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

[EricHiggin]

EricHiggin said:

twintail said:

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)

First off that's not what I said. Secondly, you either replied to this immediately, or didn't bother to read further posts.

twintail said:

EricHiggin said:

First off that's not what I said. Secondly, you either replied to this immediately, or didn't bother to read further posts.

I mean, your exact words were:

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.

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.

How else do you want me to interpret this outside of cross-play as a paid service?

You do realize what you just said right? You point out how crazy and idiotic paying for cross play would be, and then you follow that up with an explanation of all the many ways PS is constantly charging their customers for everything PS related, especially online, which once was free, like cross play is now, except for XB and it's online paywall. Do you not see the flaw in that? It's like saying PS offers free games with their PS Plus online service. No it doesn't. You pay for that service and those monthly games are part of the package.

I don't want you to interpret anything, unless it's a language hindrance. I said "if", meaning certain conditions would need to be met in order for that to take place. Meaning it may or may not happen. You said, "Cross-play is going to be a paid service?", which is worded in a manner meaning a definite outcome. That's not what I said and not what it meant.