Kicking Zombie Ass In 360 Left 4 Dead, Why No PS3 Version

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One of my most anticipated games for this year is Left 4 Dead, Valve's Zombie Apocalypse game that's all about cooperative play. The thing is I haven't been able to try, and until this week no one has, is the Xbox 360 version of the game.

I was worries that a Valve game built to be a PC experience would lose some of its luster when it hit the Xbox 360. So I sat down yesterday to play through one of the game's 20 or so maps.

[TheColbertinator]

Because Gabe Newell does'nt want to.Deal with it.PS3 owners should focus on getting the next Half Life or something.By the end of this year,PS3/360 owners will be too broke to get ports and multiplats.

[Dzpool]

probably get the same treatment as Bioshock probably this time next year it will be out on the PS3 with the extra DLC that will probably be released 6 months from release

[Time_Is_On_My_Side]

Didn't he say the PlayStation 3 is a waste of time and will have no long term benefits programming for that platform? At the same time the better quality games are running on the PlayStation 3 platform. I think Gabe Newell is going to eat his words if true.

I understand having an opinion if you don't represent a whole company, but he does. For that fact only Gabe will be eyed a lot closer than someone like me. It's like the head of a car company saying we don't like non-heterosexual. Whether you think so or not when representing a company somethings you have to keep quiet about. If you don't like the PlayStation 3 architecture just say for the moment we're focusing on the Microsoft platforms.

[Dzpool]

i disagree its more like the head of an aftermarket parts manufacturer says they would rather not make parts for one company then the other. But he should still have the right to say he doesn't like one platform considering that he still has an opinion and should be allowed to convey it.

[TheColbertinator]

Gabe just does not like the PS3 architecture.It has nothing to do with inferiority or anything like that.He just hates multi-threading,developing for the 360,Wii,and PS3.Newell develops for PC because its easy for him.

On the other hand,Will Wright,John Carmack,and Sid Meier are giving the consoles a chance.Wright likes the Wii,Carmack likes Blu Ray,and Sid Meier likes developing for the consoles because he does not have to worry about testing out different PCs.

It seems to me that developers like Gabe Newell are making excuses while Carmack,Meier,and Wright are high profile programmers that earn my respect and my gaming dollars.

[Odion]

except that Carmack is the only actual programmer in that list, and EA is going to whore out everything Will makes.

[SixTwoTwo]

He may be eating crow as we speak...

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[HipHopGamerShowFan]

Once again, this game is 6-8 hrs long with bad graphcs.

So, I don't care.

[OmarJA]

it's a generic counter strick port zombie shooter games

i'll stick with socom and resistance 2

[StrikingDmc4]

dont care then why are you here?

[HipHopGamerShowFan]

To provide my comment.

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[Pain]

Crappy games on a Crappy.. PC... err Console a Match made at Microsoft.

[Dyingduck]

1. Why would I play this crappy game with horrible graphic and bad game-play when PS3 has R2, SOCOM, KZ2 and eventually MAG?

2. Why DA SH!T would I play a "valve game" on a console when the better looking version by miles is available to PC?

This game is over-rated

[Lucreto]

The only thing I will support is Portal other than that I refuse to buy anymore Valve games.

[Shadow Man]

And they won't listen to our Orange Box petition.

[LevDog]

Im gonna go with.. They are lazy.. They are used to PC and 360 and they dont feel like taking the time to Dev for PS3.. The superior hardware of the PS3 scares them.. I mean seriously, The videos that have been coming out.. Yes it looks like it could be fun..but Graphically it looks like PS2 game..

But Im sticking by the laziness comment.. Look at the Half Life 2 port they did.. They just threw it together.. Put no time in it to give Ps3 owners an equal game..

[Close_Second]

...because when Gabe was wobbling through E3 several years back one of the lovely Sony sales ladies said no to reenacting the scene from Return of the Jedi where Princess Lea was dressed in a gold bikini being ogled by Jabba the Hutt.

From what I hear she said no to wanting to see Gabe in a gold bikini. He got so offended that he proclaimed the PS3 dead.

