If Sony agrees, Rocket League could see Xbox vs PS4

Rocket League is a game that has helped heal and exacerbate old wounds between the world of consoles and PCs. Without the former, PC players on the rocket-powered-car sports title, wouldn’t have anywhere near as many people to play with and console gamers wouldn’t have superior assholes to go up against.

While the game is available on both the Xbox One and PS4 though, players on those two platforms can’t go up against one another, though not for want of trying.

That sort of cross-console competition is something that developer Psyonix has been trying to make happen for a while now, but Sony hasn’t exactly been cooperative. In-fact, Psyonix has gone on record in a chat with IGN, to state that if Sony gave it the go ahead, it could make it possible for console gamers of all flavours to play against one another in a matter of hours.

“We’re literally at the point where all we need is the go-ahead on the Sony side and we can, in less than a business day, turn it on and have it up and working no problem,” said Psyonix president, Jeremy Dunham.

“It’d literally take a few hours to propagate throughout the whole world, so really we’re just waiting on the permission to do so.”

This would suggest that Microsoft is game. If so, what’s holding Sony back? It has many more Rocket League players and they’re likely more experienced, so they’d probably win most engagements.

What’s the problem?