Portal 2 sold over 3 million copies, it was revealed back in June. A breakdown between platforms was never provided. Valve's Gabe Newell recently noted, however, that the PC version actually fared better than its console counterparts.
"We can never predict; I mean we just try to build good games and then we tend to be surprised. Portal 2 did better on the PC than it did on the consoles; Left 4 Dead did better on the consoles than it did on the PC," he told Gamasutra.
"So you know we don't try to guess, because we're not sure what value there is to guessing. We've never had a situation where we said, 'We really, really want to build something that is more popular for the console guys.' Because usually we have a bunch of other higher priority problems we want to solve. So we're glad that people want to play our games wherever they want to play."
Newell also once again touched upon the differences in the console versions. While the PS3 version has support for Steam features, the Xbox 360 version does not, and Newell would very much like Microsoft to change its Xbox Live policies.
"Portal 2 customers on the PlayStation 3 are really happy. So I feel good about that. I think that they're going to be more happy in the future as we take advantage of the capabilities that we have on the PlayStation 3 that we don't have on the 360," he said. "It definitely seems that Sony is more willing to allow those things. I think that Sony's made a really smart set of decisions about their approach, and that they'll continue to garner more and more benefits from that approach going forward."
