It’s no secret that Sony held back PS4 cross-platform play for years, but new confidential documents and emails reveal just how much Sony was against letting people play the same games with their friends on other platforms.
Sony initially blocked cross-platform play for both
Rocket League and
Minecraft, despite Nintendo and Microsoft both enabling players to play across Xbox and Switch. The issue really blew up when Sony
blocked Fortnite crossplay in 2018, and
players were angry. It now appears that Sony may have been holding out to offset potential revenue losses.
In the months leading up to Sony’s decision to block
Fortnite crossplay in 2018, Epic Games had pleaded with Sony to enable crossplay, emails in the
Epic Games v. Apple case reveal. “I can’t think of a scenario where Epic doesn’t get what we want - that possibility went out the door when
Fortnite became the biggest game on PlayStation,” said Joe Kreiner, Epic’s vice president of business development.
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