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Earlier this week, Sony PlayStation caved in and opened the door to crossplay gaming with the announcement of a new Fortnite Crossplay Beta.

Crossplay isn’t exactly new. It’s existed between certain companies and platforms for some time.

But Sony hasn’t played ball and as the leading console platform this generation is a bit of a pain.

Because lets face it, you’ll always have one friend who’s playing on a different system.

But as we mention, that Berlin wall looks to be coming down and though Sony are calling this a ‘beta’ you’d imagine that players will riot if they don’t look to allow this for all games further down the line.

So then, the question becomes, what are developers going to do.

Bethesda have already underlined that Fallout 76 will not support cross-play this week, but thankfully, for fans of Activision Blizzard games such as Black Ops 4, Overwatch and Destiny 2, there’s plenty of good news.

“We’ve had a great experience with cross-play for Hearthstone on other platforms and have witnessed how compelling it can be for our community,” an Activision spokesperson told IGN earlier this week.

“There’s still a lot of work to do on both our side and the platform side to understand whether cross-play might be integrated into our other games.

“So we’ll be watching the upcoming test and will assess what the potential impact of this feature would be for our players and our games.”

Whilst it doesn’t sound like crossplay will be implemented right away, it does bode well that it’s not being ruled out like Fallout 76 from Bethesda.

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The move would also make complete sense for both Activision and Blizzard long term.

Unlike Bethesda, Activision Blizzard has a far bigger investment in games that are built on massive multiplayer communities.

Call of Duty Black Ops 4, Overwatch and Destiny 2 are all hugely reliant on having a thriving online community, and if they were able to converge that pool of players into one massive group, it could vital.

Not only for the sake of having lobbies that are never short on players to game with regardless on the time of day.

But also, it would help maintain the longevity of a title thanks to having a bigger community available to play it, simply by virtue of pooling every player together from both console system

The only question that remains, is how long we’ll be waiting before we see these massive global communities coming together as one.