I understand the principle but specifically how does it work?
Is it about servers? Do all consoles have the ability to support cross-play, and its just a matter of the developers working to include it in a game? What are the challenges involved in cross-play?
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As long as all the games are the same, it’s only an artificial impediment. For some games, controlling with a mouse+keyboard is just much more effective than using a controller, so the developers split out the different players into separate groups for a more level playing field.
For other games you might have a game released on a lower-power console which can’t support everything the game released on the higher-power console can. This means you need to split out the players to avoid causing problems on the lower-power console.
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