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PS3/360 cross platform is "impossible," says dev

Posted on June 4th, 2008 at 04:21 EDT

Tom Clancy’s EndWar developer Ubisoft Shanghai has admitted it would have liked to include cross platform play between the upcoming PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 strategy title, but came to the conclusion it was “impossible” due to the fact Sony and Microsoft "don't like speaking to each other.”

Speaking to Videogamer.com, the company’s Editorial Content Director, Julian Gerighty, commented: "I wish we could play cross-platform,” adding, “That would be nice. It's impossible. Sony and Microsoft don't like speaking to each other."

Due out later this year, EndWar takes place in the near future during the midst of World War III, with players able to chose to side with North America, Europe or Russia. The game can be played entirely through voice communication.

Recently Ubisoft announced that the Tom Clancy franchise has sold over 50 million units worldwide since the series debuted ten years ago.

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posted 4:34am EDT - June 4th, 2008
1

that sucks : (

1st, sorry had too :)

posted 4:43am EDT - June 4th, 2008
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Oh my God, that made me laugh out loud "They don't like to speak to eachother" Even if they did do it could you imagine the amount of fights? The hardcore PS3 and 360 fanboys/girls will be killing eachother with slagging and what not.
posted 4:44am EDT - June 4th, 2008
3

you can see it now can't you

'Sony' go and talk to Microsoft and be friends'

Sony - No! microsoft thinks there better than me cause they came out a year early, and they keep paying my friends off to be there friend and not mine.

Microsoft go and be friends with Sony

Microsoft - errr i can't actually, ive just broken down.

posted 5:28am EDT - June 4th, 2008
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Microsoft are like Paris Hilton...how many do they have that they don't pay??lol

posted 5:38am EDT - June 4th, 2008
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This is hardly news, is it? The same stories arose with UT3 and Burnout Paradise. In fact, Criterion even went as far as saying that cross-platform would be 'easy', but they actually have to put code in the game to stop cross-platform from working.

 

Besides, from what I've heard, Live can be quite laggy... would we really want them slowing us down? :-)

posted 6:35am EDT - June 4th, 2008
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LOL this has to be the worst article i have ever read....you could have just copied and pasted the titled of the article....but to make it look longer u just repeted what you said in the first paragraph and with the third paragraph u just told us what end war was..... next time save people time and say "title says all".... so i dont have to read your cr@p....and btw im sure every person that owns an xbox or ps3 knows by now that there will never be a game that does cross platform ..beside pc and xbox but im sure we all know why it does that anyway......M$ owns both Xbox and Windows "for the people who didnt know"

 

so to finish what im saying write something with good info....and if u dont have anything then dont write anything at all

posted 6:45am EDT - June 4th, 2008
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Its kinda stating the obvious really but I agree that it would be nice to be able to play online across platforms

posted 7:04am EDT - June 4th, 2008
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''Sony and Microsoft don't like speakintg to eachother'' LMAO that just makes both companies sound like they're being run by childish fanboys but it would be nice though if atleast ONE game had cross platform play betwen the two consoles because all my mates have X360's and I'm the only one with a PS3; but too many complaints would arise... from the 360 owners obviously

posted 7:26am EDT - June 4th, 2008
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Nothing's impossible - highly improbable in this case, perhaps.  It's a real shame that the great behemoths of this industry cannot meet in the middle to provide gamers with what they really want.  The chance to outplay their xbox/ps(*delete as applicable) adversary.

Perhaps standards will emerge for the next + next-generation of gamer to enable this.  Until then we will simply have to keep flaming each other on blogs.

posted 8:11am EDT - June 4th, 2008
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It's a little mroe complicated than "they don't like to talk to each other" come on! They're two hugely bitter rivals with two competing online services, not to mention M$ wants to controll all their servers so they wouldnt want to host PS3 players on their servers for cross platform play.

posted 8:21am EDT - June 4th, 2008
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if his ever comes to fruition i can see microsoft implementing a ps3 virus which attempts to crash connected ps3s

they are foiled however by the fact that microsoft code is easily run by one SPE without breaking a sweat, :p

posted 9:13am EDT - June 4th, 2008
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i wish this could of happened. i could hear the fanboys talk trash when they beat a 360 fanboys. lol

posted 9:42am EDT - June 4th, 2008
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Man that would be clean if u could do this for COD4 for like jus one weekend. Instead of having 2 different types of teams. I could jus be ps3 vs. 360 teams. Then we could finally show those 360 noobs whose boss!

posted 10:02am EDT - June 4th, 2008
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but playing warhawk on one server both  ps3 and xbox360 user this will be real war and enabling all talk that's real h3ll lol ha ha.

and others too and i wish this too :) 

(personaly i'll choose russia) lol

posted 10:24am EDT - June 4th, 2008
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Microsoft must be afraid that we PS3 players are going to 0wn them through voicechat
posted 10:58am EDT - June 4th, 2008
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lol get devs to pressure them into it ...lol media NO LITLE BIG PLANET FOR SONY UNTIL HE GOS AND MAKES UP WITH MICROSOFT. Sony : buuuuut hes so big and meaaaann.

