Steam and Portal 2 coming to PS3

Valve’s co-founder and managing director, Gabe Newell, just went on stage at Sony’s E3 keynote a few moments ago and announced that both Steam and Portal 2 are headed to the PS3 the same time as when the Xbox 360, Mac, and PC owners get their copy. While Portal 2 has Steamworks enabled and supports community features (like chat), it will not be cross platform capable.

With all this news, it’s interesting that Newell said a while back that game consoles are “a waste of everyone’s time” and “a disaster on many levels … I’d say, even at this late date, they should just cancel it and do a do over. Just say, ‘This was a horrible disaster and we’re sorry and we’re going to stop selling this and stop trying to convince people to develop for it’.”

Portal 2 is slated for release sometime in 2011.

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