{"id":93851,"date":"2016-06-06T17:56:03","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T15:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=93851"},"modified":"2016-06-07T10:16:48","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T08:16:48","slug":"you-may-soon-be-able-to-play-overwatch-cross-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/93851-you-may-soon-be-able-to-play-overwatch-cross-platform","title":{"rendered":"You may soon be able to play Overwatch cross-platform"},"content":{"rendered":"

PlayStation 4 and Xbox One gamers may soon be able to play Overwatch against one another.<\/p>\n

This was confirmed in a Tweet by the official Overwatch account<\/a>, <\/strong>which stated that Blizzard would be “keeping an eye on cross-platform possibilities on the consoles”.<\/p>\n

It is unlikely that PC gamers will be able to play against those on console however, as the mouse-and-keyboard combination would confer too much of an advantage and cause balance issues.<\/p>\n

Overwatch wouldn’t be the first console game to allow for cross-platform play, with Rocket League recently releasing a patch that now allows PC gamers to play against those gaming on the PS4 and Xbox One.<\/p>\n

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Playsation 4 and Xbox One gamers may soon be able to play Overwatch against one another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":93639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11681,4],"tags":[31,665,155,11468,10096],"class_list":["post-93851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","category-playstation","category-xbox","tag-active","tag-blizzard","tag-console","tag-cross-platform","tag-overwatch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93879,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93851\/revisions\/93879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}