For those that have been following Valve’s comments over the PS3, you’d know they aren’t exactly a staunch supporter of the platform. Valve’s dealings with Sony have been limited to an outsourced port of The Orange Box, which EA took upon the mantle of responsibility for back in 2007.

Speaking in a recent interview with 5BY5TV, company boss Gabe Newell laments that the PS3’s locked-down architecture makes it difficult to warrant any kind of serious investment. If the platform was more “open like a Mac,” he says, perhaps their relationship with Sony would blossom:

Platform investments, like the Mac, are difficult because you have to be aware of what direction that platform is moving. We need to target platforms that do a better job of looking like where we want to be in a few years. We would love to see the PS3 be more open like a Mac than more closed like a Gamecube. It makes it easier to justify those investments if that were the case.

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