Valve Might Be Interested in Developing for the PlayStation 3

The PlayStation 3 from Sony, which received a price cut in August 2009 and also got a new version, the lighter and less power hungry Slim, is the gaming system that shows the biggest year over year increase in sales in the last few months and, with exclusive titles like Uncharted 2 and the upcoming God of War III attracting the interest of gamers, the platform looks appealing again to those developers who are aiming to do big multiplatform releases.

Even one company that was quoted as saying that it did not plan to bring its products to the PS3 seems to be having second thoughts now. Talking to Edge as part of a preview of the new The Passing DLC pack for Left 4 Dead 2, Chet Faliszek, one of the main developers at Valve, said that “Before we do anything on the PS3 we need to be able to support it in the right way,” adding a slightly optimistic “But we'll look at it, and I'm sure down the road we'll do it.”

Gabe Neweell, the leader of Valve, at one point talked about the PlayStation 3 as “a horrible disaster” and then followed up by stating that the home console was “a waste of everybody's time.” Of course, this was all when it seemed that in the current generation battle, the PS3 would only get third place and developing versions for it was not worth the resources spent.

It would be interesting to see Left 4 Dead 2 arriving on the PlayStation 3 but it's unlikely that Valve would bother with a port so late after the launch of the game on the PC and on the Xbox 360 from Microsoft. But maybe there's hope of seeing Left 4 Dead 3 or Half Life 2: Episode 3 on the Sony home console when they come out.