MS wants to work with Sony to bring the "Better Together" Minecraft update to PS4

[Cloudman]

twintail said:

Cloudman said:

No, to gamers in general really. Rather than join in with everyone to allow cross play among many devices, they rather keep to their closed off environment and I suppose use it as another means to buy a PS4. That doesn't sound very good to me.

 

nah, the majority of gamers would need to care and alas, where are they?

And please, Sony has has cross platform play between their own devices and PC since the PS3 days, and still continue to do so.

And lets not forget it wasnt too long ago when MS had a no crossplay policy in effect too. Just because they are falling behind they are pushing for it as it makes the PS4 less lucrative to buy if you dont need one for multiplay games (of which MS marketing pull for zero MP focussed titles).  Lets not act like MS is doing this solely for gamers. They are also doing it for their own financial and competetive benefit. 

Well, I'm sure they are there. I have heard some people were upset about this from videos talking about the subject and the opinion on this has been negative overall. When I heard about cross play, I thought it was a cool idea and there is a good place for cross play.

So, does it make it fine that Sony allows it for PC, but not for other devices? I don't think it excuses the current action they are taking.

And honestly, I don't think Sony allowing cross play would really affect their sales at all. It would be trivial at most. There are many reasons to buy a PS4 besides playing MC online with your PS4 buddies, and to hold back for a reason like this just seems really dumb. And I don't really see how this would be help MS anyways.