PS4 Cross Play Beta

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Originally Posted by partridge

Xbox will soon officially support keyboard and mouse for some games, but the devs for supporting games are (apparently) required to split those gamers away from those using a controller.

Sounds like a bad idea to me, the last thing any game needs is for a split player base. (it's precisely why franchises are moving away from season passes). Frankly, if anyone is keen to play games with keyboard and mouse, go buy a PC.

As someone in a comment elsewhere said: MS have taken a Windows PC and turned it into a games console, and have now turned that games console into a PC.

So your goal to not split a playerbase.... is to split a player base. Just brilliant.

The applicability of cross play will depend on the game in question and as gears of war showed us needs to be tested instead of people blindly making assumptions. The main issue consoles are facing is pc is growing very quickly and is not slowing down (it has in fact surpassed the entire console market from what I understand). Microsoft is aware of this and thus have been positioning themselves to take advantage of it. Sony has not revealed what there plans are beyond maybe psnow, so time will tell how they intend to continue playstation in the future.