Precedent has been set. (Gaming)

by Korny , Dalton, Ga. US. Earth, Sol System, Monday, March 14, 2016, 16:08 (3176 days ago) @ stabbim

Check it. Microsoft is claiming that they are now open to the idea of cross-platform play. Obviously, no real impact until Sony decides the same, but still... maybe not a total pipe dream anymore?

PS4 allowed cross-play with PC out of the gate, so I'm pretty optimistic about the future, especially since Psyonix said that the feature allowing crossplay included PC "with information regarding other platforms coming soon". Considering that the only other platform is PS4 (which already had Rocket League PC crossplay Day 1), they're clearly in talks about it.

Here's the original MS article. Rocket League's apparently allowing play between XBone and Windows right now (not unheard of, but the article makes note of it), and the way the article's worded, it almost sounds like they might be willing to allow PS4 players on that very game, if Sony wants to do so? It's a little ambiguous what they mean there, but I found the idea interesting considering we had a very recent thread about that game and the PS4/XBone gulf.

2014's "The Golf Club" allowed for PS4-Xbox content sharing, so both companies have already shown a willingness to share content. This would only be good publicity for both.