KLXVER said:
Well if a game sells poorly on the system you own and is popular on another, you can still enjoy it online with many others. That could be a plus. |
Here's an article that explains the MS marketing BS when it was market leader with the 360.
https://kotaku.com/5813740/i-saw-the-playstation-3-wired-to-play-against-an-xbox-360-but-you-wont
"As cool as this sneak peek was, Trion can't let the finished Xbox 360 game connect to the PS3. "Microsoft won't let Sony players play against them," Rodberg said, before suggesting we change the topic to something less sensitive. Presumably the barrier is a corporate and/or technical incompatibility between the Xbox 360's Xbox Live and Sony's PS3/PSP PlayStation Network. Those services are separate enough that people who play, say, Call of Duty on one, can't play that game against owners of the other, rival console."
"I checked with Microsoft to be sure Rodberg wasn't maybe just mis-hearing them. Maybe Microsoft wanted to break the barrier too? Here's a Microsoft spokesperson saying "no," while promoting how awesome the Xbox 360's online service is: "Xbox Live delivers the best entertainment experience unmatched by anyone else, with 35 million actively engaged members. We have a high level of expectation for our game developers to ensure that all Live experiences remain top notch. Because we can't guarantee this level of quality, or control the player experience on other consoles or gaming networks, we currently do not open our network to games that allow this cross-over capability."
So what happened to not being able to guarantee a Live level of quality and control on other console networks? Not as important when your no longer market leader?
Also something else to think about based on what Shawn Layden of PS said.
“We’re hearing the criticism,” said Layden. “We’re looking at a lot of the possibilities. You can imagine that the circumstances around crossplay and third-party accounts affect a lot more than just one game.”
I wouldn't be surprised if some third party devs/pubs don't really want cross play, even if they say they do, because for everyone who buys the console version of the game earlier, then buys another copy on PC later after being ported, or vice versa, is money they would probably lose out on in the future. Also for those hardcore or wealthy console gamers who will go out and buy two or three different platforms and the same game on all 2 or 3, so they can play with their friends who only have one platform each, is lost as well. PS is the last one standing in the way of cross play at the moment, and so it would in a way be up to them to help those third parties, or potentially piss them off by allowing it as market leader and pass the buck onto all of them instead, forcing them to cave as well or constantly be bombarded with negative PR.
No doubt the power of marketing and PR is being used to it's extreme with the whole cross play scenario from past to present.
Last edited by EricHiggin - on 04 July 2018
