E-mpire - Microsoft Announces Cross-Network Play

Rocket League has become a seemingly important milestone in this generation and it could be responsible for one of the biggest milestones ever in gaming. After much pushing Microsoft has decided that they will allow developers to do cross-network play, at first this will mean Xbox One players will be able to play against PC players but could open up the possibility of Xbox owners playing with PlayStation owners.

It is now in Sony's hand to commit to something that they have said they would support in the past but as these are large businesses they have to look into the possible ramifications of this decision. While we have had content sharing between platforms cross-platform play has been a dream that could mean better things for consumers down the line.

One of the big things about Rocket League on the PS4 and PC is that you have a large pool of players on at all times. This step could allow online communities to last longer so you can get more out of every game.

Cross-Network Play
First, in addition to natively supporting cross-platform play between Xbox One and Windows 10 games that use Xbox Live, we’re enabling developers to support cross-network play as well. This means players on Xbox One and Windows 10 using Xbox Live will be able to play with players on different online multiplayer networks – including other console and PC networks.

Of course, it’s up to game developers to support this feature, and Xbox Live players will always have the option of choosing to play only with other Xbox Live players. We’re thrilled to confirm that Psyonix’s Rocket League will be one of the first games to take advantage of this new capability by enabling cross-network play between Xbox One and PC players, with an open invitation for other networks to participate as well.

Source: Xbox

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solidsnakejej - 03-15-2016, 10:55 PM
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Sony's response, faster then I expected by was the expected response

"PlayStation has been supporting cross-platform play between PC on several software titles starting with Final Fantasy 11 on PS2 and PC back in 2002,” reads the statement from the corporation.

“We would be happy to have the conversation with any publishers or developers who are interested in cross platform play."

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/son.../1100-6435688/

curryking1 - 03-16-2016, 03:50 AM
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2002.

Rekt.

masteratt - 03-17-2016, 04:40 AM
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this is more about PC <-> PlayStation <-> Xbox. i bet there are is an exception or two but so far most games are just pc + xbox or pc + ps. microsoft is now welcoming psn as well.

imagine like i dunno, the division, players from PC, PSN AND XBL all in one pool. i bet devs would love that. would keep their games alive much longer. but, i have no idea of technical difficulties with that. but i hope sony responds by opening psn up for xbl. their statement there didn't answer if they are open to allowing xbl players into psn.

in this day and age i think it needs to happen (pc, psn, xbl all together) and ms being behind has more reasons to open up like that of course but if ps really is #4theplayers, i hope they follow.

solidsnakejej - 03-17-2016, 03:55 PM
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Shu's interview

...because PC is an open platform it's easy but connecting two different networks is much more complicated so we have to work with the publishers[...] we have to look at technical aspects, could be the easiest, but we have to look at policy issues and business issues aswell.[...] We work with publishers.

[...]it was hard (emphasis on the word hard). Ask mr Yoshi Wada how it was like.

It's interested to see how now Sony is the bad guy in this because they haven't directly announced that they will work on it.

Microsoft Announces Cross-Network Play

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