The arrival of Fortnite on the Nintendo Switch has been marred by Sony’s choice to not enable full cross-platform help between the PlayStation and the Change console.
The popular battle royale recreation was released on the Switch on Tuesday, and will now enable players using an Xbox One, Computer, Mac pc or cell to pick up their Swap and carry on the place they left off.
Nevertheless, Sony has blocked the same system from its PlayStation 4 - as a substitute asking users to create a brand new account.
“This Fortnite account is associated with a platform which does not permit it to function on Switch,” says a failed log-in message inside Fortnite with a PS4-linked account.
(Screenshot/Nintendo)
“Neither the Fortnite web site nor (developer) Epic Buyer Services are able to vary this. To play Minecraft servers on Swap, please create a brand new account.”The incident has sparked widespread anger on social media, with fans and trade insiders urging Sony to vary its policy, including video games author Greg Miller from Kinda Funny, who warned the decision “makes me think about transferring to Xbox for Fortnite.”
.@PlayStation, repair this.
Not allowing me to signal-in to Fortnite Switch with my Epic account as a result of it's linked to PS4 is tone deaf and points more to worry than market dominance.
It does the opposite of what you want -- it makes me assume about transferring to Xbox for Fortnite. pic.twitter.com/D9xqv9aWdF
- Greg Miller (@GameOverGreggy) June 12, 2018
Meanwhile, rival gaming giant Microsoft poked fun at Sony’s stance, with its official UK Twitter account posting a message to Nintendo asking if the company wanted to “play some Fortnite later?”.
@NintendoUK wanna play some Fortnite later?
- Xbox UK (@xboxuk) June 12, 2018
Sony has not commented on the incident but has blocked cross-play capabilities for different games prior to now, for games together with Minecraft.
It comes because the E3 gaming convention opened in Los Angeles.
The three-day video games commerce present is predicted to welcome more than 60,000 attendees, who could have the possibility to play upcoming video games resembling Spider-Man, Shadow Of The Tomb Raider and Call Of Obligation: Black Ops 4.