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===Outsourced Development & Complex Architecture (PlayStation 3)===
The PlayStation 3 version faced an entirely different set of hurdles rooted in hardware and corporate resources.

Valve did not have an internal team of PlayStation developers at the time. The PS3 version of The Orange Box was completely outsourced to Electronic Arts (EA). The PS3's notorious Cell Broadband Engine architecture was highly complex and notoriously difficult to optimize. Because EA handled the initial port and had no contractual or financial incentive to continuously adapt massive PC updates to the console, the PS3 version was effectively abandoned right after its 2007 launch.