Well for those who dont know, Valves latest installment Portal 2 (releasing soon) will have full Steamwork support for the PS3 which basically makes the PC and PS3 the same (but the level creation/modding i believe). Steamworks is an Valve tech they use in there Steam platform for Digital distribution.
What Steamworks allow for the PS3:
Cross platform play: PS3 players can play with PC and Mac players
Cross Platform chat: ability to chat though steam works
Cloud base save shortage: ability to store your data on an cloud server to enable to play on PS3 and then continue on PC/MAC or vice versa.
persistent updates: similar to Naughty Dogs auto sync in uncharted 2 were instead of having those patches interupt you launching or unable to play offline while connected to PSN are solved as patches are done while loading the multiplayer section.
Also all PS3 version get an steam version free (PC/MAC) included.
Now what i can kinder get out of this is that SONY saw what MS was doing with there windows live with some cross platform stuff, and is looking to do it themselves but use Valves steamworks instead (since alot of 3rd party companies uses valves steam) and licence it from valve but first test it on Portal 2 before rolling it out on other future titles.
What i believe this would do is that we might see more of this in other PC/PS3 games.
All i can say is that they are making what will be an great game better with this and i expect Valves Half Life 3 to do the same and maybe Left 4 dead to do as well.
Of Course That's Just My Opinion, I Could Be Wrong
