Sony Finally Gives In And Allows Fortnite Cross-Play Between PS4, Switch And Everything Else

Oh but will the cult of Nintendo complain about now? Will they finally have to focus on our own lackluster online experience?

It's a good thing and further proof to everyone who says only positive aspects of ANY company should be discussed that they are wrong. It is always good when a company agrees to listen and shows change.

Awesome news! I'm usually the first one to denounce the constant whining and complaining from gamers but I glad it actually paid off in this instance. My kids will be very happy with this news! Hopefully Minecraft and Rocket League are next

How very generous of them. They should win a Nobel Prize for humanitarianism.

'Following a comprehensive evaluation process...'
There's your problem right there.

Finally!

So does this mean Fortnite players who play on PS4 can now also play on Switch? That would be very nice.

I'm very interested into the reason why Sony finally decided to do this, after weeks of stubbornnes.

Huzzah!

Fair play to them.

Whaaaaaaat?!!!
I didn't think this would happen any time soon. With most gamers owning a PS4 it made sense for sony not wanting to allow the remaining users to play with them. Great news.

Hahaha, suck it Sony. I mean honestly, this was ridiculous in the first place. I guess there was intensive wallet voting and pressure from Epic.

Sony fanboys have egg on their face.

Defending a decision to the hilt and Sony pull a U turn on them.

I own all three consoles this gen. Sony make the worst decisions of all three “for the players”

Glad they reversed this one.

Interesting. I wonder if all multiplatform games will support this? Rocket League? Stardew?

Since Square is opening up to Nintendo after the CD debacle since Nintendo wanted to stay on chips, Sony needs to do the same thing over the SNES CD as well and make this "rivalry" a collaboration, because else, big daddy Ninty is going to sweep house and make them go extinct. Sony has, after all, conceeded to Nintendo on the hand held market, so where's your god now?

Well, some humble pie for the Sony diehards who broke both logic and common sense to explain why Sony was the only company defending the players... but a great decision.

If the World hasn't ended in a month, no harm done eh Sony?

@saintayu

Are you saying that the PS4 version locking all progress made on a persons account to their system and not being shared with Xbox and Switch wasn't a legitimate complaint?

Now people can give up on this.

And it already had crossplay with PC, Mac, iOS and Android. So "everything else" was Switch and Xbox. And the Switch version is broken

Now the Internet can focus on complaining about loot boxes 100% 😂

My tenno will be very grateful! 😀

@BubbleMatrix82 while I agree that companies should talk and work together more than they do, the second half of it is laughable. Nintendo and Sony will be around for a very very long time. It's ridiculous to go around shouting either of them is doomed.

The handheld market is being taken over by cellphones mostly anyone, even Nintendo is launching games on there to take advantage of where the casual audience is.

@SBandy where do you get that from? I'm saying quite simply that the cult like status that is given to ANY company is ridiculous and counter productive. I am saying that people who act like we should only say good things about any company are wrong.

I personally didn't see the big deal and still don't. That doesn't mean I'm not happy that they made a more consumer based decision. It's a good move as I said.

Hey, now I can play with my nephew! Awesome.

Ugh - would this game just go away?

@Aerona For some reason your avatar makes it seem like you're not THAT enthusiastic about being able to play with your nephew xD Maybe this was a good excuse for not doing it?

(I'm aware you're probably serious, but the avatar just makes that statement pure comedy gold.)

@saintayu

Did you edit your original comment to include that last paragraph?!

Hahahahaha!!!! I thought Playstation was the best place to play though.

@Blizzia Yeah, I was just looking back at some recent comments after changing my avatar. It's amazing how much it affects the tone of my posts!

Too little too later, already got me an X box One. And will remember this nonsense come next gen too. Then again it has always been apparent that Sony is only customer friendly if it HAS to be.

Lets hope this lesson will be remembered by the Nintendo and Microsoft as well. Stick to making incentives to keep customers on your platform rather than punishing them for buying it. First to worst can be a mere screw up away.

@saintayu Crossplay wasn't as big a deal as the fact that once you linked your account to your PS4, you'd permanently lose access to it everywhere else without warning. That was messed up. That said, it was still screwed up that I couldn't play with my friends who have PS4's on Rocket League, when the rest of us have a mix of XBox, PC, and Switch and can all play. That was the main reason I was complaining personally. I mean, really, when crossplay is an option and a company is blocking it solely out of greed...

Well regardless, more time to complain about Nintendo's awful decisions now ;p

I wonder why the change of heart?

So does this mean I can sign in to my Epic account on my Switch?

