Fallout 76 will not have multi-platform multiplayer because of Sony

Sony does not want you to play with your friends Xbox or Switch – and the cross-play of Fallout 76 is the latest victim.

Todd Howard of Bethesda told GameStar.de last week that although he'd like you to discover the first online multiplayer game Fallout with friends on PS4, Xbox and PC, Sony will not let it go.

"You can not do cross-play in '76," he said in a video interview. "We would really like that but now we can not."

When GameStar asked why, the answer was remarkably sincere: "Sony is not as useful as everyone would like it," he said.

Very few game developers have agreed to declare that Sony's selfish commercial decision is the only barrier to play games on PS4, Xbox, Nintendo Switch and PC, but the trend begins [19659004] First of all, there was the Rocket League

"We are literally at the point where all we need is the green light on the Sony side and we can, in less than one working day, run it and it works and it works, no problem, it would literally take a few hours to spread around the world, so we only wait for permission to do so, "said the vice Rocket League President Jeremy Dunham at the IGN in 2016 Then the Fortnite game phenomenon showed us how Sony's policy could be annoying – when players discovered that they could not connect to the Nin version Switch tendo they had never connected their Epic Games account to a PS4 in the past, much less playing with others.

Then, Minecraft brought the message home with an advertisement showing that Microsoft and Nintendo were partnering to play "better together" – throwing Sony under the bus again, just at above

The pressure is perhaps being felt on Sony – which is hammered after each new announcement by players who want to cross-play.

PlayStation America CEO Shawn Layden said Sony "look a lot of possibilities", but made no promises. Fallout 76 director Todd Howard ended his comment by saying, "We'll see what happens in the future." According to a tweet (cache) of the former president of Sony Online Entertainment, John Smedley, money is the reason why Sony does not play ball: "They n & rsquo; Did not like that someone buys something on an Xbox and it is used on a PlayStation, it's simple, "he writes.