Sony Online Entertainment has revealed that the company has yet to decide on whether or not online shooter The Agency will incorporate cross-platform play for PlayStation 3 and PC users.
“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!,” senior game designer Kevin O’ Hara told VideoGamer.com.
“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,” he added.
The good news is that both versions of the game should be out simultaneously across multiple regions, though O’ Hara noted that it is highly unlikely the title will see the light of day in 2009.
“We haven’t done a release date yet for it,” he said. “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."
“I don’t believe it’ll be [out in] 2009. After that the marketing people control that information.”
We’ll have more on The Agency as it breaks.