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Valve skips PlayStation to avoid "stepchild version", says Lombardi

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Valve doesn't want to make PlayStation games. End of.

"If we were customers of that product on PlayStation, we'd feel like we sort of got the stepchild version of the product while the guys on the PC and the 360 got the sweet version of it," Valve marketing boss Doug Lombardi told CVG in London yesterday.

And why are Valve's PC and 360 games better than Valve's PlayStation games? Because Valve isn't very good at PlayStation games. End of.

"If you look at it as a matter of Valve doing it, Valve did the 360 and the PC version of the Orange Box and they both go 96 on Metacritic - The PS3 version was nowhere close to that. Left 4 Dead got a 89 or a 90 on 360 and PC," Lombardi said.

He added: "Until we have the ability to get a PS3 team together, until we find the people who want to come to Valve or who are at Valve who want to work on that, I don't really see us moving to that platform."

End of. Please.

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