Cross Platform Portal 2 Confirmed [Jan 18, 2011, 10:44 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
Valve confirms last week's report that Portal 2 will support cross platform play between Windows, OS X, and PS3, while offering details on Steamworks support for the PS3 edition of the first-person puzzle/platformer. Word is:
January 18, 2011 -- Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Half-Life and Counter-Strike) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today announced the Steam features shipping with the PlayStation 3 (PS3) version of Portal 2.
Marking the debut of Steam functioning on any next generation console, the features shipping in the PS3 version of Portal 2 include cross platform play (PC/Mac vs. PS3) for multiplayer games, persistent cloud-based storage of PS3 saved games, and cross platform chat (PC/Mac and PS3).
In addition, those who purchase Portal 2 for the PlayStation 3 may unlock a Steam Play (PC & Mac) copy of Portal 2 at no additional cost by linking their PSN and Steam accounts.
"We made a promise to gamers at E3 that Portal 2 for the PlayStation 3 would be the best console version of the product," said Gabe Newell, co-founder and president of Valve. "Working together with Sony we have identified a set of features we believe are very compelling to gamers. We hope to expand upon the foundation being laid in Portal 2 with more Steam features and functionality in DLC and future content releases."
"We designed the Portal 2 PS3 experience to be very straightforward for gamers," said Josh Weier, project lead on Portal 2 at Valve. "PS3 gamers will be able to simply drop the Blu-Ray disc in the PS3, link to their Steam account from inside the game, and all their Steam friends (on PC and Mac) will be visible and accessible for chat and game invites."
These features are made possible thru the use of Steam, Valve's platform for the delivery and management of games and digital content.
Portal 2 is due for release on the PlayStation 3, PC, Mac and Xbox 360 this April.
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Oh...Xbox 360 gamers CAN play together with PC gamers, but Only with GFWL. It's GFWL which is at fault. Remember Shadowrun? Here's a link to the Bluesnews May 2007 article: http://www.bluesnews.com/s/77659/gold-shadowrun
Or, how about Microsoft's attempt to compete with Steam? Refresh your memory from Nov 2008: http://www.bluesnews.com/s/93149/microsoft_s-steamy-ambitions
Or, after Microsoft tried to negotiate with Valve and when Valve said they would add-on to Steam a feature to connect with other GFWL players and Microsoft said no...GFWL would have to be installed on the gamers PC and GFWL would connect to the game...and all GFWL would do is use Steam's player database. LOL...and they were acting like Microsoft was giving too much to Steam while all the time Steam was getting absolutely nothing and the real problem of having to install a hax like GFWL in the first place was not being solved. The end result? Microsoft claimed that the PC gamers were too good with keyboard and mouse and the Xbox gamers with Xbox controllers weren't having any fun...they were acting like babies. The way-back machine has some details from July 2010: http://www.bluesnews.com/s/112430/pc-player-dominance-killed-cross-platform-gaming
This war for cross-platform dominance was lost the moment that Microsoft pushed their own gaming platform and ignored Steam. Microsoft wrote their own death warrant when they failed to work with Valve. Games like Portal 2 is just the most notable release of cross-platform gaming. Xbox sales will feel the pain...because Microsoft didn't play fair and didn't even try to connect to Steam gamers I believe we will be seeing a lot more games which are cross-platform between PS3 and PC and not even offered for Xbox. So... families in the future that do their research will choose a PS3 over the Xbox.
This comment was edited on Jan 18, 2011, 13:09.
Or, how about Microsoft's attempt to compete with Steam? Refresh your memory from Nov 2008: http://www.bluesnews.com/s/93149/microsoft_s-steamy-ambitions
Or, after Microsoft tried to negotiate with Valve and when Valve said they would add-on to Steam a feature to connect with other GFWL players and Microsoft said no...GFWL would have to be installed on the gamers PC and GFWL would connect to the game...and all GFWL would do is use Steam's player database. LOL...and they were acting like Microsoft was giving too much to Steam while all the time Steam was getting absolutely nothing and the real problem of having to install a hax like GFWL in the first place was not being solved. The end result? Microsoft claimed that the PC gamers were too good with keyboard and mouse and the Xbox gamers with Xbox controllers weren't having any fun...they were acting like babies. The way-back machine has some details from July 2010: http://www.bluesnews.com/s/112430/pc-player-dominance-killed-cross-platform-gaming
This war for cross-platform dominance was lost the moment that Microsoft pushed their own gaming platform and ignored Steam. Microsoft wrote their own death warrant when they failed to work with Valve. Games like Portal 2 is just the most notable release of cross-platform gaming. Xbox sales will feel the pain...because Microsoft didn't play fair and didn't even try to connect to Steam gamers I believe we will be seeing a lot more games which are cross-platform between PS3 and PC and not even offered for Xbox. So... families in the future that do their research will choose a PS3 over the Xbox.
This comment was edited on Jan 18, 2011, 13:09.
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