A lot of my favourite games from the previous console generation were from Valve, from The Orange Box, Portal 2 and the Left4Dead series.

Over the last few days, I've been on vacation from work and I started to get back into Team Fortress 2, I find it to be a fantastic game to play while listening to an audiobook or podcast.

And I started thinking, why haven't Valve ported TF2 to the PS4 and Xbox One? It's now a free to play game and now that both consoles are basically PC's you would think that a port would be an obvious idea. It would easily run at native 1080p and 60fps and maybe even at 4K, on the PS4 Pro and Xbox One X.

Thoughts? Would you like to see something like Left4Dead 2 or Portal 2 brought over to current consoles? Should a game like DOTA2 be brought to consoles? It's easy to hook up a wireless keyboard and mouse to the PS4 and play it.

Orange Box Remastered. Now with Half Life: Episode 3!

Consoles can't play DOTA.

So no.

You could say that they also obviously have enough cash to take a risk and make a new single player game, especially with their track record, but here we are...

I would absolutely love a Valve singleplayer/coop compilation on new consoles.

Half-Life, Opposing Force, Blue Shift, and Uplink

Half-Life: Decay's coop mode for split screen

Half-Life 2, Episode 1, 2, and Lost Coast

Portal 1 and 2

Alien Swarm

And Left 4 Dead 2 with all DLC

Valve doesn't make new video games anymore. They make millions on Dota and Steam.

I assume Valve hasn't ported any of their current games to consoles has to do with the steam marketplace. Can't imagine Sony or Microsoft would support something like that and why put in the work if you can't makes boatloads of cash from the marketplace?

I just realized PUBG is getting ported to consoles though and that has a very active marketplace. I wonder what that transition will be like?

Valve seems to be more of a competitor to consoles these days, even tried their own with the steam boxes. And as far as games go if it's not dota i doubt it exists to valve at this point.

Valve is almost entirely focused on services at this point, and consoles don't present any way for them to expand their customer base for those services.

my impressions are that valve gives zero fucks to what the console game market is or will be. And to be honest if it isn't directly in their bubble of control or profit they don't give zero fucks to game market in general. And as long as what they are doing continues to serve them they will just keep on keeping on.

No reason to. They own the prominent PC platform and as long as they maintain a place for people to sell their games there is no need to jump onto consoles.

Now i wonder why Hearthstone never made it to consoles. I guess that you lose out on a fee for all the microtransactions, but surely the population is large enough to make it worthwhile? Maybe it being on phones is good enough to reach most of these people?

I could see Artifact coming to consoles at some point if it hits big. Especially when the other big cardgame is not. It could also lead to people getting more curious about dota and giving it a shot if they like the kind of decisions you have to make on the strategic level in Artifact.

Because they do not control everything about their releases on those consoles. Steam is their platform and they can do whatever they want to with it.

Sure if Valve was a game company anymore

It's basically a merchant and card/hat market at this point

@slag: I like your idea that Valve has transitioned into a virtual hat and card merchant.

Last generation, Valve and Steam weren’t as big and needed the games they were developing to sell as much as possible. This generation, they are popular enough to keep those games on only their own service (of current gen hardware) to draw more users into their ecosystem.

Because it wouldn't be worth the money or the effort.

Basically opportunity cost.

Give up on Valve unless you like DOTA.

You're better off that way, and hey, maybe you'll be pleasantly surprised someday.