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Aeolus451 on 15 March 2016
SvennoJ said:
Of course it's up to publishers and developers. The only MS game on Sony hardware is Minecraft. MS holds the key there.

"PlayStation has been supporting cross-platform play between PC on several software titles starting with Final Fantasy 11 on PS2 and PC back in 2002,”

Now that's a real jab. Ofcourse XBox and 360 have done this too, until MS scrapped it. (cause poor console gamers) http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/ms-killed-pc-xbox-cross-platform-play
Yet somehow it's a big deal all of a sudden. Same with backwards compatibility.

This. Because of MS' stance on cross play, FFXIV didn't come to the xbox 360 or the xbox one (yet but that's really up to SE if they want to bother with it now). Sony was fine sharing servers with MS then. 



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d21lewis on 15 March 2016

Sega did this back with Quake III on Dreamcast. Even M$ did it with Shadowrun. I don't really care about vs. PC (though im sure many are hyped). I want Nintendo vs Sony vs Microsoft!!



Torillian on 15 March 2016
Nem said:

I still don't buy this sudden change of heart from Microsoft. Sony is right to be wary. I'm sure there is a PR play here. I very much doubt MS would be interested in opening up the Xbox live network after they have been so protective of it for so long. There is a secret motivation here behind the scenes.

My guess is that it's because right now PS4 has the larger userbase so they have more to gain from adding in PS4's userbase than Sony does adding in XboxOne's.  It also might help slow the tide of "well I have to get PS4 because all my friends have it" that often compounds the success of the lead console in a generation.  

Could be other things, but these make sense to me.  



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sabvre42 on 15 March 2016
Nem said:

I still don't buy this sudden change of heart from Microsoft. Sony is right to be wary. I'm sure there is a PR play here. I very much doubt MS would be interested in opening up the Xbox live network after they have been so protective of it for so long. There is a secret motivation here behind the scenes.

The actual wording from MS something like companies can have the option to use their own servers to allow cross platform play. This means that actual games that run on XBL/ PS+ will still be segregated (think CoD, Fifa, Madden, Battlefront, Battlefield, etc).



sabvre42 on 15 March 2016
Torillian said:
Nem said:

I still don't buy this sudden change of heart from Microsoft. Sony is right to be wary. I'm sure there is a PR play here. I very much doubt MS would be interested in opening up the Xbox live network after they have been so protective of it for so long. There is a secret motivation here behind the scenes.

My guess is that it's because right now PS4 has the larger userbase so they have more to gain from adding in PS4's userbase than Sony does adding in XboxOne's.  It also might help slow the tide of "well I have to get PS4 because all my friends have it" that often compounds the success of the lead console in a generation.  

Could be other things, but these make sense to me.  

Except that it won't affect the majority of multiplayer games (ones that actual run on XBL servers), and I have a strong (and probably biased) feeling that more people buy XB to play with friends than buy PS to play with friends (for example the sentiment about PS4 being the single player console).



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Mike321 on 15 March 2016

Hopefully they reach an aggrement soon, that would be great for gamers.



                                                                                     

pokoko on 15 March 2016

This has turned kind of silly. All Microsoft is doing now is to do what Sony has already done, which is to allow developers to use the same servers for all platforms.

They aren't going to work with one another. This is on the developer side.



topolino227 on 15 March 2016

I highly doubt that PS/Xbox Crossplay will ever happen, even when Microsoft is open to it now.



Synesthesia on 15 March 2016

The FF debacle wasn't very long ago where the game wasn't coming to Xbone because Microsoft wouldn't allow cross-platform play specifically. Phil even decided to out right point an accuse Square for the problem and tried to twist it into their fault.

Anyone else find it rather alarming some people are acting like Microsoft invented cross-platform play when Sony's been allowing it for over a decade? I guess the PR spin worked on the less intelligent which is a confidence breaker for me with the gaming community, bitter sweet... Atleast this is good for gamers anyway, means a lil bit less toxicity from Microsoft in one area. As like the "parity clause" this has kept some games away so it will be good for the Xbox community.



BMaker11 on 15 March 2016
SvennoJ said:
Of course it's up to publishers and developers. The only MS game on Sony hardware is Minecraft. MS holds the key there.

"PlayStation has been supporting cross-platform play between PC on several software titles starting with Final Fantasy 11 on PS2 and PC back in 2002,”

Now that's a real jab. Ofcourse XBox and 360 have done this too, until MS scrapped it. (cause poor console gamers) http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/ms-killed-pc-xbox-cross-platform-play
Yet somehow it's a big deal all of a sudden. Same with backwards compatibility.

PS4 has been thumping the XBOne since they released, so any thing that comes out that PS4 doesn't have, it's a "game changer", minor as these things may be. 

I mean, I'm all for cross play with PC, for example, in Rocket League. But at the end of the day, I'm still on PS4 playing some faceless character. I could care less if on the other end, that person is on PC or PS4 (or XBOne, now). As long as I get to enjoy the game.

It is good for XBOne, though, since they won't have to have a game like FFXIV miss their console in th future because of  silly reasons for blocking it.