mircosoft : HUMPH blu ray boy

Sony : = (

posted 11:05am EDT - June 4th, 2008
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You know, the Cold War wasn't won by not speaking to each other.    It was won because of spying, careful diplomacy, and...well, mostly because communist countries suck.  Of course competition is good.  Hate the 360 all you want, but the one good that has come out of it is the fact it presses Sony to push the limits even further.  The video game arms/space race is heating up.  So whenever an exclusive like Metal Gear Solid 4, or LittleBigPlanet comes out for PS3, it's like Sony is nuking the moon and saying, "TAKE THAT YOU COMMIES!!!" :p

posted 11:33am EDT - June 4th, 2008
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lol, "dont like speaking to eachother", im still laughing about that.

posted 11:33am EDT - June 4th, 2008
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lol, "dont like speaking to eachother", im still laughing about that.

posted 11:33am EDT - June 4th, 2008
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lol, "dont like speaking to eachother", im still laughing about that.

posted 11:38am EDT - June 4th, 2008
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thats no surprise I don't like Microsoft either

posted 12:16pm EDT - June 4th, 2008
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are we really this bored?

posted 12:19pm EDT - June 4th, 2008
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posted 2:24pm - June 4th, 2008
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Microsoft must be afraid that we PS3 players are going to 0wn them through voicechat

 

 

haa sure, sony dont even give you a mic to talk with that shows how much they care about online

posted 1:44pm EDT - June 4th, 2008
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 isnt  final fantas11 cros platform between the pc xbox360 & ps2  at least thats what i heard. but then again that would a complete battle of the fanboys  

posted 1:51pm EDT - June 4th, 2008
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Isn't this because XBox Live is a paid service?

posted 4:18pm EDT - June 4th, 2008
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I dont care who you are, that sound nice. It would have played out nice and I have to thank the for even tring to make it happen. They would have made alot of money to cause people would want to see what it would be like.

 

psn id: I95SOUTH<-- Vote padro for President!

posted 5:00pm EDT - June 4th, 2008
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I wouldn't play cross platform anyway.  Fanboys yelling everywhere would screw it up for everyone.

posted 9:48pm EDT - June 4th, 2008
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"Fanboys yelling everywhere would screw it up for everyone." Well said reaper. besides, MS cant stand PSN doesnt charge. They would probaly want PS3 people to pay for live lol.

posted 10:15pm EDT - June 4th, 2008
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Umm i would love to have 360 and PS3 multi-platform why you guys think they canceld Redalert 3 for Ps3....Because EA likes the Idea. plus i like the Idea where M$ just goes and pays every one off to cancel games its good! They are just making are libary look like quality then qanity. 360 has alot of 8--18 dollar games that just sit in Game stop. and if PS3 would go multi platform it would be with Nintendo,,, Since Nintendo started sony in the first place ( in 1994) soooo..... screw 360 and PC sorry i know they have great games but what ever, i didnt spend 4-5 thousand dollars on HDTV, PS3 ,"20 PS3" games and "50 PS2" games... for what to bow down to PC and 360 aka M$ and there 7$ service  screw them. im a sony fan boy because i paid to be. point made MS$ = bad

posted 11:40pm EDT - June 4th, 2008
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@ the-great-one

was that a bash on the ps3's online? did you honestly just attack the playstations FREE online service, because it doesnt give you a MICROPHONE?!

you forgot to mention that you could also use ANY bluetooth headset you have with the ps3, instead of buying a special, pos microsoft brand one.

but on topic, I don't see it working anyways, since xbox live and psn are completely different. if you wanted to add a friend in game on your 360, how would you add him if he had a psn name? how would you know the difference? i can see it being done, but since these two companies wont communicate like big boys, it wont for a long time to come.

posted 12:38am EDT - June 5th, 2008
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what the f***. that's such bullsh**. what about FFXI. i play on my ps3 all the time with players that log in with their xbox360. if they had a set of servers accessible by both XBL and PSN like Square-Enix, it could be done. i don't know why not.

posted 10:41am EDT - June 5th, 2008
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psn id: gingo.... i think this would be a good addition for a game such as endwar its just a pity sony and microsoft cant break a deal for one game

posted 12:14pm EDT - June 5th, 2008
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BRAVO4 i said the same thing to my homeboy the other day. the wii and ps3 are more likely to have cross platform than microsux and ps3. the sixaxis and the wii-mote orrrrrrr the um whatever u call the xbox controller? the only other system i would even think of buyin is the wii just cuz its the respectable name of nintendo. and plus microsux is gay. case closed
posted 2:48pm EDT - June 5th, 2008
34

in all seriousness no game is going to look better when it comes to the xbox and ps3. but in the future when they push the ps3 graphicly it will be etter then xbox

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