Valve: "Geen nieuwe Portal-game dit jaar"

Uiteraard kunnen ze wel snel een Portal 2 in elkaar draaien die net zo is als deel één, maar met een aantal andere kleurtjes, maar dat is niet wat Valve wil. Ze zijn van plan om wederom een kwaliteitsproduct op de markt te zetten wat net zo revolutionair moet zijn als dat Half-Life 2 was ten opzichte van de originele Half-Life. "Because that's the Valve way", aldus Lombardi. "I think that when you hit something like that, you have two choices: you can quickly replicate it and stick it out there - do the opportunistic thing and cash in on it; or you can do the crazy thing like we did after Half-Life was so successful and go off and try and say, 'Okay, that was revolutionary, so its successor has to be equally as revolutionary.'

"That's the spirit I think we're approaching it in," voegde hij toe. "You won't see a new Portal at retail this Christmas because of that. That's the trade off. People want more, but we don't want to give them more of the same right away because that would just be boring."

Portal werd afgelopen oktober uitgebracht en Valve was verrast door het grote succes dat de game had. Lombardi zei dat hij geschokt was dat hij zo'n twee weken na de release al mensen had gezien die zichzelf hadden verkleed als companion cubes.

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"I think you have to be ambitious. For us, that's really paid off. Half-Life 2 was the right decision, it was painful, six years and upwards of 40 million dollars to develop, but that paid off. That's our recipe," concludeert Lombardi.