Sony’s Long Search for Multiplayer Success
Fall Guys is a console exclusive for now, but what could be next?
For Generation X (and early Gen-Y) gamers like myself, there was never a choice which system you owned if you wanted to play games online. If you were to ask someone why they were an Xbox gamer instead of PlayStation, you were likely to hear “because that’s where my friends play” or something very similar.
Games like Halo 2, Splinter Cell, Ghost Recon, and Star Wars Battlefront 2 were mainstays during the early days of Microsoft’s wildly popular Xbox Live service, and Sony had no real answer. They have spent the better part of two decades trying to catch up and find the killer app that would help them compete with Microsoft, while at the same time often portraying a casual disregard for the importance of the multiplayer space. Let’s take a look at the details and a few of the games Sony has tried to put into battle against the Xbox behemoth.
From the very beginning, Sony allowed Microsoft to get well ahead of them when the original Xbox released with a built-in Ethernet jack in November 2001. Sony did not offer any sort of connectivity until it…
