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BMaker11 on 04 July 2016
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Trunkin said:
BMaker11 said:

You've fallen for the "illusion" of choice (we can all play together regardless. That would be awesome!). Competition, which is a good thing, means choice. Everybody having all the same things is not competition and therefore is not choice. 

Everyone will not have the same things. There will still be "Windows" exclusives and Playststion exclusives. No cross-platform multiplayer there. For the abundance of titles that release on all  platforms, though? All gamers would stand to gain from that. Some more thsn others, of course. No one who prefers Sony's exclusives would be forced to "choose" to buy an Xbox because all thier friends have one, or vice versa. Your choice of gaming platform would be solely in your hands, and the platform holders can compete for your money with all the other features they uniquely offer.

I dunno, kinda sounds like you'll still have both choice and competition in a world where multiplats all support cross plat multiplayer.

Wouldn't that cannabalize the longevity of their exclusives, though? The argument for allowing all these games to be cross play amongst each other is that it increases the game's community, so people will play longer. There wouldn't be parity. Who's gonna still want to play Halo 5, when everyone is still playing some multiplatform game that still has a huge community? Nobody's gonna pick up Halo 5 in 2017, when you could just as easily pick up Advanced Warfare and not have a problem finding a match (I know Halo, itself, has longevity, but I'm just using it as an example) because people on PS4 and PC can play with you. 

I don't see how sabotaging your games' player bases would be beneficial to either the companies or the consumers.