The Microsoft-owned blockbuster is available on pretty much everything that plays games, from consoles to phones to handhelds. It’s a small move in the short term, but it’s part of a growing wave of backlash to a long-held policy in the video-game business. “We cannot have a game that works one way across everywhere else except for on this one thing.”īy saying as much, Hines and Bethesda drew a line in the sand with Sony’s cross-platform policy: Allow cross-platform play and progress, or we’ll skip the PS4. “It is our intention in order for the game to come out, it has to be those things on any system,” Hines told Game Informer. If the biggest game in the world isn’t getting around Sony’s blockade, how will “The Elder Scrolls: Legends”? Potentially by skipping the PlayStation 4 altogether. Sony, however, won’t allow publishers like Bethesda Softworks to enable this type of functionality in their games.Įven Epic Games, the publisher of “Fortnite,” isn’t allowed to enable cross-platform play between Sony’s PlayStation 4 and Microsoft’s Xbox One (let alone Nintendo’s Switch). “It doesn’t matter what platform you play on – you play against everyone else who is playing at that moment.” “The way the game works right now on Apple, Google, Steam, and, it doesn’t matter where you buy your stuff – if you play it on another platform, that stuff is there,” Pete Hines, a Bethesda senior vice president, said in a recent interview with Game Informer. In so many words: There’s no technical reason it couldn’t work across competing platforms like the Xbox One and the PlayStation 4.
The game is turn-based, so it doesn’t require precise, reaction-based controls. “The Elder Scrolls: Legends” is a competitive card game, similar to Blizzard’s “Hearthstone,” that’s the same across all platforms, visually and gameplay-wise, whether you’re playing it on an iPhone or a PC. The issue at hand is seemingly simple: Bethesda has a game coming to the Xbox One, the PlayStation 4, and the Nintendo Switch called “The Elder Scrolls: Legends.” Bethesda wants “Legends” players on all consoles to be able to play the game with each other and for their progress to carry over if they change platforms.
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