Valve’s Gabe Newell appeared at Sony’s E3 press conference to say Steam is coming to the PlayStation Network, and Portal 2 will be available for the PS3 on the same day it releases for Xbox 360 and PC.
CORRECTION: Portal 2 will be “Steamworks enabled”, which includes community support features, such as chat. It will not accommodate cross-platform play.
Newell said the new features will make Portal 2 “the best version on any console.”
Launch and release dates were not announced; Portal 2 will release sometime in 2011.
Newell made the announcement at Sony’s E3 news conference just moments ago.
[Image via GameTrailers]
El Phantasmogoro
Wednesday, June 16, 2010 at 9:49 AMSo have Valve stopped hating the PS3 or do they just realise they are missing out on a revenue stream?
Peter Richards
Wednesday, June 16, 2010 at 9:50 AMAs a Mac and PS3 owner, I will be givin’ Gabe some love.. in the shape of my wages over the coming months.
Bish
Wednesday, June 16, 2010 at 10:00 AMWait, so is this the surprise Valve thingy?
Because if this is, it’s underwhelming and Freeman-less, and, just, god damn you Gabe Newell.
Jeremy
Wednesday, June 16, 2010 at 6:45 PMGod I hope that wasn’t all it was.
I want Ep 3. So much.
Matthew Dive
Wednesday, June 16, 2010 at 10:09 AMIs this the same Gabe Newell who has verbally lambasted the PS3 at every oportunity in the past? Who said the PS3 was “a waste of everybody’s time”, “gives you no long-term benefits”, “a total disaster on so many levels” and basically refused to ever develop for it?
It’s amazing what a turnaround in console sales can do, isn’t it?
Craig Self
Wednesday, June 16, 2010 at 10:16 AMI, for one, am just going to come out and say it…….WAHOO!!!
Scared
Wednesday, June 16, 2010 at 10:20 AMSteam coming for PSN? Wow I never saw that coming. I wonder what it will include.
Braaains
Wednesday, June 16, 2010 at 11:50 AMNext: Left 4 Dead 1 & 2 combined into a single package for PS3, please.
Ripley McStoner
Wednesday, June 16, 2010 at 11:56 AMSo why do we have to wait til next to actually play Portal?? Man its takin for eva!!!
Ben Routledge
Wednesday, June 16, 2010 at 12:57 PMI guess this is the culmination of the those PS3 developers Valve head hunted a little while ago.
Jamie
Wednesday, June 16, 2010 at 1:03 PMThe bean counters at Valve tried to convince Gabe Newell how many thousands of dollars’ worth of potential income they were losing out on by not developing for PS3, but he wasn’t having a bar of it.
Then they came back to him with charts expressing the potential earnings in terms of the number of pies he could buy with them, and suddenly he saw the light.
Jay
Wednesday, June 16, 2010 at 1:19 PMIs the “Steamworks” because the PS3 has a web browser or something? So its basically only chat so you can talk to people playing Steam on PC, playing an entirely different game. Your Steam PC account on your PS3 or something…????
Braaains
Wednesday, June 16, 2010 at 2:42 PMGiven the loss of Insomniac exclusivity (although they may continue to work on Sony exclusives like Resistance in addition to their multiplat stuff), Sony would have to be pretty happy with the developers they’ve picked up at the same time. Gaining Bungie and Valve as PS3 developers would have to be seen as a net win by Sony.
Jones
Wednesday, June 16, 2010 at 5:35 PMOH THANK YOU!!! The ps3 shouldn’t miss out on such awesome Valve titles as Portal 2 and whatever form Gordon Freeman returns in. I was always delighted with the supposedly cruddy port of The Orange Box so even if Valve bag this version of Portal 2 at least I’ll be able to play it.