— Nintendo Enthusiast:
Nintendo and Microsoft have clearly been getting very close lately. The two have not only teamed up to allow for cross-platform multiplayer in any game that features it but are now also prominently marketing it as a hot new thing. This is in stark contrast to Sony, which has taken a strong stance against allowing cross-platform multiplayer with Switch and Xbox One. What I want to know is—how did we even get to this point? Why is it that Nintendo and Microsoft are suddenly so cooperative? Sony’s authoritarian attitude might be a big factor in this situation.
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Almost unbelievably, Days Gone has just turned 5 years old after launching on April 26th, 2019. What's changed in that time?
For me it wasn't that surprising. There was some bad press before. There's also the matter and element of a person's disposition when trying out a certain game. Sometimes you're just not really into the type of game that you're playing so you put it down because you don't like it. Not necessarily because it's a bad game but because you're just not up for something like this. Reviewers have a tough because no matter what they feel like playing they've got to play what's releasing.
I have many times gone back to games that I put down only to thoroughly enjoy them the second time around because either there wasn't another exciting game coming out around the same time or I just had no other games to play and haven't played that type of game in a while. I'm not the type of person that can just play a souls game through all this iterations one after the other without getting burnt out on the formula.
In my opinion this game was great from the start. Some bugs here and there but nothing worse than the most AAA releases during the same time after and before. All I did was wait one week and I had a phenomenal time with the game. No other zombie survival game comes close to how I thoroughly enjoyed this one
Second act of that game far surpassed the first. Which is why people felt it didn't live up to the hype of the trailers. Personally I loved it. But it was a slog to get your bike and weapons up to skill.
When your on top those below you begin to co operate to try to bring you down. all of a sudden xbone and ninty fanboys are all chummy buddies LOL .personally I could care less about crossplay. as long as I'm getting these amazing exclusives I'm good to go. it is what it is.
It seems nearly everyone forgot Aaron greenburg's comments last gen when 360 was dominating.
now let's try imagining if xboxone was dominating ps4 this gen, would a move like this (partnership) even cross microsoft's head ?
Why is this even an opinion piece?
While I guess you can say Sony is responsible for bringing them together, a lot of it has to do with them both standing to gain something, a fact that wasn't true in the past. The Switch is the only real console where there is enough of an overlap for a company to team up with them (Wii U and those before it didn't have many big third party titles to really bother) and the different demographics make it easy for both sides to work together, without losing benefit.
One of the biggest arguments I see for PlayStation doing cross-play is their exclusives. Even without the edge of more units out, they still have their amazing first party titles, along with a wide array of third party games. What makes Nintendo and Microsoft such a good combo is two distinct and very important facts.
First off, Microsoft will get anyone looking for a more traditional experience, higher performance and/or better online experience, where as Nintendo score buyers interested in portability and/or Japanese games, with both benefitting from their own exclusives. The other highlight is Microsoft cares more about North America (really US), where as Nintendo wants Japan, something that Sony also wants. Since both companies essentially want different territories and Microsoft honestly has no chance in Japan, Nintendo doesn't lose anything with their partnership.
Outside of this, both companies really need to market any advantage they have, so it makes sense they'd make a video. They really have nothing to lose and want to do anything to gain some of the marketshare, even if it means possibly losing sales to their friendly competitor.
They'll drop one another as soon as it becomes viable to do so. I wouldn't read to much into it.