Fortnite - warning DO NOT play on PS4, or you can't play on Switch (and quick start guide if you're sheltered like me, and didn't know about this game before)

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Darwinianevolution said:

Johnw1104 said:
Sony refusing cross-platform play was dick, but this was a whole new level of dickishness lol

When on top, you can be a dick. There's little incentive for them to open their platform up and allow people to play with their community without buying the requisite hardware outside of consumer friendliness, and that's not generally a very persuasive incentive heh

Considering how big multiplayer games are and how fast PC and mobile are growing both in popularity and power, I don't see Sony's strategy lasting that long. Why would you want to get into a machine to play the latest MP game, when most of your friends are going to play elsewhere, and your console doesn't allow you to play with them? Considering how important is this kind of casual market for the Playstation brand now, I really doubt Sony's choices here will last further than this gen. Otherwise, they're going to start losing potential sales to other platforms.

I could see Sony trying this at the start of the next gen again. But Sony is getting more and more cocky - basically just like they were at the end of the PS2 era. Then came the PS3 announcement and catastrophic start. Only then they humbled themselves and made actual incentives to buy the console.

I could see this repeating. Depending on what they are planning for the PS5, it could fall flat at first just like the PS3 did. This would humble Sony again and stop these practices