Tim Sweeney urges cross-platform social connections in gaming

In an interview with PC Gamer, Tim Sweeney said the bigger gaming companies would benefit from connecting their economies and social platforms amid the current instability. He called the social systems "broken," pointing to the "friction" involved in bringing your friends along from game to game across different platforms.

Sweeney described a plan called "Team Open" to eliminate that friction. "Right now, there’s different completely separated social ecosystems on Xbox, PlayStation, Switch, Steam on PC, and then bespoke developers’ social ecosystems," he said, arguing the platforms roughly operate on similar text and voice infrastructure but must interact with each platform’s respective servers.

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