Can't we just ignore the article and find more ways of shoehorning some "evil Nintendo" comments into the discussion?

Sony, closing the stable door as they watch the horse bolt off in to the sunset.

@SBandy You cant do that on Rocket League or Paladins either on any version.

Looks like people just want to cherry pick what to complain about "crossplay" from one game to the next

@Aerona Pretty hilarious though Love the avatar btw, guessing it's from that (by now infamous) Bowsette comic strip?

The fact now that we can play with all systems...match making shouldn't take any longer now even though there was no problem to begin with.

@Blizzia Yep! It'll pay off with all the Bowsette avatars floating around.

@justin233

Sony has LOST their Fire.

First, some Major Final Fantasy games on Nintendo Switch & Xbox1. No More "Only on Playstation". I'm sure other games on PS4 will follow the route like that.

Second, After their Stubborness to NOT Allowed CrossPlay, now they Open the Cross Play with other consoles. Too Late. It already made a Bad Reputation.

Third, PS Vita will DISCONTINUED on year 2019. Sony just GIVE UP and ABANDON their PS Vita, a prove that their machine was NOT made by LOVE.

Fourth, VR is still Niche product with Ridiculous Expensive price + Not many developers want to create a lot of games with utilize VR. I'm very sure VR will be Abandoned like Eye Toy, PS Moves.

Fifth, PS5 will be Stomped Very Hard by Switch 2.0 & Xbox Scarlett and after Sony made a bad decision by Not allowed Cross Play, they will get some Bad Karma.

I’m the only Switch player in my group of friends, this is great news for us!

@Undead_terror
I wonder about Sony reaction when PS4 gamers slowly switched to other consoles (Switch / Xbox1 / Steam) for playing Fortnite.
Guess it will decrease the PS4 sales, increase other console sales.

@Aerona Definitely

@Anti-Matter

Psst, hey.

Your fanboyism is showing. Super hardcore, at that.

I came for the really stupid fanboy comments and Anti-Matter definitely delivered.

So if I take the Epic account I use on Switch over to PS4, will that account have a career tab ?

@UltimateDespair1, your name says it all so desperate you will succumb to soiling yourself to make of nothing is going nothing.

@Anti-Matter Oh my God. Please stop that childish fanboy-bs already. People like you make me blush sometimes to like and support Nintendo products. O_o

@Topic: I don't give an eff about cross play, but it is a nice move seeing Sony doing... "For the Players".

@SwitchForce I have no idea what you just typed.

@UltimateDespair1
That's the fact.
Sony DIDN'T take it seriously with their other machines.
Just look at their Eye Toy, PS Moves, VR.
For me, they are more Niche than LABO.
At least, we can play and program something from LABO to create a "New" game.

@Anti-Matter Uh huh.

Sony was just a party pooper about that. Finally!!!!!

Next gen is coming soon and stuff like this could've cost them good will aplenty. I'm glad they got on the right track.

@Anti-Matter "PSVR is more niche than Labo"

Bahaha, come on. I can use my PSVR on my PC to open up a huge library of VR. Just stop.

@Lando
After i heard more news about Sony and how did they treat their other machines, it was clear to me if Sony has LOST their Fire.
I have some reasons to show their Weakness points and those made me felt embarrased to have my White PS4 Slim 500 GB just only to play 3 PS4 games ONLY (The Sims 4, Portal Knights, Kingdom Hearts 1.5 + 2.5 HD)

Now, i felt my PS4 became more useless than 5 months ago after i bought on 1st April 2018.

@Deadlyblack
I had tried to apply other VR products from Minisoo to getting know how did it feel.
Ugh.... my eyes... felt very Uncomfort.
It was made me think I don't want to hurt my eyes. Seriously.

@Deadlyblack , library yeah day after day and VR barely breaks a stretch. VR isn't the way forward anymore. Even PC VR is has lost their Steam. As it's Steam now and VR has their own fault to blame for it.

@bratzdoll keeping saying that and it might come true right. They already turned their back on Vita and tried to lock on crossplay and now backtrack. What does that tell you about their future goings.

So ecstatic! I have been wanting to play with my cousin who owns a PS4. I have always liked Sony consoles.

@Agramonte

I am not cherry picking and I also dont play any of these games, but I was aware of the situation because a lot of people, including Nintendo fans , Xbox fans, even some PS4 fans, and journalists were agreeing it was a legitimate concern as in this case it was a Sony decision to block peoples accounts and progress from being movable.

If Rocket League and Paladins do lock you out of your progress from one console to the next then that is also a legitimate concern. Especially Rocket League which isn't free to play.

