Legally , it ' s complicated . Psyonix have to jump through a ton of loopholes just to push a hotfix on Xbox or PlayStation because both Microsoft and Sony need to approve each update manually . What this means is that Psyonix need their approval to implement anything . Therefore , they would need Sony , Microsoft and Valve to all approve a threeway contract that would be signed by all three parties . The problem with this is that these companies don ' t have a single authority figure at the top that ' s right , Gabe Newell does not in fact have a total authority role in Valve because there ' s shareholders and other financial investors with huge amounts of cash that need to also approve each and every crossplatform idea . Why is this an issue ? Well , a lot of the selling points of consoles is that you need to buy the console in order to play with friends who are also on that platform , thus forcing you to buy an Xbox or PlayStation . When you introduce crossplatform matchmaking , it ' s complicated enough . Crossplatform partying is a totally different level of awkward because you take out a huge selling point of consoles . Tldr , this won ' t happen because it ' s the primary selling point of many consoles