In an interview with Eurogamer, game director Jeff Kaplan has said Blizzard is “having conversations” with Sony and Microsoft about Overwatch cross-play.
In an interview with Eurogamer, game director Jeff Kaplan has said Blizzard is “having conversations” with Sony and Microsoft about Overwatch cross-play.
At this stage, it’s apparently Blizzard taking information about what’s going on with the matter at the different platform owners.
That’s especially happening after PlayStation 4 opened to a full fledged Fortnite cross-play, for the first time ever with Xbox One, too.
“We’re super-excited about what’s going on with cross-play in all sorts of different games, from Rocket League to Fortnite, and we are constantly in discussions with the first-parties, Microsoft and Sony, to see where they’re at and gauge where their temperature is at. It’s something that would be very exciting for us to pursue,” said Kaplan.
Further pressed on what the things he said actually mean, he added that “we are definitely having conversations that we’re interested in the thought of it.”
“It’s very complicated – from a technology standpoint, a game design standpoint, and from a business relationship standpoint.
But we would be excited to tackle all of those challenges; we would love to try. We’re gamers; “Why can’t my buddies on this system or that system play together?” We sympathise with that, we want to be able to do that too.”
Xbox’s Mike Ybarra commented the interview on Twitter, with a quite significant “let’s do it,” and “for all the games across the Battle.net and Xbox Live communities.”
Let’s do it. https://t.co/M29dh0hFlP
— ?Mike Ybarra☃️ (@XboxQwik) 4 novembre 2018
