While Valve has always admired Nintendo, the company remains distant from the Wii for an obvious reason, the lack of power under the hood. Has the recent Wii U announcement piqued Valve’s interest? You betcha.

Speaking to Joystiq at the Games For Change event in NYC, Valve co-founder Gabe Newell says the Wii U may be a good fit within the company’s development framework, referencing improvements on the graphics and CPU side:

Wii U seems to be a lot more powerful than the previous generation. It sort of fits better into the scalability in terms of graphics performance and CPU performance, so I think it’ll be a lot easier for us to fit it into our scalability model.

Now it’s a lot easier to look at Wii U and have it fit within that framework.

Half Life 3 on PC, Xbox 360, PS3, and… Wii U?

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