If all these companies are gonna force this ridiculous ongoing monetisation of games then they need to accept that people like to use their accounts over more than one platform.

"Following a comprehensive evaluation process, SIE has identified a path toward supporting cross-platform features for select third party content. We recognize that PS4 players have been eagerly awaiting an update, and we appreciate the community’s continued patience as we have navigated through this issue to find a solution."

Translation: "Our decision to stick to our elitism, to our complete surprise, turned out to be a bad PR move; we thought considering pride a sin was a thing of the past, but apparently we're stuck in the middle effin' ages. No hard feelings though, the mob outside said they'd go back home if we backpedaled and sucked it up."

Guys, I'm heading to the sassy dimension for a quick check.
@Not_Soos, hold the rope for me, will ya?

@Anti-Matter Lol. You tell them anti matter. You tell them

@Anti-Matter Hey, you should look up Dreams, it supports PSVR, PS Move controllers and allows you to create anything you want

@Anti-Matter

"Fifth, PS5 will be Stomped Very Hard by Switch 2.0 & Xbox Scarlett and after Sony made a bad decision by Not allowed Cross Play, they will get some Bad Karma."

This is the funniest thing I'll read today.

I like Nintendo but let's be honest, they have never stomped Sony when it comes to home consoles (except the fluke that is the Wii).

...nnnnnyeaargh!

They're praising Sony for their generosity! They're writing the previous complaints off as meaningless whining! They can't detach from Sony's rear end! The saying is true! "If Sony screws with the userbase, it's for the greater good, if Sony backpedals, they are the greater good"! The madness has taken me, a rhyming fool's all I'll ever be! Market-leading elitism drove me insane, now even breathing brings me pain! When gravity falls, and earth becomes sky, fear the beast with just one eye!

Hopefully this will eventually lead to Final Fantasy XIV being released on Switch, especially with the recent announcement of so many main Final Fantasy games for Switch.

@1UP_MARIO I absolutely loooove that folks get so cranky about @Anti-Matter posts. You can tell when you read them that he's just a very excitable person that likes his games. But somehow people just hate that someone enjoys something and likes to be an eccentric fan?

@AlexSora89 Ah, so they're doing the same thing some folks here do on a daily, huh

@HobbitGamer I’m his number 1 fan. He’s a legend at Nintendolife

@HobbitGamer
Yep, and the madness is currently disabling my latest gifs. I'm supposed to bring the funny, darnit!

It was a stupid decision in the first place.

@1UP_MARIO Same, it's a hoot.

On topic, I wonder if this will increase the Fortnite user base for other console players any noticeable amount.

That's good news, though I hope Nintendo's shoddy online infrastructure won't bog it all down for other platforms.

I came here to read comments by Anti-Matter that make him come off as a hateful psycho and I wasn't disappointed.

Cya
Raziel-chan

@Octane
Hm...
Dreams...
I had ever knew that game from playasia.
Also, i had watched Astro Bot trailer from Youtube. It looked like a Sony VR version of 3D Mario games (I saw a Giant Gorilla as the Boss, i was thinking it looked like Giant Bowser)
But....
I guess i have to forget it.
Wearing VR on my head will make me dizzy and hurt my eyes. I had tried to wear cheap VR from Minisoo and it felt very uncomfort on my head.
And VR is still sold with price IDR 5,000,000 / US$ 333. Eeek...!!

@SwitchForce Enough people made noise about this that it could've hurt them with the next console launch, so I see this as them doing damage control by, yes, backtracking on their previous wrong decision. And that's a bad thing because...?

Sony's former stance: ''On cross-platform, our way of thinking is always that PlayStation is the best place to play.''

I think they dropped this stance once they realized that the Playstation brand doesn't lend itself to the portable market.

Now I may actually give the Switch version a go. I have not fired it up after quickly learning that you couldn't link it to an existing account that had been used on a PS4.

Hopefully all the switch patches have ironed out most of the quirks with that version.

@Elvie
That's what they get for giving handhelds less priority than home consoles.

@SBandy I was not pointing at you directly - you actually mentioned it - that is more than most do. And 100% agree that it is a big issue.

CrossPlay with other servers is give or take. If you play most online games on PC it is a non issue - PS4 has always done crossplay with PC. But the locking of progression from one account to the next is crazy. It be SONY or the publisher.

"If all these companies are gonna force this ridiculous ongoing monetisation of games then they need to accept that people like to use their accounts over more than one platform"

Exactly!... Universal accounts! 👍

@0muros
Reminded me of this little gem.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=80YFtnTBApU

@Agramonte

Cool, I think I just misread your original reply but we both clearly agree on this subject.