[happyface]

valve thinks ps3 is a waste of time and I kinda agree............

[Close_Second]

PS3 has some good point and bad points, just like the 360. What makes the PS3 a waste of time in your opinion?

[PirateThom]

He's a fanboy.

[Guitarded]

Gabe said that the code for PS3 games is unusable anywhere else. I've heard nothing to the contrary from anyone else. Hence a waste of time. PS3 was designed as a Blu-ray player first, gaming machine second. Hence the delays on games and services that we have seen since it launched. @ Thom. That's funny coming from one of the biggest fanbois on this site.

[SWORDF1SH]

@4.3. jus mindless stuff you spurted out there. ps2 was hard to programme for. its jus the way sony do there machines. there hard to programme for but will produce the better games in the long run. your point sayin it was designed firstly as a blu ray player and tryin to make it sound inferior to the other console on the market is made invalid but the game that is cod4. that game is the best on the 360 and runs the same on both consoles. so judgin by that alone the consoles are equal. now take in to account that the 360 is easier to programme for and easier to get the potential out of. so thatll mean that the 360 is already nearing its potential and the harder to programme console, the ps3, still as lot of potential. expect a year on year improvement on the ps3 on the quality of games.

[Funky Town_TX]

if it does then cool if not then cool. It's not like this was only game scheduled to be released in 08 for all gaming platformes.

[AIi_The_Brit]

Iv said it before and il say it again

xbots can keep this console exlusive for all i care, they NEED more games rofl cos the ps3 has ALL the games this year and even the best multi-platform are been lead on the PS3, its time to jump out bots

And if i was that bothered... ID GET THE SUPERIOR VERSION ON MY PC ROFLMAO

[Droid]

360 "needs" the game? 360 has no good exclusives? and you would know because you've played any of them? you have a 360, I've seen your live list. it's sh1t. you have like two games and they are sh1t crossplatform games.

try again.

[Eddy Gordo]

Graphics are bad, and the game will flop anyway so why whould anyone want it on the PS3. Even if it doesn't flop, it will be on PC and I am sure even the crapiest computers can handle this game so no need for it to come to the PS3.

[Stryfeno2]

Valve HATES the PS3.

[ThatCanadianGuy]

Because Valve arent confident enough in their skills to try to develop on anything other than low-grade PC's and a "next gen" console.

[IzKyD1331]

I think its unanimous that PS3 owners dont want this game

[shutupandplay]

good. because you are not getting it.

[IzKyD1331]

actually I am....for the PC that is

[shutupandplay]

you just said ps3 owners don`t want it. you have a ps3. what am i missing?

[doshey]

ps3 owners dont want it on there system thats what ur missing

[IzKyD1331]

"you just said ps3 owners don`t want it. you have a ps3. what am i missing?"

I dont want it on PS3.....but yes to wanting it on PC

[steck67]

Why no PS3 version? Who cares, the game is only for the 360 and PC only, get over it, its becomming anoying.

[doshey]

cuz i dont want another pile of crap port making the ps3 looking bad and besides i will most likely get it on pc

[Blademask]

But I highly doubt with the 08-09 ps3 lineup, that there is anyone clamoring for this title to be on the ps3, considering most people have PC's that can handle the source engine these days, and lets face it.. this is an arcade co-op.

Its like there is no problem with consoles having exclusives, but people just want to stir the console war pot with Left4Dead? the game will be good no doubt, but its not exactly FF13 here as far as exclusivity news goes.. Why is there so much "exclusivity" news for L4D when the owner of valve said himself that he feels that the ps3 is a waste of time?

How many times can this be confirmed an exclusive? And how many stories will keep getting posted about l4d's relation to the ps3? Its like if some other obscure 360/pc exclusive kept doing the same thing...

[xg-ei8ht]

Resident evil 5 will be the biggest selling version ever made. That'll be proven soon enough, and quite frankly it's the only zombie type game i want to play.

I've always had a fondness for hl1 and to some extent hl2.

But i never felt the same magic after that.

