Sony Talks PS4 Cross-Play Situation, Offers Some Hope

@b00me: Don't be naive; of course it matters. Again; this is about money. Would I like crossplay on all consoles? Yes; I've been vocal about it since the last generation. But I also understand the business side of things in the gaming industry; and what Microsoft is trying to pull is a thinly veiled attempt to bolster their own business at the expense of Sony. And of course Sony knows this; because they did the exact same thing to Microsoft last generation. The only difference this time around is that Sony already has a huge investment in crossplay; because as I said, they are the pioneers and current leaders in console crossplay.

What I find highly amusing are all the people who are suddenly for crossplay when last generation and for most of this current generation, they really could have cared less... Not calling you out specifically; but just saying.

@ZIMdoom: Of course they do; but very few outside of Microsoft knows the actual sales figures beyond guesstimations like EA did. And that is because they keep their sales numbers very, very secret; they still don't release their sale numbers even now. Which is a huge turnaround from them proudly throwing it out there every month last generation...

So no; Microsoft does not release the sales numbers for the XBox One; they said they would no longer do so in October of 2015. The reason they gave was that they're using a "different metric for success" than sales.

@b00me: What I said was more of a thing when these two consoles first came out (and believe me, I've talked to plenty who did this). I myself was one who actually bought a ps4 for a myriad of reasons despite being on the 360 during the previous generation. One of those reasons myself being that my friends were migrating over as they couldn't stand the younger kids playing a lot of the games we did (CoD, me and my buddies were serious CoD gamers). Other reasons did factor in however as you said such as exclusives (though for me the only exclusives that ever matter are rpg's), as well as when I heard that Xbox One's OS would be Windows 10 (can't stand the OS, loved Windows 7). At the time the only games that were exclusive to xbox that I would even play were Halo and Gears of War 3, and this was RARE.