Sony Welcomes Cross-Play for Fortnite

PS4 users can now compete with Nintendo Switch and Xbox One fans in Epic’s popular shooter.

According to the most recent PlayStation Blog post, the company has launched a new beta cross-platform program. Fortnite now allows cross-platform gameplay, progression and commerce across PlayStation 4, Android, iOS, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Microsoft Windows, and Mac operating systems. The company will use the beta to conduct thorough testing “that ensures cross-platform play is best on PlayStation while being mindful about the user experience from both a technical and social perspective”.

The company believes that “cross-platform experiences add significant value to players”. Sony completed a thorough analysis of the business mechanics, making sure that the PlayStation experience for our users remains intact today.

This is quite a huge step for Sony, which was very conservative about crossplay. Let’s hope that the feature becomes a huge success and we’ll see it in more multiplayer games out there.

And huge kudos to UE4 team for making it all possible with their tech.