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Fortnite is 1 of the biggest games in the world correct now, so Switch owners were understandably excited to download information technology when it launched yesterday. However, some players ran into an ugly roadblock. Information technology turns out that Fortnite accounts associated with the PS4 won't piece of work on the Switch. This isn't the error of Nintendo or Epic (the Fortnite programmer). Yous can blame Sony's increasingly aggravating opposition to cross-platform play.

The Switch version of Fortnite has still features as the version on PC and other consoles. However, the visuals have been stripped downwards to run smoother on the Switch'southward Tegra X1 chip. It looks more than like the iPhone version of the game than the i you tin play on consoles and computers. Still, it's the full Fortnite feel with proper controls on a device you can play anywhere.

Fortnite on the Switch can talk to the versions on PC and Xbox, but not the PS4 edition. In fact, you can't even log in with a PS4 account. One of the absurd things well-nigh Fortnight is you can log in with a single Epic account on all platforms to share progress (even on mobile). However, you can but play on the PS4 if you started there — Sony doesn't let the data out to other platforms.

Trying to log into the Switch edition of Fortnite with an account tied to the PS4 produces an error. It's a footling vague, but it explains that Epic support can't practise annihilation to assist. It doesn't name Sony specifically, only we know that'due south who's behind the block.

You can almost empathise Sony wanting to cake cross-platform access with the Xbox. That device is a direct competitor to the PlayStation 4, and Sony is currently in the lead. Why would it want to help players switch to a Microsoft arrangement to play one of the near pop games? The Switch rarely has the aforementioned titles as the more powerful consoles, and its portability offers a very different gaming feel. Information technology's believable that someone would want to play the prettier version of Fortnite on PS4 at home and play the Switch version on the go.

Let's non forget that Fortnite is free-to-play. Some gamers dropped a lot of money on in-game content for the PlayStation version of the game, and it's all locked down on Sony's platform — they tin can't access it on the Switch or whatsoever other version of the game. If you've never played Fortnite, you actually shouldn't commencement on the PS4.