Bethesda announced at E3 that Elder Scrolls Legends would come to PS4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch but that may not happen as planned now.
Bethesda’s Pete Hines has confirmed that the company has no intention to bring the game to any platform that does not have cross-play as an option. This would rule out PS4, but as Hines stopped short of explicitly mentioning the system, it is possible that Bethesda is hoping for a resolution to this issue.
[The Elder Scrolls Legends] is a strategy card game that encompasses both single and multiplayer. It is both cross-platform play and cross-platform progress … It is our intention in order for the game to come out, it has to be those things on any system.
We cannot have a game that works one way across everywhere else except for on this one thing. The way the game works right now on Apple, Google, Steam, and Bethesda.net, it doesn’t matter where you buy your stuff, if you play it on another platform that stuff is there. It doesn’t matter what platform you play on, you play against everyone else who is playing at that moment. There’s no ‘Oh, it’s easier to control, or it has a better framerate on this system.’ It’s a strategy card game. It doesn’t matter.
We continue to talk to all of our platform partners,” Hines continued, “But those [terms] are essentially non-negotiable. We can’t be talking about one version of Legends, where you take your progress with you, and another version where you stay within that ecosystem or its walled off from everything else. That is counter to what the game has been about.
This is somewhat surprising, and will be interesting to keep an eye on. Could PS4 lose other games because of lack of crossplay?