https://www.gamespot.com/articles/cross-play-confirmed-for-advance-wars-like-wargroo/1100-6464610/
Wargroove looks to be an homage to classic tactics games like Advance Wars, with the added twist of an online multiplayer element. Developer Chucklefish announced that you can play against your friends cross-platform, but one console is conspicuously missing from the line-up.
In a tweet, the studio said you can play across PC, Nintendo Switch, and Xbox One, and an accompanying short video clip shows the cross-play functionality. Notably absent is PlayStation 4, which is also receiving the game alongside the others on February 1.
This is a familiar sight. Sony has counted itself out from cross-play for a long time, only recently reversing course for the mega-hit Fortnite. Even then it was only after Microsoft and Nintendo made a point of teasing Sony about it together. Still, this was posed as a beta to test the functionality, and Sony is still only planning to allow other games on a case-by-case basis. Rocket League, long requested for cross-play, just recently became the second game to use the functionality.
Sometimes your friends aren’t in the same faction as you, and that’s okay!
No need to start a war, keep your band together with multiplayer cross-platform play on PC, Nintendo Switch and Xbox One, when Wargroove launches on February 1st! pic.twitter.com/Z6svC6MyL7
— ?? Wargroove (@WargrooveGame) January 25, 2019
Given all that, it’s unsurprising that Wargroove isn’t included, but Chucklefish is still not-too-subtly pointing it out. Though it’s targeting several platforms for simultaneous release, it was given a prime spot on Nintendo’s "Nindies" presentation earlier this week, where the release date of February 1 was announced.
via GameSpot’s PC Reviews http://bit.ly/2mVXxXH
January 25, 2019 at 04:59PM