Sony response to crossplay

[Cmdr Eagleboy]

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Answer as I suspected boils down to: screw you, got mine, or we are first, and we are protecting our walled garden.

 

[Caramel Clown]

It is well known that many Japanese companies related to gaming are about 40 years behind the rest of the world in terms of accepting realities of gaming right now. They don't understand how Internet culture works, nor do they care to pretend to give a damn about customers. I'm actually shocked at how well Nintendo have played so far with crossplay, pretty much teaming up with Microsoft. Their business practices and legal department are still satanic though.

 

[Frank]

Why would PS4 players want crossplay? It's hardly a level playing field. Do they really want to face PC players who have fancy input devices designed for speed and accuracy, who are wearing headsets that grant them extra spacial awareness, and who have Voice Attack macros designed to unleash the full potential of weapons?

 

[metatheurgist]

It is well known that many Japanese companies related to gaming are about 40 years behind the rest of the world in terms of accepting realities of gaming right now.

Go nuthin' to do with it. In PS3 Sony wanted cross play and Xbox said no. Now Xbox wants it and PS4 is saying no. It's like McCain voting down Trump's Obamacare changes. It took a long time but they got their own back now. Still a dumb move, dumb when MS did it too.

 

[Caramel Clown]

Why would PS4 players want crossplay? It's hardly a level playing field. Do they really want to face PC players who have fancy input devices designed for speed and accuracy, who are wearing headsets that grant them extra spacial awareness, and who have Voice Attack macros designed to unleash the full potential of weapons?

Nobody is talking about crossplay in highly competitive games that benefit from alternative(to consoles) input methods. It's stuff like Minecraft, racing games, arcades, etc.

 

[KillaALF]

Why would PS4 players want crossplay? It's hardly a level playing field. Do they really want to face PC players who have fancy input devices designed for speed and accuracy, who are wearing headsets that grant them extra spacial awareness, and who have Voice Attack macros designed to unleash the full potential of weapons?

What about cooperative play, though? My brother does not have a gaming PC anymore, but he's got a PS4 - if crossplay was possible we could still play together, I might even get my nephew interested in Elite.

 

[bitstorm]

Fully understand Sony not wanting crossplay and (kinda) support it.

For example I bought Dark Souls Remastered on PS4 specifically to avoid PC hackers.

And what happened, PC version rife with hacking, PS4 version free from hacking.

In DS:R you'd even have folk hacking items, giving them to other players, and getting the victim softbanned since it was in their inventory. (https://www.pcgamesn.com/dark-souls-remastered/dark-souls-remastered-softban)

Sony has a walled garden, there are pros and cons to that. Polluting that with PC players isn't necessarily a win.

For example if PC hacking affected the PS4 version I would have bought DS:R on my 1080ti PC instead, Sony would have lost a sale. And this walled garden essentially mean't I had a way to avoid hackers messing up my online which otherwise would not have been the case.

 

[Frank]

What about cooperative play, though? My brother does not have a gaming PC anymore, but he's got a PS4 - if crossplay was possible we could still play together, I might even get my nephew interested in Elite.

Oh dear! I hadn't thought of that. Winging up is a lot of fun. Point taken, but I'll also agree with what bitstorm says. I can remember buying XboxLive a while back to get away from the PC hackers. It was a time when PC gaming was getting me down, what with the hackers and UBISOFT announcing always online DRM

 

[Cmdr Eagleboy]

While Sony could raise lot of other issues what could come with cross-play, initial response are very arrogant. Basically it shows sticking to old console rule about exclusivity. Also shows why Sony values exclusives so much.

 

[Fishy]

Player protection (for hacking, parenting or k+m vs controller purposes) doesn't fly as an excuse imho, since it could be solved with a "Settings -> Matchmaking -> Enable Crossplay" tickbox.

 

[starman]

They should stick to crossdressing

 

[Memnoch]

Player protection (for hacking, parenting or k+m vs controller purposes) doesn't fly as an excuse imho, since it could be solved with a "Settings -> Matchmaking -> Enable Crossplay" tickbox.

Yeah, you could allow multiplayer but decide whether you want PC players to join or not, similarly not allow you to join a PC host. I've got this great idea though, it's called dedicated servers and you ensure the server controls what's going on in the game and not the client. That's just gotta work, right!?