• Sony: No Fortnite crossplay because "PS4 is the best experience for users"
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Everyone should go to PlayStation HQ with pick axes and start tearing down the establishment, man...
Great idea. Maybe Sony will then also change their dumb position on Minecraft Crossplay support. https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/58120/e2337f71-ff3c-4366-b5e9-fd16a4f283f7/image.png iOS, Windows PC, Xbox, Switch and Android all playing happily together while Sony is acting like a dumb groumpy outcast.
That $600 price tag is almost entirely down to them deciding the Cell BE was a great idea for a games console (it was a really cool chip, but it was not a games console friendly thing) and pushing Bu-ray super hard. I cannot ever recall their price points being that absurd before, but pushing borderline cutting edge technology sure as shit is going to make the marketing team think they can get away with a lot of shit. I'm not entirely sure it's fair to place the initial failure of the PS3 (before the great resurgence) on Sony being outright arrogant. More them trying to do something real fucking out there for 2006 with the AIO home entertainment platform they were hoping to push. At the time the PS3 was still the best value Blu-ray player on the market after all. In their heads they probably thought a system that literally did it all would be worth that much cash. There's some people that speculate that Sony are only being this weird about cross-play as a security measure due to the big breach in '11. That they think giving competitor platforms some form of access to their systems might weaken it. I can't quite follow that as there is some cross play support out there after all. It's just nowhere near as complete as it should be. I quite like my PS4, but I've never been super keen on how Sony have managed the PSN.
PS4 4 the Players of sony products only
I've been mulling it over the past few days and I really think it would be best for the industry if PlayStation just pulled a 3DO at this point. We gain nothing from the brand continuing to exist as it is, and just end up having to put up with Sony's tripe as a result. Plus not only do I think the industry would be more accepting of such a concept than it was in the '90s, I think it could end up being useful. Instead of a discrete console that ends up serving all these same purposes anyway, let's just cut to the chase and make PS5 a standard. It sets a specific hardware baseline - this many TFLOPS, this number of GPU cores, this much RAM, etc. - and defines compatibility with certain other technologies at certain revisions - Vulkan 1.1, D3D 12, USB 3.2, HDMI 2.1, etc. - and then lock that down for good. Sorta like how HTML5 tied a bunch of disparate web technologies together into a single major web standard that we can easily point devs to and say "just make sure you comply with that". Then you can get computer components or entire purpose-built systems (third-party consoles, I guess?) that are "PlayStation 5 Certified" by meeting or exceeding that standard and Sony can make bank on handing those certifications out, and I guess they can still make a vanilla version if they really want, like what the Google Pixel is for Android. Then we just develop our games to run optimally at that baseline like we would a physical PS5 to guarantee that every certified system can also do so, and then we don't have to deal with Sony controlling the whole ecosystem. And when it would've been time for an actual PS6 to roll out years later, we just instead define a new baseline for the "6.0" revision of PlayStation certification. Voila, millions saved in R&D. I mean really, what does PlayStation actually have to set it apart tech-wise at this point? It's not like when people demand Nintendo go third-party without realizing how we'd lose the opportunity Nintendo takes with each new system to try something different; PlayStation has quite literally made its name on just being the "standard" system and being that generational baseline, rather than trying to innovate. It can still be a standard without having to lock us to Sony's own system, and Sony won't need to screw us to make their money.
Sony execs and PR team have been mulling over this since Rocket League and this is really the best excuse they could come up for not giving their customers what they want?
On September 6th, Lets all go to Sony HQ and ask for Fortnite crossplay. The look on the employees faces will be awesome.
Bonus points if you dress up as a Fortnite character and do the default dance in front of their big logo sign.
There's nothing except Sony executive bullheadedness preventing any game from crossplay afaik. Jesus christ, what kind of lobotomised chimpanzees do they have handling the PSN Store?
Well, Sony had patents for console-specific disc DRM, had included Move's lightnig technology into gamepads, and heavily marketed PlayRoom with their camera, so I think it can be pretty safe to say that they tried to do the same bullshit Microsoft took all the crap for, they just acted fast to cancel all of it.
Theoretically this would be an awesome move, but business wise it'd be idiotic for Epic to do I feel. It's safe to assume that the PS4 makes up the second biggest user base for Fortnite, only behind PC. It would be a pretty significant loss for Epic if they did pull the plug on PS4. This is something that multiple online games need to group up for, Epic can't do it alone no matter how massive Fortnite is.
things like this makes me not regret my switch to xbox this generation
Are people serious about showing up in front of the PlayStation offices around noon on Thursday to protest this shit? Because I might actually go there for an hour or so.
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