O fickle Valve

For PS3 owners the reason we got the short-end of the stick when it came to The Orange Box (in poorer performance, fewer updates etc.) could be placed at the doorstep of Gabe Newell head of Valve the developers of Half Life.

In 2007 we got

"The PS3 is a total disaster on so many levels, I think It's really clear that Sony lost track of what customers and what developers wanted"

and

"Investing in the Cell, investing in the SPE gives you no long-term benefits. There's nothing there that you're going to apply to anything else. You're not going to gain anything except a hatred of the architecture they've created"

Which is why EA had to take over and code it themselves and yet here we are in 2010 and we discover from the same guy that

the PS3 edition of Portal 2 was the best console version available.

So what's changed? Sony's PS3 allows the use of Valve's own online network system SteamWorks whereas Microsoft's XBox360 won't.

Yep it's the old male tale "Hey I know I kept calling you ugly compared to my girlfriend but that's before I discovered you put out"