Valve and Nintendo have sort of been gaming chalk and cheese in the past – but that may not be so forever! Valve co-founder Gabe Newell has whispered what is perhaps the sweetest nothing into Joystiq‘s ear regarding a possible harmonious future on Nintendo’s upcoming Wii U.

“We’ve always loved Nintendo,” asserts Gabe. “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.”

So does this mean we’ll be seeing some Wii U Portal 2? Perhaps a new title? …Perhaps Half-Life Episode 3? Cross your appendages.