Saturday, January 29, 2011

Valve, “PC Market Thriving”


In an interview with CVG, Valve’s Chet Faliszek to a question about the concern that the PC market is in trouble, said “It's thriving. Look at Minecraft, one dude up in Sweden sold a million copies of his game. You can do that because of how open the platform is. If you make a game that can run on people's systems they're going to play it.” Chet goes on to say that the fact that it’s easy to plug in a controller with a PC these days, even genres that particularly play better on the console isn’t an issue on the PC. I think this is true but due to the open nature of the platform, it also means it’s not always easy across the board. Will PC Gaming eventually be easy to get into like console games? I don't know. The interview also discusses Portal 2 and the console version of it. Chet went on to state that the PS3 version with Steamworks will be the best console version as they can update it way more often. Read the entire interview here.

Source: CVG

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