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aLkaLiNE on 20 August 2017
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Pemalite said:
aLkaLiNE said:

Cross play between PlayStation/Xbox didn't need to happen last gen, doesn't need to happen this gen. Either way Sony allows cross play and have a richer history in this aspect than microsoft.

I disagree. It needed to happen as soon as consoles had multiplats that could go online. Aka. Xbox/Playstation 2/Dreamcast era.

aLkaLiNE said:

What Sony doesn't allow is interfacing with Xbox. This debate isn't "Sony won't allow cross play". This debate is "Sony won't allow Xbox". And it's hilarious that known Xbox fans are coming in here and trying to frame the issue differently.

Well. That's two faced isn't it? Because Sony allowed Steam to interface with it. - And Steam is larger than Playstation and Xbox combined, it's probably their largest competitor.
Fact is, it is Sony that is not allowing this to happen, no one else, tons of developers have come out and complained about it, gamers obviously keep demanding it, news sites keep reporting on it. - So clearly people want it.

I couldn't give a crap for the reasoning/politics. Cross-platform games needed to happen generations ago.

Also. I am not an "Xbox Fan". Don't frame me as such if that is your intention, I dislike all consoles equally.


Actually PSN has more MAU than steam or Microsoft. And as of 2013, PSN had over 110 million users. That was 4 years ago. As of 2015, steam had 125 million users which was 2 years ago. PSN is roughly the size of steam on its own, definitely over if you throw xbl into the mix. And if it needed to happen then... How did we suffer? I'm curious what kind of fringe case scenarios we're talking here. I remember playing shadow run on my 360 that was cross play with PC and that game had trouble finding full matches a few months after launch. On the flip side, I can boot my PS3 up right now and go find a match of call of duty BO2. the quality of a game will go a lot farther in player retention than cross play play will, unless the game in question is on a dying platform. That's not something thatbplaystation users have to deal with though so how does it benefit us? The real draw I can see would be playing with my friends from the other side. It wouldn't be about trying to keep games active longer.it would be about playing with friends. So on that note, why doesn't Microsoft allow cross play between Windows store and steam?  You want to talk hypocrisy, it's right there.

It was not my intention to frame you as an Xbox fan. I was speaking generally based on feedback from here and GAF. With that being said, I believe you are partial to Microsoft based on your past comments but your platform of choice is PC. Is that wrong?