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Sony Says You Can't Have Cross-Play Because PlayStation is the Best

posted by chromas on Saturday September 01 2018, @02:20PM   Printer-friendly
from the Damn-right-its-better-than-yours,-I-can-teach-you,-But-I-have-to-charge dept.

Bytram (from IRC) writes:

CNET:

Sony doesn't want you to play with your Xbox or Switch friends, I argued last June. We've known since 2016 that Sony is the only company standing in the way of buddies being able to team up across PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and PC, since there's no technological limitation.

And though Sony has since been shown up by Microsoft and Nintendo, and though Sony enraged the Fortnite community, and though Fallout developer Bethesda has badmouthed Sony about cross-play and threatened to hold another game hostage, and even though PlayStation America CEO Shawn Layden suggested Sony might have actually gotten the message...

...today, Sony CEO Kenichiro Yoshida reportedly told the press that his company generally doesn't believe in the idea of opening up the PlayStation to cross-platform multiplayer.

"On cross-platform, our way of thinking is always that PlayStation is the best place to play. Fortnite, I believe, partnered with PlayStation 4 is the best experience for users, that's our belief," he said, according to The Independent.

Previously: Sony Faces Growing 'Fortnite' Backlash At E3
Bethesda Clashes With Sony on PS4 Cross-Play, Changes Review Policy

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 01 2018, @03:42PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 01 2018, @03:42PM (#729252)

    Pretty fucked up analogy there pal. If the PS4 had the processing power of a Colecovision, the comparison would probably work. Or are you saying North Korea a peaceful 1st world nation, to compare it to the alternatives.

  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 01 2018, @04:36PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 01 2018, @04:36PM (#729258)

    Don't you love your country? North Korea is crappy because our esteemed leaders say it is crappy. That should be enough for you. They can say that because most of the sheep have not actually traveled there to see it with their own eyes. They would have you believe that people in NK/Syria/Iran/Whoever-they-say-is-the-enemy are less than human.

    • (Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday September 01 2018, @04:50PM (2 children)

      by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Saturday September 01 2018, @04:50PM (#729261) Journal

      They would have you believe that people in NK/Syria/Iran/Whoever-they-say-is-the-enemy are less than human.

      It has nothing to do with the fact that those countries are oppressive and/or war-torn. No, we would like to reiterate that all of the inhabitants are like cockroaches!

      ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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      • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 02 2018, @12:27AM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 02 2018, @12:27AM (#729363)

        Those countries were doing okay until some ass-hat country came in and screwed things up.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 02 2018, @04:28PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 02 2018, @04:28PM (#729564)

          uhh, those were democracy bombs!