It’s a case with good and bad news with Fall Guys on Xbox platforms and Nintendo Switch. On the bad side, they’ve been delayed. Originally slated for a Summer 2021 release, the team at Mediatonic (who recently got snapped up by Epic – one of many expenses they’ve been paying recently) have decided in a blog post that that date has come “unfortunately just too soon” for those platforms, and as a result, the release date has been pushed back to an unannounced date. On the other hand (and this arguably makes the delay worth it), cross-play will be a feature coming to Fall Guys, so bean-men of all platforms can play together.
Now, it doesn’t expressly say that cross-play will bridge the gap between Xbox, Switch, and the already-released PS4 and PC versions, but we’ll treat that as the default unless Mediatonic later clarifies. But still, it’s a great sign. Multiplayer games thrive on player bases and the more divided they are, the worse the experience and the faster the game fades into obscurity. Cross-play has become an unspoken expectation in recent years (does anyone remember Sony dragging its heels until games like Fortnite and Rocket League became too popular to defy?) so seeing a game like Fall Guys (which deserves all the success it earned since it released as a PS Plus free game last year) get something like cross-play is good to see.
– Mediatonic
