Borderlands spin-off Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands will let you play with friends regardless of platform, despite last year’s Borderlands 3 PlayStation crossplay kerfuffle.
Controversial Borderlands and Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford announced the news in an upbeat statement posted to Twitter last night – making for a very different message to the one regarding Borderlands 3 last year.
In May 2021, Pitchford stirred up drama when he said publisher 2K had stepped in to stop crossplay support for PlayStation consoles in a post-launch Borderlands 3 patch.
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That detail, also made public via Twitter, came just weeks after PlayStation’s internal and previously confidential cross-platform revenue share policy was also made public, as part of the Epic vs. Apple trial.
In short, Sony’s policy could require publishers – like Gearbox’s 2K – to pay PlayStation a cut of proceeds from all platforms in return for PlayStation crossplay being switched on. (It’s worth noting there are various conditions on which games/what fees qualify, but also that this is not a policy also operated by either Nintendo or Xbox.)