This is factually wrong. Switch - Xbox One crossplay exists for many more titles not using the Live ID (Rocket League, Fortnite, Paladins etc.). For their own games - and Minecraft is a Microsoft game - they are obviously free with how they handle that. Because of Realms coming soon it just makes sense to handle accounts like that. That said, all the other games prove that Microsoft supports crossplay in every shape or form - with a Live ID or not.
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Minecraft Cross-play trailer
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I can assure you that Sony cares as much about you as any corporation. Microsoft has actually been the more pro consumer of the two for the last few years.
"Two games" ?
This is the third Xbox/Switch crossplay title to release this month alone.
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Welp MS just officially dropped intentions to support VR despite claiming it was coming in the future. So I guess it's less about being consumer friendly and more about capitalizing on consumer interest. When VR was all the industry talked about they assured it was coming...When it cooled they moved on forgetting those promises. "Cross-play? Oh we're all about that!"
I'm fine with crossplay I'm just not as naive as others to believe MS is doing this "in the best interest of gamers".
Yeah, god forbid they reroute resources to conventional gaming. Just like they did with kinect. The nerve on them.
Sure, SEGA could enable crossplay in Team Sonic Racing's online :)
I think there's one more, Paladins, but I might be wrong.
MS did come out with VR and supported the hell out of it and few cared. Why would they transfer that to Xbox?
There is a lack of representation for the portugese in gaming. Fixed.
You're being a hypocrite. There's a thread. There's a group of the community who are spurned by this, but it's not an issue to you so it's irrelevant. Like crossplay is too me...irrelevant, and if don't never changes..oh well.
That was the third one. Minecraft, Paladins, Fortnite this month.
You missed my point. VR on Xbox was a selling point and a purchasing point. I have never tried VR, so I and apparently others here could care less , but there are plenty in this thread criticizing the same logic when it comes to cross play. I don't care about it "but but I care about it! So should you!" Naw cousin....I'm good. Just pointing out the irony.
You're calling him a hypocrite and then admitting you yourself are a hypocrite by your example. Okay?
Also, Rocket League: https://www.gamespot.com/articles/e3-2017-rocket-league-cross-play-for-xbox-one-swit/1100-6450903/ Which makes it four.
The list is only gonna get bigger.
Lmao
I'm being a hypocrite because I prefer MS to invest in conventional games instead of dumping resources in an expensive gaming niche.
Try again.
Amazing. Times are changing, this is the future. Just like when online gaming and broadband was pushed via Halo.
I was talking about this month alone. There's still more beyond rocket league. The total number of released/announced titles is close to 10 already.
VR is not worth it man, they can take one look at PSVR and figure that out. Abysmal attach rate, yeah 3 million is a lot, but it ain't shit when you have 80 million users.
Why waste the money to make a few people happy when they can drive forward with better games, developer aquisitiins, console features and partnerships like they are obviously doing with Nintendo and make almost everyone else hapoy VR won't be accepted by the mass market until it's better, you don't get sick and no more wires.
Right now they are a novelty house party device to show guests you have extra money. When every traditional game can be played in VR with out making me puke, then it will be good.
Holy shit, this is gonna happen for sure, and it will be awesome, the playerbase will stay strong for much longer.
Microsoft not supporting VR on Xbox vs Sony not allowing cross-play with other consoles.
One requires Microsoft actively invest resources into something while the other only requires Sony to stop being jerks and just say yes.
Hmm...
One requires Microsoft actively invest resources into something while the other only requires Sony to stop being jerks and just say yes.
Hmm...
Part of putting their best interest in gamers is to admit when gamers have lost interest and move on from that - it's also a smart business move. If they pushed out a VR headset this year, while I'm sure there'd be good reactions from some, but overall the feeling would be something of "too little, too late". Just because you got burnt by it doesn't make it MS's fault, if gamers were still interested, still wanted it, and were still wanting to buy it, they'd continue to put money into R&D. That said, we don't know what's in store for next generation, or what limitations they hit with the current line of Xbox consoles that they decided would be better to wait out to fix.
EDIT: Just to add to the conversation, I think it's really cool to see two rival companies team up for an ad campaign. Xbox One X is the best place to play these games in terms of graphics, Switch is the best place in terms of portability. It's a really good match between the two and I enjoy how much all the Nintendo and Xbox twitters have been playing it up.
This please! Xbox/Switch/PC cross play for the game would be awesome to keep the online community alive.
It's the kind of futuristic wizardry that I couldn't even have imagined as a kid.
Pretty much. That PlayStation logo/nostalgia is too strong, they can shit all over their customers and people will keep going back for more. There's no reason for them to ever change.
It'll be interesting to see if a similar nostalgia kicks in at the start of the next gen as there are going to be a whole bunch of people in that 20-30 range for whom their first console was an Xbox 360.
Amazing.
If anything, it shows Microsoft is not willing to just blindly jump into something based on initial hype. I very much doubt we won't see VR with Xbox, but I think Microsoft is waiting for the tech to improve so they can introduce it on the next Xbox. Wireless headsets and no external sensors would greatly increase interest if they can launch it at an affordable price.
Now your Xbox friends can describe what things off in the distance look like for you, just like in Fortnite!
Sony is incentivizing people to play elsewhere.
So to summarize it's ok for Epic to have their accounts intertwined on multiple systems, have Sony over-ride them and lock out its users and reduce their freedom, but it's not ok for a 1st party publisher like Microsoft to use it's Live account system because you don't like them.
Is there a List anywhere of all the cross play titles. I was looking for something a couple days ago and couldn't find it
I think this is what you're looking for-
https://www.resetera.com/threads/current-nintendo-switch-cross-play-chart.47388/
This crossplay thing with Xbox & Switch is great to see, awesome for the gaming community. Sea of Thieves should be next, perfect game for it.
I think this is the right way to poke fun at Sony. It's an invitation to join in, after all.
...which won't happen, for the same reasons we've been talking about these last few days.
...which won't happen, for the same reasons we've been talking about these last few days.
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People posting straight up FUD now. The mindset of a superfan never ceases to amaze me.
Now dreaming of a cross platform crossplay Phantasy Star Online.
Awesome, thanks so much guys :)
Yup. PR nightmare for Sony. They brought this shit on themselves.
Found this on twitter. An enhanced version of the "Survive together" from the ad ;)
Quite a meme and fitting the situation.
Quite a meme and fitting the situation.
In 2001 you would never imagine Nintendo, Microsoft and Sega loving each other like this lol.
The only people who are up in arms about MS dropping intentions for console VR on the X just sound like they're trying to switch focus away from this issue, to be honest.
There's very few, if any, people in that thread who appear to be genuinely upset and had intentions of getting VR on the X - rather they're just glad of any tenuous opportunity to accuse Microsoft of anti-consumer behaviour.