Why Titanfall doesn't support cross-platform play

Why is there no cross-platform play in Titanfall? The Xbox 360 version is one reason to blame.

Titanfall launched today on Xbox One and PC (review here). With PlayStation platforms forever excluded from this Microsoft-exclusive, some have been wondering: why is there no cross-platform play? The Xbox 360 version is one reason to blame.

"Mostly, the reason for that is with the 360 version--we're not developing it," engineer Jon Shiring explained to Engadget. "We're not going to be the ones doing the patching on 360. We could get ourselves into a very bad spot where if we patched all the servers, the 360 people couldn't play for a while until Bluepoint (the studio behind the Xbox 360 version) applies the patch and gets it through cert."

Another bottleneck: Xbox Live and Origin. While the game may be Microsoft-exclusive, the PC version uses EA's Origin service. That means Xbox Live players wouldn't be able to see Origin players and vice versa. "It's not one huge technical thing stopping us; it's a lot of little ones," Shiring added.