Portal 2 Now Available For Pre-Order… Buy It On The PS3 To Play It On Your Mac!

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Valve Software’s Portal 2 is the most anticipated Mac game of the year, but strangely enough, while we’d recommend playing it on your Mac… you’re better off buying it on the Sony PlayStation 3.

Why? Portal 2 will be distributed via Valve’s Steam digital delivery service, and one of Steam’s features is functionality called Steam Play, which allows you to purchase your games on the PC and play it on the Mac, or vice versa.

When Portal 2 is released in April, though, it’ll be the first Valve game that boasts Steam Play on the PlayStation 3 version. Because Portal 2 for the PS3 will be distributed exclusively on optical discs, you won’t be able to play the PS3 version if you buy Portal 2 on your PC or Mac… but you will be able to play the game on your PC or Mac if you buy a retail copy of the PS3 version. That makes the PS3 version the better deal, at least in theory.

Speaking of which, Portal 2 is now available for pre-order from numerous outlets, including Steam, and pre-orderers are being offered a myriad of different perks for forking over their cash early, including $5 discounts, exclusive in-game skins and more. Pre-orders start at $44.99.

Portal 2 will be available on the Mac during the week of April 18th.To run the game on your Mac, you’ll need to be running OS X 10.6.6 with a 2GHz or higher processor, at least 2GB of RAM and a video card better than an ATI Radeon 2400 or NVIDIA GeForce 8600M.

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