Microsoft is hurting themselves

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lostintheodyssey said:

Alic0004 said:

JaggedSac said:

red_dragon said:

JaggedSac said:

What does Steam bring to PS3?

It's the Steam Cloud. If I am reading it right Sony and the PC can share save games. Like I can play it on the PC and use my PC save on the PS3.

Thats pretty neat.  Is it buy once, play on both?

Steam for PS3 could very well mean buy once and own on PC, Mac (as of a few weeks ago), and PS3.  Which would be incredible.  While not as enraging to fanboys as the FFXIII announcement, the ramifications of this one could really be mind-bogglingly huge...  it's kind of scary to think about.

If that happens it will just be for Valve games.  Video game companies like ea, activision etc are too greedy to do something like that.  They want to sale the console and pc versions of the same game separate.  They would lose too much money if they said you can buy one version and carry it over to a different game platform for free.

Yes, it will definitely just be for Valve games.  Even more significant than buying once for multiple platforms is the possibility that Valve could make their awesome modding community's work accesible to players on the PS3, expanding the audience for their user made mods signicantly.  Valve games and Steam could become like another LBP on PSN.  I could be wrong, but I suspect this is part of the draw of the PSN community, as we know microsoft won't allow stuff to be integrated like that on Live at this point.