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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It's interesting stuff, I wouldn't write it off so casually. The PC market has accepted these sorts of things, it's only a matter of time before the consoles try it. I admit Sony allowing Valve to do it through the PS3 would be super weird though.
I'm not making any claims, I am just speculating.
Fair enough, I guess we'll have to see.
ASJD wrote on Jan 18, 2011, 12:33:
Maybe if the console actually had some DRM it wouldn't be as open as Linux today. I don't think you actually know what DRM is.
We use the term as a catch all here for "security" more often than not but regardless the console has pretty extensive security measures and that includes DRM. Your PS3 console ID is a 4 part hash based on the device IDs in your system that Sony has in a manufacturers database and uses as a whitelist to let devices connect to PSN. Binaries are run based on signature checks as well and so on. Sony will be able to ban people from PSN regardless of custom firmware, they simply need to catch them first.
The PS3 has system level "DRM" but it's been defeated by a poor random hashing key. Blu-Ray has it's own security features as well. Regardless, I'm not sure what your reply has to do with the topic and even as a forum ding its pretty weak because you don't actually discuss your supposed knowledge. A traditional PC DRM system on the consoles would be easily defeated as it is on the PC and title activation only matters for multiplayer functionality which is another area "DRM'd" anyhow and a method already used to dissuade used game purchases.
This comment was edited on Jan 18, 2011, 13:10.
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