Yesterday, news broke that Sony had finally come to its senses regarding cross-platform play. Starting yesterday, Fortnite players from across the available collection of supported platforms could play together – just the way it should be.
While Sony has said they’ll be trialling this across “selected” third-party games, Fortnight is the only one that’ll currently work. As you may know though, because the PlayStation 4’s garden was so walled, any Epic Games Fortnite accounts tied to the PlayStation 4 could not be used on other consoles. They’d work fine on PC and mobile, but PlayStation owners who also owned Xbox Ones and Switches who tried to use their account son those platforms hit a roadblock.
Epic is rectifying that, with a two phase approach. In a Tweet, the company said that in the next few days they’ll allow players to unlink their accounts from specific systems and link them to other ones. That’s a decent stop-gap measure for the short term that’ll let players play on whichever platforms they like – bringing their Battle Passes, challenges and V Bucks with them.
In November, Epic plans to release a tool to merge accounts, which will let those (like me!) who now have two separate Fortnite accounts across different platforms.
The cross play stuff comes just in time for Season 6. Hopefully other games that already support cross play – like Rocket League and Minecraft – will finally get full cross-platform play support too.
Last Updated: September 27, 2018
Skittle
September 27, 2018 at 08:52
I don’t get sad when I die in Fortnite. I get sad because the player doing the victory dance over my corpse is 11 years old.
Pieter Kruger
September 27, 2018 at 08:26
All 3rd Party multiplat games should have cross play….MAKE IT HAPPEN!!!
Pieter Kruger
September 27, 2018 at 12:26
WOW, 4 upvotes! Now this very same comment would’ve been downvoted into the ground before $ony finally broke under pressure and allowed cross play……???
Guz
September 27, 2018 at 08:48
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/92b82fcccec78a208e69981410346e1e87133b59ab9edb7971341b1d88c645ec.jpg when you friends keep asking you to join for something you dont really want to but do it anyway
HvR
September 27, 2018 at 11:42
Sony said yes, but just the tip
Skittle
September 27, 2018 at 08:52
I don’t get sad when I die in Fortnite. I get sad because the player doing the victory dance over my corpse is 11 years old.
Sageville
September 27, 2018 at 15:29
Question: If all your friends are on the same platform, would you still search for crossplay games?
Magoo
September 28, 2018 at 07:33
In the same manner, would you go out of your way to disable cross-platform just because your friends are all on the same system?
Sageville
October 5, 2018 at 11:54
I would, playing against mouse and keyboard would not be fun.