Cross-play is a tricky one. It can only be made possible if everybody's onboard, as we've seen recently with increased collaboration between games across PC, Switch, Xbox and even mobile. Now, Nintendo has once again repeated its willingness to support cross-play, if it's a desired feature and if they can help the publishers make it a reality.
In the Q&A Summary of the latest shareholders meeting, a question was raised about Nintendo's relationship with "other publishers, and initiatives for multi-platform titles" because "games such as Fortnite and Minecraft has been a point of appeal", and the replies were interesting.
"I will have to refrain from commenting directly about (crossplay in) Fortnite and Minecraft because those are not Nintendo titles. But I will say that our fundamental way of thinking about offering Nintendo titles on other platforms remains unchanged," said then CEO Tatsumi Kimishima.
Senior executive officer Susumu Tanaka then added: "Crossplay basically comes about from conversations between publishers and platform holders. We are inclined to do what we can to help publishers incorporate crossplay when that is what they want. The other parties involved also have a say in whether we are able to reach this outcome or not, so we will continue to discuss it with them."
So, with that in mind, which cross-platform games do you want to be added on Switch?