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(PS4) Fortnite cross-play open beta now live, Sony looking into support for other games
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Doubt it. I mean, Fortnite has had crossplay enabled accidentally on at least two occasions. So at least in Fortnite's case the matter was trivial and completely blocked by Sony red tape.
Who's stopping you? The "crossplay people" are pointing a gun to your head and saying "shhh no refunds before we get what we want" or something? What a weird thing to be upset about. If anything sony caving in to crossplay is a good sign for the people who want whatever else.
That post is kind of scary. Sounds like they are brewing some sort of exclusive features. We'll see I guess.....
No because Epic accidentally allowed crossplay a few times before and it was fine.
oh I should post a mod note shouldn't I
Updated thread title to try to fit in info about Sony looking into cross-play for other games
Updated thread title to try to fit in info about Sony looking into cross-play for other games
Do we really still need to constantly point out that Fortnite's crossplay is always off by default, and how the addition of other consoles is hardly going to negatively affect gameplay balance with the existence of PCs and mobiles already in the picture.
Is this hill worth dying and resurrecting on this consistently?
Is that unreasonable to have thought when they quadruple downed on it and even ended up basically saying "we won't do it because we're the best"? I had given up hope at some point too
There's also Bethesda's pressure. Losing big games from a pub like Bethesda would be a huge loss for them in the future.
Cross-progression is the biggest factor that confused me in all this. You'd think Sony would want me to buy a second copy of certain games on their console...
Disabling it won't make you better at Fortnite, like it didn't in SFV ;)
Sorry, had to. It's just funny to still see you so adamant about this when there's nothing wrong about it.
I doubt its a limited selection. By next-gen, you'll see most titles being cross-play.
Fortnite is big, but I imagine there might be a bigger title that's coming for which the publisher was adamant that cross-play be enabled.
I assume you'll be able to as I'm pretty sure that on the Switch version you can set it to same platform only.
Wow... big concession from Sony at this point... If they were going to do it, I figured they would have back when it was in the news every day... the fact that they did it AFTER the pressure died down and it was out already out of the daily news cycle is interesting. I wonder what percentage of Fortnite players Sony lost as a result of the prior policy and if the Fortnite PS4 bundle sold less than predicted as a result and that was the trigger -- impact to the "bottom line" rather than some criticism on the internet.
Sony, please don't lowball this just to take the pressure off. You can potentially change the structure of online gaming completely here, in a good way.
It's probably just a switch, but a switch that let you connect to everyone PS4, Xbox One, PC, Switch and Mobile Phones. Not only Xbox to PC, or PC to PS4, everything will be mixed then, I don't know, maybe they just want to get sure.
Also, maybe the account unlocking and Epic account stuff is kinda complicated, before, your account was kinda locked if you had a PS4 account added to it, you couldn't add Xbox or Switch to it then and not even remove PS4 anymore. Maybe that's a reason why they beta it first.
I'm sorry, but please show me where PS4 never allowed Cross Play. Pretty sure we had cross play with PC whether Xbox and Switch fans liked it or not.
Which was a lot of people apparently. Only on this forum would anyone be salty about this lol.
I really hoped this means more developers jump on this
I'd love to see Destiny, Anthem and Division 2 support this since I have friend on different platforms
I'd love to see Destiny, Anthem and Division 2 support this since I have friend on different platforms
Stop making excuses. It obviously never made "financial sense" for Sony to block console cross play because if it did and that's truly why they blocked crossplay in the first place then they probably wouldn't have just suddenly opened it up. Nothing changed in the market. They're still in first place. They're still selling more consoles than the competition. It never made financial sense. It's not first place tactics vs second place tactics. Sony was just being arrogant. They aren't anymore. Good on them.
If this gets added to Rocket League, I will buy my friends a year long PS+ and buy Rocket League on Switch.
I wonder if Epic extending the current season by a couple days without adding new content or new weekly challenges had to do with this? The new season could effectively launch with total cross-play between PC, Mac, iOS, Android, Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch.
They should just let XBox UK take over Aaron Greenberg's role. They get there responses so spot on. Even as someone who only plays on PS4, I always laugh at their jibes.
