| makingmusic476 said: Future Valve games, I'm sure. Doubtful for anything else. Any third party would be sacrificing cash by having to pay fees to both Valve and Sony per game sold. |
I would not be that sure. Do you know why steam works is possible on PS3 and not on 360? PSN does not provide game server hosting and need to be handled by devlopers, Valve would need to build some server base for Portal 2.... by why they need to do that if the already got steam that handles online game? Live on other hand do and MS forced Valve to use Live insted.
In other words if you plan to develop PS3 game with multiplayer you not only need to pay Sony for licencing, but you need to take a cost servers to handle multiplayer. So whatever you pay for own servers or pay for SteamWorks it will cost you anyway, not to mention first solution is probably more expensive to mantain then 2nd when lot of stuff is handled by Valve already. Also what about multiplats that already use Steam Works on PC? I think i dont need to tell you that CoD series switched to Steamworks since MW2 and think how cool would be if next CoD had Steamworks features too.
I only see benifit for all th sides of interest, Developers have cheaper better hosting and dont need to care about mantaining them, Valve got more users from PS3 in there system and they can provide there services for them and Sony got happy users with better online expirence on there platform
