![]() Advertisementįurther Reading Fortnite devs inadvertently prove cross-console play is possible Valve President Gabe Newell famously attended Sony's E3 press conference to announce that Portal 2 would come to the PlayStation 3 and that it would feature cross-play with PC. ![]() The Sega Dreamcast, which launched way back in 1998, took a couple stabs at cross-play, with game developers working with Microsoft to connect Dreamcast and Windows PC players in games like Quake 3 Arena and Phantasy Star Online. There have been some outliers over the years, of course. Players of online games have been asking for the ability to play with their friends on different platforms for at least two decades, but it has been a long, rocky road to get to the point that the dream is anything close to reality. That said, though, even having just one service achieve this is a big boon for cross-play advocates and a sign that the landscape for multiplayer gaming is very different from the previous console generation. That's great for Discord as a platform and company, of course-and it would be great to see competing services follow so Discord doesn't have a monopoly on this kind of functionality. With PC, Xbox, and PlayStation support, Discord is poised to be the go-to voice-over-IP service for cross-platform multi-player games, which have started to progress toward ubiquity for the first time over the past couple of years. ![]() The only major gaming platform outlier is Nintendo's Switch. Discord voice calls had long been available on PC, Mac, iOS, and Android. ![]() Further Reading Discord hops the generative AI train with ChatGPT-style toolsThe rollout follows a similar one on Microsoft's Xbox consoles last fall. ![]()
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