Responding to grumbling about this, that, and the other thing, Valve’s Chet Faliszek has reassured gamers all over the planet that Portal 2 will be pretty much the same game on all platforms.
“To be clear, the core game, whether you buy it on PS3 or 360 is the same, you’re not going to lose out anything on that,” he says in an interview with Gaming Liberty. “But what we have on the PS3 is like, you can play with PC and Mac players and you’re going to get those updates more frequently but you’ll still get updates on the 360.”
He’s referring, of course, to the recent announcement of cross-platform co-op multiplayer between PC, Mac, and PS3 gamers – which has left some Xbox gamers feeling somewhat disgruntled. The PS3 version of Portal 2 also ships with a redeemable Steam key for a PC version of the game.
“We learned I think on the Left 4 Dead series how to update the 360 in a reasonable manner, where probably on The Orange Box we probably didn’t do as good a job admittedly. We’re always learning and trying to get better. And then (with PS3) you’re also going to be able to have your saves up in the clouds so if you go to your friends house and you want to play some co-op you can start back up where you were or whatever,” he adds. “So that’s definitely a step towards us expanding out, and how we like to play games.”
Portal 2 launches 22 April.
