As cross-platform play becomes increasingly popular, more third-party companies are starting to make it a standard feature within their games, as it's a great way of sustaining and uniting communities. Ubisoft's free-to-play arena fighter Brawlhalla is one of the latest titles to add cross-platform multiplayer support.
It's got the company's CEO Yves Guillemot so excited, he now wants to put the feature in every single one of Ubisoft's player verse player games. He revealed this recently within Ubisoft's Q2 earnings call.
Our goal is to put cross-play on all the PvP games we have, over time. That's well on the way.
Brawlhalla is the second Ubisoft title to add full cross-platform play. The other one is the World Dance Floor mode in Just Dance. The company has even previously noted how it wanted to move away from "finite experiences" to instead focus more on PvP.
As enticing as cross-play is for many developers and publishers, there have been a number of struggles along the way – with certain platform holders previously reluctant to comply.
What do you think about Ubisoft wanting to add cross-play to all of its PvP experiences? Do you think it could impact the future titles the company decides to release on the Switch? Leave a comment below.
[source gamesindustry.biz]
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I think UbiSoft needs to release more games on Switch. I'm looking at Rainbow Six... Heck, is even take a pretty of the N64 game. The first and third were great co-op experiences.
Do they have any good pvp games?
Looking at a list of Ubisoft games from the last few years going back about 15 years and there are surprisingly few games I'm interested in. Maybe the Far Cry series, Watch Dogs, maybe Rainbow Six? There's really not much that draws me personally from Ubisoft.
The fact that I had to look up a list goes to show how little they've made that really interested me. Mario+Rabbids was great, but I always say it was great despite the Rabbids.
@Heavyarms55 I dunno man, tgw roast from the ghost rabbid dude was superb, and I hate the rabbids.
@Kalmaro I don't mean to be rude, but I have no idea at all what that is. I wouldn't say I hate the Rabbids, I just find them extremely... juvenile and outside my interests. Like, I probably would have liked them when I was 11. But my tastes in humor have changed a lot since then. Burping and masturbation jokes aren't that amusing anymore.
@Heavyarms55 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PH-cpqE-efw
It's was probably the only time I really loved the rabbids this song is gold.
Well they better make sure the Wii version of Just Dance has crossplay
Here the full and extensive list of PvP Ubisoft games on the Switch:
@Kalmaro OHHH This thing! I remember this part! Yeah, fair, it's pretty cool.
Maybe concentrate on releasing some good complete games Ubisoft. Instead of the sh*t filled monetization that you're moving towards like other crap publishers. The casuals mostly on the other platforms,where those games thrive,are really making it worse because they support those disgusting business models. Every game they release has 6 different versions,meaning if you only buy the base game you immediately know content has been purposely removed to make you buy it back. Making this acceptable and the new normal should not be supported
As all 3rd party developers should be doing.
That is such a joke, UBISoft cant seem to get their Switch games to "play" with each other. I have several of their games that you supposedly can play against others "worldwide" and yet they never do. Most of the time the games crash. WoF/Jeopardy crashes my daughters Switch every time she tries to use it. I will believe this once they work out the normal bugs in their CRAPTASTIC games.
@Heavyarms55
Ubisoft is underwhelming imo. Rabbids kingdom was the first ubi game I have played after maybe 15years. I don't get the rabbids design they look disgusting imo, maybe its some french humor I don't.
I'd rather them port there older ghost recon and Rainbow six games. If they make Ghost recon wild lands somehow run on the Switch then i'd be ok with that since it's the only game I like to play online from them.
I really doubt they make a Siege port for Switch, imo the Switch can run that game fine, i just think that wont fit the Switch community style of shooter. I think CoD would fit better for modern-shooter genre on Switch. Im not a big fan of For Honor but that game on Switch could be a success, even more if it has crossplay, i have that game on PC and the small playerbase and big queue times always made me stop playing.
@SuperEndriu Yeah, rainbow 6. Other than that, uh, idk.
@SuperEndriu The problem with Ubisoft isn't that the make bad games, it's that they .and games built around a set of mechanics and then overuse that mechanic to death and then export that mechanic to their other games and by the end you've got games that are really fun for the first 3 hours but then you just end up doing the same thing until you go insane. They make merry-go-rounds. The ideas are good, but the games are always very shallow.
That said, botw cribbed a lot from old Ubisoft and Ubi cribbed a lot from botw. The thing botw did differently is that it essentially had a physics system that could be used in a wide variety of ways even if, on paper and in reality, there really wasn't much there to actually do. Ubi has yet to realize that. They though botw succeeded just because of its openness. And Ubi is much less creative about reusing assets than Nintendo. Most of botw are retextures, but the biomes and spacing is so different, no one notices except for the only having 7 enemies thing. Far cry 5 and AC is the same town, bunker, and island copy pasted 150 times
@Xansies
That is exactly my assessment! I played the original splinter cell on the original xbox and thought it was great. Then came sp2 a year later, sp3 a year later, sp4 a year later. I never played assassins creed but that game literally came out every year.
That's really something. I guess all the people who play Ubisoft games will be happy. I don't have a problem with their games, last I checked they were fine, if a little dull and lacking in the gameplay department, but still better than a lot of games out there. I just won't play their games because I've got tons of great games already and if a game asks for a login and password when starting up that's too much trouble for me. I can play Mario Kart 8 Deluxe or Splatoon, or Street Fighter online and have no problem, so, if Ubisoft or whoever can't figure it out, that's a problem that they need to fix if they want my money.
Start making decent games again ubi...
@Ckerigon Eh, their games are decent, just a year or two after the come out. AC Ody is good, but it suffers from the Ubi copy/paste problem. Like how many times can you liberate a base? Again, botw, so it's horizon ,is at the heart of it a Ubi game, not just cause the towers, but those games understand the concept that the more something is done, the less value it has. Hell, there is literally nearly nothing to do in botw except look for caves and the journey to them feels unique the first time, but each of those caves are unique. In Far cry, each bunker, bases, town, are exactly the same. And in the ACOs, an ocean is an ocean and a desert is a desert.
they need to remaster Watch Dogs 1 for Switch and other consoles with cross-play added for Online Hacking
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