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We feel for you, PlayStation 3 owners. We really do. No, we're notknocking the scrappy, gargantuan console - we literally feel bad aboutthe system's history with game delays. Not just delays on PS3exclusives, like MGS4, Haze and Home, butthe games that other platforms have been enjoying the company of for awhile. When we PC and 360 owners sit down to enjoy the frivolousexploits of Gordon Freeman in The Orange Box,we feel pangs of guilt for enjoying the bounties which you have not yetreceived, like we're eating a 40 oz. rib-eye in the middle of a welfaresoup line.
To add insult to injury, and then to pour a salt and lemon juice cocktail into said injury, the PS3 version of Orange Box has received the developmental shaft, according to a recent previewon 1UP. While the PC and 360 versions of the game were largely managedby Valve, the PS3 version was apparently the responsibility of a teamat EA. This has led to a number of framerate hiccups and othertechnical issues which "at best merely hinder game play and at worstmake the experience downright unplayable."
Gabe Newell,Valve's co-founder, has never been a huge fan of the PS3, calling thesystem "a waste of everybody's time." Let's hope that the issues facingOrange Box are just small oversights, and not the results of asoftware tycoon's maniacal personal vendetta. (We think it's the firstone, for what it's worth.)