{"id":25423,"date":"2018-06-14T13:19:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T13:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/319992"},"modified":"2018-06-14T13:19:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T13:19:00","slug":"sony-issues-evasive-response-to-fortnite-cross-platform-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/06\/14\/sony-issues-evasive-response-to-fortnite-cross-platform-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony issues evasive response to Fortnite cross-platform controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sony has built up something of a reputation for being a spoilsport when it comes to cross-platform play, and the company has found itself at the center of another controversy after its reluctance to join the party started affecting players&#8217; experiences on other platforms.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week <em>Fortnite <\/em>players directed their anger towards the Japanese console maker after being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/319945\/Playing_Fortnite_on_PS4_blocks_players_from_logging_in_on_Switch.php\">blocked from accessing the Switch<\/a> version of the popular battle royale effort, seemingly because their account had already been associated with the PlayStation 4 version of the game.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With fans understandably\u00a0aggrieved, the company has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/technology-44477524\">issued a statement to the BBC<\/a>, although there&#8217;s a good chance the evasive response could do more harm than good.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re always open to hearing what the PlayStation community is interested in to enhance their gaming experience,&#8221; said Sony, speaking to the BBC. &#8220;With more than 80 million monthly active users on PlayStation Network, we\u2019ve built a huge community of gamers who can play together on <em>Fortnite<\/em> and all online titles.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We also offer<em> Fortnite<\/em> cross-play support with PC, Mac, iOS, and Android devices, expanding the opportunity for <em>Fortnite<\/em> fans on PS4 to play with even more gamers on other platforms. We have nothing further to add beyond this at this point.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You probably don&#8217;t need us to tell you that it&#8217;s a statement that succeeds in saying barely anything.\u00a0Sony manages to avoid acknowledging\u00a0the issue entirely, beyond suggesting its open to feedback from the PlayStation community, which doesn&#8217;t offer much hope to those eager to carry their progress over to the Switch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony has built up something of a reputation for being a spoilsport when it comes to cross-platform play, and the company has found itself at the center of another controversy after its reluctance to join the party started affecting players&#8217; experiences on other platforms.\u00a0 Earlier this week Fortnite players directed their anger towards the Japanese [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}