| Venji said: I hope PS3 steam will eventually do game updating/DLC/Maps for portal 2 and future valve games too. Thanks for all the very interesting feedback, I agree with the people who believe it would take a real leap of faith by Ninty to let Valve do the online network, but thats the impression Iwata seems to be giving in his interview - that because of the failure of Ninty inhouse team they are ready to choose a dance partner - and valve is the most attractive one available. Valve doesn't need to use Steam it's self, instead they could use some of the framework of steam ( which they can intergrate with there main steam system for there own games) and create a ninty "stream" network with talior made aspects allowing for 3DS connectivity etc.
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The other thing to take into account is that Nintendo has already used strategic partnerships like Valve before. They used Gamespy to power their online infrastructure with the DS and the Wii I believe. To what extent Gamespy was responsible for their network I don't know, but it did say it was powered by Gamespy.
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