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The Orange Box PS3 now pushed back to January 2008

EA has just revealed in its latest European release schedule that Half Life 2: The Orange Box on Playstation 3 has been delayed again. The Xbox 360 and PC versions have been in stores since early October, but the Playstation 3 version would release 'a few weeks after that', according to Valve.

In the latest trailers Valve promised that the PS3 version would be in stores in time for the holidays. Apparently Valve ran in to some more trouble with the Playstation 3 as Orange Box on the Playstation 3 is now scheduled for release on January 17, 2008. A specific reason for this delay was not given.

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the worst - 789 days 18 hours ago

1 - ea suck

ea suck

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cloud360-7th_account - 789 days 18 hours ago

1.1 -

Hey check out EAsuck.com . its just waiting to get crearted. i maen the domian name. it just takes you to a simple step by step thing.

But it semes that somone alrready bought it so no one can use it. No doubt it was EA

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Tommie - 789 days 18 hours ago

1.2 - Uhh

EA is just publisher. Valve is developer, you think they suck?

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eLiNeS - 789 days 17 hours ago

1.5 - No, the PofS3 sucks!!!

Why would anyone want one except maybe to watch movies on.

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Tryst - 789 days 17 hours ago

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Tommie - EA are actually developing the game for the PS3. Valve outsourced it to EA so they could concerntrate on the 360 and PC version.

This does not surprise my in the slightest one bit. EA are just pathetic. I mean, how delayed is the Medal of Honour game that they are meant to be bringing out for the PS3. That is going to be a massive flop - no one is even talking about that considering Cod4, Haze and UT3 are coming out.

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jackfatal - 789 days 16 hours ago

1.7 - EA always have problems with ps3

but only them!! they r either stupid or lazy or cheap!

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bennyace - 789 days 15 hours ago

1.8 - yeah... right !

Everyone keeps saying EA sucks and that there's this big conspiracy against Playstation 3, (like EA wouldn't want to put there hands on all the money they can get!). But when a game like Madden or NBA comes out they're all there to buy it ! You can disagree all you want, Charts don't lie.

@unlimited: I strongly doubt that you held the same kind of, quality over quantity speech when the PS2 was in its prime and had all the games coming out for it and the xbox had to wait for the exclusivity timer to run out. And by the way my 360 is going fine. So keep waiting, I'll keep playing.

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unlimited - 789 days 13 hours ago

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at least the games dont crap out our system..look at the 360 every game you play on it you will get the red lights of death..i pick quality not quanity EA SUCK anyways

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CyberSentinel - 789 days 12 hours ago

1.10 - Now This Is Waiting!

LMFAO!

Take Your Time EA, PS3 "Gamers" Don't Matter.

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1.11 Wii60_FTW | 789 days 9 hours ago - User only got 1 bubble - Show

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Kaneda - 789 days 4 hours ago

1.12 - Peter Moore

Peter Moore Sucks!! He couldn't fix the RROD for 360 and jumped ship to EA...and EA production is getting worst! There must be some kind of connection between 360fanboys and Peter Moore... :)

Infinity Ward is hiring! :)

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1.13 godofthunder10 | 788 days 20 hours ago - User only got 1 bubble - Show

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Kaneda - 788 days 7 hours ago

1.14 - godofthunder10

Blame on Sony...

hmmm... Infinity Ward is much smaller company than EA... They seems to do fine for PS3 w/ no complain... EA is much bigger w/ more resource than IW, they shouldn't have problem with PS3. But they do, and seem like they are not in the hurry to fix it. That will hurt their image.

Upper managements are the people that dictate how to company run... and EA people are doing a horrible jobs.

And I owned 1 PS1 (still works), and 1 PS2 (still works)... If Sony has problem w/ productions.. they fixed it, unlike M$ offered extended warranty and forget about it.

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cloud360-7th_account - 789 days 18 hours ago

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No doubt this is Microsft doing...... Who knows. but all of these games getting delayed just seems weird and after all ms have been paying companies for exlusivity .

And EA is only company streesing how hard it is to programme for PS3. i dont think its whats hard about it, but they aint familiar with it But what do i know

But this may be good. It just means PS3 has killer 2008.

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Jenzo - 789 days 17 hours ago

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You are not very old are you? I'm guessing 13-14.

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QuackPot - 789 days 17 hours ago

2.2 - Clearly

EA and Valve are Microsoft fanboys.

