Xbox Congratulates Sony On The Launch Of The PlayStation 5

Classy, hoping for a closer race this time around

Aww that’s so sweet

@Bruvas imagine fortnite 50 vs 50 but each team is full of either xbox players or playstation players

@UltimateOtaku91 lol that would really make twitter even worse in the end. However hopefully everyone can go back to enjoying games now that both consoles have launched.

I know I'm having a really hard time concentrating on work with the Series X just looking at me. I just realized last night that i never experienced 4K gaming when I played FH4 on the X...i thought it looked good over HDMI from the laptop before...it now looks great

@Thretosix well they changing that with games going to PC...money talks. I don't expect them to be buddy buddy with Xbox anytime soon but they will copy any parts of Xbox that they can make money from.

Phil classy as always..

@Thretosix on yeah that should be basic. Buy the game and play with players who also own that game. I know people in shooters have said in the past they don't want to play with PC players fir the mouse and keyboard advantage plus all the PC cheats. Maybe have an option to play cross platform or not? It's above my pay grade.

@Thretosix Sony aren't the only ones guilty of this though pal come on. Let's not forget they were open to cross platform with FF14 but MS insisted on MS only servers...

Sony is much worse for this but MS doesn't get to act like it was always open to cross platform. Times are changing so hopefully both can get crossplay sorted between them so we can just play games

Classy. It won't end the console wars at all but the fact the companies have no ill will towards each other should set an example

@Thretosix The Game Pass quote is completely valid for them. You have to realize they just don't have the model or the money that Microsoft has. Xbox isn't a single console anymore. Microsoft have expanded so largely that they don't need just hardware in order to make a profit. Nintendo and Sony practically have no other option but to rely on console sales because that's what drives their business more than anything. PlayStation's core is still the dedicated gaming hardware they make, and they don't have the resources to do stuff like expanding their reach to other devices like having a cloud gaming service, or day one releases on PC like Microsoft does. You have to understand their perspective on this matter. In the context of what they have to do to profit off of their gaming division they literally don't have the money to turn PlayStation into such a wide and ambitious ecosystem of platforms that are interconnected like Microsoft does. Sony isn't nearly as much of a major monolithic tech giant and neither is Nintendo. They need the dedicated hardware to succeed, and thus it is more sustainable for them specifically to push that hardware and get people to buy it because they can't effectively manage something as ambitious as an entire family of devices being connected all at once without their own hardware tanking in revenue. That's why they literally only JUST started providing games on PC, and they're probably not going to be offering them nearly as regularly as Microsoft does without risking people gaining the perception they don't need to buy their hardware anymore to enjoy their games.

And yes, last generation Sony was completely right to clown on Microsoft for a lot of things. You can't act like the Xbox One's policies or their overreliance on Kinect which skyrocketed the launch Xbox One prices was a good thing, especially given the console was weaker power wise by default next to the PS4 which was already cheaper by 100 bucks which made it instantly easy to decide which console to buy from a casual perspective. They literally won the generation and left Microsoft to die as soon as they announced the PS4 would be able to play used games, you'd be able to pass games to friends and still play them without any sort of license, and that the console wouldn't require an online connection for basic functions. I hope it's a closer race this time around. Microsoft under Mattrick was the complete antithesis of consumer-friendly and when Phil came in and came really close to turning things around, it was already way too late. Fortunately, it looks like they're learning from their mistakes and being more transparent, but it's not like Xbox and PlayStation are just completely flawless. They both have inequalities all around. I personally found Sony's stance on crossplay and censorship bafflingly stupid, which made Switch and PC the go to platform for select Japanese titles in a lot of cases for me. They're in the process of amending crossplay concerns, but they could be doing a lot more and opening up a little bit.

@Thretosix The fact that you're openly voicing your opinion on Sony in this exact article equating them to an abusive ex-girlfriend shows who the real console warrior is in this thread. I think you need to grow a pair. I hope that isn't a grown ass man behind the keyboard. Your opinion on this matter matters every bit as insignificantly as anyone else's, especially if you're just here to mope about a brick that plays games and people are actually being reasonable with you and stating their case.

@TheFrenchiestFry @Thretosix both of you stop please. It’s a good week. There had been so much bad news as of late. Can we all just have this? This happy event week. Yeah new consoles and controllers to break in :3 no console war stupidity. Just people enjoying the new systems.

Phil is always pure class. That’s why.....

In Phil we trust. 👍🏻

@Thretosix

Preach on! 👍🏻

@TheFrenchiestFry To be fair, PlayStation had a cloud streaming service for 7 years they squandered, sabotaged, and did nothing of merit with, only making it something other than a complete joke as a response to game pass. Microsoft has had a post beta cloud streaming service less than a month...... Everyone keeps forgetting Sony has a whole console generation ahead of ms in the streaming world... Because they did it so poorly it's seldom with remembering.

@NEStalgia I dunno, I’ve been playing Killzone on PS Now and it’s perfectly playable despite being an FPS. Streaming’s not there yet but I’m still having fun in the meantime.

Bit odd that one minute they’re taking shots, the next they’re being buddies...

@NEStalgia I don't think that's a completely fair assessment. Yep the messed this up, they had the foot in the door for this and did nothing with it but the service they have now isn't that terrible
It isn't a match for GamePass that's for sure but it runs well and has a ton of great games (albeit older games). It will be even better once they complete their deal with MS to use Azure which is a great service offering.

I guess for me I see PS Now as a large library of older and classical games whereas GamePass is the push on a smaller more modern library. Sony cannot compete here.

@mousieone what console war???

@Thretosix ermmmm I thought his response was pretty anti troll?? Seemed pretty fair.

@nessisonett But we're you playing it before 2018 is the question......

Now was a disaster.... Was horrifically expensive... And didn't have much of a library. After game pass came out, they added local download of ps4 games, slashed the price massively, especially for annual subs for plus subscribers, and boosted the catalog. Though they still don't offer much in the way of current games, which is where xcloud, Luna, and the other eventual competitors, including the inevitable relaunch of stadia will really make it look awkward again.

I don't fault anyone for finding something of value in ps now in 2020. But if you found value in that thing from 2013-2017, I have an Xbox One X I'll sell you for just $750

Seriously though, I meant that the idea that MS has more than just consoles in their ecosystem and Sony doesn't keeps coming up, but isn't accurate. Sony had the cloud ecosystem for a whole gen, and Microsoft just started theirs weeks ago. If anything, Sony's the one that's had a broader platform than consoles for longer. Obviously pc becomes a much broader platform for ms though, but before 2017 they weren't considering that part of xbox, so that's also a new thing.

Technically as of now, ps now works on pc, and xcloud doesn't, so Sony is still the one with the broader cloud service. But they woefully sabotage it as a platform so it doesn't undercut console unit sales, while ms embraces the multiple platforms and leans into it. In 2013 Sony was too ahead of themselves taking a big gamble on cloud games before the internet was close to ready. Then ps4 took off, and they got nervous and didn't want to upset a winning strategy by competing with themselves. Now streaming is starting to gain traction and they're kind if plodding in their own corner with it.

@NEStalgia ewwww certainly not back then! I think there is definitely value there now considering the price for what is on offer. This has exactly why both MS and Sony need to do well. One always humbles the other eventually!

@Alpha_Pulse Make game, not war =p