Sony's Excuse for No Cross Play With Other Consoles

[Wyank]

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Minecraft owners can soon play across Xbox One, Switch and PC. Rocket League owners will soon be able to play across Xbox One, Switch and PC. There’s a console missing from that equation, and Sony’s explanation for why that’s the case is not good.

In an interview with Eurogamer, PlayStation global sales and marketing head Jim Ryan tries to get Sony’s point across as to why it’s holding out and...doesn’t quite get there.

“We’ve got to be mindful of our responsibility to our install base”, he says. “Minecraft - the demographic playing that, you know as well as I do, it’s all ages but it’s also very young. We have a contract with the people who go online with us, that we look after them and they are within the PlayStation curated universe. Exposing what in many cases are children to external influences we have no ability to manage or look after, it’s something we have to think about very carefully.”

 

http://kotaku.com/sony-has-a-weak-excuse-for-not-allowing-cross-platform-1796077238

 

This is laughable excuse.  PS4 has crossplay with pc for at least 3 games I can think of.  Warframe, FF14, and Rocket League.  Rocket League only has quick chat available between ps4 and pc.  Does Sony not care about the children when it comes to ps4 and pc cross play.  Those scary nintendo switch and xbox users might hurt those "kys" "get cancer" toxic ps4 players feelings. Having rocket league for both pc and ps4 I can confirm that what I hope to be just dumbs kids have indeed told me to kys or get cancer in chat.  But nope.  Sony needs to protect its player base from the scary xbox and nintendo community.  PC is cool though.  No problems playing with PC.  PC guys are not toxic at all. 

[iamcline]

Xbox is about to hand Sony their ass. Sony can't get out of their own way.