Sony was never on our side.
E.G. Warframe is fully cross platform. You have an icon showing beside the player name if they are on the same platform as you, or a generic one if they aren't.
When the system launched, it showed unique icons per platform. Sony demanded that be changed because of the incredibly petty reasoning that if an xbox player beat a PS one in pvp
"Think of the game devs needing to make money"
Says the former dev whose biggest success, Unreal Tournament, had little to do with Epic itself.
And Fortnite started as a Pubg clone.
Because the cosmetics industry spends billions of dollars a year yelling at women that they aren't good enough.
They're working the same bullshit on boys too (publicly) for the last 20 years.
My first use of Claude this week, for code reviews only(since no LLM can be trusted to write a user story or test suite), had it gaslight me.
It marked down my code for using a specific practice to make some xml safer and easier to read.
When I tried things its way, it wanted me to change it back.
No, I played when that happened.
They launched it with icons for nintendo switch, xbox, PC and playstation.
Within a week they had to hotfix to the generic icons for stated reason because "Sony was worried about the meme potential of an xbox player beating a PS player in PVP." That was stated as the reason in one of their weekly livestreams.