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Wouldn’t Cross-Platform Play With Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Be Cool? It’s Valve’s Goal

Posted by: Ernice Gilbert August 22, 2011 in FPS, Hot, News, PC, PSN, Valve, Xbox Live 3 Comments

Just like Valve did with Portal 2, enabling cross-platform play between PC and PS3, the firm’s hoping to accomplish the same feat with its upcoming online-only shooter, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.

“We never want to create these ‘islands of players’,” Valve boss Gabe Newell told PC Games at GamesCom 2011. “You have to be sensitive to control differences, and make sure you’re accommodating that, but, you know, our view is players should be able to play as part of a community on whatever device they can.

You know, sometimes there are contractual, or other issues that make that hard, where somebody, a platform holder doesn’t want you to do that for whatever reason, but our preference is always to let customers play and be part of the larger community.”

It’ll release early next year for PSN, Xbox Live and PC.

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  • nick

    for a game like this its a bad idea, console players are going to get freaking slaughtered!
    nice that valve has this cross platform ambition, but it just wont work.
    hopefully you can choose to play with only console players, otherwise there going to be fish sticks!
    wish more developers would take this stance, especially with cross platform game saves.
    so annoying having to restart a game just because your now playing it on a different system.
    wanted to scratch up on my RPG and stealth skills for deus ex, so i grabbed alpha protocol again yesterday.
    was like 80% of the way through it, took me at least 15 hours and now that i could only get it on ps3 i have to start all over again!
    :(

  • http://www.gamesthirst.com Ernice Gilbert

    It’s definitely a great idea!

  • nick

    not if you want to compete.
    analogue sticks just dont give you the precision a mouse does!

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