Sony wont allow ARK devs to have crossplay between PSN and Xbox Live.

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twintail said:

Alkibiádēs said:

You think less people will buy Minecraft on PS4 now? No, the same amount of people will still buy the game (give or take a few). Those people will just get a less good version to play because Sony doesn't want to embrace cross-play (which is beneficial to developers and consumers alike). Sony isn't just screwing over their consumers, but also (small) developers. 

I never said nor implied that less ppl would buy MC on PS4. I was replying to your extremely dumb remark that devs should just provide updates to games that support cross play. Not only because the PS4 userbase for many games is most likely higher, but because PS4 does have cross platform play, just not with X1.

and lol, this works both ways. MS could easily give PS4 owners the updates but they are holding it ransom as a means to force Sonys hand to allow something that is going to benefit them (them being MS). So Im sorry, MS is screwing over PS4 MC fans just as much as Sony is, and even worse so since cross platform doesnt even need to be a requisite for a new update to the game. But like I said, its their game and they can do as they please with it.

Yes, of course MS can provide updates to PS4 version of Minecraft as well. But the problem is that now this version is separate from the others. So adding some content to it requires to do it specifically for PS4 version. While the version of Minecraft on the other platforms is built on some unified framework which makes adding content way simplier.