Who in the right mind is going to buy a rip-off console with no games at launch?
That's right - FAAANNNBOOOY!!!
Valve will just take the same cut as retail take (possibly less).
Compare the disk replication overheads to the nothings of digital distribution.
Activision want their game on the NPD charts and they don't want to piss off retail. That's why it's delayed.
Activision have already pissed off a lot of online distributors by going Steam only.
Had they allowed Steam to release on schedule, they'd have pissed off a lot of retailers too.
Still, retail deserves to die, there's so many facking middlemen that deserved to be excised.
Valve are rolling in money, if they really wanted to hire a PS3 team, they could do it in a heartbeat.
It's clearly just that they don't want to do it.
They have admitted to that - multiple times - that they don't have the resources for PS3 development.
I think the issue for Sony fans though, is that they could easily hire one, they just choose not to.
It's their call really though, could probably spin it a bit better though.
MW2 will bring tens of thousands (at least) of new players into the Steam community. These guys will be tied into Steam, that's a Valve win.
On the other hand, whereas I wish Futuremark every success, I doubt that it actually bought in any new blood to Steam.
This is a futile line in the sand from D2D, to try and discourage developers from implementing Steam features. Not to protect the customer from "trojan horses", but because they're afraid that when u...
Every time you buy from D2D, you line Rupert Murdoch's pockets.
I doubt that the ones who had pre-ordered it were the same ones complaining.
You don't generally buy things you don't want.
There has never been a true Playstation exclusive GTA, they've always ended up on other platforms.
The Playstation has done nothing but hold back previous iterations of GTA.
GTA IV is the most critically acclaimed game of the entire series.
What was that you were saying?
I challenged HHG to name his source for the Valve story.
He failed to name his source.
But hey, you managed to censor my challenge, so you got away with it.
GamesTM is good. You however, are a c8nt.
Instead of f*cking banning dedicated servers. Thanks for killing off mods, you imbeciles.
I really doubt that Valve are selling up. They're probably making more money than Zenimax are.
The thing about Gabe retiring is just something the guy above has made up.
Associated Content is a bullsh*t user submitted blog site. Why the f*ck are these "articles" being approved?
Sh*ts without arguments, I might add, given the lack of comment.
Just a few weeks back, before IW shot themselves in the foot, Valve were in Australia. They specifically mentioned how important their community was, and how they work together with them, as it's those guys who provide the dedicated servers.
Look at the hundreds of thousands of source game servers active right now. You really think it's wise to bring that in house?
Roy, you are a ignorant imbecile. There's no need to mince those words, because it's the truth.
Not only does the poster above point out that he is the guy who lambasted ODST. You even quote the publications he works for, including the longest running Playstation magazine in the UK - Play.
So he works for 2 360 mags too - is that massive bias? No it isn't, and your stupidity shines through. Howdle works across ALL gaming publications from Imagine Publishing. Tha...
Opera's a good browser. For a while, it was the only speedy alternative to Firefox and IE.
I value Firefox's plugins over speed though. Beautiful beautiful adblock.
When Sony say Europe - they mean PAL.
When Microsoft say Europe - they mean EMEA.
Neither of them actually mean Europe.
Re: Greywolf below -
How the f*ck do I know? Both companies purposely fudge their numbers so you can't do a like for like comparison - which was exactly my point. Thanks.