Valve Founder, Gabe Newell, Explains Why Valve Isn't Developing Games on Home Consoles

The last game from Valve to release on consoles was Counter-Strike: Global Offensive for the PS3 and Xbox One. Since then Valve has removed itself from the home console market despite a strong reception from other titles like The Orange Box. Many are wondering why?

Gabe Newell, president of Valve, and primary figure on all the Steam Sale memes spoke to the media regarding this:

There have been cases where we’ve updated products 5-6 times in a day. When we did the original iOS of Steam App, right, we shipped it, we got a whole bunch of feedback and like the next day we’re ready to do an update. We weren’t able to get that update out for six months! And we couldn’t find out why they wouldn’t release it! They wouldn’t tell us. This is the life that you have in these environments. And finally they shipped it! And they wouldn’t tell us why they finally shipped it.

So for us, while we’re spending all of our time trying to be as tunnel-vision in this loop with our customers, to all of a sudden have this complete uncertainty about doing updates… Like we don’t know how to operate.

We’re just too stupid to know how to be a successful iOS developer. Cause for us, everything that we do, is to make our lives easier and build tools to make other software developer’s lives easier. We don’t know how to do what we do.

I’m sure that other people are wildly successful in those environments, but sort of our DNA tend to not work well when someone is trying to insert a lot of process between us and our customers.

Simply put, Valve would rather develop in their own environment to maintain efficiency. However, Valve plans to create 3 full VR games. 

Source: Eurogamer

Adam Siddiqui, NoobFeed
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