Major 3rd party publishers/developers like Ubisoft, Infinity Ward, Epic are having no problem with the Ps3. So Valve, your excuse is? Are you not as good as Epic or Infinity Ward? Clearly you aren't.

My advice to Ps3 owners:

Boycott EA games.... until they stop making crappy ports and stop favouring one console over another with unjustified delays.

Wait untill The Orange Box hits the bargain bin .... as you won't be missing much. Yes you're getting 5 games for 1 but it's no giant leap forward in gaming - mostly all the same old.

And this is coming from a great fan of HL franchise. No more. Valve u r fanboy idiots.

This ex-HL fan is going to save his money for the great exclusives coming in 2008 as well as the sweet - non delayed - multiplats.

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Daishi - 789 days 9 hours ago

2.5 - @quackpot

Ubisoft and Epic have both reported having problems developing for the PS3. Remember R6 Vegas, and all those reports of the unreal 3 engine not running properly? They did fix it by spending quality time with the system, but EA is not the only dpublisher/developer having problems with the PS3's technology.

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TheMART at Xboxkings - 789 days 18 hours ago

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Whoops another delay on the Delaystation 3? Gosh.

BluRay movies are still coming right on scheduled dates I hear.

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cloud360-7th_account - 789 days 18 hours ago

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the flash portal game is really good. I wud by this game. it wud be the first 1st person shooter i buy in like 4 years. Last 1st person shooter i play was medal of

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unwind_protect - 789 days 17 hours ago

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This is great news, MS Wichser! I wouldn't have time to play it in November (want to concentrate on CoD4 and Warhawk) and dont want to suck in Team Fortress because others had more time to practice. :) I hope UT3 will only come out in January and not before Christmas.

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kingboy - 789 days 17 hours ago

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It`s simply a marketing strategy..makes perfect sense considering this season`s already saturated with game realeases

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m9105826 - 789 days 7 hours ago

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Specifically FPS games too...

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xhi4 - 789 days 18 hours ago

4 - This....

sucks. I might go buy the 360 version now. But it might work out seeing as I come back from overseas in january, but still, Ea = sh**house.

I mean seriously, Valve i swear why did they have to palm off the ps3 port to EA? Like seriously? Anyone......ANYONE but EA.

The 360 version is looking mighty delicious right now.....

Bloody EA.

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jackdoe - 789 days 11 hours ago

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Sony must have killed Newell's dog to incur such hatred from him. Anyway, get the PC version if you don't want to wait. It will be $25 on black friday.

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P4KY B - 789 days 17 hours ago

5 - This is one game thats worth waiting for.

PS3 fans should all buy it when its released, and not just ignore it because its also available on 360. Like they do with so many multiplatform games.

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QuackPot - 789 days 16 hours ago

5.1 - WTF

I don't ignore a game because it's multiplat.

I ignore a game because it's simply crap or a crappy port or an unnecessary delay....especially when there's no excuse for it. Oh, did I forget to mention that it has to be crap?

I'm only buying AAA exclusives for my 360 otherwise everything else is for the Ps3(exclusives and AAA multiplats).

Crappy ports will be swiftly ignored. Crap, I said it again.

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jackdoe - 789 days 11 hours ago

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I only ignore a game that comes out too late past its launch window. Orange Box is a good game for this year, but next year there are so many better games coming out and because of that, I will ignore this game on the PS3.

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Kareem - 789 days 17 hours ago

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EA are still struggling with the PS3.

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kspraydad - 789 days 17 hours ago

7 - Confirmation?

So this only applies to EU...where did Valve say the EU version would be a 'few weeks' ... I assumed they were speaking of the US version.

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Phaqutomb - 789 days 17 hours ago

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looks like its the EU version to me also. does not say anything about the US verison. GameStop.com still has a December 11th pre-release

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JamesH - 789 days 6 hours ago

7.2 - US will be later

seeing as the EA company that valve past it on to to port it, is EA UK then you'll be seeing europe getting the game first then the US

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kittoo - 789 days 17 hours ago

8 - Why did they give it to EA and not some other developer

I mean....why EA and not someone else. EA sucks at programming, especially for PS3. Hell they even make bad PC ports while PC is supposed to be similar to Xbox360 in architecture.
Valve....dont ever again give anything to EA.

