Talk:Cross-platform play

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Pure Chess includes cross-platform play between Wii U, 3DS, Android, iOS. Might be an example worth including. Sources: [1], [2]. --The1337gamer (talk) 13:57, 14 June 2016 (UTC)

Some suggested changes:

• It says Gears 4 is the first title to have cross-play between XBO and Win10, which isn't true.
• Killer Instinct already supports cross-play XBO/Win10. Was announced E3 2015. (Source)
• Microsoft announced cross-play was coming to XBO and Win10 at GDC in March 2015. IDARB and Fable Legends were confirmed to support it. (Source)
• Rocket League part was Microsoft enabling it for external developers (Source)

--The1337gamer (talk) 14:17, 14 June 2016 (UTC)

• A few of these are fixes I need to make, but a couple things is that the new thing announced yesterday, Xbox Play Anywhere (or whatever its called) is a new initiative and GoW4 was the first title affirmed under that initiative, even though its been there before. Further, the RL aspect was considered a first of its kind in that it was Xbox to PC outside of the MS's circle of services (eg to Steam-enabled PC), but both of these I need to clarify better. --MASEM (t) 14:23, 14 June 2016 (UTC)

• http://www.usgamer.net/articles/monster-hunter-xx-switch-3ds-save-transfers-cross-play

The history of cross-play should probably describe the venture between PS3 exclusive Dust 514 and PC exclusive Eve Online. Even though these titles were not available to play on both platforms, CCP Games merged the worlds so people in space (Eve Online) could recruit players on the ground (Dust 514) and work for each other. As far as I can tell, CCP was the first developer to merge two completely different games together. — Niche-gamer 14:20, 5 September 2017 (UTC)

Can they interact directly? This seems like a level of interface that is outside of what most would call cross-platform play? I'm not sure on the mechanics so we'd need some articles, and that might help figure out how it fits. --MASEM (t) 14:31, 5 September 2017 (UTC)

You could interact insofar as you could recruit people to your cause and the outcome of a battle in one game would directly influence the other. You could post contracts and both games were linked via party chat and had lobbies. Basically co-op cross-play, but it was unique in that it linked two different games together. You can learn more on each game article. [3][4]

Though there are RS-reported confirmations of cross-play between PC, PS4, and XOne for Fortnite (eg [5], [https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/18/16327964/xbox-playstation-4-cross-platform-play-fortnite), effectively making it the first game to support this type of cross-platform play, I am going to suggest we hold off until either any of Epic, Sony, or MS comment on it. --MASEM (t) 19:38, 18 September 2017 (UTC)

And even as I wrote this up, Epic fixed a "configuration issue" that disables this. [6]. It obviously shows the technical ease, and leaves it as a business issue, but I'd want to see more before knowing what to add. --MASEM (t) 19:40, 18 September 2017 (UTC)

Section 2, titled "History", closes with the following statement:"It is also suggested that cross-platform play has been restricted by console makers as to assure players remain with their platform for future games. Kyle Orland for Ars Technica notes that if a player wants to continue playing new games with friends, the lack of cross-platform play requires them to continue to purchase the new games for that console platform, creating "powerful network effects" which rises the question on this post's subject line, namely, "It is also suggested.." by whom? --Fandelasketchup (talk) 18:13, 28 April 2020 (UTC)

Well for one, Kyle Orland. Ideally we'd have one or two more. The statement is something I know I've seen but its a very "tin foil hat"-ish statement and one we need to be careful to state with attribution and not as fact. --Masem (t) 20:29, 28 April 2020 (UTC)

I thought that statement was a bit childish too, reading something like that on a Wikipedia article came as.a surprise as it's something that you might hear from a 5 y.o. kid telling his friends about. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.115.112.243 (talk) 15:26, 18 July 2020 (UTC)