Sony still Deciding on whether they will do Cross-Platform on 'The Agency'

Sony's upcoming title, 'The Agency' will be available on both the Playstation 3 and the PC but Sony has not yet decided on if Playstation 3 and PC gamers should be able to play together also known as Cross-platform play.

Kevin O'Hara whom is formally known as Sony Online Entertainment's senior game designer had a recent interview with VideoGamer.com and had told them it's possible to enable cross-platform play, but the main problem of doing so is it will cause problems with the design.

O'Hara had stated,
''We have not decided if you can play between the two. They are cross-platform. We’re able to do it - it’s more of a design concern. We’re doing a lot of focus testing and we’re finding that people just, ‘oh they’ve got a controller, it’s not fair! Well they’ve got a mouse it’s not fair!’''

The Agency has been shown with the Playstation 3 and PC both performing cross-platform action at the recent E3 show.

O'Hara continued,
“It’s what people say they want at first but when they actually play then… So it’s up in the air. We’ll go through beta with that and get strong opinions on which way to go. But technically we can do it if we want.”

Kevin O'Hara then revealed Sony's plans on the release of 'The Agency'. Sony is determined to try release both the Playstation 3 and PC versions of The Agency simultaneously in several regions.

“We haven’t done a release date yet for it, we’re still in development. We’ve got a lot of new features in the game - it’s really coming along. We’re having fun with it. We’ve got a couple more features to work on before we’re comfortable with it.''

O'Hara had continued on saying the game won't be available for 2009,

“I don’t believe it’ll be [out in] 2009. After that the marketing people control that information.”

Source: http://www.videogamer.com/news/sony_cross-platform_the_agency_still_up_in_the_air.html

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