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TIL people on forums like this and Gaf still play (or act like they care about) Minecraft, I thought its demographics was mostly a younger part of the population? Threads about it never comes up on these boards.

We all know why MS suddenly is a big champion of cross play and why Sony doesn't allow it: they sold 60 million consoles in 3.5 years, they don't wanna share their pie with Microsoft and Nintendo. Especially not with MS who when they were in the leading position, did everything they could to have games and gamers locked to their platform. We would have cross play today if MS wanted it with the 360.

Why would Sony allow other platforms to benefit from its gigantic pool of players, when its another reason for people to choose PS4.

 

Kerotan said:
As a playstation gamer I'm happy. I turned off pc players in RL because they could have an advantage and there's no way to communicate with them.

Ps4 games usually get most sales and stay active online. Not our fault other platforms have the minority share and want a slice of the Sony pie.

I'd have sympathy for MS if they were up for this last gen like Sony were. They snubbed it then when things were equal and suddenly they want it when they get dominated. They don't deserve it.

I dont have sympathy either, Phil Spencer should do a better job at selling more Xboxes and expanding his player base.



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Proxy-Pie said:
"If our player base can only play with other PS4s, more people will buy PS4s to play with their friends." is the correct answer.

Yes..... wonder why he didnt say that instead :P

Would be good for a laugh, if they had said it, and been honest about it.



Teeqoz said:
From a business standpoint, it doesn't make sense for the dominating player to allow cross-play. One of the factors influencing which console you choose is which console your friends have, because people want to play together with their friends. It is more likely that your friends have PS4s than XBOs, so Sony are more likely to benefit from this, and thus, have something to lose, while MS have something to gain from it.

Cross-posting from another thread because I think my comment fits here as well and adds to the discussion.



Teeqoz said:
Teeqoz said:
From a business standpoint, it doesn't make sense for the dominating player to allow cross-play. One of the factors influencing which console you choose is which console your friends have, because people want to play together with their friends. It is more likely that your friends have PS4s than XBOs, so Sony are more likely to benefit from this, and thus, have something to lose, while MS have something to gain from it.

Cross-posting from another thread because I think my comment fits here as well and adds to the discussion.

Except Sony now has to face with a ton of bad PR. Either way this is a genius move by MS and Nintendo (for allowing it). 

It's not like allowing cross-play would all of a sudden turn the tables and make XBOX and Nintendo outsell Sony lol. 



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Why are some defending this decision? Guys stop defending Sony, what they said is completely dumb.



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lol what a sad sack of bullshit that explanation was. Reeks of Sony denying PS4 owners the ability to use EA Access as well. If Nintendo of all companies is ok with allowing their community to interact with other platforms then there's really no room for Sony to use this line, even completely fabricated as PR.

The only thing sadder than that excuse is seeing people ITT and others across various forums actually defending Sony. Oh and while people keep bringing up "bubuuu sell more consoles!", we're talking about fucking Minecraft and Rocket League, LOL. It's not as if we're talking about Warhammer Vermintide or something. Somehow I am thinking that Xbone, Switch, and PC userbases on those games can do just fine without access to the PS4 community. Hell Microsoft fucking owns Minecraft, why would they be anything but happy the game sells well on PS4 lol.



Cross play is gonna get people killed according to Sony.



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believe me ms will do the same shit if xbox x succeed and help them to rise to the top again



Alkibiádēs said:
Teeqoz said:

Cross-posting from another thread because I think my comment fits here as well and adds to the discussion.

Except Sony now has to face with a ton of bad PR. Either way this is a genius move by MS and Nintendo (for allowing it). 

It's not like allowing cross-play would all of a sudden turn the tables and make XBOX and Nintendo outsell Sony lol. 

What? Nintendo is outselling sony rigth now...



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I wonder what excuse they're going to come up with for Rocket League. That's less of a children's game than Minecraft.