Tekken 7 devs considering PS4, Xbox One, PC cross-platform play, but it’s not up to them

Earlier this year,  Microsoft offered a public invitation for other consoles to them in cross-play. Sony's initial comment wasn't really a response and neither was their second comment on the invitation. Basically, Sony didn't offer much of anything on whether or not they would be down for cross-platform play with Microsoft.

Bandai Namco, on the other hand, is interested in cross-play – especially with Tekken 7. During a short interview with GameSpot, the Tekken series creator, Katsuhiro Harada, answered a question that had been plaguing the minds of a number of Tekken fans.

Will there be any cross-platform play in Tekken 7?

"Well technologically it's not that difficult to accomplish and we have an idea of how we would do it if we were to do so. It more about policy I guess you could say, because you're connecting with a different platform, whether it's PC, console or etc.

Specifically for PC, it's a platform that's very open and you can do many things on it, so obviously there are a certain group that use cheat tools  or something like that, and whether that's true or not, there's still an image among some gamers that if they were connecting to an opponent on PC it might not be fair because they cheat.

There is also the probably main reason for implementing such a feature is that you have availability of so many more opponents to fight online so there is that benefit there. So, I guess, we have to kind of think overall of the fighting community as a whole. How do they want to see the game, do they want to see it implemented or not and in what manner. These are the things we are still kind of exploring so it's not decided at the moment."

Basically, Tekken 7 could very-well get cross-platform play, but it depends on what their community wants. The PC community might be excluded from cross-platform play because of cheaters, which would leave the PlayStation and Xbox community with a chance to play together.

Unfortunately, Sony's non-committal responses leave that prospect in the grey zone.

Gamers want cross-platform play, developers are willing to do it, but Sony just won't make the jump.