• justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io
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      15 hours ago

      Anecdote on how thin skinned Sony is:

      When Warframe went fully cross platform, it launched great, they had little icons for everyone’s systems so you could see that the loading times on the switch were horrible. (Hardware issue, no SSD)

      Sony freaked out and their legal demanded that people only see their own platform and everyone else be generic.

      Why? Because they were scared someone would be playing on an xbox and beat someone on a PS in pvp.

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        3 hours ago

        Several years ago Genshin Impact had to bribe Sony to get cross-platform support approved by adding Aloy, the protagonist of Horizon Zero Dawn, as a (shitty and blatantly unfinished) five star gacha character.

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        Sony was also the only company who didn’t want cross play with and to others. Remember when Epic “by accident” enabled cross play for Fortnite on Playstation. That was hilarious.

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        14 hours ago

        So the whole “pulling back on PC releases” actually has precedent within the company?