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Borderlands 3 is set to receive cross-play on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5, in a U-turn from Sony’s previous policy.

The update will arrive “in the future” according to publisher 2K, who didn’t elaborate on why the change was happening now, or why the game was originally blocked from having cross-play on Sony machines.

Borderlands 3, which is currently available on Xbox One, Xbox Series, Mac, Stadia, PC, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 currently allows players from any non-PlayStation platform to play together.

The change of policy is likely tied to the news that the upcoming Borderlands spin-off Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands will feature full crossplay on PlayStation consoles, as tweeted by Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford earlier this week:

“Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands will ship on March 25 with full cross-play for all platforms at launch, including PlayStation,” Pitchford wrote. “Incredible work from the engineers at Gearbox Software with thanks to our partners at 2K Games and first parties, including Sony, for working together on this.”

Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands will ship on March 25 with full cross play for all platforms at launch, including PlayStation. Incredible work from the engineers at Gearbox Software with thanks to our partners at 2k Games and 1st parties, including Sony, for working together on this. pic.twitter.com/J1SV7HgnhW

— Randy Pitchford (@DuvalMagic) March 13, 2022

He continued in a later tweet: “Please take it easy on us if there are hiccups. This is hard stuff and none of the platforms were designed for this. We’ve done impossible work to make it happen and to try to make it as easy to use as possible, but this is new territory and the wild is not a test environment.”

2K did not provide a release date for the update that will enable cross-play.

In our recent hands-on with Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands, we said that the “Borderlands combat has never been better”.

“If you can put up with the humour that seems to be ripped right from a discount bin of HMV t-shirts from 2013, there’s some really fun and expansive combat to be found in Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands, and we’re definitely more interested to check out the full experience.

“The main question is just how deep and varied the new magic system will be, and if Wonderlands can still provide those memorable boss fights and maintain the addictive drip-feed of loot.”

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1. The biggest surprise is that Sony is still being so stubborn about Cross Play. They claim they don’t allow it because there’s no benefit to them but then they get negative press for being the only company without it. Seems like someone higher up isn’t looking at the big picture.

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2. Who realistically uses Cross Play? First thing I do on console, if playing say an FPS with PC players involved, is disable it. Make sure games are filtered for only console players and console players with controllers enabled. And from what I know of most console players they do the same. Because mouse/keyboard gives an advantage against controller support, even with auto-aim. It is by far the stupidest idea on the planet. And even with things like MMO’s it gives an advantage, so unless everything is PVE that doesn’t work either. One of those thing Microsoft pushed to try and make out like Sony were anti-gamer. When in reality it was fill game lobbies on the Xbox.

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3. Pretty much everyone who plays coop games like Borderlands.

   The option to disable cross play is fine in games like CoD where I completely agree Keyboard and mouse has an advantage, but in other games there’s no reason to not implement it.

   With PVE games there’s no reason to not have it enabled.

   And it’s not Microsoft making Sony out as the bad guys. Sony literally told people they wouldn’t allow cross platform multiplayer until someone could prove how it made them [Sony] Money. The emails came out in the Epic vs. Apple lawsuit.

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4. a few weeks ago i used the crossplay (im from pc) because a person (from xbox) was asking for a gun donation, and i could help him, and before that, he gave me a skullmasher that I was trying to catch for many days. so, if we can help each other, why not? crossplay helps with that, especially if your friend is from another platform and you want to play together. so again, why not?

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5. Yeah there are reasons to use it. But like a lot of things Microsoft push (backward compatibility for example) it is niche usage.

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6. Sony were the first I remember to offer crossplay between PC and Playstation. Back in the old 360 days when Microsoft were on top, Microsoft didn’t really want to know about it at all.

   As soon as Sony are on top and Microsoft are struggling – all of a sudden Microsoft become crossplay champions. And the whole idea of a captured environment (Live Gold/PSN) is to make sure you are making the most amount of money from your products.

