Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands First Borderlands with full cross-play

Upcoming co-op shooter Tiny Tina’s Wonderland will receive cross-play across all platforms, Gearbox announced yesterday. That might seem like a foregone conclusion in 2022, but it’s the first time border areas PlayStation and Xbox users can play together.

“Tiny Tina’s Wonderland will ship March 25th with full crossplay across all platforms at launch, including PlayStation,” said Randy Pitchford, President of Gearbox Entertainment wrote on Twitter last night. “Incredible work by the engineers at Gearbox Software with thanks to our partners at 2k Games and first-party providers including Sony for collaborating on this project.”

Like past border areas Games, the focus of Tiny Tina’s Wonderland is a co-op campaign played in groups of up to four players Defeat bosses in search of stronger gear. The missions and gameplay this time are D&D-inspired, making multiplayer an even bigger part of the experience. So it’s a big deal that the game allows players from different platforms to search together. And it’s a memory that Sony has historically been the one drags his feet on the subject.

However, this was not the case when borderland 3 came out in 2019. Two years after Epic Games made accidentally Fourteen days temporary crossplay between PS4 and Xbox One and a year after Sony’s official release lukewarm support of the concept, Gearbox’s loot shooter, which launched without him. When crossplay was finally added last year, PS4 and PS5 were not included, defeating much of the point (you could still matchmake between PC and Xbox). It’s not clear what exactly has changed in the months since, but Pitchford wrote in a follow-up tweet that he now believes is complete frontier 3 to be cross-play”inevitable‘ More information will follow later.

In the past, Sony has actually suggested charging companies extra to allow cross-play. That’s what PlayStation manufacturer Epic Games originally suggested when they wanted to do it Fourteen days cross play, acc Court documents published in Epic v. Apple were revealed. “Under certain circumstances, Epic will have to pay additional revenue to Sony,” Sweeney said during last year’s trial of the deal. “If someone primarily plays on PlayStation but pays on iPhone, that could trigger compensation.”

Years later, cross-play has become the norm for most new online multiplayer games. While there are still notable holdouts — FIFA and Madden remain platform-bound — genre leaders like it call of Duty and battlefield are now firmly platform independent. Even some old games continue to be updated with it. Ubisoft just announced the 2017 Medieval Fighter last week for honor want Finally do crossplay when the Lost Horizons update goes live this week.