Co-op shooter coming soon Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands Gearbox announced yesterday. That may be a foregone conclusion in 2022, but it marks the first time Borderlands users from PlayStation and Xbox will play together.
“Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands will ship March 25 with full cross-play for all platforms at launch, including PlayStation,” said Gearbox Entertainment president Randy Pitchford wrote on Twitter last night. “The incredible work of the engineers at Gearbox Software with thanks to our partners at 2k Games and first parties, including Sony, for working together on this. ”
Like the past Borderlands game, the focus of Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands is a co-op campaign in which groups have up to four players Defeat bosses in pursuit of more powerful gear. The missions and gameplay this time are D&D-inspired, making multiplayer a bigger part of the experience, so it’s important that the game allows players from different backgrounds to get together. And it’s a reminder that Sony has in history is one of the drag its feet into the matter.
However, this does not happen when Borderlands 3 launched in 2019. Two years later Epic Games by accident Fortnite temporary crossplay between PS4 and Xbox One, and a year after Sony officially launched warmly advocate the concept, Gearbox’s loot shooter launched without it. When crossplay was finally added last year, PS4 and PS5 are not included, beat most points (you can still play between PC and Xbox). It’s unclear exactly what has changed in the months since, but Pitchford wrote in a follow-up tweet that he now considers exhaustive. Borderlands 3 cross-play to become”inevitable“With more information to come later.
In the past, Sony has actually suggested companies charge extra to enable cross-play. That’s what the original PlayStation maker suggested to Epic Games when they wanted to do Fortnite crossplay, follow Court documents revealed last year in Epic v. Apple. “Under certain circumstances, Epic will have to pay extra revenue to Sony,” Sweeney said of the deal during last year’s beta. “If someone primarily plays on PlayStation, but pays on iPhone, this could trigger compensation.”
Years later, crossplay has become the norm for most new online multiplayer games. While there are still notable retentions — FIFA and Madden are still platform-locked — genre leaders like Call of Duty and Battlefield now solid foundation agnostic. Even some old games are continuing to be updated with it. Ubisoft just announced last week that medieval fighter 2017 For the sake of honor will finally cross out when the Lost Horizons update is released this week.
