Play Valve’s Half-Life Alyx on a discounted Meta Quest 2Ĭonsidering that Left 4 Dead was released just a year later in 2008, it’s no surprise that the series didn’t its way to the Sony console given Newell’s open disdain for Sony’s hardware.

I don’t think they’re going to make money off their box. “There’s nothing there that you’re going to apply to anything else,” Newell said in an interview with Edge magazine “You’re not going to gain anything except a hatred of the architecture they’ve created. Image: Edge Magazine/Getty Imagesīack in 2007, Newell made his thoughts clear on Sony’s then-current-gen hardware, branding it a “waste of everybody’s time.” However, while console exclusives are now mostly the result of either Sony or Microsoft laying down cash to secure a win for their respective hardware, the reason why L4D didn’t make its way to PlayStation systems is more divisive - Valve’s founder Gabe Newell hated the PS3. The original Left 4 Dead and its sequel Left 4 Dead 2 were both Xbox 360 console exclusives, skipping the PS3 entirely. But that begs the question: if L4D3 is on its way, will it even release on PS5? Why was Left 4 Dead an Xbox exclusive in the first place? Now that Counter-Strike 2 has been confirmed as a real thing that’s actually happening, the Left 4 Dead 3 leaks contained within the shooter’s executables seem very legitimate.

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