06-13-2018, 12:01 PM
IIRC Sony don't do cross-play because they don't really have a need to.
They're well in the lead in terms of sales, and companies only do this kind of stuff to get ahead in some way or another. Imagine your friend has a PS4 and Fortnite and you want to play with him, but you also want a Switch because it interests you more in terms of games or whatever. In a world of PS4/Switch cross-play, you'd buy the Switch because you can now play your game with your friend AND buy the games you want, whereas in this world you have a hard choice and need to choose between them.
It's a bad example, but I'm sure this is what goes through people's minds a lot of the time.
Whoever is in the lead during the gen will never really "do" anything since you're going to buy the console no matter what. It's why Microsoft tried and succeeded with E3 this year, they know they're the bad guys, they know they're failing on all fronts and they know they have to turn it around and this was a great step forward, whereas Sony know they can show Last of Us 2, Spiderman and several other games and get away with it since they know it'll sell millions on as 70 million people own a PS4.
They're well in the lead in terms of sales, and companies only do this kind of stuff to get ahead in some way or another. Imagine your friend has a PS4 and Fortnite and you want to play with him, but you also want a Switch because it interests you more in terms of games or whatever. In a world of PS4/Switch cross-play, you'd buy the Switch because you can now play your game with your friend AND buy the games you want, whereas in this world you have a hard choice and need to choose between them.
It's a bad example, but I'm sure this is what goes through people's minds a lot of the time.
Whoever is in the lead during the gen will never really "do" anything since you're going to buy the console no matter what. It's why Microsoft tried and succeeded with E3 this year, they know they're the bad guys, they know they're failing on all fronts and they know they have to turn it around and this was a great step forward, whereas Sony know they can show Last of Us 2, Spiderman and several other games and get away with it since they know it'll sell millions on as 70 million people own a PS4.