The Lack Of Cross-Play Support Might Have Been Revealed!

General news News 06/20/2018

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For extra spice: a former Sony Online Entertainment boss revealed the information!

Cross-play has become Sony‘s pain the ass especially since Fortnite has launched on the Nintendo Switch last week – on this platform, if you played just once on the PlayStation 4, you’d have to start over. (Which is why Sony’s stocks have dropped by 2% in a day…)

If we can believe someone in this subject, it would be John Smedley, who formerly helped to create Everquest, then he was the head of Sony Online Entertainment / DayBreak Game Company until the summer of 2015. He wrote the following message on Twitter, but it got removed – thankfully, WCCFTech saved it:

„By the way, when I was at Sony, the stated reason internally for this was money. They didn’t like someone buying something on an Xbox and it being used on a PlayStation. It’s simple as that – a dumb reason, but there it is.”

Since then, Smedley explained that it was Sony’s reason a few years ago when he worked there, which is why our title isn’t „definitive” either. Since then, the explanation might have changed, but the reason doesn’t sound that far off even today…

So, the potential reason why Sony backs out of any cross-play towards Xbox One and Nintendo Switch titles is money and the fact that they want games bought for their platform. (The PC-PlayStation 4 cross-play is a different subject – Sony supports that…)

Source: WCCFTech

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