Heh, funny, because Minecraft.

'And that's because the best experience is to play on PlayStation, he said. So allowing other people to play would be a compromise' - it's in OP.

In the article linked the quote is: "But actually, we already opened some games as cross-platform with PC and some others, so we decide based on what is the best user experience. That is our way of thinking for cross-platform." - Implying the experience on xbox/switch is inferior to the one on IOS and would be compromising the PS4 experience.

It was a response specifically to fortnight crossplay. To ignore the whole context of the fortnight cross-play situation, wich includes the locking of accounts into the PS eco-system is ignoring the core of the problem. If cross-play was allowed in the first place, there'd be no locked-in accounts, so it is very much related. I'm not happy with Epic on this topic either, but that's not what this thread is about.

Also I was neither being blunt nor hostile during any of my posts in this thread. I don't know where you're getting that from.

Anyways, I certainly hope that they won't continue this behaviour into the PS5 launch, wich is my real worry here, as I've written somewhere above.

I'm not sure there's much point in continung this conversation though, you clearly see no troubles with Sonys behaviour or statements in this regard, while I do. Difference of opinion. Lets move on and not dance around in circles.

I keep hearing this trotted out, but no one ever lists a source for it other than "Sony recently said so".  Meanwhile, there was a dev last gen who specifically stated that Nintendo was open to cross-platform play on Wii U, but that it was Sony who wouldn't allow it.  So, what is the source for Nintendo refusing cross-platform play that Sony was asking for?

Nintendo allows cross-play for Pure Chess

Oct 14, 2013  

Knytt Underground developer Ripstone said in an interview with Eurogamer that Nintendo will allow cross-platform play functionality for its upcoming title, Pure Chess

According to Ripstone creative director Phil Gaskell, Nintendo — which has traditionally had a closed platform — agreed to allow cross-platform multiplayer in the chess title, which means someone playing on the Wii U can compete with a player on a different console.

"...They said, 'Yep, no problem. You can have other console players playing against Wii U players. You can have smartphone players play against them. No problem,'" Gaskell told Eurogamer. "We're still talking to Sony about them relaxing their policies

https://www.polygon.com/2013/10/14/4838864/nintendo-allows-cross-play-for-pure-chess-ripstone-says

Of course  they exist, so you want them to say " just play the games on PC and Xbox ??????????????????????????????? " 

Not sure how relevant this is but I found this article for Microsoft...

https://kotaku.com/final-fantasy-xiv-isnt-coming-to-xbox-because-of-a-sil-723669207

Says it was already decided that FF14 wont be for XB1 so seems like MS already started the no-cross play policy for this gen before Sony and their PS4.  But maybe that changed with their whole "Xbox180" after their E3 console reveal and then going forward all games will be cross play?

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OT:  I can't say that PS4 is the best experience but I do enjoy Fortnite on home console whether it'd be PS4/XB1/NS docked because I just prefer the comfort of sitting on the couch with a big screen TV.  However I did play Fortnite on handheld with the Switch, not the smoothest but was still very fun and quite an enjoyable experience.  I know when I get my Switch later this year I can see myself playing it on handheld mode a lot.

Yeah, you should probably learn how to read the whole post and not quote cut, or you would have noticed that I actually also pulled up the quote from Sonys CEO, wich that the author based his own quote on, too.

As it is your big, and regrettably foreseeable, 'HAHA! GOT YOU!'- moment rings a bit hollow. What is becoming clear though is that the hostile one is you.

I'm done with this conversation.

People do have to understand that there is a different boss running the Xbox division now compared to when they did not want cross play.  Different boss runs their department differently and we can definitely say that Phil is running the Xbox division way different then Don.  In the end, the real issue is Sony locking out accounts if you play on any other system more than cross Play.  Sony has the rights to not allow cross play on their system but trying to influence gamers to only play on their system is about as anti consumer as it comes and any person defending that policy should be ignored.

Does not matter what anyone was doing before. Only thing that matters now is the present. Microsoft being dicks in the past does give anyone else a free pass to be a dick now.

Do you work for Sony? If you do not work for Sony, or are not worried about your Sony stock, then you should be 100% against what Sony is doing and be supportive of Cross-Play. What Sony is doing is 100% for monetary reasons and anyone supporting it should be only supporting it for those same reasons. Any other reasons/defending/ecct is purely because you are a fanboy and Sony is your team.

Again what others did in the past should NEVER give someone a free pass to do something now. If the US started rounding up all the Jews and putting them in concentration camps should I be defending them because Germany did it in the past. No, Germany was wrong back then and the US would be wrong now. If Germany was calling out the US as bad people for putting Jews in concentration camps, should I call them hypocrites? No, Germany is not being hypocritical, they are no longer doing a bad thing and have every right to call out someone for doing that bad thing now.

 It's easy to be for something that very likely won't happen with the majority of 3rd party multiplatform games because the devs don't want it. Even if Nintendo does support it 100%, it doesn't mean its consoles or network could handle the higher end games like FF XIV ARR (which is fully crossplay, sony already agreed to crossplay with MS and Nintendo with game) without a ton of issues that degrade the experience for everyone. Nintendo and MS still haven't ported that game.

Offended? Please don't put word in my mouth. I'm not offended.