Sony Defends Lack of PS4 Cross-Play

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Today Eurogamer spoke to PlayStation Global Sales and Marketing Head Jim Ryan, who once again reaffirmed that Sony isn’t particularly keen on cross-play.

When asked by Eurogamer if Sony was simply not playing ball with the whole cross-play thing, Ryan had the following to say:

> “It’s certainly not a profound philosophical stance we have against this. We’ve done it in the past. We’re always open to conversations with any developer or publisher who wants to talk about it. Unfortunately it’s a commercial discussion between ourselves and other stakeholders, and I’m not going to get into the detail of that on this particular instance. And I can see your eyes rolling.”

To this, Eurogamer further pressed Ryan saying that Sony’s lack of participation and lack of explanation for why it won’t get involved, has left many gamers upset, to which Ryan replied:

> “Yeah. We’ve got to be mindful of our responsibility to our install base. Minecraft – the demographic playing that, you know as well as I do, it’s all ages but it’s also very young. We have a contract with the people who go online with us, that we look after them and they are within the PlayStation curated universe. Exposing what in many cases are children to external influences we have no ability to manage or look after, it’s something we have to think about very carefully.”

Later in the interview between the two, Ryan says nothing is a done deal; however, he does confirm that there is no live conversation ongoing at the moment about the topic.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-06-13-sony-defends-decision-to-block-cross-play-with-xbox-one-and-nintendo-switch

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