Aranea Highwind Posted June 19, 2021 Share Posted June 19, 2021 (edited) After being one of the slowest to adopt cross-play, Sony Interactive Entertainment's president and CEO Jim Ryan has said the company wants more cross-platform multiplayer for PlayStation games. In an interview with Axios, Ryan clearly stated that "we support and encourage cross-play," while also noting that cross-play currently works with such big games as Fortnite, Rocket League, Call of Duty, Minecraft, and Destiny 2, the last of which will be available soon. PlayStation doesn't plan on stopping there, and Ryan confirmed that "that number will continue to grow." That doesn't mean its been a smooth road, however, and it was recently revealed during the Epic v. Apple trial that Sony's contract with Epic had them extra cash from cross-platform play, specifically when players would purchase V-bucks on other devices but were still gaming on Sony consoles. There is also the recent issue with Gearbox and Borderlands 3, as Gearbox president Randy Pitchford recently tweeted out that cross-play would be coming to all platforms except Playstation consoles. To that, Ryan said he didn't want to talk about a "live business issue with a long-standing partner," but noted "our policies are consistent across all of the publishers." Edited June 19, 2021 by Aranea Highwind Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dreakon13 Posted June 19, 2021 Share Posted June 19, 2021 Destiny 2 is getting cross-play? That's pretty cool news, maybe I can convince my Xbox friend to get into it again, since we haven't played in a while and my Xbox Live Gold has been up for a little while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HuntingFever Posted June 19, 2021 Share Posted June 19, 2021 (edited) If Sony is really that keen on Cross-Play, what went wrong with Borderlands 3 and why drag their heels on allowing it for so long in other games? Edited June 19, 2021 by HuntingFever Update. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wavergray Posted June 19, 2021 Share Posted June 19, 2021 The Jim Ryan era keep trucking along at a S rank pace. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BGriff1986 Posted June 19, 2021 Share Posted June 19, 2021 (edited) Of course they do! Given the pricing in that revenue model which leaked a few weeks ago, what Sony exec wouldn’t want to encourage devs to sign up to it Edited June 19, 2021 by BGriff1986 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TalalHmd Posted June 19, 2021 Share Posted June 19, 2021 Forget cross-play, I want more games support cross-save between different platforms 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pieroluc Posted June 19, 2021 Share Posted June 19, 2021 Ooh I would certainly support this, cross play in more games would be awesome so we can play with our friends who have Xbox etc. 54 minutes ago, TalalHmd said: Forget cross-play, I want more games support cross-save between different platforms I think this would be neat, though I am unsure of how much demand there would be for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJ_Radio Posted June 20, 2021 Share Posted June 20, 2021 (edited) Jim Ryan is a moron regardless, though I’m not against multiplayer centric games to have cross play. That might insert life back into some games with a mostly dead multiplayer. Edited June 20, 2021 by AJ_Radio 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Property_Damage Posted June 20, 2021 Share Posted June 20, 2021 Yes because i wanna be matched up against a pc player with all their mods/hacks…im kidding, i really dont 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helyx Posted June 20, 2021 Share Posted June 20, 2021 49 minutes ago, Property_Damage said: Yes because i wanna be matched up against a pc player with all their mods/hacks Even against legit players, you're at a disadvantage due to the precision of a mouse versus a controller. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChecoMayor Posted June 20, 2021 Share Posted June 20, 2021 8 hours ago, TalalHmd said: Forget cross-play, I want more games support cross-save between different platforms Yeah, this. I dropped Brawlhalla because of their "sorry, you have to start all over again to play on Switch" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChenZheCHN Posted June 20, 2021 Share Posted June 20, 2021 1 hour ago, Helyx said: Even against legit players, you're at a disadvantage due to the precision of a mouse versus a controller. Wish Sony would force mouse support on all PS games that support cross-play. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helyx Posted June 20, 2021 Share Posted June 20, 2021 11 minutes ago, ChenZheCHN said: Wish Sony would force mouse support on all PS games that support cross-play. Knowing Sony, they'd have to add haptic resistance to the mouse. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TalalHmd Posted June 20, 2021 Share Posted June 20, 2021 (edited) 43 minutes ago, Helyx said: Knowing Sony, they'd have to add haptic resistance to the mouse. Haha actually I think the better option is to force PC cross players to play with a controller but then again, they’ll obviously use a ‘work around’ for that Edited June 20, 2021 by TalalHmd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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