Boy, here we go again. Valve front man Gabe Newel is known for voicing his opinions openly (and we love him for it), calling the PS3 a “total disaster”. This time, once again, he slams Sony and the PS3. In an interview with Edge magazine Newels called the “PS3 a waste of everyone’s time”, and further slammed the platform,

“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. I don’t think they’re going to make money off their box. I don’t think it’s a good solution.”

Developers have consistently criticized the PS3 for being too complicated to work with, in particular the Cell processor. For all the power and potential, it’s a complicated chip that has little in common with other processors like the one in the Xbox 360 or a x86 CPU found in a PC, which means developers can’t simply “port” games to the PS3, it requires a lot more time, manpower and of course, money.