   Crossplay is fine for PVE – but for Multiplayer and it being forced in things like Warzone on Xbox, it isn’t. To my mind more hassle that it is worth. Just like Backwards compatibility, was only pushed because Microsoft had no new games and what would Major Nelson talk about, if it wasn’t for which new old titles we could now play.

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7. Did you just like ignore the part where there’s literal proof Sony refused cross play on games unless the develops showed evidence of how it would benefit Sony financially?

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8. Because Sony don’t need cross play now, that is my point. If you have 120+ million consoles sold, you don’t need to open your platform up to other gamers from different platforms. But if like Microsoft you only have a fraction of that number, it makes sense because it fills game lobbies/co-op etc. But just as Microsoft were not interested when they were on top in the 360 era. Sony is the same now, it doesn’t need it. It doesn’t need cross play in the slightest. If anything it allows it, as a courtesy. So yeah, where is the profit in it?

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9. As of December Sony was only in the lead by about 1.4M units which can hardly be called a substantial lead.

   Regardless restricting cross play does nothing but put Sony in a negative light, which will cause some sales to go to Microsoft

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10. Well we don’t know what the lead is overall, as Microsoft don’t publish sales numbers. So everything with them is an estimate.

    Whole point of this is to paint Sony in a negative light. That is the narrative Microsoft have been pushing since Phil Spencer arrived. We can do this for the gamer, if only Sony would play ball.

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11. We do know it pushed sales away from PS5. I chose an Xbox over PS5 because I didn’t like a lot of the anti Gamer practices Sony’s been doing recently, of which no cross play is one. And I’m not the only one. Most of the gamers I know personally aren’t buying a PS5 because of numerous things Sony has done this generation.

    Microsoft doesn’t need to paint Sony in a negative. Their anti Gamer practices already do that for them.

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12. It is not anti-gamer – it is anti-entitled. This idea that you should get what you want/when you want all the time. It isn’t representative of console gaming. The whole idea of consoles, is a captive environment controlled by the creators of the console.

    You want all the bells and whistles … including freedom, game on PC – you have no restrictions. Ultimate backward compatibility, free to play multiplayer, even low prices etc etc.

    Consoles are inherently focussed on their own self-centred, money making, ideals. And they only play nice with others if they have something to gain. Such as Microsoft, lost the previous generation of console war Xbox One/PS4, so then becomes a champion for cross-play and backwards compatibility, anything as long as you don’t mention new exclusive games (or lack of them). And this comes from a guy with almost entire library on Xbox. Their focus is so much on all the spurious rubbish that surrounds gaming, to mask what has been a lack of games. Which they themselves must have realised, because they have gone about widely making acquisitions of game studios.

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13. The fact that your defending a company that removes features they can’t make money off of, charges you an extra $10 for an “enhanced” version of a game you already own, and refuses to get with the times and behind a gamepass style model is baffling.

    I guess some people really do like being taken advantage of. Don’t bother replying. It’s clear you’re not ready to actually look at the gaming landscape critically.

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14. I have no issues at all, paying for an upgrade – I don’t expect owning a console to buy a game on one version and be able to play it on the next. If I wanted that I would game on PC. Something else pushed by Microsoft, play on whatever rubbish you have available at the time. Not how consoles work, never has been. Done again to push Game Pass and nothing else. Make it less about the hardware, more about the service.

    Personally I see games as value for money. I paid what £90 for Horizon Forbidden West, spent 90 hours+ in the game so far. Average £1 an hour entertainment value. By the time I have worked my way through achievements etc, 150+hours. Then they will release DLC, change up the system a bit. I could be quite happily looking at 200+ hours into this game. That seems value to money to my mind.

    Sorry to me it is the entitled factor again – it is like I bought this game on the original Xbox/Playstation and expect to be able to play it for life and not spend any more money on it. But expect the game to have updates, stay current and be available on all platforms I decide to game on. Then I would say you want to be on PC, you can still play DOS games on PC.

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