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resistance100 - 789 days 17 hours ago

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Althought this doesn't bother me personally as not interested in the game, portal however thats a game i want to try, i wish valve would release it on the PS Store as a seperate purchase as im not paying 40qid for it

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TheMART at Xboxkings - 789 days 17 hours ago

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So now Valve suddenly = EA?

There is NO EA studio involved. It's Valve guys. I'm playing Team Fortress 2 & Half Life 2 + the 2 episodes on my 360 already for some weeks, this is not EA's faulth. It's Sony's by giving bad development tools and not enough support probably. Go blame them!

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unwind_protect - 789 days 17 hours ago

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MS Wichser, the PS3 port is developped in England by a EA internal studio.

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The_Engineer - 789 days 17 hours ago

10.2 - so first "mart"

flip flops on the importance of HDMI when it suits him and now he resorts to outright lies (although I think he always has). everyone and their mother knows Valve pawned this off to EA for porting to PS3.

have another cup of STFU NOOB!!

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Tryst - 789 days 17 hours ago

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Mart: you have your head so far up Bill Gates' ass you are out of touch with whats going on.

Did you know it is Christmas next month?

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TheMART at Xboxkings - 789 days 16 hours ago

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Ofcourse guys ofcourse

You don't need the game but you already have so much to play, sure...

It's just simple!

WAIT B3YOND

PLAY R3TARD3D

and... This is waiting! Enjoy the Delaystation & Waitstation 3

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Martini - 789 days 8 hours ago

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Marty you are wrong! EA is porting this title to PS 3, Valve has nothing to do with it. (noob) :)

BTW: Orange Box is nothing special (not GOTY material IMO) - it looks dated not really on par with what 360 has to offer lately. Portal is the best game in there - wish it was longer.

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BlackCountryBob - 789 days 17 hours ago

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Maybe in the months until launch EA and Valve can get together and redesign the worst game cover art I have ever seen.

Still, it is an annoyance that games are still getting delayed by some publishers (Activision managed to get COD4 out on the same day, whats so tough about it that EA can't manage it?) but I wasn't planning on buying this game anyway as I really disliked Half Life 1 so on a personal level it doesn't particularly bother me.

EA, just make sure Burnout gets released on the same day on PS3, its all I want from you.

EDIT: Did the 3 people who disagreed with me do it because they think the cover art is good or because they want Burnout to be delayed? Just thought I would ask.

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unwind_protect - 789 days 17 hours ago

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Criterion uses PS3 as the lead platform.

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KidMakeshift - 789 days 17 hours ago

12 - You have to wonder

If Microsoft is somehow behind all these delayed and sub par ports. It feels as if Microsoft is offering somekind of lucrative proposition to all these developers and publishers to help undermind (by this, I don't mean Microsoft is persuading the developers to intentionally mess up the port, but more as influencing the developers priorities, port progress, budget, and team size) it's true competition in the console war. I mean the whole GTA4 exclusive expansion packs supports this theory in that Microsoft is most definitely serious in overtaking Playstations once exceeding sales by trying to buy out its loyalist. EA is no different and in ways it's monopolizing the market, which Microsoft has been sued for numerous times. I just can't help to think that there's more to these shoddy ports other than the supposed technical problems developers have with the PS3's architecture.

To gnothe1
I never said Sony was any kind of Saint. Sony tried to take down Nintendo 64, and in ways they kind of succeeded with the PS1 by buying up all the 3rd party developers.

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gnothe1 - 789 days 13 hours ago

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you think that MS would try an buy developers off on the 360 version of games just like sony bought gang tackling as exclusive to madden 2007 for the PS3!! thats right!! gang tackling was exclusive to the PS3 version of madden 2007 because sony made the deal with EA!! an thats something that should have been in the game period!!

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sajj316 - 789 days 17 hours ago

13 - Thanks for your concern ...

Really. I am appreciative of the concern given to the release of the Orange Box for the PS3. I really am. My heart is just so warm right now knowing that TheMart and company takes a genuine interest in my gaming satisfaction.

This is for the EU and not for NA. My hope is that I get it in time for the holidays. If the game is not up to par with the 360 version, I certainly will get the 360 copy.

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xplosneer - 789 days 5 hours ago

13.1 - EXCEPT

The game was outsourced to the EU EA!
So coming to US would take as long if not longer.
I hate EA. HATE.

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bOOmStiCK - 789 days 17 hours ago

14 - Actually, this is great news!

This is tremendous news. I was worrying i couldn't buy the game because of the overflow of games that are coming in november and december.

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