{"id":9585,"date":"2011-01-24T10:24:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T08:24:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"valve-portal-2-the-same-core-game-whether-you-buy-it-on-ps3-or-360","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/9585-valve-portal-2-the-same-core-game-whether-you-buy-it-on-ps3-or-360","title":{"rendered":"Valve: Portal 2 the same \u201ccore game, whether you buy it on PS3 or 360\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Responding to grumbling about this, that, and the other thing, Valve&rsquo;s Chet Faliszek has reassured gamers all over the planet that Portal 2 will be pretty much the same game on all platforms.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;To be clear, the core game, whether you buy it on PS3 or 360 is the same, you&rsquo;re not going to lose out anything on that,&rdquo; he says in an interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/thegamingliberty.com\/index.php\/2011\/01\/22\/tgl-interview-valves-chet-faliszek-talks-portal-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gaming Liberty<\/a>. &ldquo;But what we have on the PS3 is like, you can play with PC and Mac players and you&rsquo;re going to get those updates more frequently but you&rsquo;ll still get updates on the 360.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>He&rsquo;s referring, of course, to the recent announcement of cross-platform co-op multiplayer between PC, Mac, and PS3 gamers &ndash; 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.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;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&rsquo;t do as good a job admittedly. We&rsquo;re always learning and trying to get better. And then (with PS3) you&rsquo;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,&rdquo; he adds. &ldquo;So that&rsquo;s definitely a step towards us expanding out, and how we like to play games.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Portal 2 launches 22 April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Except for all the reasons it isn\u2019t, anyway<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}