Microsoft's Phil Spencer is the latest prominent figure to come out on the crossplay deliberations that have started since Sony's decision to block players from taking their progress in Fortnite to other platforms and its continued refusal to enable crossplay in certain games.
Following on from a similar sentiment shared by Nintendo (more on that here) Xbox chief Phil Spencer suggested to Giant Bomb (via GamesIndustry) that the current stance from Sony "doesn't feel like it helps the consumers."
"If you bought your son, your child, an Xbox, and I bought my child a PlayStation - and I'm just a parent, it's their birthday, whatever - and the kids want to go play Fortnite and they all of a sudden go home and can't play with each other... it doesn't feel like it helps the consumers," Spencer said. "If it doesn't help the developers and it doesn't help the consumer, then it doesn't feel like it helps to grow gaming to me."
"I'm not going to judge anybody else making their decisions because they've got to run their business," Spencer made clear.
"If people want to go buy someone else's console and play games there, great, as long as we're all leaning in to how do we make this business for everybody as vibrant as possible."
Sony has responded to the building furore around the Switch version of the game and its incompatibility with PS4, but the company's statement has done little to bring disgruntled players around.