Todd Howard States Sony is the Reason Behind Lack of Cross-Play for Fallout 76

Cross-play between popular video game platforms has become one of the most discussed topics in the video game industry, due in large part to the massive amount of success that Fortnite Battle Royale has seen with its implementation of cross-play between consoles, PC and mobile devices. 

However, Sony has been a subject of major criticism regarding its handling of cross-play for Fortnite, as the company will not allow its players to play with Xbox One or Nintendo Switch players, while Microsoft and Nintendo have decided to allow cross-play for the popular battle royale title on their two consoles. 

This criticism of Sony's handling of cross-play has now seeped into the world of Fallout 76. Bethesda Director and Executive Producer Todd Howard stated in a interview with Gamestar that Sony is to blame for the lack of cross-play in the next entry in the popular Fallout franchise. 

In the interview, Howard states that Sony has not been "as helpful as everyone would like" when asked the exclusion of cross-platform play for the online multiplayer title of Fallout 76. Howard also states in the interview that the Fallout 76 team would "love" to have cross-play in Fallout 76, but that the inclusion of the popular feature is currently not possible. 

Sony head Shawn Layden has recently stated that the company is looking at many possibilities for the Playstation 4 to join forces with its competition for the implementation of cross-platform play and that organization believes they will find a solution in the future.

However, many members of the community see this as Sony being too late to the party, as the Playstation 4 looks to be left out of cross-platform play for the most popular game in the world at the moment in Fortnite and looks to have stopped any momentum that the highly anticipated title of Fallout 76 had of including the ability for players to play with their friends on different platforms. 

(cover photo courtesy of Bethesda)