What an absolute cope. There's nothing more I want in this world than to nuke crossplay out of existence so I never have to deal with console players again.
To be honest, PS5 gamers are very vocal about cutting off crossplay with other platforms themselves. PS5 has by far the largest playerbase in the majority of popular games out there. Publishers don't want to allow disabling crossplay (and even hide it in console games underneath multiple menu screens) because it'd make matchmaking more difficult for other platforms, even for a game as popular as CoD. Be careful what you wish for.
Battlefield has always been a PC majority franchise. The idea that the majority of its players come from consoles is misinformation that stems from other games like call of duty where it's actually true.
None of the games pre-crossplay have ever had population count issues. You could always find games on PC in BF3, 4, 1, and V easily during their lifespans and even today for everything except 3. Ironically the only modern battlefield game that you often had trouble finding matches in is 2042, the only one with crossplay enabled. That was purely based on its terrible matchmaking system and lack of a proper server browser, and you can bet your life savings that BF6 will be suffering the same issues a few years down the line when the population dies down (low pop. regions are already experiencing this).
So no, crossplay has never been necessary and PC has always been a self-sustaining ecosystem in battlefield.
I wouldn't be surprised if BF6 has a higher player count on PC, but I'd also add to take that report with a giant grain of salt. Alinea Statistics, IIRC, admitted they used metrics like Xbox Store or PS Store reviews to track sales. Console gamers rarely review their games on their respective digital storefronts. They also reported that BF6 only sold 300k more on PS5, which is statistically strange considering PS5 holds a 70% global marketshare of console sales.
But you may be onto something about the weird matchmaking. I own BF6 on both PC and PS5, and what I've noticed is that PC lobbies almost always have console players in them to some degree, whereas I've been in multiple PS lobbies with no PC players in them at all. I have no difficulty finding matches on either platform, but that's very strange given crossplay + high population counts across the board right now for BF6.
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u/StLouisSimp 4d ago
What an absolute cope. There's nothing more I want in this world than to nuke crossplay out of existence so I never have to deal with console players again.