In short, Fallout 76 cross-play wont happen any time soon.
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Variety reached out to Bethesda and Sony Interactive Entertainment for comment, but they did not immediately respond. Cross-play is on the back burner behind monumental tasks like private servers and mod support. “I’m confident we’ll get to a solution which will be understood and accepted by our gaming community, while at the same time supporting our business.” “You can imagine that the circumstances around affect a lot more than just one game,” he said. Sony Interactive Entertainment America CEO and president Shawn Layden talked about the issue with Eurogamer at the Gamelab conference in June and said the company is listening to its fans and is “looking at a lot of the possibilities.” PlayStation 4 cross-play is not completely off the table. “They didn’t like someone buying something on a Xbox and it being used on a PlayStation. “When I was at Sony, the stated reason internally for this was money,” he said on Twitter. “Exposing what in many cases are children to external influences we have no ability to manage or look after, it’s something we have to think about very carefully.”įormer Sony Online Entertainment president John Smedley offered another reason for the company’s reluctance to embrace cross-play in June. “We have a contract with the people who go online with us, that we look after them and they are within the PlayStation curated universe,” PlayStation global sales and marketing head Jim Ryan said recently. Competitors Microsoft and Nintendo are allowing it in certain titles like “Fortnite,” “Rocket League,” and “Minecraft,” but Sony refuses to participate. Sony is under a lot of pressure right now thanks to the lack of cross-platform multiplayer on its PlayStation 4 console. Sony is not as helpful as everyone would like.”
“We’d really love that but right now we can’t. “You cannot do cross-play in ’76,'” Howard told German publication (via CNET) in a recent interview. There won’t be cross-play in the upcoming online role-playing game “ Fallout 76,” and Bethesda Game Studios director and executive producer Todd Howard blames a familiar culprit: Sony.