Sony Responds to Microsoft's Invite to Connect Xbox One and PS4 Networks

TEAR DOWN THIS WALL

It would be great if this happened. Come on Sony and Microsoft, come together on something. Not only would this help both systems, it'd even help game developers. I mean, some games I could see myself getting on one console, and my brother getting on another, so we could play that way.

This would be a great move for gaming as a whole, people would be able to have whatever console fits their needs and still be able to play online with anybody, win-win. Fanboys will be the only ones who may dislike this for seeing their beloved company cooperating with the supposed enemy, so another win-win for gaming for spiting fanboys.

A move like this could really help both companies in the long run. Plus, it'll make a lot of ppl happy. I know plenty of people who aren't really gamers but even they lament the fact that there is no option for connecting between Xbox live and psn

It would be pretty cool to play cross platform between Xbox and Sony. It would certainly see a massive increase in users on any one game that supported cross platform, so that can only be good. I guess you still need the hardware/back end support servers/cloud etc.

However for the love of christ, can you imagine the console wars? It would be like if we took a snap shot now we're currently in the cold war era. Lot's of talk, abuse, threats, - no action as such just whiney bickering biaches going back and forth. Then to step back in time to WWII where you could actually play and beat your foe, be it a PS4 or XB1 player. The game sites may just go in to melt down.

Why would SONY want to pair up with a LOSER ?

Wow! Sony sounds as stupid as their hardware! PS-Boring

nope! Stay in your playground, Xbot!!

I would love to invade PSN players one dark souls 3! I say bring it on!!

Why is everyone ignoring the fact that this includes Steam, Origin, GoG, ect. as well

As the old saying goes, ''If you can't beat them, join them''.

PS4 beat the sh1t out of xb0ne, so microsoft is waving the white flag.

Ultimately, if Microsoft just allows their XBOX ONE games to use the same gaming protocols as the PC games do (i.e. present themselves online as PC games) then how will Sony be able to stop their customers from engaging in cross-platform play with Microsoft's customers?

you want good hardware...go sony. You want good software engineer, good visionaries, good innovation and basically, the future, go MS.

Ive said it for months...these are likely the last consoles you see in their current seperate state. MS is taking steps after steps to transition gaming to ONE open network and on the PC.

You're the one who has been axing cross platform play at every opportunity, Microsoft, terrified the controller bros would get destroyed by mouse users.

Playing with your friend he's on PS4 and you're on Xbox One and all the sudden PSN went down... yo Mike you still there? Talk to me buddy, whats up happening, you ghostin bruh where you at, yo Mike say somethin. Too late MIKE IS DOWN TOO

Playing with your friend he's on Xbox One and you're on PS4; Yo Kevin are you seeing what I'm seeing? This game has some pretty good graphics bruh, damn this is real. Yo Kevin does them cars looks cartoon over there? Too late Kevin went solo

Now Kevin and Mike been playing with they friend Tom but he's on PC.... (fill the gap)

Bigger pool of players, fine, but sadly, that also means bigger pool of hackers/cheaters (from PC). I am a PC gamer, but is sad how many cheaters/hackers there are, and how many developers don't take security seriously, unless, this will force the developers into tighten the anti-hacking, anti-cheating security/policy what so ever.

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,”

Sony, you are forgetting 360 was part of that too. I don't know if that's a good or bad thing they are leaving that part out.

Sounds good but here comes the price increase to PS+ and XBL.

long overdue.

This can only be a good thing it means games with smaller audiences will have larger pools of players to play with. for example the Japanese are a large portion of Metal Gear Online's multiplayer on PS4 (about twenty odd pages of servers) whilst the Xbox one community servers you can count on one hand most days. Allowing the two to pool together will benefit all.

And whilst we're at it we'd best pull this thorn out of ourselves; you're all dicks. Xbox, PS, PC, Wii U, every last one of you (and I) is a dick that someone dislikes (including me) so having the desire to not play someone because of their purchase choice is a shallow one. Get over and play some damn games because we all know deep inside that each platform is not perfect.

Microsoft didn't know what their consumers wanted and had to strip everything out the moment they announced it, Sony wouldn't know Database Security even if it broad-sided them with a baseball bat, Nintendo can't seem to make a console without totally screwing up the marketing so the majority of their consumer base thought their next gen console was an expensive peripheral. And finally steam is too busy hoovering up money to notice the large number of shite-shovlers pushing below alpha builds of what can't even be called games in the hope some gullible guy with excess change drops their money into it.