Rocket League has been enjoying enormous success on PC and the PlayStation 4, and gamers from both platforms are able to play with and against each other online. The game is finally coming to Xbox One, but unfortunately there will be no crossplatform play with PC users.
According to a tweet by Psyonix’s Rocket League feed:
@rlpte The Xbox platform doesn't allow for crossplay matchmaking between other systems as a general practice across all titles.
— Rocket League (@RocketLeague) December 4, 2015This has been a Microsoft policy with its consoles. It’s not that the Xbox One is incapable of crossplatform play; the original Shadowrun was a Microsoft crossplay experiment that failed because the PC version required the unpopular Microsoft Vista OS. The reason Final Fantasy XIV isn’t on the Xbox One is that crossplatform play is mandatory in the game.
While the install base is large enough on the Xbox One to support the multiplayer on its own, it seems rather lonely if they’re not able to compete alongside or against their PC and PlayStation 4 brethren. It seems doubly odd that crossplay between Xbox One and PC isn’t possible on its own since Windows 10 incorporates Xbox Live like no Windows OS ever has.
