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Seeing federated platforms really makes me wish gaming platforms like Steam, Xbox, and Origin federated, for cross compatible friends lists, game invites, multiplayer, etc. Think there's a chance? (pawb.social)

submitted 1 year ago by Wahots@pawb.social to c/chat@beehaw.org

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[–] jmp242@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's a big issue I recall with cross platform gaming. This is specifically that most PC gamers have a mouse and keyboard, and most console gamers have a controller of some sort. For FPS, the PC gamers would own just because of the input methods - this happened back in the aughts. And I can imagine for some games the opposite would be true. And while consoles I guess could restrict the input for various games, PCs can't really.

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah. I was thinking more PC platforms, Xbox on PC is strange. Some games filter by input though, which is nice.