Sony Boss: Fortnite On PlayStation 4 Is The Best Experience For Users

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twintail said:

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.

Cross-play is going to be a paid service? this is the most ridiculous thing I've heard. Sony aren't offering cross-play because they want ppl to jump into their eco-system. That is the money play right there. More ppl buying PS4s, hopefully buying PS+, hopefully buying digital games/ items. All of this is money for Sony.

They will offer cross-play as long as they think it wont hurt their growth in any way (meaningful or not), so PS5 could be an introduction point because presumably PS5 will run all PS4 content anyways so existing PS4 owners will just upgrade rather than jump over (not all of course)

Very much This^