You need Xbox live gold to play Fortnite on XBox, the other platforms all don't require an online subscription (yet)

For ps4 it doesn't really matter (to me) as I have ps+ and my kids can play on the primary console with their account regardless (yet it is convenient they can use their own account to play Fortnite on the pro which is my secondary) however I don't plan on getting Nintendo live (or whatever it will be called) I'm just curious if I should warn him about leveling up his character on Switch instead of ps4. I don't think he cares anyway, does it make any difference in the game?

Good. You are impervious to logic and don't understand the difference between speculation, accusation, debating etc and you end up mixing everything into a jumble of obfuscation. Believe whatever you want and live happy dude.

Cheers.

Oh so on Xbox you must have Gold? So this is an advantage to the PS4 as it does not require PS+ to play Fortnite. A strategic mistake from Microsoft in my opinion.

In any case you and your kids should choose which platform you'd rather play the game on, which one is more convenient because as things are, they must choose one and won't be able to play on the other (Unless you guys create a new Fortnite account on Switch and use two accounts or something).

Though it is worth mentioning that this backlash could pressure Sony into giving up on their cross-play limitations, time will tell.

PS4 locks out EG accounts from Switch. Playing on Switch also disables the ability to play Fortnite on PS4.

You can play the same EG accounts on X1 and Switch but not PS4. PS4 locks out EG accounts associated with other console platforms. Something to consider.

The same is said about Xbox. It locks you out of PS4, and vise versa.

It just isn't a big deal because no one wants to do that. The reason it has come to everyone attention and is a big deal now is because you have like a million PS4 owners who want to play Fortnite on the go (their switch), so a million people upset versus like nobody upset that they couldn't log into Xbox or PS4 switching. No one ever noticed, cause why would you switch consoles? If you own both, you likely have them both hooked up to same tv and thus only ever use the same one to play fortnite. So it was a problem that went unnoticed before.

watching folk defend this is quite funny

It's not directly about quite a few things we've both brought up, but how are you supposed to make a point if you can't go even slightly outside of the absolute specifics of the topic? Even mentioning that Switch never denied multi platform games on PS4 would be off topic then. I'm glad Nin is opening up and becoming more pro consumer overall outside of just their specific hardware fan base, but based on their past, they were way more anti consumer than PS or XB were. It actually helped PS become as popular as it has over the gens.

Here's an article about the legal matters behind the Fortnite issue. It's pretty clear based on the rules as they exist that PS and Epic are in the clear. It does also mention that there are matters like this that are being looked into and talks about if and or how they should be changed and properly implemented eventually, thanks to changing technologies and decades of anti consumer tactics by many different companies.

https://variety.com/2018/gaming/features/fortnite-nintendo-switch-ps4-laws-1202851944/

It's definitely an issue now and several indicators lay the blame on Sony for this mess.

You'd think some of these people were pawns for Sony with the lengths they're going to defend lol

You were the one speculating while most users were sticking to the facts from page 1 onward, and now you're putting down others for making the thread complicated. That is rich.