Chainsawesome interview on Aftercharge, Crossplay, and why they aren't on PS4

Laurent Mercure of Chainsawesome Games is interviewed by Bammsters about the game Aftercharge, and talks about how easy cross-platform multiplayer is (and isn't) and how it's why they are not releasing on Playstation.

[Shikoku]

Ok not having your game on Ps4 because cross play, something many devs are learning is a very big pain trying to balance all the platforms, its such a fail fortnite on switch isn't going to be cross play with Ps4 and Xbone anymore. So don't release on PS4 and lose possible 90 million sales.....

[Shikoku]

Apparently, the switch thing was misinformation passed around. I retract my statement about that.

[rdgneoz3]

With fornite, it was screwy the wording, but half right.

"Crossplay matchmaking will now see the pools of Xbox One and PS4 players combined initially, while Nintendo Switch and mobile players will be combined initially. Players can continue to play with players across any platform — it is just the starting pools of players that have been adjusted.

Switch players were previously combined with Xbox One and PS4 cross-play parties initiatially. But Epic said in the notes that it expects "an on-average better per-game experience for both mobile and Switch players."

You can still play together if the starting pool can't fill a match and it grabs a switch player to fill the empty spot. If you ever played rocket league, it shows you o
as it searches (in the top right) how it expands the parameters from the initial pool till it eventually fills the group up.

As for this game, hilarious people will throw away a huge install base.