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Playstation 3 Steam Details Finally Revealed!!

It’s about time. Just as we’d hoped, Valve has told us exactly what sort of Steam features will be available on the PS3 alongside Portal 2 next week.

Portal 2 will have cross platform matchmaking, friends, chat and even Steam achievements that are earned at the same time as PSN trophies!! You will also be able to communicate with your Steam and PSN friends via the console as well as save all your games to the Steam cloud to pick up and play from your PC or PS3 at any time!!

All you have to do is link your PSN account to your Steam account (you can do this right from Portal 2) Awesome.

Here’s the full release from Valve:

April 13, 2011 – Valve, creator of best-selling game franchises (such as Half-Life, Portal, Left 4 Dead, and Counter-Strike) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today disclosed details regarding the Steam experience designed for the PlayStation®3, which is set to debut next week with the release of Portal 2.

The first title to support Steam on a console, Portal 2 offers cross-platform matchmaking, gameplay, friends, chat, and achievements, all powered by Steam. Steam on the PS3 also saves co-op game progress and single player saved games to the Steam Cloud, enabling players to pick up where they left off on any PlayStation®3.

The Steam overlay for PS3 provides access to both PSN and Steam friends, displaying their in-game or online status and providing a quick pathway to text chats, player profiles, friend requests, and game invites. Steam Achievements are earned in lockstep with PSN Trophies and are also accessible within the Steam overlay.

Steam on the PS3 provides access to all of these features once the player has linked their PlayStation® Network account with a Steam account, which is done right within the game. A Steam user can login to an existing account, and anyone new to Steam can create an account with the click of a button.

In the spirit of Steam Play, linked players of the PS3 version of Portal 2 can also access and play their copy of Portal 2 on any PC or Mac by redeeming an in-box access code on their computer. The Steam client verifies the linked customer and then lists Portal 2 among their library of Steam games for PC and Mac.


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That sounds awesome,  I cant wait for my copy of Portal 2



Just listing...

Cross-platform matchmaking - CHECKED
Cross-platform text chats -  CHECKED
Cross-platform player profiles  -  CHECKED
Cross-platform friend requests - CHECKED
Cross-platform game invites - CHECKED
PSN and Steam friends combined - CHECKED
Trophies and Steam Achievements combined - CHECKED
Save Steam Cloud - CHECKED
Linked PlayStation® Network account and Steam account - CHECKED

The day is coming.



And the ps3 PC master race becomes even more masterful. Now I just need to scrounge up money for portal 2.



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Ask me about being an elitist jerk

Time for hype

That' pretty awesome! 



 

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Now I can see all the future multiplataform games released in Steam with crossplay between PS3 and PC/MAC.

That a new step for games industry.



@Ethomaz

Thanks for posting this! So excited for Portal 2 next week and I was still wondering how this would work.



ethomaz said:

Now I can see all the future multiplataform games released in Steam with crossplay between PS3 and PC/MAC.

Well i hope just co-op games because games like team fortress will be kinda unfair,  since mouse/keyboard>controller i can hear people crying about it. 

Can't wait to play this game tho :)



great! Getting Portal day one!



But... I don't wanna play with shio.... :( *hugs his PS3... you'll be shio free..*



 

Face the future.. Gamecenter ID: nikkom_nl (oh no he didn't!!)