Sony has once again reiterated its stance on cross-platform play following Microsoft's supposed statement regarding the concept. Speaking to Sony bigwig Adam Boyes at GDC, Game Informer reports that the Japanese giant certainly isn't against the idea of cross-platform play - but again, this is nothing new as far as Sony's concerned.
"For us, it's not a new thing", Boyes states. "If you go back to PS3 days, we had Dust 514 tied into EVE Online. Paragon is PS4/PC cross-play, and so is Street Fighter V. There are a ton of games that have had it. Portal 2 had Steam integration, and we've had other games that have allowed you to import your Xbox save content on PlayStation, like Diablo III and Grand Theft Auto V," he explains.
However, even taking Sony's apparent open attitude into account, Boyes goes on to say that cross-platform play isn't something that the company can just enable across every title that appears on its systems. "It's all about what the developers and publishers want to do. They get in touch with us and handle everything on a case by case basis," he reveals.
We reckon that's a fair response, but what do you make of all this cross-platform patter? Jump the gun in the comments section below.
[source gameinformer.com]
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Pretty much word for word what I said Sony would say.
@adf86 you deserve a custard creme
@Bad-MuthaAdebisi Bit harsh ain't it? Custard Creams are the jost dangerous biscuits in the UK, it's true...it's on the Internet
@Neolit I've alway felt that major gaming sites have had bias to certain companies for long time. It's why I moved away from all but one of them and just focused on smaller sites such as this because it has a far better community and content that's more relevant to me.
@Neolit The only major site I visit regularly is Eurogamer, largely because of their Digital Foundry articles but I'd be lying if they haven't annoyed a few times.
FFXIV:ARR's also a cross-platform game between the PC and PS3/PS4.
Microsoft seems to have run out of ideas this Gen. Well the last few years they have.
Of course it's not new but as comments on other articles have already alluded to Sony doesn't benefit from that at all nor does it benefit MS either. The only reason MS is even talking about it is because Phil Spencer is trying to do whatever to make MS look like a 'nice' company. The people who are riding his d**k need to grow up and realize he's just a businessman and none of these giant corporations are our friends. No matter how 'innovative' some websites and MS fanboys want to paint this as, it's not a new concept and it's certainly not one that benefits any company except the one that is in second place at the time. Obviously if the roles were reversed and Xbox One were the console closing in 40 mil with PS4 lagging behind, MS would not be singing this tune and it'd be foolish to think otherwise. I don't remember MS talking this idea up last-gen.
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