Team Fortress 2 - unreleased PS3/Xbox 360 content updates

I posted this topic to the TF2Maps forums, but nobody has responded yet.

Even though Valve claimed that the Xbox 360 was easier for them to develop games on, and the PS3 was difficult to develop for (2006-2009 fat models only) before the PS3 slim was released (way before Valve stopped making console games), the patching side was a different story, console manufacturers always charged money for patches being released on their systems during the 7th-gen console era, and the prohibiting of mods kind of what made the downfall of Source Engine games on consoles to have low playerbase. I guess this was very easily start by the TF2 fanbase.

Until the 8th-gen consoles, patches were always required to be charged before being published. Fortunately this is no longer needed for console manufacturers nowadays.

Valve's then lack of PS3 support and pro-Microsoft bias at the time also hindered chances of the Left 4 Dead games from appearing on that platform. Fortunately Valve stopped this pro-Microsoft bias thing after Steam was released for macOS.

Here's a link to the TF2Maps forum discussion I made: tf2maps.net/threads/should-the-unreleased-console-version-content-updates-be-considered-lost-media.40944/