Valve: PS3 "A Very Open Platform"

Feel the love. Valve project manager Erik Johnson at FPS developer Valve has addressed the company's stance on the PS3 as "incredibly important" and "a very open platform for developers."

Johnson mentioned that Valve is working hard to improve their future output on the machine given issues with the PS3 release of title The Orange Box.

"it's incredibly important to us; we kind of fix everything wrong in the products that we delivered before for the PS3, which we thought were good but weren't quite the Valve experience."

He also commented on bringing Steamworks to the PS3 in the future and said that:

"In a lot of ways that is the way we define a customer having a good experience because it's the way that we keep talking to that customer over time."

He also made mention of the fact that "...fundamentally Sony views the PS3 as a very open platform for developers and that's kind of what we feel like. It is better for developers but more importantly it's better for customers to have as many choices of software to run on whatever device they have."

Some, now "Other O/S-free" users maybe a little less open about the platform though.

Source:CVG