I think in terms of numbers there are a lot more Xbox players out there than PS ones.
That stands to reason because Elite was available two or more years earlier on Xbox than on PlayStation, however I think it would benefit everybody if at the very least Xbox and Playstation players were playing on the same server, as indeed hopefully "legacy" PC players as well and indeed I wish we always were!
The likes of Need for Speed puts players from all three platforms playing together, and if E.A. can do it, it's clearly not that difficult to do - indeed of all the platform manufacturers, I believe it is Sony that often blocks crossplay in some games (yet they allow it in others, for some reason?!)






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