02-23-2020, 02:50 PM
PUBG, Black Desert add new PS4 and Xbox One cross-play features
<div style="margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%;"><img src="https://www.sickgaming.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/pubg-black-desert-add-new-ps4-and-xbox-one-cross-play-features.jpg" width="200" height="200" title="" alt="" /></div><div><p>Two major online games announced developments in their cross-console play offerings this week, continuing console games’ slow march toward a more platform agnostic future.</p>
<p>For instance, <em>PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds</em> is expanding its previous cross-console play to allow players across PlayStation 4 and Xbox One lines to team up with one another. Existing cross-platform options only let players on different consoles compete against one another in the game’s last-man-standing matches, but choosing to party up with a friend on the opposing platform wasn’t possible until the 6.2 update.</p>
<p>That version is <a href="https://www.pubg.com/2020/02/18/console-update-6-2-patch-notes/">currently live on the <em>PUBG</em> test servers</a>, and will likely roll out to the full game down the road. In a similar vein, the MMORPG <em>Black Desert </em>announced today that it’ll start to allow cross-play between Xbox One and PlayStation 4 <a href="https://youtu.be/Y6VC-N5DKRc">as soon as March 4</a>.</p>
<p>Both additions seem like they’ve been a long time coming, but that’s the case for many online games with a presence on both major consoles. For much of the current cycle only a few select titles were able to boast cross-platform play across the console lines, a result of PlayStation’s reluctance to open those floodgates.</p>
<p>Over the last year or so PlayStation labeled its cross-play as a beta, but moved to <a href="https://gamasutra.com/view/news/351556/PlayStation_quietly_brings_PS4_crossplay_out_of_beta.php">bring the offering out of beta</a> last October. Since that change of heart, games like <em>Minecraft</em>, <em>Mortal Kombat 11</em>, and both of the above have moved to allow players on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One play with and compete against one another.</p>
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<div style="margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%;"><img src="https://www.sickgaming.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/pubg-black-desert-add-new-ps4-and-xbox-one-cross-play-features.jpg" width="200" height="200" title="" alt="" /></div><div><p>Two major online games announced developments in their cross-console play offerings this week, continuing console games’ slow march toward a more platform agnostic future.</p>
<p>For instance, <em>PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds</em> is expanding its previous cross-console play to allow players across PlayStation 4 and Xbox One lines to team up with one another. Existing cross-platform options only let players on different consoles compete against one another in the game’s last-man-standing matches, but choosing to party up with a friend on the opposing platform wasn’t possible until the 6.2 update.</p>
<p>That version is <a href="https://www.pubg.com/2020/02/18/console-update-6-2-patch-notes/">currently live on the <em>PUBG</em> test servers</a>, and will likely roll out to the full game down the road. In a similar vein, the MMORPG <em>Black Desert </em>announced today that it’ll start to allow cross-play between Xbox One and PlayStation 4 <a href="https://youtu.be/Y6VC-N5DKRc">as soon as March 4</a>.</p>
<p>Both additions seem like they’ve been a long time coming, but that’s the case for many online games with a presence on both major consoles. For much of the current cycle only a few select titles were able to boast cross-platform play across the console lines, a result of PlayStation’s reluctance to open those floodgates.</p>
<p>Over the last year or so PlayStation labeled its cross-play as a beta, but moved to <a href="https://gamasutra.com/view/news/351556/PlayStation_quietly_brings_PS4_crossplay_out_of_beta.php">bring the offering out of beta</a> last October. Since that change of heart, games like <em>Minecraft</em>, <em>Mortal Kombat 11</em>, and both of the above have moved to allow players on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One play with and compete against one another.</p>
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