{"id":580,"date":"2018-06-13T10:43:23","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T10:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elementor.frenify.net\/?p=580"},"modified":"2018-06-13T10:43:23","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T10:43:23","slug":"fortnite-fans-are-furious-at-sony-for-ruining-their-handheld-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/fortnite-fans-are-furious-at-sony-for-ruining-their-handheld-dreams\/","title":{"rendered":"Fortnite fans are furious at Sony for ruining their handheld dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"mHnDwz\">Sony is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2018\/6\/12\/17453628\/fortnite-nintendo-switch-cross-play-sony-ps4-microsoft-xbox-one-e3-2018\">blocking\u00a0<em>Fortnite\u00a0<\/em>cross-play and progression<\/a>\u00a0between the PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch, and\u00a0<em>Fortnite\u00a0<\/em>fans are furious. Hundreds of\u00a0<em>Fortnite\u00a0<\/em>fans are reacting angrily on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.resetera.com\/threads\/if-your-fortnite-account-has-ever-logged-in-on-a-ps4-it-cannot-be-used-on-switch.48603\/\">Resetera forums<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/FortNiteBR\/comments\/8qkp3e\/switch_matchmaking_issues\/\">Reddit<\/a>\u00a0after learning that you can\u2019t use a\u00a0<em>Fortnite\u00a0<\/em>account that\u2019s been used on the PS4 with the Nintendo Switch. This means that any progress, skins, and purchases can\u2019t be shared between PS4 and Nintendo Switch, so the dream of playing\u00a0<em>Fortnite\u00a0<\/em>at home on a PS4 and then using the same account on the go on Nintendo Switch is truly dead.<\/p>\n<p id=\"dIqASw\">\u201cThis\u00a0<em>Fortnite\u00a0<\/em>account is associated with a platform which does not allow it to operate on Switch,\u201d explains a message on the Switch version of the game if you attempt to log in with an Epic Games account that has been used on the PS4. While there are options to decouple a PlayStation account from an Epic Games account,\u00a0<em>Fortnite\u00a0<\/em>players are warning that this doesn\u2019t fix the problems. It appears the only option for PS4 players wanting to use the Nintendo Switch\u00a0<em>Fortnite\u00a0<\/em>version is to create a new Epic Games account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony is\u00a0blocking\u00a0Fortnite\u00a0cross-play and progression\u00a0between the PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch, and\u00a0Fortnite\u00a0fans are furious. Hundreds of\u00a0Fortnite\u00a0fans are reacting angrily on the\u00a0Resetera forums\u00a0and\u00a0Reddit\u00a0after learning that you can\u2019t use a\u00a0Fortnite\u00a0account that\u2019s been used on the PS4 with the Nintendo Switch. This means that any progress, skins, and purchases can\u2019t be shared between PS4 and Nintendo Switch, so the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,2,34,35,38,41,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apps","category-business-2","category-gadgets","category-how-to","category-mobile","category-reviews","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}