Former Sony’s John Smedley has apparently revealed the reason why the Japanese platform owner is not allowing any developer to apply cross-play functionalities to their games when played on PlayStation 4.
According to Smedley, who led the online division of the developer and publisher before founding Daybreak Games, it’s all a matter of money, which would be spent on other platform allowing anyway users to play that paid content on PS4.
“When I was at Sony, the stated reason internally for this was money. They didn’t like someone buying something on an Xbox and it being used on a PlayStation,” he revealed in a tweet. “Simple as that. dumb reason, but there it is.”
Things are getting weirder lately because with Fortnite it even seems that if you link your PlayStation account to your Epic Games account you’re out of the cross-play feature on all the other platforms, too.
So this is the main reason why Sony has to do something and take a position after all of this time, now that there is a so much popular game for which people are demanding the cross-play functionality. Is this coming any time soon?
btw when I was at Sony, the stated reason internally for this was money. They didn’t like someone buying something on an Xbox and it being used on a Playstation. simple as that. dumb reason, but there it is.
— John Smedley (@j_smedley) June 18, 2018
