It’s been the dream for years now – that PlayStation Fans and Xbox fans could play games together. There are games with cross platform support, allowing players from either of the consoles to play with people on PC. Street Fighter V, as an example, lets PS4 players engage in pixelated pugilism with PC punters
Rocket League lets PS4 and Xbox One players go head to head with PC players to, but doesn’t let them play against (or with!) each other. But that could change – and all it’ll take is Sony’s blessing.
Speaking to IGN, Psyonix vice president Jeremy Dunham says that cross-console play is ready to go, and could be running in a few hours. All it needs is for Sony to sign off.
“Right now,” explained Dunham, “we’re literally at the point where all we need is the go-ahead on the Sony side and we can, in less than a business day, turn it on and have it up and working no problem. It’d literally take a few hours to propagate throughout the whole world, so really we’re just waiting on the permission to do so.”
Back in March, Xbox’s Chris Charla confirmed that Microsoft would allow for cross network play.
“Of course, it’s up to game developers to support this feature, and Xbox Live players will always have the option of choosing to play only with other Xbox Live players. We’re thrilled to confirm that Psyonix’s Rocket League will be one of the first games to take advantage of this new capability by enabling cross-network play between Xbox One and PC players, with an open invitation for other networks to participate as well.”
Sony seems to be a little more noncommittal – but is also open to the idea.
“PlayStation has been supporting cross-platform play between PC on several software titles starting with Final Fantasy 11 on PS2 and PC back in 2002,” says a statement from Sony to GameSpot. “We would be happy to have the conversation with any publishers or developers who are interested in cross platform play.”
Hopefully it happens – and opens up the gates for more of this to happen in the future. Games like Overwatch, Battlefield, Call of Duty and Titanfall would benefit immensely from a conjoined player pool.
Last Updated: July 21, 2016
Hammersteyn_hates_Raid0
July 21, 2016 at 09:17
It would benefit gamers yes but publishers as well. It would take the pressure off of EA when they release crap like Battlefront and people stop playing. Just look at the player numbers for Battlefront.
XBOXONE: 5,773 (24h peak: 18,284)
PS4: 10,221 (24h peak: 26,895)
If you toss those together. XBOX will have 10 000 extra players to match make with.
Pieter Kruger
July 21, 2016 at 09:46
I promise you the reason I’m not playing Battlefront is NOT the lack of players to match with…..LOL!????
Hammersteyn_hates_Raid0
July 21, 2016 at 09:46
Is it the lack of content? Because that’s why I never bought it
Pieter Kruger
July 21, 2016 at 09:51
It’s just so…….meh!
Hammersteyn_hates_Raid0
July 21, 2016 at 10:06
Are you gonna get the Death Star DLC?
Ottokie
July 21, 2016 at 09:18
I played this again the other day for a bit. Community is still as toxic as ever xD
GooseZA
July 21, 2016 at 09:33
no easy text chat on console makes it much better. Otherwise I just play with team chat only if I’m solo queuing on PC. I usually team up with friends though.
It’s the same with Overwatch. No text chat on console takes away all the toxicity.l It’s great!
Ottokie
July 21, 2016 at 09:35
This game has no reason to be toxic outside of ranked play.
But I usually dodge pvp games if I can 😛
GooseZA
July 21, 2016 at 09:47
No game has any reason to be toxic at all. =)
Splooshypooh
July 21, 2016 at 22:51
I’ve been playing for a few months now and cant really say it’s that bad… The stock chats made* it easier to communicate with eachother, usually pretty positive stuff if YOU start the dialogue. Out of 53 hours played i can honestly say i’ve only been in 2 matches where the guys were complete a$$holes.
I’m kinda grateful that the stock chats are there otherwise we’d be reading ???? ????? or ???????? ???? too often.
(This took me longer to type than i’m proud of… :P)
Kromas GG
July 21, 2016 at 09:33
PC cross platform with consoles for Overwatch! I wanna win sooo bad. 😛
Dane
July 21, 2016 at 11:21
Did someone say Master race?
Ottokie
July 21, 2016 at 11:30
No. But a lot said master race 😛