Paladins And SMITE To Receive Cross-Play And Cross-Progression On Switch, Xbox And PC

PS4 a no-go despite being "technically ready"

[Kiwi66]

So some more games that will have crossplay but not with Sony again

[slavish0]

U can tell by the announcement Sony policy is why they aren't here or mentioned. This isn't a exclusive feature. Hopefully they will be more open.

[ZaWarudo]

fOr ThE pLAyeRS.

smh i'm a PS4 user who actively plays both Smite and Paladins, Smite especially with over 900 hours played. Our PS4 community isn't the largest and having crossplay/progression would help tremendously.

The whole crossplay/progression thing is still in "beta" with Fortnite, but what the hell is taking so long?

[Kaze24]

What you mean, don't all ps4 users rave about 75 million ps4 units sold? That's all I hear that they don't need any cross-play since they got plenty of folks to play with..

[starchild]

75 million is great, but so is 30 or 40 million. That's a hell of a lot of people in either case. The problem is, only a very tiny fraction of that actually play any given game. I've never seen a game that wouldn't have benefited from a larger player base.

[Jrios355]

Maybe crossplay for Sony isn't entirely ready to go on board. They recently just started testing it out with Fortnite unless there's been progress.

[DragonbornZ]

Has there been any reason stated as to why they arent on board or why they have to test anything? Nintendo and Microsoft don't do any test like this. Definitely internally, but I don't understand this.

[neocores8055]

LoL why yall basing SONY for??? I am sure it wil lcome in time. You xbox people need to talk about why u need to have XBOX LIVE to play a FREE 2 Play game. You talk about FOR THE PLAYERS but XBOX still making yall look dumb asf

[deafdani]

Dude, all cards on the table: all companies have dumb shit regarding online practices that need to be addressed (and all of them have been mentioned in the comments here):

1. Nintendo can't implement voice chat on their own without the help of a stupid phone app (een though third party games like Fortnite have in-game voice chat on Switch, no app required)

2. Microsoft puts free to play games behind the Live paywall as you mentioned.

3. None of the above changes the fact that Sony is not fully on board with cross play, and they deserve to be criticized for this. So, the above criticisms against Nintendo and Microsoft just aren't relevant to this discussion because this article is about crossplay, which is the area that Sony is at fault at, not the other two companies. You trying to deny this by talking about other companies' unrelated problems only amount to deflecting. Demand more, man, cross play is a good thing to have.

[jagermaster619]

Shhh don't state facts!

[Ricegum]

Deafdani

Excellent unbiased post. Couldn't agree more, people need to be united in calling out companies when they start falling behind in certain areas. Cross play needs to happen, Switch drastically need a better online service and Microsoft need to remove that paywall.

[starchild]

Agree on all of that. Great post.

[rainslacker]

Took MS about 10 years to get on board. I think we can give Sony more than a few months while they do their beta.

If you didn't know, Sony actually is implementing API's which any developer can use, so the developers can use them like they use their other cross play API's, and streamline the compliance process.

[Stuee1982]

Microsoft have stated they are doing away with the paywall for free to play games

[timotim]

I thought Sony was down with this now???

[deafdani]

Not fully. At least for now, it's on a "per game" basis, it seems.

[timotim]

Wow smh

[jagermaster619]

For the players!

[gamer7804]

only for major games that are hand selected. Their approval process across the board has gotten way to stringent.

[ToeKisser]

makes sense. when you have little no player base in both of those systems, you have to take drastic measures to keep the game alive.

[badz149]

Burn!!

[gamer7804]

Sony is only implementing crossplay selectively, they aren't really open to crossplay as whole.

[InKnight7s]

Cross play lol, do anyone knows a game called Final Fantasy XIV? This game released on PS3, PS4 and PC. Xbox are refusing to cross play this game beacuse they wants a special server for Xbox. Do You that its Plus-free game?