I called this back at E3. Sony is signing their own death warrant.

Valve doesn't care whether you own PC/Mac/PS3 and soon Wii (2?).

It will start with Valve games and slowly other publishers will join in. Soon, if you want the best version of a 3rd party game with digital copies for each system you own, you'll have to link it to your Steam account.

Once Steam gets rolling, only one publisher will have a strong enough first party library to distinguish itself.

Nintendo Steam

v

Sony Steam 

v

MS Live

Valve are gonna thrash MS and Sony at the '3rd party exclusive game' that they enjoy playing so much.

Karma, I love it.

I'm getting LBP2 and Mass Effect 2 for $53 AU from importing.

haha and the retailers want to put GST on items bought over the internet; even so it still works out to be cheaper. 

(I bought from playasia and used a $12 off coupon to reduce the price). 

As a side note, I would NOT buy ps3 games from Aussie retailers as they are just overpriced in my opinion. I've also got dead space 2 on order for $48 AU...versus $89 from most Aussie shops. 

why is it that when sony gets something like this the developers just love em but when ms does its because microsoft paid them lots and lots of money. Choose one or the other, Sony obviously did pay valve, as if you really think otherwise, why the hell are you against Microsoft?

Why will sony pay valve for something that valve only needed some time to do? Valve was never against sony or with MS. Because of the "inferior" PSN, valve could manage all this, otherwise the PS3 version would be just as good as the 360 version.

What did Sony pay them for, developing the game? Valve got some new employees last year and I am guessing its because of them they managed to make Source engine 2 compatible on the PS3, and that's all valve needed.

MS on the other hand has no such advantages on their side. Most of the developers don't exactly love working with MS, with bungie gone; whereas many have actually openly stated that they like to work with Sony, David jaffe, sucker punch and insomniac(they don't belong to Sony) being some examples. 

Which is why people say that MS paid dollars. Sony pays them too, for eg. they 100% paid for the AC brotherhood dlc and the mafia 2 dlc back last year. Also for the batman arkham asylum. They might have had some kind of agreement with EA for Mass effect 2.

Since MS doesn't really do anything other than timed exclusivity (which sometimes does happen because of PS3's complex-ness in programming, developers take more time to make a port), people usually think MS paid them to make timed exclusivity. Announcing 1 month exclusivity for call of duty doesn't help, and the new homefront dlc is also, another example.

someone needs to do their research in this one point. There is one retailer... and he is more the head of a retailer. Gerry Harvey from Harvey Norman, Woolworths and Westfarmers, along with EB for example are backing the hell away from his comments. The guy is one his own and if someone the PM at the time passes it (i dont think JG is dumb enough) they will be out by the next election, guaranteed.

Neogaf

I never thought I'd ever want to buy a Valve game on consoles, but goddamn. 

So I can buy the PS3 version to play splitscreen with my friends locally, and still use the PC version to play singleplayer and online co-op, with my save being identical between the two thanks to Steam Cloud.  Crazy.

"linking their PSN and Steam accounts."

future so bright...

why is it that when sony gets something like this the developers just love em but when ms does its because microsoft paid them lots and lots of money. Choose one or the other, Sony obviously did pay valve, as if you really think otherwise, why the hell are you against Microsoft?