| konkari said: The potential market access has big implications, and I dont think crossplay will bring benefits to consumers, especially console gamers. The 3rd party companies will not put the same effort on games with smaller gamer base and this just leaves the consumers in unequal position. I still remember the PS3 era when 3rd party games where very poorly implemented ports for PS3 and the reason was simply the fact that 360 had more installed base due to earlier launch. Remmber PS4 and X1 early days, when MS implemented "same visual standard for X1 as PS4 demand"because they had less powerful console. Well market economics won and we see most 3rd parties comeout 900p for X1 and 1080p for PS4. And then there is of course MS decision to make XBox exclusives available for PC and enabling crossplay between Xbox and PC. This has certainly benefitted PC gamers but the frankly I dont think it has helped the Xbox owners at all. I mean MS essentially went to less exclusives and focused to multiplayer genres. Why would anyone buy the console if you can play it on PC? Lets take an example, Destiny D1 was console exclusive and the gamers were very loyal and stuck withtjhe game to To make it great. And what did the developer do, made it available on PC and put so much resources on this development that the game itself was lousy. And by the this was the reason why D2 had to reboot, so everything that console players had invested had to be left behind. Anyway, all streamers went to PC, the game was superior in PC so face it console gamers, you lost. Crossplay plays in the hands of 3rd party developers, not console gamers. a |
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| d21lewis said: @konkari, I remember during the 360 days when Microsoft wouldn't allow late ports to their console. And (I think) Sony would only allow late ports if they had extra content. This gen, the PS4 version of games were better than the Xbox One versions almost every time since day one. Every now and then, there was parity but it was almost always a no brainer which console would have the superior version of a multiplat. The game that made me buy a PS4 was Tomb Raider Definitive Edition and that game was definitely superior on PS4. Microsoft has obviously relaxed their "late ports" philosophy, too. They're more than happy to get games like Nier Automata, Crash, and Hellblade a year later. |
