Phil, Sony does not want crossplay just like MS didn't want crossplay last gen. Sony is about their business, not trying to make MS's business better by providing paying live subscribers more people to play with.
No one has complained about not getting enough people to play with on PS4 Phil, If you need more players for Xbox...
1.) Get more people to buy the system
2.) Get more persons to sub for XBOX Live
It's that simple really.......
Also, MS is not fooling anybody with "I'm the good guy" routine, blame sony for not pushing this #4theplayas.....agenda. They're taking care of their playas Phil, with lots of reat first party franchises, the best multi's in the genration so far, remoteplay and shareplay and a screenshot/media function embedded into the system...
If talks wth Nintendo has been so great go ahead and roll that with them, with all this talk you would think all of this year's multiplats are crossplatform with Nintendo....Guess what, how many titles are corssplatform with Nintendo+MS...Hell, how many titles are crossplatform with XBOX and MS's own windows platform....
MS, you're not fooling anyone with this, gamers on PS4 don't care about this, neither does Sony so move on. Try to take care of your own playas with better first party efforts etc...
It's crazy that this is the same MS which had all that DRM stuff set up to launch in 2013, trying to pretend they're the good guys now and it's all in the interest of the community and gaming at large ;(...Where they proposed that you could'nt even share a game like
this...
My advice to Phil;
Stop focusing on things that no one expects or deems mandatory when buying a console....(UHD Drive, Crossplatform play). Stop pretending these are more important than they are. You're only trying to push that angle that you have this and you're trying to push this and the other guy doesn't. That has not worked for XB1S with the UHD drive, it won't work for XBONEX and it won't work with this crossplay spiel. When I buy PSPLus, I buy into the PSN ecosystem, not Live...
The way I see it, MS should have just conceded this gen and concentrated on next gen by brewing some titles for XBOXTWO and gearing up a slew of first party franchises, but instead they're stuck on this..It's kinda pathetic tbh...