Generally, it is not the publisher stopping cross-platform play it is the console makers, in particular Sony.
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21stamps
Well-Known Member
Why?
The real reason; who knows. It is probably as simple as they are in a commanding lead in the console market so they don't have or need to.
Sony's official stance back in 2018 on the matter from their chief executive Kenichiro Yoshida was that PlayStation Network is the best place to play games, that's why cross-play isn't needed.
Mike S
Well-Known Member
I have a rolling office chair in my room that I bring close to the TV. Right now though since Fortnite voice chat has been broken between my group of friends for months we call each other on the phone and use that for voice chat
21stamps
Well-Known Member
I have a rolling office chair in my room that I bring close to the TV. Right now though since Fortnite voice chat has been broken between my group of friends for months we call each other on the phone and use that for voice chat
The first week of quarantine he was calling a friend on the FB Messenger for Kids.. and talking that way, the downside was only one could hear him... which is why I finally gave in to the microphone.
I guess we’ll just bring a chair to the tv too. You would think Nintendo would have wireless capability, or at least an input on the Pro controller.
21stamps
Well-Known Member
I wonder if Nintendo has put a dent in their sales at all, or if a lot of people just added a Switch as additional play. For us, Nintendo made the most sense with its travel ability and youth friendly games.
Mike S
Well-Known Member
Discord isn’t on Switch so I’d be using my phone anyway.
Dead2009
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The_Jobu
Well-Known Member
A clever ploy to increase demand and get free marketing when every local news stations show lines of people camped out a week before launch day?
No tin hat needed. They're finally learning what Nintendo does.
erasure fan1
Well-Known Member
Personally I think Sonys stance on crossplay is going to hurt them next gen. The whole Fortnite debacle really opened up peoples eyes as to how anti consumer Sony is.
We can only hope. While I do next to zero online gaming, I know plenty of people that do and cross-platform is a big deal to them. The only way I see Sony changing their tune is if it costs them money not to.
Now that PC and Xbox play nice together, it will be interesting to see MS opens it up full bore making people jump ship come the holidays this year.
Dead2009
Horror Movie Guru
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Voxel
President of Progress City
100% this. Microsoft played this game during the last generation when they wouldn't let sony crossplay with XboxLive. The moment they started losing money on Xbox they began support Crossplay and remembered that they use to make games for PC. Both companies have had their shared of Anti-consumer behavior this gen and last gen.. Hopefully that fixes.
Also anyone know how to fix a E106 error on an Xbox on the insiderer loop. You can't because Microsoft won't let users on the insider loop recover their OS to the newest stable release because it's considered an old release compared to the insider loop. Xbox is currently bricked.. -.-
Voxel
President of Progress City
Yep.. I tried all of those.. they failed so I tried to do a USB recovery.. I can't do that because the Insider loop is newered than the USO allows for. I did some digging it appears to be a somewhat common enough issue of the insider loop. The install or something will corrupt the installation and a recovery is not possible until a new USO comes out which can be a month or two...
I even tried swaping the Hard drive.. but nope cause the Xbox bios knows it's on the insider loop.. it won't stop be from getting the series X. I feel lucky that my One X is the only console that has really given me issues.
I miss the old days of the PS3 where you can pop a clean hard drive in and it would install the OS and run..
Sony has always been a pretty "hard drive swap friendly" platform which is something I am a tad bit jealous of. I would really love to be able to slide in a 1TB SSD into my XboxOne X. At least the next Xbox will already come with one.
Mike S
Well-Known Member
Funny how out of all 3 it was Nintendo that went “sure, why not” the first chance they had at allowing cross play.
Voxel
President of Progress City
I feel like Nintendo really learned alot with the Wii U. They still do things that make me scratch my head, but Nintendo and PC gaming are usually my go to options. (Heck, the Switch "saved" me and brought be back into gaming)
I also feel like Microsoft learned alot this generation. If you told me 8 years ago they would bring the full halo collection to PC, make a new flight sim, and start making PC games again I would have laughed.