[Undisclosed Desires]

This has been bothering me lately! I was wondering how the game would be like if the population of the online play isn't big at all, or it wouldn't be as big as it could be when it is divided into 3 platforms; Xbox One, PS4, and the PC! The ESV Skyrim sold over 20 millions worldwide not counting steams and the satistic shows that it is from 59% Xbox360, 27% PS3 and 14% PC not including sales coming from Steam! Steam also says that Skyrim ships 10 million unitsworld wide from their websites and once had over 325,000 players online at one time!

So anyway, what I'm trying to say is! the community isn't going to seem like its as big as it is when it is divided into 3 platforms! How will things go? what about faction inbalance? the faction is also divded into 3 which could leave 1 faction being a ghost town!
Would it be possible to make Xbox One, Ps4 and the PC players capable of playing together even on different platforms?

It wouldn't seem as much of a problem day 1 since everyone will be playing and there is just plenty of people, but in a year or so! the population won't be as big! Since this is a P2P games, and it is divided into 3 platforms, and 3 factions, there will just be less people to play with and it wouldn't feel great.

Source;
VG247
statisticbrain

[Czar Kahchi]

They are not going to be on the same servers, and t is not happening ever. Not only would it take a complete rework of the way the server is created, but the console players will be at a disadvantage to the PC players thanks to Keyboard and mouse being better for ARPG's and most PC's having better frame rate which is ALSO an advantage.

[Jason Wolf]

As with any mmo there may always be a decrease in players, but i wouldn't worry Cyrodiil and your factions area should be crowded with people, especially at launch.

[Grace Francis]

I know that all of the betas so far have been on PC, but The Konk has said that the factions have all been fairly balanced so far. A different faction is the most popular each different beta, but not so popular to cause an imbalance.

Source:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyHAds1XUEo&feature=player_embedded

[-__^]

It's not going to reduce the number of players on the PC if there are three times as many players, because of the three platforms

A lot of people play games only on consoles because they don't have a PC capable of running modern games. Those people wouldn't have been playing ESO if it were PC only.

And yeah, they have to be split up because PC players would wipe the floor with console players if they were playing against each other in PvP Controllers just aren't good for aiming.

[Marcus Jordan]

Warning: Circuitous F2P thread.

[Sami Blackburn]

I would suggest doing some more research on the game as most of your issues have been addressed.