*heart attack*
Oh, this thrills me. I might have to fire up Gears' multiplayer soonish now. You know... to get pwnd like the n00b I am. It gives me some faint hope that the 360's Live Silver will get some basic online play, too. Why? I don't know - it was just a gut, knee-jerk bit of hope. But who knows? Microsoft really needs to start building on this and that old concept of "Live Everywhere" that seems to have fallen to the wayside.
I would reeeeaally like to see Sony come up with some similar initiative (ie, a PC/PS3 multiplayer platform), but I sincerely doubt that would happen. Now, some PSN games that could be played online with PS3 and PSN games would be nice. Not everything needs to be in HD or have twitch reflexes like those of a paranoid chihuahua on crack, after all.
For example: could Maplestory be pulled off on the PSP? That'd be cool; PC, PS3 and PSP players all together... or hell, Gametap. Seriously; Sony is never going to kill off homebrewing/pirating on the PSP, so they might as well provide a legal recourse for folks just wanting to play old games. I'm sure Turner won't mind having their market expand, either