Fortnite's Cross-Platform Play Tools Will Be Available For Free

This will be accomplished with a C SDK for the online services, allowing developers to utilize cross-platform login, friends list, presence, profile, and entitlements. This core software development kit will be available for developers working on PC, Mac, iOS, Android, PlayStation, Xbox, and the Nintendo Switch. There are plans to make the SDK available between the second quarter and third quarter of 2019. So this means that you likely shouldn't expect to see games making full use of this free SDK until around 2020 or 2021 at the earliest. On average, we hopefully can expect most multiplayer games releasing in 2022 to have full cross-platform compatibility, assuming they aren't competitive games that require distinct control separation between platforms, such as Counter-Strike or Unreal, where keyboard and mouse players would very easily whoop gamepad users.