In World of Tanks , there were already a million players gathered on Playstation 4 in just 5 days. However, the crossplay function for Xbox One doesn’t look good.
World of Tanks proudly announced that it reached the 1 million players milestone on Playstation 4 within 5 days. It was launched on January 19 , and after 5 days, they had gathered their army of players.
The Playstation 4 port was significantly more difficult than Xbox versions
Wargaming is quite proud of the port. In a lengthy interview with Gamespot, Lead Designer Jeff Gregg explains the difficulties. When they worked with Microsoft two or three years ago to get the Xbox 360 version off the ground, they were already in a partnership and had full access along with many tips.
With Sony, everything was a bit more challenging, especially the integration into PSN remained tricky for a long time because they had to adapt to the system through trial and error.
No crossplay because Sony and Microsoft do not communicate
As revealed, the difficult relationship between Microsoft and Sony is responsible for there being no crossplay between the versions, meaning players on different consoles will not be able to play against or with each other, even though the versions are so similar. Wargaming would love to offer this: but Microsoft and Sony simply do not talk to each other. And that would be necessary to offer crossplay.
Other multiplatform MMOs like The Elder Scrolls Online also insist how much they would like to offer crossplay, but the two console giants are opposed. In Final Fantasy XIV, a port to Xbox One even failed due to this.
