Cross-Platform online. [Consoles]

[Overdriven]

After reading this recently, and seeing the lack of exclusives on the PS3 and multi-platform releases, wouldn't it be around the time now that both MS and Sony start actually working together a bit? Or atleast, offering games the ability to work on both consoles online and play together?

I mean, both consoles are getting nearly the same games, so what would be the problem with both consoles using the same net services? I mean, surely it wouldn't be that hard to do in the next 12 months.


GTA, Burnout, FFXII and many other games all out/coming out on both consoles, yet we're still limited to play against the same consoles.

*Wants to be able to slay his 360 friends on Burnout with his PS3*

EDIT: Brothers in Arms managed to do it.. PS3 and PC (MS Software), so why can't they do it PS3/PC and 360?

[Billargh]

There already is cross platform games for PC/Xbox 360, Universe at War, Shadowrun etc

[Overdriven]

Yes, but I'm talking for consoles :P MicroShite V $ony.

[ST^]

Because it makes no business sense for either of them.

[Yaka]

sony arnt stop cross plat form playing. they leave it to the devs. on ps2 a hand ful of games were playbale with peeps with pcs think need for speed was one of them.


as for ms its big no-no they wana control everything on thier platform there was talk about cross compatibilty when vista came out but they have been silent on the subject

[WPKenny]

I remember Quake3 on the Dreamcast and you could play that against people on PC's.

[Yaka]

aye you could, rember every "proper" quake3 player having a moan about it.

[PLightstar]

Remember playing a few games of UT against Dreamcast players, they always got whipped, Sega in the end had to have Dreamcast only servers and stop us PC players facing off against them.

As its been said before there's no business sense behind it. They tried cross Platform yet again with Shadowrun but it made a bad game even worse to play, PC Gamers were nerfed and 360 players had handicaps to keep up with the PC players.

Driving games could work in theory as cross platform but RTS and FPS are a no no unless they can bring console controls onto par with the Keyboard and Mouse set-ups.

[Overdriven]

Well, I was talking more Racers/Beat-Em-Ups etc. I wouldn't play a PC gamer on a console, I mean, I've played COD4 on PS3 and PC, and the PC standards are just so much better.