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GribbleGrunger on 15 March 2016
TH-Work said:

People like you will never be happy with everything! Microsoft can do what they want and people like you will always act like Microsoft is the bad guy. Believe it or not, but what Microsoft is doing is something good for gamers and the games industry. And if Sony doesen't want to support cross play than it's just fine!

People like me also think Quantum Break looks fantastic, MS revolutionised online for consoles and have just made a great PR move, but let's ignore that side of my character because people like you can't be objective.



 

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JOKA_ on 15 March 2016

This type of thing definitely helps the underdog and hurts the front runner. No doubt a bunch of PS4 sales happen because people want to play with their friends. With this move MS could potentially get rid of that advantage.

As a gamer this is awesome.
As MS this is an interesting and smart move.
As Sony this could potentially be an issue.

This is all hypothetical though.  For some reason I really doubt CoD or Battlefront will go cross-platform between consoles.  We might see it with some smaller games.



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Wright on 15 March 2016

Learn to justify your texts, Forbes!

As for the article itself, meh. It looks like something made for the clicks, especially considering the author struggles to make any worthwile point and he himself admits things doesn't necessarily have to turn the way he describe because we've still haven't heard Sony's response. I do guess that Sony saying "no" to the idea would led to some backlash, though, which in consequence would give some spotlight to MS. So it's not necessarily a jab, but rather, a standard chess move.



Flouff on 15 March 2016

How can this move affect consoles sales ?
First the majority of consumers won't even know or care how things work behind their screen.
Secondly, with Xbox games being on PC and all the recent news, there's a risk this move might unfortunatly be attract in the discussions of "Xbox is doomed" which have popped up recently.
I wonder if Sony will even respond to that, when Phil Spencer said everything depends of the will of devs.



Bryank75 on 15 March 2016
The Fury said:

I thought the main reason for this kind of move is to allow games that might have low player counts on individual platforms join the platforms together to gain a larger one overall. This won't change things like CoD or FIFA. I'd presume they will remain the same as ever. MS allowing such a thing is good PR for them in line with what Sony already wanted to do (right?).

I didn't realise it was a reason to make Sony out to be bad guys when they say 'no' to a game that doesn't need it when MS are pushing for it.

Like you say, it's up to the developers, not MS or Sony in the end.

Yeah, it will depend on developers mostly but there are one or two that are close to MS. Most notably EA, could make things uncomfortable for Sony. But that is just a hypothetical at this point....



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arcaneguyver on 15 March 2016

If Sony isn't interested in cross-play with Xbox (which might be the case, since Phil is bringing it to the court of public opinion to put the pressure on), their best bet is to just ignore it and not say anything.



cutzman25 on 15 March 2016

but didnt Sony try this with the PS3 and 360 and MS said "Hell No"?????



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arcaneguyver on 15 March 2016
cutzman25 said:
but didnt Sony try this with the PS3 and 360 and MS said "Hell No"?????

 

Shhhh. It's MS' time to be the good guy. We're supposed to focus on this and ignore the shitty Wn 10 stuff this week.

AEGRO on 15 March 2016
Bryank75 said:

David Thier here writes that opening up Xbox Live to work cross-platform is the perfect move against Sony to negate the huge advantage in player numbers and thus friends buying what platform their friends have....

He does however (conveniently) forget to mention that each game has to impliment the feature themselves, there is no switch MS can press to make every game cross-platform. 

 

Link to the article;

http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidthier/2016/03/14/microsofts-dare-is-a-brilliant-jab-against-sony-and-the-ps4/?utm_campaign=yahootix&partner=yahootix#5d0d4fcc4b46

When +90% of the games on both platforms (Playstation 4 and Xbox One) are the same Multi-platform games, i have to ask:

Which is the No Brainer Console to Buy?

  • Console A, that run the Multiplats at a higher res with better framerate? (On most cases)
  • Console B, that run the Multiplats at a lower res with worst framerate? (On most cases)

The people that are indeed making sacrifices are the ones buying the Console B, just because their friends have it.

I dont think that this move would make any difference at all.



The Fury on 15 March 2016
Bryank75 said:

Yeah, it will depend on developers mostly but there are one or two that are close to MS. Most notably EA, could make things uncomfortable for Sony. But that is just a hypothetical at this point....

Same could be said for Sony. Lately it seems Activision (financially at least), SquEnix and Capcom are closer to Sony. This said I doubt EA would alienate the 5 million guaranteed sales of FIFA in Europe over cross platform play. Might as well just not bother, save money in development not adding it in and still sell crap loads of games.

Again, this to me screams of a PR move to help smaller games or MMOs to gain userbase, it's not for CoD or FIFA. I mean there was nothing stopping EA or Activision doing cross platform between PC/PS4/Xbone right now on those games but they still don't. But for games like Rocket League and Elite Dangerous, it suits it perfectly already. This move would just allow those games to have an extra set of users instead of limiting it to 2 userbases.



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