guy having poo on his face. Some past cricket captains spring to mind.
RSA-Ace
November 6, 2009 at 11:19
I think it’s fine for gearbox to call them out. With the recent surge in PS3 popularity Valve really should be making games for the PS3…
dislekcia
November 6, 2009 at 11:31
It’s a corporate trolling exercise. He’s trying to get Valve to respond in an unprofessional manner so that he can say something like: “Aha! I knew they were bastards! LOL!”
Which IMHO, just isn’t going to happen. Valve are thinking about their publishing angles, this is good publicity for them: The more they just keep doing cool stuff and ignoring the namecalling, the better they look.
Nick de Bruyne
November 6, 2009 at 11:48
Is he still just doing this to get some spotlight? This whole badmouthing trend is not going down very well (see – Turn 10 as well)
Karl
November 6, 2009 at 12:24
Nick, remeber when Sony and MS would badmouth each other, and it would end up being really really funny?
Those were the days.
Nick de Bruyne
November 6, 2009 at 13:17
oh riiiight… those were the times
Karl
November 6, 2009 at 13:39
http://www.lazygamer.co.za/ps3/sony-talking-smack-like-its-2006/
http://www.lazygamer.co.za/xbox-360/oh-its-on-the-mudslinging-continues/
I :heart: Kaz
M@GE
November 6, 2009 at 20:52
Valve don’t listen to what the “president of Gearbox” has to say! We all know he’s just another PS3 fanboy! …. now where I put my dang lipstick? :kissing:
WitWolfyZA
November 9, 2009 at 07:38
Well indirectly Valve is like a Microsoft 1st party developer. They feel comfortable of the platform their working on, and dont see any reason to go multiplat just yet.