It's the first time ever that the major console platforms - Xbox, PlayStation and the Nintendo - have ever been able to play together. The move can justifiably be described as historic. In an official blog post, the company stated it wants to 'open up the platform' - thereby hinting cross-console play could come to other games in future. As of yesterday, Sony has approved full console cross-play in Fortnite. If we'd been playing today, however, the situation would have been different. We soon gave up our dream of playing together.

It's a great game, to be sure - but there's only so much Civ one can take. We ended up playing hours upon hours of Civilization 5, which was the only thing everyone could run on their laptops. Fortnite, Rocket League, even Minecraft - all were impossible due to the great console divide. With our group split between Xbox and PlayStation owners, the obvious answers were out the window. Several months ago, on a rainy evening in Birmingham, I loaded up Discord and called my university friends.

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