For me Gabe is abit of an idiot for saying what he said about ps3, but he's always been that way. Said the same thing about nvidia's fx range(was being outperformed by ati by a huge margin at that time. and he was correct.

Sooner or later though, he'll change his ways, he'll have to.

[MazzingerZ]

Why not on the PS3? Resistance 2, Socom, Killzone 2...maybe during summer 2009they will port it but right now it doesn't stand a chance on the PS3...even if it's released I won't be getting it, the concept is boring and brainless.

[CrazyOrange]

its not for POG

[beavis4play]

starting in oct. my time is going to be sucked up with all the ps3 games coming out but i'd love to see left4dead coming to ps3. it looks to be loads of fun.

[OSIRUSSS]

Zombie Shooter? Man thats innovative. Whats next? A shooter where you defend the Earth from an Alien Invasion? I wouldn't buy this Garbage on the PS3 even if it was offered. Gabe is a smart Hutt. He knows his audience and Most PS3 owners wouldn't come near this crap.

[REDZEV]

though the "CELL" spec wise its a pretty powerful cpu. This generation the 3rd party developers cringe when they make games for POS3. And thats because it takes up more time which becomes more costly. This is the arrogance of SONY. They didnt care about the developers input or anything else when they were developing the cell. The Cell architecture to put it mildly is simply back-asswards
when it comes to developing and coding too. when your out to be a succesful game developer time is everything.

3rd Party developers dont have the luxury of taking like 10 years to make games like: Konami, Sony studios, Guriella studios and Insomniac studios. these studios alone sony dumps alot of money and resources into so they can take up to 5 to 10 years to bring out their games.

[dukadork]

why bother with crappy ps3 ports from lazy ass PC devs when you could play something like killzone2 or resistance2?

no way!

valve says PC gaming is doing great, I'd agree but then: what's the point of the 360???

[sleepbox]

PS3 has better quality games?

I prefer to let the numbers speak for themselves:

All-Time High Scores for 360 metacritic:
1 Grand Theft Auto IV 98
2 BioShock 96
3 Orange Box, The 96
4 Gears of War 94
5 Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, The 94
6 Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare 94
7 Halo 3 94
8 Braid 93
9 Guitar Hero II 92
10 Rock Band 92
11 Mass Effect 91
12 Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 90
13 Forza Motorsport 2 90
14 Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2 90
15 Call of Duty 2 89
16 Rez HD 89
17 Castlevania: Symphony of the Night 89
18 Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas 89
19 Burnout Revenge 89
20 Virtua Fighter 5 89

All-Time High Scores for PS3 per Metacritic:
1 Grand Theft Auto IV 98
2 Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare 94
3 Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots 94
4 Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, The 93
5 Rock Band 92
6 Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction 89
7 Orange Box, The 89
8 Uncharted: Drake's Fortune 88
9 Ninja Gaiden Sigma 88
10 Burnout Paradise 87
11 GRID 87
12 Bionic Commando Rearmed 87
13 Unreal Tournament 3 86
14 Resistance: Fall of Man 86
15 Soulcalibur IV 86
16 Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09 86
17 Madden NFL 09 86
18 Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas 86
19 NHL 08 86
20 MLB 08: The Show 85

I'm sorry, but what were you saying again?

Kids stating their opinions as facts continues to be the #1 disorder/plague of the Internet.

Orange Box sold like crap on PS3 so why would Valve waste resources on porting another game that won't sell?

[bomboclaat_gamer]

man u need a woman to occupy ur time. stop naming out games like that, rasta. get a bomboclaat hobby. u look like a loser

[PirateThom]

Exclusive games in top 20s:
XBox 360 - 4, 2 on disc
PS3 - 5, 5 on disc

While the 360 may have more higher rated games, most of them are on other platforms or are arcade downloads. The only true exclusives in the 360s list at the moment are Forza 2 and Halo 3 (which will come to PC).

I'd like you to spin that though, like you're trying the ol' PS3 has no games argument.

