According to Gabe Newell’s son, the Valve founder travelled to Japan in the course of the Wii U period to fulfill with Nintendo a few three way partnership “that ended up not happening.”
In one other potential deal, rumour has it that Microsoft are looking to acquire Valve.
Speaking on a stream with Valve News Network’s Tyler McVicker, Newell’s son, Grey, revealed that he had performed Mario Galaxy with sport designer Shigeru Miyamoto whereas he and his father have been on a visit to Japan.
If you bounce to 2:22:15 within the stream you may hear Grey clarify that they have been visiting Nintendo as a result of “my dad was talking to him [it isn’t clear whether Newell is referring to then president Satoru Iwata or Miyamoto] about some joint project. I think it was about the original Wii that ended up not happening.”
At this level, McVicker jumps in asking if Grey needs to be speaking about it, however he replies saying it’s nice: “This was like probably seven years ago. It was super casual.”
McVicker doesn’t push Grey on the topic, however this strains up nicely with one thing Gabe Newell stated again in 2011. Speaking to Joystiq, Newell stated, “Wii U appears to be much more highly effective than the earlier era. It type of matches higher into the scalability when it comes to graphics efficiency and CPU efficiency, so I believe it will be so much simpler for us to suit it into our scalability mannequin.”
Whether these remarks have been made earlier than or after Newell met with Nintendo, it appears like there was a time when Valve was seeking to develop video games for Nintendo’s console.
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