Valve’s relationship between Microsoft and Sony has been somewhat of a Soap Opera up to this point. Recently, one of their writers, Chet Faliszek, made a couple of comments to CVG concerning what has been a very hot topic – the differences between the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions of the game.
Chet explained that while the PS3 version will get the Steam Cloud and cross-platform play, the actual content within each respective game is identical.
“If you bought the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions and put them side by side you can see they’re identical games. The actual content is the same too across all platforms.”
Chet went on to talk about the PlayStation 3 version, cross-platform play and what it has been like working with Sony.
“With the PS3 we can update more often, we don’t have to have someone else gate that ability. We can play between the PC and PS3 players because we can update more frequently. That’s our thing, we don’t want to hurt [either PS3 and PC users playing cross-platform] and now that we can update more frequently it’s easier for us to avoid that.
Sony has been really great to work with; they’ve been really supportive and helpful for us to do this. “
Portal 2 will be launching on the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC this April.
Source: CVG
icuyesido
Completely unrelated to the article (sorry) but there is a spammer patrolling TSA trying to get people on this Asian escort site, anyone around to stop him?
On a more related note, can not wait for this game, cross-platform would be great.
solidsteven
I thought it was stopped by the Mods. I think it’s a spambot. It used to be in the forums untill the mods killed it.
On topic Good, there shoulf be no half bothered ports and i bet it will be delayed again as it is not running on true vavle time.
I hope it does not get hacked on any platform.
Auntphil
I can’t believe Microsoft will not let Valve update there own game when they want to. That just seems like bad business. I am definitely buying this game, actually come to think of it, it is already pre-orderd.
Dange
sweet, will be picking up the PS3 version if funds permit. So many quality games due out this year.
3shirts
Haha, you spelt Opera like the goby American chat show host!
Matt W [Echo]
I have no idea what you’re talking about ;-)
BryOnRye
Yay, more updates to download before you can start playing it.
Erroneus
I’m pretty sure Valve are going to think of something smart, they are Valve, master dev :)
Ben
The Steam servers should be a little quicker to download from than the PSN anyway!
skibadee
PSN is fine check your net.
Jumping Monks
This is hilarious, I love it when developers do stuff like this.
Jumping Monks
Whoops, wrong article. That was meant for the Dead Space reward story.
gazzagb
Looking forward to this, a lot of guys at school are mainly PC gamers, so it’ll be good to play with them!