Published 7/3/2009
at Kombo.com
There hasn't been a lot love for the Playstation 3 from Valve. The only appearance the developer has made on the console was through a less-than-stellar port of The Orange Box. Adding insult to injury, Valve regularly explains why they don't want to get involved with the PS3's hardware. As of yesterday, however, it seems a new page in PS3-Valve relations has been turned. Speaking with Joystiq at the Left 4 Dead 2 event in London, Doug Lombardi - Valve's VP of Marketing - had this to say:"If you look at The Orange Box -- PC: 96 on Metacritic, 360: 96 on Metacritic, PS3 like... 84 or something. That's not even close to where we are right now with the 360 and PC and the reason is people."Read on to find out what this means for future Valve games on Sony's console.
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