I am not that fussed on the crossplay but the locking of accounts is something else entirely!

This is great, my son and I both have our own Switch, I have two nephews with a Switch and three others with PS4, now we can all play Fortnite together. Awesome move.

@Anti-Matter Maybe that's because you tried a cheap VR headset I imagine PSVR is a better experience, the Vive even better I assume. That's the price you pay. And yeah, Astro Bot looks neat, but I do not own a VR headset, so I won't play it.

Dreams doesn't require VR by the way, it's optional. Same with Move controllers, you don't need them if you don't want to. But they do support them.

What a headline, enjoy the fanboy rile up while you can, you're losing clickbait ammo fast

Fantastic long overdue news.
Fingers crossed the Epic account platform linking will be open soon .

We need to give this very mediocre game less attention.

@Fandabidozi "After months of backlash" is more like it haha.

Thank goodness for competition of their competitors railing them over this. Lets see how far it extends beyond F2P games. It's one thing to let PS players play free games with other consoles. It's another to open the gates of buying things on other consoles instead. It's a good token move but let's see if it carries weight.

And what the heck difficult complicated navigation of the perilous seas of heavy system alterations was required to allow a socket connection to a remote server not white-listed by you? Sony's starting to make Reggie's ramblings of nonsensical PR drivel sound completely lucid.

@AlexSora89 I've had this profile icon/username for years now, but all of a sudden I'm being tagged in Gravity Falls comments left and right, haha.

@Not_Soos
That's what distracted you from holding the rope, now I'm rhyming all the time devoid of any hope!

@SBandy

"the locking of accounts is something else entirely"

YES!... They need to ungroup "Universal Accounts" and "CrossPlay" conversations.

We still being "locked in" on most so called "crossplay" games.

Hope that is not the case with WarFrame on Switch. But not holding my breath. It is locked on PC-PS4 now. You loose everything.

@SBandy i don't know what you're talking about but nice not replying to the whole other comment where I clarified things too.

You're in good company though. It looks like the rest of the Nintendo is God and will win win win brigade has shown up to look down people and complain about elitism while also being elitist.

The ONLY reason Sony did this was because of legal reasons. They were not allowed to block access to third party purchases. They were about to come under a huge class-action lawsuit. But instead of coming out and saying it, they PR spun it and decided to do it for everything so as to not have to deal with the fallout.

Took them long enough, but still good news none the less.

@saintayu

I am not looking for an argument I just thought your original post at the very start only had the one paragraph as if I had seen the second paragraph I would not have replied as I agree with what you said in your second paragraph.

But your last reply to me has showed you up as the numpty you are and you are just as bad as these fan boys you rant about.

I don't bother with the likes of you anymore as life is too short so consider this our chat over.

It is only videogames ffs.

@SBandy and yet you are the one who no longer wants to talk about it and is taking his blocks and going home. I'm not remotely bothered by your response and I would hope you won't be by me teasing you?

All you have to do is look at the other comments and see what I was joking about. Sorry if I've offended you though.

EDIT: @Gold_Ranger would love to see more about this as I can find absolutely nothing? Could you link me to a source for further reading?

@Hamguar Hahaha! Thanks for the link.

LOL I thought that PS4 was "the best platform to play Fortnite on" and thus it didn't need cross-play. What has changed, Sony?

I love the language used in this announcement!

" SIE has identified a path toward supporting cross-platform features for select third party content. "

You mean the path directly in front of your face all along?

Good news though. They could have stuck to their stubborn guns.

@Anti-Matter VR can be pretty cool. It's like 3DS's 3D, only better. But it's not for everyone. It's so subjective to user's eyes and head shape. It's uncomfortable. Some get motion sick. And PS's VR needs to have your eyes in just the right spot to keep it all in focus. And worse, my eyelashes tend to hit the lenses and they end up greasy smears which is very frustrating.

It's a cool toy, but it's not so much a "platform" like a console. In some ways a big epic like Skyrim (yes I know you don't like it) is a great game for it because it's a whole world to explore in this kind of beautiful medieval world. But there's no way I'm wearing a helmet for 200 hours of a mammoth open ended RPG!

Came for the comments. Thanks guys, that was fun!

Whole thing has just made Sony look stupid. I would respect them more if they just stuck with no cross play.

Saying its best on Playstation then going back on it. Poor show.

Glad to hear that Sony finally caved. With something like this, where there's no benefit for them blocking crossplay, and it only hurts them doing so, they could only shoot themselves in the foot for so long.

