Good news everyone! Microsoft and Sony haven’t given up on cross-play across platforms and are still discussing the much requested feature. Aaron Greenberg, Head of Xbox Games Marketing spoke to Gamereactor and Gamescom, was asked about cross-play and if talks were ongoing.
“Absolutely, yeah,” said Greenberg. “We’re talking to Sony [about crossplay], we do partner with them on Minecraft and of course we would like to enable them to be part of that; one community, to unite gamers. So we’re talking to them and we’re hopeful that they’ll be supportive of it.”
Obviously there is a lot of work still to be done, but at least the two big companies are still talking.
Source: Gamereactor
ron_mcphatty
Ah good. Cross play does seem like one of those things that either side could legitimately say a big fat ‘non!’ to, for whatever business reasons, but it’s nice to see them listening to their communities and at least having a chat about it. Im not sure if it’ll ever lead to XBox v PlayStation championships but if it leads to a bit more community rivalry it’ll be a good… no, wait a minute, it’ll be a bloody nightmare! TSA Towers will be segregated, we’ll all have to start wearing allegiance armbands, the XBox players will probably go all pasty pale and move to a really smoggy planet, then they’ll get all narky about that and try to invade the one that rightfully belongs to the PlayStation players who will fight back but get shot down by lightning thingys, but who will at least be smug that they got quite close to their target render. Hmm.
Avenger
I’d love it to be one community for various multiplatform games. I really hope someone can make headway with this as I think it would be a brilliant future for gaming.
double-o-dave
I could see things getting pretty dam competitive is they segregated teams on BF1, for example in Operations… one side PS4 players, the other Xbox.
MOVE
I don’t see the advantage from a consumer point of view.
SamBeThyName
? You’d get to play with friends who have a different console
Stefan L
Multiplayer games where the player count dwindles unifies the platforms so the game is playable for longer, as well. It’s something we’ve seen with VR games, where they’re cross-platform, which is vital when there is such a small market.
MOVE
@ sam
Not relevant to me – I prefer to go in “blind”. I rarely play with friends.
@ Stefan
I had no idea you could do crossplay on VR?!?
SamBeThyName
But surely you can see the point of it…? :/
MOVE
For the VR, yes. As for for friends on different consoles – are there that many friends who love one or two games, are totally gamers and who has different consoles? I actually don’t know but I honestly doubt it.
For those of us who stops playing a game online, that’s usually because we grow tired of it, not because there aren’t enough people playing it. Again – I actually don’t know but it just seems more natural or logical to me.
Starman
It’ll be nice if it happens and is enabled on all games, but it still seems a long way off. There doesn’t seem to be much pressure on Sony to do it from actual ps4 owners.
The Lone Steven
It would be nice but Sony are fierecly protective of the weakest network in existenec and Microsoft could accidentally damage the ball string tech by attaching it to the servers.
Hopefully, it won’t end up being one side demanding that all existing users must have X account and instead, they will pool resources(well, mainly Microsoft as the one guy that Sony has is probably looking for new cups and balls to improve the network). Or the rivalry(what little there is this generation, it seems) is reignited.
But i can see third parties disagreeing due to server costs and using it to either force both to handle it to save cash or refusing out of bs reasons.
skibadee
Sony is not going to do it so waste of time going on about it. imo
TrumpyMx
Never going to happen. How this PR stunt Doris is this;
Microsoft tell the world via Twitter they are talking to Sony. At a very loose level this is true.
Microsoft demands are so absurb, Sony have no option to say no, Microsoft then tell the world via its shill army Sony said no, brain-dead Microsoft socket puppets every are ranting about how evil don’t are for disallowing this.
In short, this is a Microsoft PR stunt, set up for Sony to look bad, as there is no way to win. They accept Microsoft terms are sharing all your PSN data, and Microsoft brill spin up the Sony doesn’t look after your data shill story, they say no, and it’s the anti gamers rhetoric they spew.
TrumpyMx
My speel chicken is boketh.. ?