[bomboclaat_gamer]

ur both fanboys

[poindat]

Only an idiot or a fanboy like yourself would let the numbers speak for themselves. What score a critic that may or may not be legit does not change the quality of a game. If everyone went by that list like you do, we would assume that Bioshock is a higher quality game than Metal Gear Solid 4. However, if you would have actually played both, you would realize the production values on MGS4 are through the roof, creating a higher quality game.

"Kids stating their opinions as facts continues to be the #1 disorder/plague of the Internet."

Sorry, but the numbers on that list are made entirely out of opinions. Reviews are opinions, So why did you say let the numbers speak if all they are is opinions and you hate opinions so much? If we lived in a society without opinions we would live in a world like the book '1984'. Is that what you want? Probably.

"Orange Box sold like crap on PS3 so why would Valve waste resources on porting another game that won't sell?"

First, Valve had nothing to do with the PS3 version. EA ported so Valve wasted nothing. Second, it sold poorly because the port was so bad and full of glitches and bugs. If Valve actually put some effort into it, it might have sold well. Why do you think the 30 version is number 3 for 360 on that list and number 7 for PS3?

But now they've dug themselves a hole. When they realize that they have to dev for the PS3, they are screwed because I know many, many PS3 owners are not going to by their products.

[sleepbox]

and you just made your opinion fact by believing that in-engine cinemas aren't as good for presentation than cut scenes. You fail at arguing. Go to sleep.

I fail to see how you think production values make something higher quality. You must have loved the Sega CD and it's FMV games.

[dkgshiz]

The source engine is getting a little out dated. Plus this game just looks like ass.

[bomboclaat_gamer]

its not the end of the world, rasta. ps3 will have lots more games too. just as the 360 will have lots of games too. if u want it so bad then buy a 360

[juuken]

The developers hate the PS3.
That's okay, because there are other exclusives to look forward to this holiday season.

[Dacapn]

What a dumb question. We all know the answer.

There won't be a PS3 version because valve hates the PS3. Simple.

[GiantEnemyCrab]

Who gives a crap? Get yourself a 360 and play what is looking to be a super fun online game. Stop waitin and get to gamin!

[JD_Shadow]

Yeah, of course we'll get to gaming....

Once LittleBigPlanet drops in October.

[cemelc]

Resistance 2
LBP
SOCOM: Confrontation(could be cheaper not really sure the price of this one for the PSN)
Fallout 3
Mirrors Edge
Death Space
Prince of Persia
Valkyria Chronicles

All of those games are better than this one, so ill be wasting:
60$ x 8 = 480$

And im leaving behind games that look more interesting like:
Spider-Man: Web of Shadows
Eternal Sonata(The real game, not the beta released a year ago)
Rise of the Argonauts
Far Cry 2
Call Of Duty 5
WipEout HD

Heck even if i wanted to look at it (for PC of course, the real version) they´re just too many better games than this one.I´m not made of money, even if i dont buy anything on the second list i still be expending 480$ on the first list to look at anything else.

[EnglishPatriot]

I know there's not gonna be a PS3 version that's why I'm getting it for my PC.

[Blademask]

I think this is what most people are doing, I highly doubt you need a crysis rig to run this one either, if TF2/Orange Box is any sign.

This is why I love 360 exclusives, because they are also exclusive to my PC's

[JD_Shadow]

Hmm, have I heard of this game before....

...I think it was called Resident Evil.

[yaboi]

bubbles 4 u

[yaboi]

i don't
i really don't another crappy port (agian)
so gabe can kiss my ^&* if he doesn't want to
take is time on the ps3 version. even if he does make a ps3 version he won't get a dime out of me!!!

[xg-ei8ht]

what do u expect orange box sold like crap, cause it was buggy like crap, ran poorly.

Why would it sell again?

[DarK-SilV]

SONY Snipers CHECK this out; the 3fixme can't handle Left for the flop,
here is the link http://www.n4g.com/NewsCom-...

[zonetrooper5]

Valve is a small-medium sized company with limited resources do you guys really expect them to develop for three platforms and not have their games come out as crap?

[N2NOther]

Wow...Thank god I own a 360 and a PS3.