| shikamaru317 said: Both MS and PS leadership changed between those years. The PS of 2006 or 2013 is not the same PS who was initially trying to block crossplay with Xbox in 2018, by 2018 Playstation headquarters had moved from Tokyo to California, with the old head ousted. Likewise, Peter Moore was head of Xbox in 2006, Don Mattrick in 2013, and Phil Spencer in 2018 when MS was making the big push for crossplay that was ultimately successful. But that is not even important to my point, my point was that Sony was still showing alot of animosity towards Xbox just 2 years ago, making fun of Xbox's security and basically saying they wouldn't allow crossplay with Xbox because they needed to protect the children on PS. I doubt that just 3 years later, Sony would allow Gamepass on PS, especially since they've blocked other streaming services that would compete against PS Now in the past, such as EA Access. And that is if MS even wants Gamepass on PS, which I find somewhat doubtful. |
You can call it animosity all you want, it has nothing to do with that, nor with protecting the children. Stop listening to PR babble.
It's all about the money.
Nintendo makes money on hardware and software. They sell their hardware by having exclusive software for that hardware. It makes no sense for Nintendo to port Mario and Zelda to other systems. It does make sense for Nintendo to allow cross play, which just makes it easier for people to go for a Switch and still play with their friends.
Sony makes most of their money on software, their own and from platform royalties. Cross play is less relevant to them since the royalties go to the platform holder where the software was bought. Sony rather has you convince your friends to get a playstation as well to play together. As long as they're the market leader, cross play is not all that advantageous, however for the right price (which I'm sure came later) it was enabled.
Gamepass however, no royalties from games that get played, less incentive to buy games, pretty much worthless to Sony. Unless MS shares a good chunk of their gamepass revenues with Sony. Everything has a price. MS probably doesn't want to part with a 30% royalty for every user that uses game pass on a Sony device and Sony has PS Now anyway.
MS sure would like game pass on everything. They don't have to subsidize the hardware while enjoying the subscription revenues. Cross-play the same, sure come into the XBox eco-system, you can still play with your friends.
It's business, not friends and enemies.
