Gabe Newell, the co-founder and managing director of Valve has told attendees at the Games for Learning Institute’s Games for Change conference that he is extremely impressed with Nintendo’s Wii U console. Gabe revealed that the company ‘loves Nintendo’ but the Wii’s graphics performance and CPU performance previously put Valve off developing games for the console. He now believes that Wii U could change all that. What would you like to see Valve produce on Wii U?
“Wii U seems to be a lot more powerful than the previous generation. It sort of fits better into the scalability in terms of graphics performance and CPU performance, so I think it’ll be a lot easier for us to fit it into our scalability model.”
“We’ve always loved Nintendo,” said Gabe, but with the vast performance gap between the HD machines and the current Wii, it’s easy to see why Valve has avoided trying to shove its high-end games onto the Nintendo platform.
“Now it’s a lot easier to look at Wii U and have it fit within that framework.”
Portal 1 & 2 bundle for WiiU? ;O
Wii Portal please :)
That pic might be a spoiler for Portal 2 for some people.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! VALVE IS MY 2ND FAVORITE DEVELOPER! HOLY CRAP! ON A NINTENDO CONSOLE? CRAP!!!
YESSSSSSSSSS!!!!! Give us a Portal 1/2 bundle, Valve!!
Portal 1 & 2 with Wii controls? Yes please.
the Wii U just keeps gettin better and better
Yes please
Next on Super Mario:
Get Mario new hats as you buy more games from the Virtual console
First I’d like to see them update the Source engine, as it’s rather dated. Then, hell yeah, I’d love Portal 1&2 bundle with the Wii remote.
Well that picture wasn’t a spoiler!
Haven’t played the game so didn’t realise. Changed image.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE finish the half life series!! I mean come on! how long do we have to wait????!!
Hell yeah!!!!!!
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE finish the half life series!! I mean come on!! How long do we have to wait!
They keep rolling in. This is quite the snes monument dispite what the fanboys say the developers get to see and test the wiiu power.
Last one up is id. Come on a quake 1 preque with the wiiu being a portal!
Left 4 Dead!!!!
WII U WITH PORTAL?! EAT IT SONY AND MICROSOFT! Things just keep getting better and better :)
Wait, so they love Ninty? I always thought they hated them. Now things are getting interesting. Valve’s creativity teamed up with Ninty’s clever design = EPIC!!! These are the two companies I would love to see work together.
Yes, but how much will it cost?
I’m really looking forward to the Wii U (not the greatest name choice, by the way), but it’ll probably bust a hole in my wallet. And savings. And credit.
what I want for Wii U: Portal 1/2 Bundle; everything of Half Life 2; CounterStrike Source :D
I wouldn’t say no to Left 4 Dead Series :)
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Nintendo + Valve may be the best partnership since Nintendo and Capcom.
what game was nintendo and capcom???
Mega Man series, Duck Tales, Viewtiful Joe, The Zelda Oracle Games, and a truck ton of others.
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This sounds like a very good deal. I can’t wait to see what happens.
But, nothing would ever happen and Valve would not develop for the Wii U~