Ryan told Axios in an interview that as a company, “we support and encourage crossplay”. The number of games that support it will also “continue to grow”. Ryan also cites titles like Fortnite, Rocket League, Call of Duty and Minecraft as current examples. It’s interesting that Ran would bring up Fortnite as an example though. Especially when recent history involving the game showed that PlayStation is the slowest of all the platform holders to actually support crossplay. It also doesn’t help that, with the Epic vs Apple legal battle, unearthed documents showed the extent of that unwillingness to have crossplay.
— Randy Pitchford (@DuvalMagic) May 27, 2021 Adding to that “doesn’t help” pile is a recent tweet by Randy Pitchford, president of Gearbox Software. The tweet is from a month ago, but it says that Borderlands 3 had to remove crossplay support from PS consoles. Which may or may not have anything to do with SIE charging for crossplay if a game makes more money on microtransactions on another platform. On that, Ryan says that he doesn’t want to talk about a “live business issue with a long-standing partner”. But he insists that “our policies are consistent across all of the publishers”. (Source: Axios)
