While I was highly skeptical of some news last week about cross-platform play for PS3 and PC versions of Portal 2, I was proven wrong - hard. Valve announced today that not only was there cross-platform play, but that it would include all of the benefits of Steamworks including Steam cloud support and PS3 owners would get a code for a copy of the PC version for free. Granted, it has to be locked in to your PSN account but still - that's a crazy deal. Valve is certainly setting a hell of a precedent here for their new PS3 support - I hope it pays off for them. Do you think other games (not necessarily just Valve but maybe some indie games) could support this kind of stuff in the future as well?
 
What's more interesting is whether or not it will affect Microsoft's stance on their platform. Valve has made it pretty clear that they weren't too keen on being forced to sell TF2 updates or the lack of Steam support on 360 - will the assumed success of this perhaps make them change their opinion?
 
 http://kotaku.com/5736343/portals-creators-are-handing-out-free-games