Games Most Likely to Support PS4 Cross-Play Next
Overwatch
While not as likely as Rocket League or Minecraft, Overwatch has a shot at being an early cross-play candidate. Like the previous games, Overwatch is an ongoing game with a large audience and no sign of slowing down. Just this year, Blizzard ended the inaugural season of the Overwatch League, a NFL-style professional league complete with a $50,000 salary minimum, millions of twitch viewers and a finale that sold out the Barclays Center in New York.
Overwatch is a beloved and successful game that could drum up noise if the cross-play wave continues to roll. While cross-play with PC may never happen due to the difference in power, there’s no obvious gameplay reason to block PS4 and Xbox One compatibility. Both consoles are close enough in power that, even for a reflex-based shooter like Overwatch, console cross-play should be viable.
Additionally, Overwatch’s publisher, Activision, has left the door open for potential cross-play talks.
“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,” Activision told IGN. “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.”