All the people that defended this sure do have egg on their face now. 😂

Finally i can play with my brother and his friend on fortnite thank you sony we all love you now let us play minecraft or something other 2

Sony's trolling paid off-- They were able to guage consumer demand to ensure there was a base that wanted cross play on PS4. You're not slick, Sony, you knew there was no way your could stay outta this one...

I feel vr might go just like 3d. They are fads, and we will see how long this will last.

WTF I thought I put @Anti-Matter on Ignore. Let me correct that now.

@Saego to much bad press is nvr a good thing is why.

Good

All these comments about Sony, Nintendo, and crossplay, and here I am completely oblivious to what Fortnite even is.

I love being an onion sometimes.

@NintenGuy I'm thinking about it but its always funny. I'll keep this guy's comments for that.

@Deadlyblack
For a guy pointing towards other people's fanboyism from afar, you've got yourself a nice Kat avatar. I have a question, about whether or not you might, is it perhaps that you're from a certain sister site? In that case, the portal is there, with my gifs and my comments you can get back where you were.

Now Nintendo fanboys don't have any argument against Sony and hopefully they focus on the pressure for a good online service for Nintendo and local save backups which is more of a problem than the cross play which it didn't affect any PS4 owner

It took them long enough but good news none the less.

@AlexSora89 Eh, I'm too lazy to change it. I like the art.

Besides, I actively read both sites, I just prefer Push because of the community and I like the writers and mods.

I'm also not afraid to speak about how both Nintendo and Sony have their flaws. I don't treat them like God among men.

@saintayu It's only because they kept being harassed about it that they changed their mind. Pointing out issues helps getting them solved, case in point.

Now indeed, Nintendo fans should keep being vocal about how lacklustre their own online experience is, to get Nintendo to understand that their customers want more for their buck.

@RudyC3 I absolutely agree. It just goes to show that if you keep talking and drawing attention to something, then things can change.

Now that Sony stop being elitist about crossplay, everyone's going to focus on Nintendo's terrible online.

@Deadlyblack
I can't bring myself to like Push Square (although I do recognize the genius behind the PS acronym being the same) and its community after the very same mod - a MOD - aggressively "not tolerating any port begging" in a later article commented on Panic Button simply expressing a desire for a challenge with "I'm heroically resisting the urge to post a tasteless troll comment". When a mod who's supposed to be the voice of reason starts sounding like a Malfoy, you know there's a problem there (and yes, I'm aware that some Nintendo fans can be even worse people at times, but we're already doing our best to live down that controversy).

@saintayu I couldn't agree more the fanboys are afraid to criticize Nintendo. I didn't know that feedback was a bad thing.
I remembering a comment saying that once Nintendo responds to the backlash for the better the fanboys will be the first ones to celebrate.

@Kidfried
Ugh... I don't know. I don't even feel as riled up as I sort-of-felt lately. It's just that... I dunno. There's much sass whenever anything non-Sony is barely mentioned there. Just give the links I provided a click and look at it from an outsider's perspective.
It also was, remarkably, the first instance of an editor - who I mistakenly called a mod in my previous comment - "resisting trolling urges" I had ever witnessed. Sure, regular users trolling are commonplace, but, um... editors? Is it even a thing?

@0muros Lol!

@Kidfried
I replied to DB twice, and while neither comment was "necessarily friendly", it wasn't "necessarily hostile" either.
If my first reply was understood as a "showing the door" of any sort, I mostly blame it on the rhyming gimmick I picked up for this page (and on a mild "you're on the wrong site" joke).

@Kidfried
It's okay; you, in turn, are proving to be way chiller on PushSquare than I expected, so even stevens, I guess!

@AlexSora89

while I do think you're being a bit too easily triggered, I also agree with what you're saying. Heck, I've witnessed a PushSquare mod come here and make trolling comments numerous times (including a very recent one), mods on PushSquare get on your case for "port begging" just because the Switch was mentioned, and the narrative they seem to be trying to push that handhelds are dead just because the Vita failed and Sony exited the handheld market. They even wrote an article trying to convince everyone that the Vita was some kinda misunderstood martyr of a handheld. It's completely ridiculous.

Let's not kid ourselves, though. Nintendolife as a whole isn't much better. The articles at times are click-baity, trolling, and fanning the flames all too often, and without naming names, I can tell you right now that some of the Nintendolife staff have nothing but contempt for their readers.

I get it though. Sounds like you're just a bit frustrated with the sister site at the moment. If it causes you that much anxiety, it may be time to look into alternative news sites.

@Onion
Believe me, while we're not saints over here by any means, I've yet to see here one twentieth of the trolling there's on the other site. Just look at the fireworks my first comment sparked.