Several months ago, on a rainy evening in Birmingham, I loaded up Discord and called my university friends. “Ok guys,” I said. “What can we all play together?”
The answer was: very little. With our group split between Xbox and PlayStation owners, the obvious answers were out the window. Fortnite, Rocket League, even Minecraft – all were impossible due to the great console divide. We ended up playing hours upon hours of Civilization 5, which was the only thing everyone could run on their laptops. It’s a great game, to be sure – but there’s only so much Civ one can take. We soon gave up our dream of playing together.
If we’d been playing today, however, the situation would have been different. As of yesterday, Sony has approved full console cross-play in Fortnite. In an official blog post, the company stated it wants to “open up the platform” – thereby hinting cross-console play could come to other games in future.
Source: Eurogamer Sony has caved on Fortnite console cross-play – now what?