Cross-platform play
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I think it was inevitable that Sony had to get with the times here. Microsoft and Nintendo have shown a willingness to work together and open things up, and the potential benefits across the board always made it seem like a no brainer. Each platform has enough exclusives that 'one console folks' will still be able to pick and choose which first party stuff suits them best. The big thing for me is the benefit to third parties... having unified matchmaking pools will extend the life of a lot of games. Laser League could have been saved!
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Updates:
Dead or Alive developer wants to bring cross play between xbox and playstation
https://gamingbolt.com/dead-or-alive-6-dev-on-cross-play-between-ps4-and-xbox-one-its-one-of-my-dreams#nnnMicrosoft is willing to add crossplay to minecraft on PS4
https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft-would-love-bring-cross-platform-play-minecraft-playstationMercury Steam is working with sony to add crossplay to Space Lords
https://wccftech.com/mercurysteam-sie-crossplay-spacelords/Psyonix too but still working on it
https://www.destructoid.com/psyonix-vp-is-really-happy-about-sony-s-cross-play-decision-but-doesn-t-have-any-updates-on-rocket-league-at-the-moment-524538.phtmland Bethesda may not be even add cross play to FO76
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Crossplay for diablo 3 is a question of when
https://www.businessinsider.com.au/diablo-3-cross-platform-2018-10
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@lordbaztion Oh baby. I am hyyype for that. I've pumped an insane amount of hours into D3 across several version.
Fingers crossed for Destiny as well.
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Oh God, Cross play with Diablo is something I might actually get excited about, along with all my fighting games
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@lordbaztion This is fantastic news, across the board. Clearly it's still very early days, but the momentum here is very exciting.
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Apparently, WarThunder already has Xbox, PS4 and PC crossplay.
https://www.gamerevolution.com/news/449291-war-thunder-xbox-one-ps4-cross-play
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Paladins and SMITE will have crossplay and crossprogression between Xbox, PC and Switch.
https://www.hirezstudios.com/Crossplay/
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Just updated the title to Cross Play since that fits the topic a lot more now.
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Games I really want to have cross play:
Diablo 3
Destiny 2
Path of Exile
WarframeBut realistically none of those will ever be cross play.
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@el-shmiablo
They may never have cross play, but this games not having some kind of cross progression baffles me.
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@tokeeffe9 If we want to get specific, the title should be Cross Platform Play
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Epic will make avaliable for unreal engine developers the tools that allowed crossplay in fortnite.
https://www.businessinsider.com/epic-games-cross-play-xbox-playstation-nintendo-pc-2018-12Epic Games is releasing a totally free set of tools that are intended to break down the barriers between players on different game platforms.
There's no way back.
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Power Rangers Battle for the Grid and Wargroove will have crossplay
https://www.polygon.com/2019/1/18/18188207/power-rangers-battle-for-the-grid-switch-ps4-xbox-one-pc
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At GDC 2019, Microsoft is set to debut a new cross-platform development platform with the goal of bringing Xbox Live support to games on Android, iOS, Nintendo Switch, in addition to PC and Xbox consoles.
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@lordbaztion Other than Minecraft, what would this be used for? I doubt Nintendo are going to suddenly adopt Xbox Live for their games.
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@el-shmiablo I believe are tools for developers to make their multiplayer games based on XBL, so it could have crossplay. I guess it's aimed towards indie developers to ease their development workload. Probably that's why MS hired Damon Baker. Most certainly Nintnedo and big publishers won't use this as they can afford their own online infraestructure.
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@lordbaztion You can earn achievements on the Switch for Minecraft. XBL is already on Switch in a way.
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