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EricHiggin said: PS online was free, and is now a paid service, and let's be honest, it's because MS got away with it so PS wasn't leaving that stable income on the table. If PS feels they need or have to offer cross play, but don't really want to, whatever their reasons, they can just offer it at unreasonable prices and can have a much more justified reason as to why cross play basically doesn't exist on it's platform. It's much like PS Now. I'm sure they could do a lot more to make that service much better in many ways, but because the service isn't all the great, people just ignore it for the most part. They will just ignore cross play in this situation. The only problem I can see at this point in time, is if PS allowed expensive cross play on PS5, MS could make moves like removing the paywall for free to play games like Fortnite that have accounts, which would again turn up the heat on PS on both fronts. I would assume MS would instead follow the money and keep their paywall and charge (a reasonable amount) for cross play, since they have a valid reason without looking greedy. If your a dev or pub who has a hit game that can stand the test of time, then cross play makes more sense, but if your games don't last that long, or you go through a rough period for whatever reason, cross play would hurt. You would want people to be looking for the next new game and be willing to drop what their playing now. It could become a big problem for the studios who don't find success early on. There are no doubt devs and pubs who don't mind making a game for PS4 and XB1 since they are so similar, and selling a copy for each platform to gamers who own both, which no longer happens with cross play across the board. Some devs and pubs will want it, other won't. MS said some things and made some policies with XB1 that they revamped to fix the platform. They didn't do this out of the good of their hearts, and they didn't even really do it for the gamers, they did it because they flat out made terrible decisions, plain and simple, which led to a lot of hate. PS never said anything about cross play for PS4 early on and they've kept their word based on what they originally offered. PS never said they wouldn't have third party exclusivity, or account exclusivity. If people have such a problem with it, they will speak with their wallets, and you can be sure PS is watching, and obviously what they see are steady sales, so clearly people aren't that upset. It's not what you say that matters, it's what you do. I agree that PS should have stayed silent, or had used a much more reasonable explanation. Truthfully, they should be on the offensive calling out XB on their own issues, and putting the ball back in their court, but for some reason they have gone from being aggressive, to being petty sometimes. There is almost no doubt in my mind that they responded this way, at this specific time, because of MS saying their gamers are more hardcore, just days earlier. It's like Trump vs the left. It's not a good look for PS. |
Lets be honest here. Any company approaching next gen with some sort of fee/service to cross play will be kicking themselves in the butt especially when your competitors will be offering it for free (If they offer it for free).
Cross Play should be all about weather the Pubs/Devs want to implement it on there own games, not the platform maker to make that decision for them which seems to be the case in this thread. This is Sony not wanting it on a game they don't own or make. This is simply, we want the money and punish anyone who doesn't play this modern phase on our system which is obvious to just about everyone.
Competition is a good thing and its great to see them pushing eachother into doing things better for the people. It seems to be always the case, who's ever in front tends to care less. That wont change next gen either however we have seen positive signs this gen with Xbox and Nintendo starting to work together to make there platforms even greater than what they are, they are striving to be better.
