Ubisoft did not provide a more specific timeline for cross-platform play’s implementation. Friday’s launch of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is a significant step forward in cross-platform capability.Įstablishing cross-platform play in the full-priced, open-world AAA games for which Ubisoft is known, would be a step up from the current catalogue.
Sony’s cross-play initiative had officially been in beta until earlier this month. There will be no cross-account sharing as well so any progress you make on the PC cannot be transferred to the PS4 or. Support for cross-platform play has accelerated since Sony relented in the fall of 2018 and opened up the PlayStation 4 so that fans of Fortnite, Rocket League, and other free-to-play multiplayer games could mingle with users on other consoles, as Xbox One and Nintendo Switch players had been doing in some games for about a year. The Division 2 supports cross-generation play between PC and Stadia, allowing you to matchmake with players on either platform. Brawlhalla, the free-to-play 2D fighting game that Ubisoft launched in 2015, recently added cross-platform play. Ubisoft’s stable of current PvP games is led by Rainbow Six Siege and For Honor, with Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 and the just-launched Ghost Recon Breakpoint supplying large player bases in their PvP modes. “Our goal is to put cross-play on all the PvP games that we have at time,” he said. Personally, if the difference between controller and mouse+keyboard must deny cross-platform play. This would allow pc players to play with ps4 players if they use a controller. In fact, cross-play development is “well underway” at the publisher’s studios, Guillemot said. Maybe a preference can be based on the input command (controller / keyboard + mouse), without putting differences between ps4 and Xbox (since both play with controller).
Ubisoft wants to bring cross-platform play to all of its current PvP games, chief executive Yves Guillemot told investors today.